Summer 1995

Donahg

Now that was a long HOT Summer, A girl like you by Edwyn collins was the big song of the summer.

Saila

I knew there was some good ones, 94 was amazing to wasnt it

MistyCheese

Summer 1995?!

I can't even remember the weather today at 19:95!

blahhh

I remember it well... great summer

made my communion that year :P

Lady Chatterton

After an 81 year wait, Clare Hurlers beat Offaly to win the 1995 All Ireland Final

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0NM_nKejomA

saa

94-99 I just have one blur of memories of all decent enough summer days


06-08 + '11 I just have sharp and clear recollections of rain.


Its probably just my nostalgia I know the summers were hotter on average in the 90s werent they yeah?

mikemac

UP THE BANNER

I remember all the Clare supporters passing through our town in Tipp returning from the Championship games

Naturally we showered them with abuse :cool:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nvrEMewNsg

Stinicker

blahhh wrote: »

I remember it well... great summer

made my communion that year :P

Me too! Windows as we know it was unloaded upon the world that year too.

Washington Irving

MistyCheese wrote: »

I can't even remember the weather today at 19:95!

Probably because that time doesn't exist

concur4u?

ah i remember it well it was my first real summer of love and lsd

Stinicker

MrsD007 wrote: »

After an 81 year wait, Clare Hurlers beat Offaly to win the 1995 All Ireland Final

There won't be cows milked in Clare for a week after this, Which commentator said that I'd love to know?

Ricardo G

Ah summer 95, i spent my days masturbating.

Nothing left but a raw nerve come September:D

Millicent

MistyCheese wrote: »

Summer 1995?!

I can't even remember the weather today at 19:95!

Been reading clocks long, then? :pac:

Eroticfishcake

Donahg wrote: »

Now that was a long HOT Summer, A girl like you by Edwyn collins was the big song of the summer.

I hate hate hated that song...'96 was the best summer. Hellhole bus back from Oasis in Cork, straight to school for leaving cert results, then down to the shelters on the beach for classy beers before tomangoes

Lady Chatterton

mikemac wrote: »

UP THE BANNER

I remember all the Clare supporters passing through our town in Tipp returning from the Championship games

Naturally we showered them with abuse :cool:

I seem to remember that we also had another good year in 1997, beating Tipp:p We had mighty craic in Killaloe/Ballina

admiralofthefleet

ill never forget that summer, mtv on the telly at 8 in the morning playing in the summer time by mungo jerry and it roasting outside

raveni

Ah I remember it well...no I don't, I was 4. Ye're all ould:P

Lady Chatterton

Stinicker wrote: »

There won't be cows milked in Clare for a week after this, Which commentator said that I'd love to know?

Marty Morrissey said that after the 1992 Munster football final win over Kerry. My personal favourite was Anthony Daly. "In Clare we love our traditional music but we love our hurling too". Happy days

MistyCheese

Saul-Goode9 wrote: »

Probably because that time doesn't exist

My cats breath smells like cat food.

concur4u?

Eroticfishcake wrote: »

I hate hate hated that song...'96 was the best summer. Hellhole bus back from Oasis in Cork, straight to school for leaving cert results, then down to the shelters on the beach for classy beers before tomangoes

i was at the second nite truely dissapionted with oasis live a trip to the barbers after that lol and was it not 99?

krudler

I remember that summer, Batman Forever and Die Hard With a Vengeance in the cinema, Earthworm Jim and The Tick on Trouble all summer (remember Trouble?) No Doubt on the radio.

and I touched my first boob.

Lady Chatterton

Boom Boom Boom was a hit during the Summer of '95

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WqHQ_wWbG9Y

Gran Hermano

If I recall 95 correctly it was a heatwave. Stuck in an office without aircon in the city centre. Worst part was that any rain we had tended to fall on the weekends that summer.

mikemac

This song was everywhere

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKMeHI4ZLLY

Batman was the big summer blockbuster

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_WDG8iLT1o

Great song, terrible film. Well this was out a few months before summer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9oU_F0yS-Bo

Bitchin cool ad :cool:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DPLwSaUpZC4

later12

That... was the year of the Munich bother.

southsiderosie

Oof, that was a hot summer. I was working as a lifeguard in Chicago and the pools and beaches were packed. Over 700 people died from the heat, it was that intense.

admiralofthefleet

this was one of my favourites of the summer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXrP5FJIo7w

mrsdewinter

95 was a great summer - the good weather seemed to go on and on. Great chart music too. Blur, Oasis, Supergrass... They all formed the soundtrack to a great year. God, I miss the 90s...

