1933 – Embarrassed Brother is the Butt of the Joke in Cahir

Clonmel Chronicle, 21 October 1933

The normal methods of us annoying our brothers include borrowing their lawnmower and never giving it back, uploading embarrassing childhood photos of them on FaceBook, taking the front seat of the car on long trips or generally bossing them about. The gentleman in this case from the Cahir district in 1933, however, went one better. The name has been protected to save the guilty’s blushes, that is, if he ever blushed at all in the first place…