It was clearly having a rare old time in the water.

My escape was pretty ordinary, but I can see you've had a rare old time of it.

'My word, our ancestors had some rare old times together, didn't they?

"We had a rare old time, punching up the Arandos.

Those had been Elmo's glory days, rare old times for a man who had never finished high school.

They had a rare old time in the Eastfjords; and then for some reason they took it into their heads to try their luck in Greenland.

"We know that there was an awful lot of frolicking and junketing and goings-on, and I think it's fair to say the lawyers had a rare old time."

'If you really feel the need for something a bit different in the religious line why don't you go down to the Church of the Second Coming, I hear they have rare old times down there.'

It is sometimes called "Dublin in the Rare Ould Times", or just called "The Rare Old Times" or alternatively "The Rare Auld Times".

While songs are still popular with the Dublin fans they now tend to be Dublin-centric such as Molly Malone and Dublin in the Rare Old Times or focus on the team itself singing Come on you boys in blue.

In popular songs by The Dublin city ramblers, The Dubliners, and Flogging Molly, Dublin in the Rare Old Times and The Rare Oulde Times respectively, the singers refers to being "born hard and late in Pimlico, in a house that ceased to be".