Lady Chatterton

mikemac wrote: »

UP THE BANNER

I remember all the Clare supporters passing through our town in Tipp returning from the Championship games

Naturally we showered them with abuse :cool:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nvrEMewNsg

Jaysus Mikemac, that is a great clip. Are you a closet Clare man??? Maybe you have dual citizenship

Larianne

krudler wrote: »

I remember that summer, Batman Forever and Die Hard With a Vengeance in the cinema, Earthworm Jim and The Tick on Trouble all summer (remember Trouble?) No Doubt on the radio.

and I touched my first boob.

Are you sure Die Hard With a Vengeance came out that year? I remember seeing it in the cinema but it wasn't 1995. Coz I was going into secondary school then.

Haven't a clue what the summer was like. I think I went camping a lot.

krudler

provided the only U2 song I actually really like too

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_WDG8iLT1o

I hear this and instantly think of that summer

mikemac

MrsD007 wrote: »

Boom Boom Boom was a hit during the Summer of '95

And nobody knew the lyrics and pre internet days it wasn't so easy to find out

Ian Dempsey started off:

Boom boom boom
Castlebar is in Mayo, hey oh

And so it caught on

MrsD007 wrote: »

Jaysus Mikemac, that is a great clip. Are you a closet Clare man??? Maybe you have dual citizenship

Reported for personal abuse :mad:;)

Mr. Denton

Ah Summer 1995. I remember it well. My childhood heroes the Irish national football team were taking Harry's Fish N Chips Challenge instead of training and as a result turning a well-oiled almost-unbeatable team into a lethargic train-wreck limping from one shambolic result to the next.

Good times.

Lady Chatterton

For three weeks, in June-July 1995, nearly 6,000 mostly young and part-time workers struck against Ireland's largest private sector employer, the firmly anti-union Dunnes Stores, over Sunday trading, zero-hours contracts, the proportion of full-time jobs and other issues.

admiralofthefleet

krudler wrote: »

provided the only U2 song I actually really like too



I hear this and instantly think of that summer

thats one of the only songs that i like from bonio and the lads

Eroticfishcake

concur4u? wrote: »

i was at the second nite truely dissapionted with oasis live a trip to the barbers after that lol and was it not 99?

Nope think that was Slane

krudler

Larianne wrote: »

Are you sure Die Hard With a Vengeance came out that year? I remember seeing it in the cinema but it wasn't 1995. Coz I was going into secondary school then.

Haven't a clue what the summer was like. I think I went camping a lot.

yup

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0112864/

I remember when Sky movies used to have this trailer show where theyd show all the trailers and box office charts for new movies and I was seeing the trailer for Die Hard for weeks

pic quality is gash but that trailer is awesome

Larianne

krudler wrote: »

yup

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0112864/

Feck! They let anyone into a 15-rated film in Navan cinema so! :pac:

Lady Chatterton

Robson & Jerome were in the UK charts in May/June 1995

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5UlB4Yw1wQ

MGMTea

Ahh Summer 95, I remember only too well, oh wait no I don't I was only 6 months old >:( I will never experience a good summer, I hate yiz all

Eroticfishcake

MGMTea wrote: »

Ahh Summer 95, I remember only too well, oh wait no I don't I was only 6 months old >:( I will never experience a good summer, I hate yiz all

It's got to be past your bedtime

concur4u?

