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# retro - Yesterday’s News

From TheJournal.ie Friday Flashback

On this night in 1996 you were listening to… Smashing Pumpkins

A Friday Flashback to get your weekend started…

# retro - Sunday 19 May, 2013

From TheJournal.ie Postcard Perfect This post contains images

John Hinde: Nostalgic images are not just for Ireland

London and Amsterdam will see exhibition of shots from major landmarks around England and, of course, Ireland.

# retro - Friday 17 May, 2013

Retro This post contains videos

17 things we’d like to see revived in sport

Ridiculously long shorts and other phenomena we miss.

# retro - Tuesday 14 May, 2013

From TheJournal.ie Atari Breakout

Google gets us hooked on classic Atari game

Search engine ‘Easter Egg’ lets users play Atari Breakout to celebrate the game’s 37th birthday.

# retro - Friday 3 May, 2013

From The Daily Edge Yellow Pack

8 everyday items you’ll probably never see again

Does anyone have a spare floppy disc?

# retro - Sunday 21 April, 2013

From TheJournal.ie Timeless

Is this the coolest photography in Ireland?

Tired of the same old digital imagery, cameraman Alex Sapienza turned to 100-year-old wetplate photography to create the ultimate retro portraits.

# retro - Sunday 31 March, 2013

From The Daily Edge Things Could Be Worse This post contains images

Thank your lucky stars you’re not in these family photos

Things could be worse this Easter weekend.

# retro - Monday 25 March, 2013

Ireland V Austria This post contains videos

VIDEO: So, what happened the last time we met Austria?

The best thing about these two matches is, unquestionably, Toni Polster’s magnificent head of hair.

# retro - Sunday 17 March, 2013

From The Daily Edge The Best Things In Life Are Free

7 amazing things you got for free as a kid

They filled you with happiness.

# retro - Thursday 28 February, 2013

Retro This post contains videos

Remember Sensible Soccer? Here’s how some of Ireland’s most famous goals would look

Add one part football geekdom and one part happy memories, and this is what you get.

# retro - Wednesday 27 February, 2013

From The Daily Edge Magic Shoes? This post contains videos

# retro - Wednesday 16 January, 2013

From The Daily Edge On The Case

9 deadly ways to disguise your iPhone

What do you mean you don’t have a cover on it?!?

# retro - Saturday 22 December, 2012

From TheJournal.ie You Told Us

Top readers’ comments of the week

Here’s our round-up of the funniest, most thought-provoking and interesting comments you lot made this week. Did you make it in?

# retro - Tuesday 25 September, 2012

From The Daily Edge Revolutionary

VIDEO: What mobile phones were like in 1989 – and 8 places to use them

According to this advert for a suitcase-sized mobile.

# retro - Sunday 3 June, 2012

From TheJournal.ie Retro This post contains images

In pics: The early gadgets of the housework revolution

Electric coffee dispenser in your car? Dish AND clothes washing machine? These was the early (domestic) appliances of science…

# retro - Monday 30 April, 2012

From TheJournal.ie Hindesight This post contains images

You wanted a book of John Hinde postcards? You got it.

Photographic arm of classic postcard company has made its way back out of examinership – and has produced a collectors’ book… on the suggestion of TheJournal.ie readers.

# retro - Saturday 28 April, 2012

From The Daily Edge The Way We Were

9 fashion trends from the Nineties we’ll never forget

Mood rings, flannel shirts and combats – what ’90s trends do you love the best? We take a look at some of our favourites. Sort of.

# retro - Wednesday 25 April, 2012

Retro This post contains videos

44 days to Euro 2012: Panini porn

Is there a sight more satisfying than that of a completed sticker album?

# retro - Tuesday 24 April, 2012

Because he’s retiring, here’s your Trevor Mortimer throwback pic of the day

The Mayo veteran, who last played in the All-Ireland semi-final defeat to Kerry, is hanging up his boots.

# retro - Saturday 21 April, 2012

From The Daily Edge The Way We Were

8 trends from the 1990s we’re happy disappeared

The trends we wish time forgot, like Beanie Babies, Pogs, Pokemon and Troll Dolls…

# retro - Sunday 25 March, 2012

From The Daily Edge Pic Of The Day

# retro - Tuesday 20 December, 2011

From The Daily Edge Driving In Dublin This post contains videos

VIDEO: A drive down Grafton Street, Dublin, in 1976

Reader Max McQuillan sent in this cool video of his father and a friend driving around Dublin’s city centre in the 1970s.

# retro - Friday 7 October, 2011

From The Daily Edge Work Can Wait This post contains videos

Learn bike safety through the medium of… rap

Irish kids had Judge from Wanderly Wagon to teach them about road safety – American kids of the 1990s had rap. White rap.

# retro - Saturday 9 July, 2011

Retro This post contains videos

The best of The Open: Harrington retains his title

With The Open Championship teeing off at Sandwich next Thursday, The Score starts looking back at the best video clips from past tournaments.

# retro - Monday 6 June, 2011

From The Daily Edge Smurfs This post contains videos

Scholar compares Papa Smurf to Stalin, calls Smurfs racists

A French academic is coming under fire for suggesting that that Smurfette and co are anti-semitic Nazis.

# retro - Friday 26 November, 2010

From The Daily Edge Toyshow

Dry your Tiny Tears: these are the top childhood toys

As the Late Late Toy Show reconvenes on RTE tonight, TheJournal.ie gets misty-eyed at the memory of Manta Force, Sindy, Mr Frosty and the Big Red Fun Bus.