Do you remember the Jackie magazine? It's 60 years old

Jackie was launched back on January 11, 1964, at a price of just six pence with a picture of a smiling Cliff Richard on the front cover. 

June Rodgers with a copy of Jackie magazine . Photograph Moya Nolan

Tallaght was a rural village when June Rodgers grew up there in the 1960s and 1970s. The comedian and star of Mrs Brown’s Boys recalls how she and her sister used to sit on the wall of the nearby Protestant church and count how many red and blue tractors would pass them by on a given afternoon. They had no phone and the only real connection they had with the teenage world outside was through a weekly TV show called Top of the Pops and a magazine they would rush down to buy from the local newsagents every Thursday.

“Jackie was the highlight of the week,” says the actress. “I just used one of the annuals for a seventies scene in my recent Christmas show and it brought back lots of memories. Myself and my sister got it once a week to share. There was always a big poster in the middle of it of a pop star like David Essex, Rod Stewart or Roxy Music. We used to cut out the pictures and hang them on our wall and when we’d be getting dressed for bed we would cover their faces so they wouldn’t see us getting into our nighties.