Its a Scullion Thing

They fought like dockers and they swore the same way—but they never stood alone in the dark. ​Step inside a house with no boundaries and a heart as big as the Falls Road. This episode features a raw, gritty, B.B. King inspired blues anthem that tells the unfiltered story of the Scullions, eleven siblings raised in the heat of old Andersonstown. ​Presided over by "The General" Bridie and her unbrea...

In April 1977, the Scullion family home in West Belfast went up in flames. Thanks to a chip pan, a pound of lard, and the legendary Bridie Scullion. This hilarious yet true story stars Bridie, eleven children, and a six-week-old baby (me, Brona Scullion), as the house fills with thick black smoke, neighbours call the fire brigade, and chaos spills out onto Glenveagh Drive. From chip pans exploding...

What do you get when you mix a Saturday job, a veggie van, a Belfast riot, and two Scullion brothers? Absolute chaos. This week’s Scullion Thing stars Sean Scullion the so-called “Golden Child” and Raymond Scullion forever the “Good Samaritan.” What starts as a simple day flogging spuds and sprouts for the Veggie Man turns into gunfire, rubber bullets, brotherly punch-ups, and one very unimpressed...

Welcome back to Scullion Stories the Irish family podcast where the stitches are real, the snitches are related, and the polyester is nearly indestructible. In this hilarious and heartfelt episode, we dive into a true story from 1970s Belfast a time when working-class kids made their own fun, builder’s rags became battlefield weapons, and nothing was more terrifying than ruining a dress your Ma wa...

Brace yourself for another wild ride through the streets of West Belfast in the 1970s, where faith, fire, and family chaos collide in spectacular Scullion fashion. This episode features Raymond Scullion, better known in family folklore as “The Good Samaritan.” Unlike his fight-first, ask-questions-later siblings, Raymond was the peacemaker. The helper. The one who joined The Order of Malta—an orga...

So this Scullion Story centres on the quietest Scullion of them all – Kay Scullion, AKA Doctor Dolittle. Kay loved animals more than people. Birds with broken wings, stray cats, random dogs off the street – she’d bring them all home to feed. It drove Granny Bridie demented because every new “pet” came with fleas, ticks and chaos. But that was Kay – a loner in a house bursting at the seams with ele...

Welcome back to It’s a Scullion Thing – the darkly funny Irish family podcast about chaos, craic, and survival in 1970s West Belfast. This week’s Scullion saga is one for the ages: the day Michelle Scullion – also known as The Lion-Heart Rat – got hit by a car, knocked clean out of her shoes, and still somehow ended up in more trouble at home than on the road. Now, if you’re wondering why she’s ca...

My Ma’s Gonna Kill Me – Patsy vs Briege: The Day the Green Cross Code Was Rewritten by the Scullions Welcome back to It’s a Scullion Thing , the darkly funny Irish family podcast about chaos, craic, and pure West Belfast survival. This week’s story is a two-for-one – starring two unforgettable Scullion sisters: my mum Patsy Scullion (AKA Tiny Tears ) and her wee sister Briege Scullion (AKA Bridie’...

It’s a Scullion Thing – Margaret and the Pea A Tale of One Nose, One Pea, and Zero Common Sense This week on It’s a Scullion Thing , I thought we’d take a gentler approach… because for the first time, we’re telling a solo Scullion girl story. The Scullion girls, as legend goes, were good Catholic girls . They didn’t hijack the ‘RA, hotwire a car, or steal the Sunday roast. They were angels . If yo...

This week on It’s a Scullion Thing, Buckle up, because today’s story dives headfirst into the fast and foolish antics of a young Seamie Scullion — a rebel without a clue, a boy with big dreams and zero street smarts, and a heroic partner-in-crime that quite literally brought him down. Welcome to West Belfast in the 1970s — a place where kids ran wild, mothers ran mad, and dogs ran the show. Seamie...

Most teenagers steal a crate of cider or a pack of smokes. Not them. In 1970s Andersonstown, the "Moron Mafia" decided to go big. They decided to hijack a van. With a plastic gun. Wearing their mother’s best pillowcases as balaclavas. Meet Sean Scullion: the "golden child" with the tactical brain of a wet paper bag. After finding a replica rifle in a bush (which we naturally assumed was a gift fro...

The Scullion house doesn’t do "disagreements." We do full-blown judicial inquiries. Welcome to the first episode of It’s a Scullion Thing, a podcast where craziness, chaos, and craic collide in a deeply dysfunctional dance through the trauma soaked, gravy drenched halls of West Belfast family life. The Crime Set in the heart of Andersonstown in the mid-to-late 70s, we dive headfirst into one of th...