Ah phone memories….I remember being in the Ventry Gaelteacht in 1988 and having to turn a feckin handle on the side of the pay phone to get through to an operator…then reversing the charges to ring home. Sometimes neighbours would call in to use the phone at home and leave a lovely shiny gold 20p for the call. I also remember people waiting outside the phone box while you were talking to the girlfriend and knocking on the window to get you to hurry up….”yeah, yeah just a minute! Here listen, I’ve gotta go, some fat Boll1x wants to use the phone”

Only to change into my superman uniform

Has anyone asked Colin Farrell what he makes of all this ? I think he had a bad experience in one before. I think he was in the if I have to category !

In Japan they turn old phone boxes into fish tanks to decorate the place a bit…

Happy days ringing them from my mobile watching people answer them on the streets… Innocent youth fun. ….

Phone ran out of battery last week and had to use one for the first time in years! Cost €2 for 50 seconds to a mobile number

Only for sex.

Last time I used one it stank of pee. Never again :-)

I used one last week and the minimum fee was 2 Euro!

In Dublin city centre they are often where the junkies shoot up or congregate. Middle abbey st and O’Connell bridge especially

When I was a teenager, you’d see girls standing in phone boxes for hours on end waiting in vain for the nice lad she’d met on the previous Saturday night to call. Talk about having to lick your wounds in public!

I would but I’d be afraid I would get ear AIDS.

To be honest my phone has died many times when i’ve really needed to call someone… However i would have never thought to use a payphone!

Of course they’re necessary – how is superman supposed to get changed?

I’m in a glass case of emotion

I forgot that we still had them around… I remember when I was a kid I’d call someone up and say something like”is your water running … Run after it” brilliant times!!!

Is there an option for only if i had to? (ie lost mobile/no batt?)

6 or 7 years since I used one now after mobile was robbed at Heuston one evening.

Calls were always free in my day. You dialled the ’0′ but tapped all the other numbers.

They’d be great glasshouses for tomatoes …

I would now and again but far too expensive these days.

i used to get my lunch money out of them every day when i was a push bike courier in dublin, someone was going around shoving things into the slots and the coins would accumulate in them, by the third or fourth time i got caught out by this i started brining a paper clip with me to fish the coins out

Only for my drug dealing or speaking to any politicians.

i find that ‘only if i had to’ option bizarre, but then i only use a mobile if i have to

Thats the phone box from Broadford village in Kildare where i grew up

Only if I had to – 36%. What am I missing now?!

would if they were around, as i dont have land line or mobile,, and love in japan they have made them into fish bowls,, look fab as you walk around

Just for drug deals…

No but saw a Junkie trying to rob money out of one recently on north earl street!

NO as I had to give up my superhero days as Health and safety stopped me,

If only ever use them abroad to ring home!

i am looking for a pay phone . does any one know where to get one

Would only use one if no public toilet nearby.

Superman is getting worried now.

With payphone’s getting scarce he has less opportunities to get changed in a hurry.

Is the Journal serious? Tried texting my buddy from one lately and the default app was appalling. And was there anywhere to hang the headphone thing other than the OFF button while attempting to text??? NO.
Forget that.
Gave up in the end.

Didn’t even know they still existed to be honest, maybe it’s just that I don’t notice them but thought they’d disappeared from out streets a few years ago.

“No, haha mad. Remember the 90s etc etc.”
Try harder journal.

If people grasped the damage to DNA and the brain that cell phones do, we’d see a lot more public call boxes about. Microwave energy from cell phones and WiFi will kill millions in a few years time, how do I know this? Because insurance companies will not entertain claims for brain tumors, they are predicting that from 2020 on there will be massive claims. Ditch the cell phone, I ditched mine years ago!

Only for sex.

Adebaaaaaaaaaayooooooooo!