This time 10 years ago I was.................

[Asal Mor]

I was labouring back home in beautiful Galway. Now Im teaching English in China - earning less and working harder. It's so much more rewarding though .

[muppet]

a decade younger..............
it was a decade less since Mayo's last All-Ireland.....
the notion of a rugby Grand Slam for Ireland or Wales was laughable....
Chelsea and Man City were irrelevant....
Mary Harney & Michael O'Leary were telling us about the 'good government' we had.....

Chelsea actually finished 3rd in the EPL in 98-99 and won the FA Cup in 2000

Portsmouth won an FA Cup recently and are not relevant.

[cookstownblue]

I was 15, didnt drink, didnt smoke, was a virgin, now im a semi alcoholic, smoke 20 benson and hedges a day........and still a virgin!

[Celt_Man]

-Was in first year in college in Limerick
-Sleeping a hell of a lot
-Drinking even more
-Living off take away's and pasta and sauce, (hadn't learned to cook at this stage)
-Going home every weekend to work to pay for the drinking
-About to meet another in the long line of possible future Mrs West Mayo's (who weren't)
-Not playing football anymore
-Being pissed off after finding out exams in UL were after xams, so i'd be heading back on New Years Day to get some study done
-Finding out the college library was a great place to check out the talent

What are ya on about??? Sure Pasta and Sauce is definitely cooking!!

[Donnellys Hollow]

- I still played football for the club
- I was still riding occasionally as an amateur jump jockey (was about 3 stone lighter than I am now so!)
- I drove a green '96 Corolla
- I was going out with a girl from Wexford
- I was able to go out on a proper session without feeling like sh1t for a few days afterwards
- I was doing a bit of part-time work in the local
- I was about halway through my undergrad degree course in college
- I had a lot less grey hair
- I had fcuk all money in my bank account

Good times

[Hurler on the Bitch]

I was writing scholastic philosophy essays at queens and wondering what I was doing a course like that for.
I was bar-tending at the weekends
I was drinking too much
I was regularly getting stiches due to drink related accidents
I was in between michelles.
I had retired from the football.
I was playing lots of music.
I was buying too many clothes and shoes.
I was 19.

In between Michelles what?

[Puckoon]

#1 & #2. (And not in potty parlance either horse).

[armagh leg-end]

was only 10
in p7 at primary school
was looking forward to santa coming
my current car was only 2 years old with about 240,000 less mile!lol

[3000 miles away]

in 4th year at school,
mad for drink, women and caesars or oasis of a fri nite
drinking in the cattlemart of a sat nite,looking forward to my first over 18's disco with my new leather jacket to make me look older
took a year off football(crippled with growiing pains)
just being a general nuisance.

[sheelinside]

in college,
sleeping by day, only appearing at night
on a 6 month high after winning intermediate champ
drinking quite a bit (a lot more than now)
living with 3 mayo buckaroos in dublin (and one token roscommon man)
barred from the portobello in dublin for a year

[the Deel Rover]

i was 27 years old,
i was about to get engaged
i had just put a deposit on out 1st home
i was training like fcuk for the Ai club semi final against na fianna (which we lost)
i was happy with life and thankfully 10 years on i still am

[the Deel Rover]

I was in Phoenix Arizona, and golfing.
I was playing football with Clan na Gael in San Diego.
I was a Cardinals Season Ticket holder
My girlfriend (now my wife)  and I had a 3 bed apartment in Phoenix, with swimming pools and a Gym on site.
I was 26

However, now I'm married, I have a house in Newport (although the swimming pool is a more natural phenomonen), a job at home, am coaching youngsters and have a 3 year old boy of my own.

It's been a great decade for me Thank God, so hopefully more to come.

newport in mayo Az ?

[Harold Disgracey]

Was living in Newry, just about to turn 30.
Had just bought a site, some people at the time thought we were mad paying £26k for a site!
Now about to turn 40 I'm a couple of stone lighter with 2 kids & thorougly enjoying my resurrected football career!

[bingobus]

I'm genueinely struggling to know what I was doing but then it dawned on me....This week ten years ago

- Final year of college in Dublin, living in Ranelagh
- Just finished christmas exams which conincided with birthday and a very messy rip in dublin which saw me and flatmate thrown out of The Palace nightclub on Camden st.
- Next day got accepted into one of Big Four accountancy firms in dublin (was actually big 5 at the the time).
- Was seeing a bird from Kilkenny, who wasn't impressed when I disappeared from the Palace that night
- Was doing very little on the GAA front apart from attending the odd match
- Had 2/3 parttime jobs on the go to fund the student lifestyle
- Generally, good, carefree times.

Now, Married, 2 kids, heavily involved in GAA club, mortgage, car, can't drink without dying, overweight etc etc etc etc

[thebandit]

I'm genueinely struggling to know what I was doing but then it dawned on me....This week ten years ago

- Final year of college in Dublin, living in Ranelagh
- Just finished christmas exams which conincided with birthday and a very messy rip in dublin which saw me and flatmate thrown out of The Palace nightclub on Camden st.
- Next day got accepted into one of Big Four accountancy firms in dublin (was actually big 5 at the the time).
- Was seeing a bird from Kilkenny, who wasn't impressed when I disappeared from the Palace that night
- Was doing very little on the GAA front apart from attending the odd match
- Had 2/3 parttime jobs on the go to fund the student lifestyle
- Generally, good, carefree times.

Now, Married, 2 kids, heavily involved in GAA club, mortgage, 3 cars, can't drink without dying, overweight etc etc etc etc