Brian Condron

@briancon.bsky.social

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I am a chartered civil engineer and a PhD student at UCD. I live in Dublin. I enjoy brewing beer, reading books, playing old video games, and watching old sitcoms. I wish I was on a train.

A selfie in Croke Park at the end of the URC final.
A radio display showing RTÉ Gold on DAB.
Three blue ray disks stacked on top of each other. The top disk is Fleischer cartoons vol 1 Underneath are the Famous Studios Champion Collection and Aesop’s Fables Volume 1
A modern OLED tv displaying the Scatman music video on YouTube. A printout of the MTV logo is crudely taped to the corner.
Ging's Homevalue Hardware shop in Portlaoise
A pile of CDs beside an old boom box. CDs are: The Bangles Greatest Hits Truly Madly Completely The Best of Savage Garden Badly Drawn Boy The Hour of the Bewilderbeast The Best of Blur Mosley Shoals Ocean Colour Scene Pulp Different Class
A postcard of the Killeshin Hotel in Portlaoise from the 1970s showing four views. The outside, the Glendine glass annex, the “Wild Turkey” nightclub and the reception desk.
Wristbands from the Wittness festival in 2001 and 2003.
An EPG with four tv channels, TCC, Cartoon Network, UK Gold and Sky Movies. They all have their 90s logo, and tv programmes are period appropriate, including The Trap Door, Looney Tunes, Mr. Bean and Batman.
A real time bus information website, showing three cancelled buses in a row.
Selfie on front of Dublin Beet Fest signage.
A wind up alarm clock with The Children’s Channel branding.
A shelf with cd albums
A bottle of Fanta purchased in France. Showing 16g of sugar per 250ml.
A can of beer, a copy of the Irelands Own on a table on a patio outside in the sun.
A picture of the author in a school uniform, taken for the school yearbook.
A copy of There Came A Tapping by Andrea Carter
A picture of Sydney Parade level crossing, newly relaid with fresh asphalt and road markings.
Four books. Alyssa the Snow Queen Fairy, There Came A Tapping by Andrea Carter, Snowflake by Louise Nealon and Brouhaha by Ardal O’Hanlon.
A glass of water and a box of Cetrine allergy tablets.
A clock radio on the DAB band showing that 8Radio is playing.
A bedside lamp, a pile of books and a DAB radio playing RTE Gold.
A Roberts radio showing the time as 20:30 and a DAB signal for a radio station called Sionnach.
A hand holding a can of wd40 brand electric contact cleaner. In the background is an N64 with Super Mario 64.
An advertisment from a newspaper in 1998, with Dublin radio station FM104 trumpeting the results the of listenership survey.
TV listings for BBC 1 showing "Boss Cat" at 10:05.
A copy of The Beano comic from September 1989. Cover cost is 22p.
An iPad displaying an electronic copy of the book “How the Railways will fix the Future” by Gareth Dennis. In the background are seats on a train.
A Sega Game Gear portable console, with a modern LCD screen showing Sonic the Hedgehog.
A copy of the book “The Golden Age of Children’s TV” by Tim Worthington and a mug featuring branding from “The Children’s Channel”
A snowy suburban scene, with Scandinavian style houses on a hillside. An electric commuter train passed in the foreground.
A tv screen showing Zig and Zags Christmas Crisis.
An image of a music playlist, primarily made up of songs by Guns ‘n Roses and the soundtrack to My Little Pony : Friendship is Magic.
A photograph of a box of Lyon’s tea with the new 2023 branding. Also pictured one of the new square Lyon’s teabags and one old pyramid Lyon’s teabag