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Your lowest point during the Bailout Years

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  • 19-06-2015 9:04pm
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    blackcard
    Registered Users Posts: 3,907 ✭✭✭


    Just as people years ago told their children and grandchildren about the
    Emergency Years and the Famine Years, in time to come we will tell our descendants about the Bailout Years. For me, it had a drip drip effect. First pay cut, tax increase, another pay cut, increased USC, another pay cut, friends losing their jobs, friends emigrating, increased unemployment, the bank debt increasing by billions, worrying about a run on the banks. The lowest point for me was the day of the Bailout itself, our leaders slumped without hope or leadership, watching little old Ireland making headlines international headlines on Sky, BBC, CNN, Bloomers. I wondered whither Ireland. That was the day I stopped watching the news. That was the lowest point of the Bailout Years for me. What was your lowest point?


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    #2
    Sheep Lover
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,730 ✭✭✭Sheep Lover


    Having to fly business class on all my flights during the recession. The thoughts of it now *shudders*


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    SEPT 23 1989
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    you talk as if its over


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    soap1978
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    having to shop in aldi


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    #5
    endacl
    Registered Users Posts: 22,262 ✭✭✭✭endacl


    Having to feed de fambly to de childers.


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    #6
    DareGod
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,298 ✭✭✭DareGod


    I'm going through it at the moment.

    We've all made a total mess of this world. It should be taken away from us.


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    semionova
    Closed Accounts Posts: 82 ✭✭semionova


    SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »
    you talk as if its over

    It is.


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    pablo128
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    2008 I was made redundant. Our daughter was 4 months old. Herself had a decent job so I decided to be a 'stay-at-home' dad for a while. 2 months later she was made redundant. Our rent was 1200 a month. They were nervous times.


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    The Backwards Man
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    Bailout years? Bailout years?!


    Not watching one of the 300 news channels for a day or two and having to chat to your mate on Skype instead of over a latte down the local Starbuck's does not constitute hardship OP.


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    kippy
    Registered Users Posts: 18,489 ✭✭✭✭kippy


    A bit of perspective is needed. The Emergency and moreso the Famine were countless times worse than anything that has happened in this country in the past decade.


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    Sheep Lover
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,730 ✭✭✭Sheep Lover


    The Backwards Man wrote: »
    Bailout years? Bailout years?!


    Not watching one of the 300 news channels for a day or two and having to chat to your mate on Skype instead of over a latte down the local Starbuck's does not constitute hardship OP.

    What does then?


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    #12
    the evasion_kid
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,740 ✭✭✭the evasion_kid


    Having to smoke Amber leaf


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    #13
    blackcard
    Registered Users Posts: 3,907 ✭✭✭blackcard


    pablo128 wrote: »
    2008 I was made redundant. Our daughter was 4 months old. Herself had a decent job so I decided to be a 'stay-at-home' dad for a while. 2 months later she was made redundant. Our rent was 1200 a month. They were nervous times.

    Tough times, hope you're doing better now


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    The Dogs Bollix
    Closed Accounts Posts: 360 ✭✭The Dogs Bollix


    The bailout years was the best time of my life.


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    DareGod
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,298 ✭✭✭DareGod


    The Backwards Man wrote: »
    Bailout years? Bailout years?!


    Not watching one of the 300 news channels for a day or two and having to chat to your mate on Skype instead of over a latte down the local Starbuck's does not constitute hardship OP.

    Did he say it did? :confused:


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    semionova
    Closed Accounts Posts: 82 ✭✭semionova


    pablo128 wrote: »
    2008 I was made redundant. Our daughter was 4 months old. Herself had a decent job so I decided to be a 'stay-at-home' dad for a while. 2 months later she was made redundant. Our rent was 1200 a month. They were nervous times.

    I really hope things improved for you. Must have been tough worrying with a child etc.


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    The Backwards Man
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    Sheep Lover wrote: »
    What does then?

