What was your favourite/least favourite year?

I have a soft spot for the year 2000 - was 10 years old, spinning about on my bike, caught up in the pokemon craze, playing playstation, the future a blank canvas in front of me!.. looking back there was a certain unappreciated-at-the-time optimism (pre 9-11?) which I believe was seperate from the fact I experienced the time as a 10 year old

Least favourite year probably 2013 ... not good at all!

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

1946. Favourite. War ended and my brother was born.

Least favourite. 1970. My father dies too young and unexpectedly

keano_afc

Best - 2010. First child born. We've since had another but the overwhelming joy of becoming a parent will take some beating.

Worst - 2016. Its only a couple of months old but I was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes last month. Came as a shock and I'm only now getting my head back in the game.

AvyStreet

Iirc 2009 was not the best year.

BattleCorp

Best Year. Italia '90. Put'em under pressure. Can't remember the year.

Worst Year. Italia '90. Fcuking Skillachy.


What year was Italia '90 anyone????????

Lights On

2010 was probably the best, 18 years old and one of the last summers spent with everyone I grew up with before people moved away, grew apart etc.

Worst has been 2012-15, which I'm lumping together because for the most part they were just a blur and felt like one long stretch due to depression and all the ****e that comes with it. 2016 ain't looking too bad so far though, might be my new favourite come the end of it

KatW4

My worst years were probably 2001, I was 11 and my dad was dying and then died in October. 2011 was awful too. I moved to London and a month later my granny died which absolutely killed me.

2014 was a brilliant year because I finally moved home to Ireland and I'm so much happier here.

StripedBoxers

Least favourite year, I have two, 2014 and 2015, life started turning upside down in 2014 and completely crumbled in 2015, only now are things starting to improve and I'm starting to see results from my long hard road of therapy.

Long way still to go but finally happy to be seeing results.

I don't have a favourite year, never a year worth remembering, hopefully that will change though.

Birneybau

1066.

Bit of both.

AgileMyth

I started last year in a job, city and country that I hated. I ended it working in a job I've dreamed about for many years. I also now live 100 metres from the beach and its sunny all year round. So for me 2015 was a game changer. 2016 is looking pretty promising also.

valoren

I have a soft spot for 1996.

I was 15. Finished the Junior Cert and had a stress free start to 5th year. No exam pressure.

Euro 96, the Atlanta Olympics (Michelle Smith 'winning' the gold, Sonia sh1tting her green knickers, Michael Johnson with his golden shoes), the Spice Girls, Father Ted Series 2, "Friends" was hitting it's stride in terms of quality, Seinfeld was the best thing on TV. Blockbusters were Mission Impossible, Michael Collins, The Rock, Independence Day in the Capitol in Cork, Newcastle United in the Premier League, had a huge crush on Gwyneth Paltrow around this time to my shame too.

RayM

Favourite year - pretty much any year in the 1990s. Everything (and I mean everything) seemed to go a bit shit from around 2000 onwards.

Least favourite year - My mother died in 2012. No other year comes close.

Buona Fortuna

The 80s, got married, new job got promoted three times. Weekends away with other 20 somethings and every other week seemed to be a wedding somewhere. Garden parties and BBQs in London.

2012 my dear Dad died.

In 2011 everything turned to shít. Mam was diagnosed with alzheimers, long term relationship ended, made some difficult decisions, something horrible happened. My life is like everything that went before that year and then everything that came after it. It was a gamechanger.

Before that I would say 2000. I was beginning third level and completely carefree. It was a year of great fun and making new friends. Very fond memories of that time

Agricola

I also have a soft spot for 1996, particularly that summer. Mainly because it was my first experience of breaking the shackles of the parents. Most fine days were spent playing football with friends, tramping through the woods and playing army / soldiers (though we we were far too grown up to admit it.)

Most wet days were spent playing Playstation and hooking up a primitive PC to a dialup modem to spend entire afternoons waiting for one porn pic to load. It was also the summer of my first girlfriend, she excited and scared the life out of me in equal measure.
Oh to be 29 again.........

1991/1992.

Started going out with the most beautiful girl in the locality, now my wife, did the LC and moved away to Uni, though was home every weekend so had the best of both worlds, started drinking and heading out, rave and dance culture was taking over...was just sunny days and some crazy nights.

Can't really think of a bad year that stood out.

Mint Aero

1910 had my first huka buck. Least favourite was the crash of 29. I lost a fortune and put a gun to my head later that year

TG1

2015 was both for me. My fantastic niece was born, I bought my first horse, started a career instead of jobs, started earning enough to save and put a bit by as well as having nice things.

But my sister was diagnosed with a lifechanging illness, I lost my job and had to move out of my house, and I had an accident that resulted in an injury that comes with a 55% mortality rate and a long recovery road.

It was a weird year, one I wasnt sad to see the back of, but the good bits were amazing!

Beasty

1999, the year of the treble - was at Wembley and the Nou Camp in Barcelona to see Man Utd pick up the FA Cup and Champions League trophies. Could not make the FA Cup Semi-final replay that year as our first child arrived that day!

2014 was pretty much a washout for me. Had a serious cycling accident (2 years ago on Wednesday!, another daughter's birthday) - very lucky to survive that but spent the rest of the year (certainly what I can recall of it) recovering (and only now I'm starting to feel as if I'm pretty much as recovered as I'm going to be)

Zaph

Worst year - 2006. Had a pretty bad accident and spent a lot of time in hospital and rehab.