Eroticfishcake wrote: »

Nope think that was Slane

the prodigy and the bootleg beatles played aswell in pairc ui chomaigh i must be mixxed up damn them strawberrys played with my mind lol

Lady Chatterton

Originally Posted by MrsD007 Jaysus Mikemac, that is a great clip. Are you a closet Clare man??? Maybe you have dual citizenship

mikemac wrote: »

Reported for personal abuse :mad:;)

Hey Mikemac, in a previous life were you a Clare Hurling Selector and Scariff publican? ;)

norris_minor

I recall cooking on a campsite outside the parc ui caoimh that year

'twer six sizzling sausages, seared by the sun! haha.. so many sausages on display! so many boys, burning their bangers.. It was a very good year!

Lia_lia

I lived in France, so it was probably an even lovelier summer there!

ayeboy

Cracker of a summer. I used to cycle to work and get bogged down in the tar

Dionysus

Clare lit up each summer of the 1990s from 1995 on, just as the four extraordinary Dublin-Meath matches did in the summer of 1991.

It was a brilliant time, captured wonderfully in this compilation Clare hurling video on YouTube.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KN_KRTaDJoM

It was great to be Irish in the late 1990s; the GAA was building a massive new state of the art Croke Park, the ceasefire was on and the economy was improving. There was enormous positivity. But Clare, the David of hurling, inspired every hurler and footballer - nay, every underdog - in the country. A while ago I heard a brilliant documentary, this one, on RTÉ Radio 1 and it brought so many of those memories back. My favourite is being in Cusack Park in Ennis watching Galway and Clare in the late 90s. The superb quality of the hurling, the emotion and passion of the crowd, the surge, the screams, the strangers offering me sandwiches as we screamed together, the wit and the songs made it all a hugely proud time to be Irish.

Hopefully in the next few years Dublin will be the new Clare.

Lady Chatterton

Dionysus wrote: »

Clare lit up each summer of the 1990s from 1995 on, just as the four extraordinary Dublin-Meath matches did in the summer of 1991.

It was a brilliant time, captured wonderfully in this compilation Clare hurling video on YouTube.


It was great to be Irish in the late 1990s; the GAA was building a massive new state of the art Croke Park, the ceasefire was on and the economy was improving. There was enormous positivity. But Clare, the David of hurling, inspired every hurler and footballer - nay, every underdog - in the country. A while ago I heard a brilliant documentary, this one, on RTÉ Radio 1 and it brought so many of those memories back. My favourite is being in Cusack Park in Ennis watching Galway and Clare in the late 90s. The superb quality of the hurling, the emotion and passion of the crowd, the surge, the screams, the strangers offering me sandwiches as we screamed together, the wit and the songs made it all a hugely proud time to be Irish.

Hopefully in the next few years Dublin will be the new Clare.

I'm supporting the Dublin hurlers these days, it is wonderful what Anthony Daly and his players have achieved.

fergiesfolly

MrsD007 wrote: »

For three weeks, in June-July 1995, nearly 6,000 mostly young and part-time workers struck against Ireland's largest private sector employer, the firmly anti-union Dunnes Stores, over Sunday trading, zero-hours contracts, the proportion of full-time jobs and other issues.

And for a time won. Closed an entire chain down for nearly three weeks and kept a modicum of rights for the workers in these stores for a few years..till the union backed down. Great time had on strike. Had feck all money but loads of public support and the three best weeks of weather in the last thirty years.

norris_minor

if we get any more used to these autumnal (viewed as wintry elsewhere) conditions as 'summer', we will be even more susceptible to skincancer if that's any more possible in the event the sun rears it's what will then be viewed as ugly head! I've heard many folk complain it's sticky when fresh and not even 20c! And no sun, of course..

For the record mid-teens is my ideal. quelle surprise!! ..just it's not nowhere near summer. Maybe a new iceage beckons for ye, descendants of marauding norwegians of yore!

Lady Chatterton

fergiesfolly wrote: »

And for a time won. Closed an entire chain down for nearly three weeks and kept a modicum of rights for the workers in these stores for a few years..till the union backed down.

I remember the strike well, Dunnes only managed to keep one store opened in the Republic of Ireland and I'm ashamed to say that it was in my own county. The Ennis store remained open but the locals boycotted it for the three weeks.