    Fifteen of us used to travel the 30 miles to school on a Massey 35 with no cab. Pushing it mind, we couldn't afford to put diesel in it. In the bare feet. With potato bags for coats. Used potato bags, the good ones had to be kept for the spuds.


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    Aidric
    Registered Users Posts: 13,589 ✭✭✭✭Aidric


    At the airport when emigrating I had to remove a bag of kerr pinks from my luggage cause they were pushing me over the limit.


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    #19
    Mint Sauce
    Registered Users Posts: 29,294 ✭✭✭✭Mint Sauce


    Redundancy. Although that was a blessing in disguise, as in a lot better job now. The full year out of work though, before even getting something part time, and on a course, was soul destroying at times, possibly leading to the verge of depression.


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    #20
    Sheep Lover
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    The Backwards Man wrote: »
    Fifteen of us used to travel the 30 miles to school on a Massey 35 with no cab. Pushing it mind, we couldn't afford to put diesel in it. In the bare feet. With potato bags for coats. Used potato bags, the good ones had to be kept for the spuds.

    Aw, I thought it would include some reference to turf. Or one of those silly makey up culchie words. Ah well.


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    #21
    JustTheOne
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,681 ✭✭✭JustTheOne


    The bailout had nothing to do with people been made redundant, I wish we as a nation would stop blaming the bailout for everything wrong in their lives.


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    #22
    blackcard
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    kippy wrote: »
    A bit of perspective is needed. The Emergency and moreso the Famine were countless times worse than anything that has happened in this country in the past decade.

    Of course you are right and it is relative. There was a certain period where you got nervous if there was a queue at an ATM. I took out some of my savings and hid it at home. There was a sense of despair and fear for the future


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    Plates
    Registered Users Posts: 925 ✭✭✭Plates


    The last few years have been a wet dream for Joe Duffy and his "tell me something awful" band of followers. There seems to be a huge chunk of the population who refuse to acknowledge that things are getting better.


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    #24
    triple nipple
    Registered Users Posts: 334 ✭✭triple nipple


    Having to steal bog roll from the local pub as i couldn't afford to buy it


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    #25
    ISOP
    Registered Users Posts: 417 ✭✭ISOP


    being made redundant, unable to find a job for months, then emigrating, **** Ireland.


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    #26
    Mint Sauce
    Registered Users Posts: 29,294 ✭✭✭✭Mint Sauce


    triple nipple wrote: »
    Having to steal bog roll from the local pub as i couldn't afford to buy it

    But you could afford to go to...

    Ah forget it.


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    pablo128 wrote: »
    2008 I was made redundant. Our daughter was 4 months old. Herself had a decent job so I decided to be a 'stay-at-home' dad for a while. 2 months later she was made redundant. Our rent was 1200 a month. They were nervous times.

    Got my redundancy notice New Years Day 2008. Tough few years, but we got through it. Hope ye are doing ok.


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    #28
    DarkyHughes
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,393 ✭✭✭DarkyHughes


    Probably having to join FARC (the Colombian guerrilla's ) for 5 grams of pure cocaine a week. Which sells very well in Dublin. Eamon Dunphy was really happy because he could finally get good coke in Dublin


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    #29
    LaVail
    Registered Users Posts: 1,619 ✭✭✭LaVail


    Having to pick bits of coke off the floor when I spilled the bag.... Just kidding I never spill dat shiet.


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    #30
    Plates
    Registered Users Posts: 925 ✭✭✭Plates


    ISOP wrote: »
    being made redundant, unable to find a job for months, then emigrating, **** Ireland.

    What exciting part of the world did you end up in?


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    oceanman
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    Plates wrote: »
    The last few years have been a wet dream for Joe Duffy and his "tell me something awful" band of followers. There seems to be a huge chunk of the population who refuse to acknowledge that things are getting better.
    maybe because very few people are feeling better off in their pockets!


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