Ireland’s first runner cleaning company wants your dirty sneakers
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irishtimes.comPosted Mar 4, 2019, 8:08 AM UTC
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irishtimes.comJust chuck them in the washing machine..
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It's aimed at the sneaker heads you see queuing outside lifestyle at 8am for the latest pair from Kanye or whatever. They'd as soon wash them in a machine as you would your dress shoes
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Bryan's cobbler beside the hapenny bridge has been offering this for years
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Do they mean 'runners'?
Ballymuners stole me runners
We were using sneakers in the 80s when I was a kid
Sure, but what did you call them after you left America?
Born in the Coombe, reared in Wickla lad.
Mad, I've never heard an Irish person refer to them as 'sneakers'. Might just be a regional variation, like my in-laws in Louth who call cool-pops 'Frozen drinks'.
Never heard anyone say anything other than runners in Dublin back then , but it's not the weirdest thing I guess. It's all fucking 'trainers' now though :(
Which is worse? The Englishism or the Americanism?