When were 7 digit phone numbers introduced in Dublin?

[ClubMan]

Wishful thinking....

It was.

 

[Purple]

It literally set-out when exactly it happened in stages across Dublin in the link I shared.

1990-1994.

Unless you have something to the contrary?

My mistake. I didn't see that detail either. Always happy to stand corrected.

 

[odyssey06]

My number was prefixed with an 8, so I'm declaring top trump here

I had completely forgotten about the change, but now I remember it happening.

 

[Marsupial]

And your ex girlfriends numbers...

Only my posh girlfriend (Mount Merrion) had a phone in her house!
My (Northside) girlfriend's family didn't get one until after we were married - and we had to wait for four years before Telecom Eireann could install a phone line in our new love nest in Swords. Back then, even our local GP had to wait for months before getting a phone installed.

 

[gipimann]

I moved house in early 1991 to Co Meath (within the 01 area) and got a new 7-digit phone number at the time.

 

[Gordon Gekko]

Youngsters look at you with like you’ve 10 heads if you tell them about phoning a girl’s house and her Dad answering.

 

[ClubMan]

Back then, even our local GP had to wait for months before getting a phone installed.

Thanks to my da's job as an inspector in the Corpo we had one earlier than many neighbours so would have a steady stream of them dropping in to make a call and leaving their tenpence behind to pay for it. When other neighbours got one installed it was a big deal to be the first to call the new number for some reason. I'm surprised that the priest didn't do house calls to bless the new technology...

 

[Fortune]

I remember it being in the mid 1980's but I can't find any specifics online.

I think the 80s is when they went to 6 digits

 

[Sue Ellen]

we had one earlier than many neighbours so would have a steady stream of them dropping in to make a call

I used to spend a lot of my time answering calls for neighbours and being told to go and get them to take the call. Don't remember ever getting any money as a tip for doing the good deed which at that time kids looked forward to

 

[Brendan Burgess]

Always happy to stand corrected.

Your feet must be hurting so.

 

[Purple]

Your feet must be hurting so.

No, but the varicose veins are killing me.

 

[gipimann]

I think the 80s is when they went to 6 digits

Dublin went from 5 to 6 digits around 1958, per this reply in an old boards thread.

Dublin telephone numbers

I seem to remember that the Dublin area changed from 6 digit telephone numbers to 7 digit telephone numbers in the late 1980s.

www.boards.ie

 

[ClubMan]

I used to spend a lot of my time answering calls for neighbours and being told to go and get them to take the call. Don't remember ever getting any money as a tip for doing the good deed which at that time kids looked forward to

Sounds like that early scene in Goodfellas.

 

[Gordon Gekko]

Sounds like that early scene in Goodfellas.

That’s two Goodfellas references this month.

Has to be some kind of record.

 

[losttheplot]

That’s two Goodfellas references this month.

Has to be some kind of record.

Must be Jimmy Two Times.

 

[Gordon Gekko]

Must be Jimmy Two Times.

Funny…like a clown.

 

[Tintagel]

I remember my parents getting a cream coloured telephone, sitting on the table in the hall.

 

[Purple]

I remember my parents getting a cream coloured telephone, sitting on the table in the hall.

Why were you sitting on the table in the hall?

 

[Firefly]

I used to spend a lot of my time answering calls for neighbours and being told to go and get them to take the call.

I remember having to do this too!

 

[Tintagel]

Why were you sitting on the table in the hall?

Now that I remember it. We did not have a chair to sit on beside the phone. I either sat on the floor or on the bottom steps of the stairs.