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Friday April 17, 2009 01:14 by Philip O' Rourke - None phish20007 at hotmail dot com 6 Ridgewood Avenue, Swords Co. Dublin
Some things have changed that will never be the same. When I was young we used to be out from 10 o'clock in the morning til 10 o' clock at night. The boys would be playing football while the girls would be making up dance routines or talking about the boys they fancied. Times have changed? But what has changed them? Think back 15 years ago, there was no such thing as a Playstation, a Nintendo Wii, a Xbox 60. Kids had to use their imagination to have fun. They wern't stuck in the house living thier lifethrew a televsion screen. They wern't scoring goals on an imaginary football field. Instead they were out in the fields, the greens in thier estates kicking a real football around, out in the real fresh air, making thier local green or park their theatre of dreams. |
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