Nostalgic for great days of one-channel hopping

No choice..but we kids were better for it

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IF you grew up in Ireland in the 70s and early 80s, you'll remember it well.

But talk about just having only one or two TV channels to a kid today and there's a chance they'll put you in the home for the bewildered.

Yours truly was feeling very old indeed, chatting with my nine-year-old about what it was like having just one TV channel when I was her age (we didn't get RTE2 until well after it launched in late 1978, as my dad didn't want to shell out for a new aerial).

A nine-year-old today has TV - with dozens of dedicated kids channels - plus streaming services like Netflix and Disney along with YouTube, TikTok and a million other places to see whatever the hell they want.