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Do you have nostalgia for your first phone?

“For most of us, our phone is now our most important, most used possession. It’s our alarm cl...

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13.42 5 Mar 2026


Do you have nostalgia for your first phone?


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13.42 5 Mar 2026


“For most of us, our phone is now our most important, most used possession. It’s our alarm clock, our wallet, our diary, our workspace, our health assistant.” So writes Freelance Journalist Niamh O’Reilly.

But, she wants to take us back to a simpler technological age – the year 1996, when she got her first phone.

She joins Andrea to chat about the nostalgia of getting your first phone, as well as Aoife Rooney, Assistant Editor of Weekend Magazine at the Irish Independent.


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