Best year - 2009. Met my now wife.

qo2cj1dsne8y4k

Favourite year was 05/06
Carefree, no worries, normal life, both parents, could do whatever I liked (within reason). Music festivals, debs, staying out late. Worked part time so had my own money.

Worst year of my life was 2013. Every single bad thing that could ever happen, happened.

Jan - my beautiful auntie (substitute mom) died after being diagnosed 17 days earlier with an aggressive cancer.
Feb - my dad was diagnosed with cancer
March - started his chemo and that was the end of my dad as I knew him
April - lost all his hair, looked weak and sick.
May - he had heart failure and it was the first time the actual reality of losing him hit home.
June - he knew he wasn't getting better so started to sell all his farm animals and started "tieing up loose ends"
July - started his radiation which made him really sick
August - he could no longer function or even pretend to be ok. Couldn't get out of bed, couldn't eat and there was nothing I could do to even ease it for him
September - he started having strokes, little mini ones, the Tumor was now on his brain causing him to fall, not be able to walk, forget things and be confused.
October - he had a bad fall during the night, wasn't found for hours until I got up the next morning and was basically admitted to hospital and never came home.
November - we were told this is it. He's not getting better.
December - my dad passed away.

On top of all that, I was meeting a guy who messed me around, played with my feelings, messed with my head, and left me feeling absolutely worthless. Pretty certain he was probably meeting another girl in around the time my dad died but he was absolved of doing anything wrong because "technically we are nothing".

2014 was pretty **** dealing with the after math of both him and losing my dad, and the drama that goes with that. It was a pretty awful time where I didn't care about anything. I didn't feel anything in regards my dads death, no tears, no being sad, didn't care about any consequences. Was living in a house with wild boys, one of them kept me supplied with a lot of Valium which I enjoyed. Started pulling myself together the end of 2014, 2015 was awesome. The best year ever, and 2016 is just as awesome. It's only going to be good years from now on

Cake Man

Best - More or less any year in the late 90's/early 00's. Summer weather always seemed to be great those years. Out in the morning and not back until it was dark. If it was raining out, Playstation until your eyes turned square with a big bag of munchies that cost a pound in the shop.


Worst - Probably 2005, I was doing the LC and was only 17 at the time. All my friends were 18 so getting into pubs and clubs was difficult. Couldn't wait to turn 18 and finish the LC so it felt like the longest dragged out few months of my life.

Galwayguy35

1992 was the best year when I finished school.

2010 wouldn't have been a great one, was supposed to be getting married and that didn't happen for various reasons.

razorblunt

Worst: 2002. My mam passed away in January, Leaving Cert later that year. Had planned on resitting it the next year so was focused on just getting decent marks in English, Irish and Maths. Banking the results and then resitting. Ended up getting the points for a course I wanted, only to end up hating it. Also, Heaney never came up that year, final cycle of that curriculum and he was a banker for it apparently!

Best: 2003/2014. Decided to leave the course above, picked up the course I really, really wanted. Met my now wife in first year and married her in 2014. Life's been great since I left that course, best decision I ever made.

Lollipops23

2012- three people close to me diagnosed with cancer within 12 weeks of each other. My mam also emigrated (while not all that sad, it was still tough to adjust to!). Had a massive falling out with a big part of my family towards the end of the year and ended up breaking up with my longterm bf right after Xmas.

Yeah. 2012 can suck a bag of dicks.

Favourite year- 2004 was really carefree. Was 16 (turning 17 in August), seemed like we'd all live forever, and were so totally innocent.

Penn

Last year was probably the worst. A few deaths in the family, which led to fighting within the family. Lost the purchase of the house I wanted because of a f*ck up by someone else. Fell into a rut of laziness and over-eating I'm still struggling to pull myself out of. Spent half the year working with a gobsh*te who drove me mad. Lost the place I was renting because the house purchase fell through so had to move back home.

Best year was probably 2007. Everything was just fun. Work was fun, easy as hell and well-paying (this was just before recession started kicking in). College was fun, even the hard parts as it meant spending more time in college working/studying with mates. Home was fun as I had more money to spend and was well used to driving. Was going on nights out a lot more then too. Everything was just constant fun.

CiDeRmAn

1992 was pretty smashing, for a range of girl related reasons, 2003 was the birth of my son and that was great.
1994-5 was rough, as my partner, and future wife, was very ill...

pkvader

Best years were probably 95/96,I was 16/17,great summers, care free,playing football,bushing etc etc.
I've very fond memories of 99- 2002 also,again just having fun with good friends,going to matches and concerts,World cup 2002 in Japan/Korea etc,great times.

Thankfully I've no real bad year that stand out,may be 2014,my grandfather passed away and a few family members were going through a rough time of it.

I feel a bit selfish, because I got married and had kids in more recent times,absolutely amazing few years,but Im clinging to the years when I was young ha ha.

Sleepy

2007 was pretty special, I turned 27 that year, was in the best physical shape of my life, earning far more than I realised at the time and was finally coming to grips with a life-long lack of self-confidence.

I started and ended the year at black-tie balls for New Years, spent a week skiing in Austria, ran with the bulls in Pamplona's San Fermin festival, did a mini-euro-rail across Budapest, Bratislava and Vienna, went to a few music festivals, plenty of gigs and just generally enjoyed being young and having a decent salary to squander on myself.

In October that year, I met Mrs Sleepy in the smoking section of Bruxelles on a random night out in Dublin

Capt'n Midnight

Birneybau wrote: »

1066.

Bit of both.

Three weeks, and it could have gone three different ways.

hairyslug

Worst, 2015, both parents died.

Best was 2000, 2ND year in college, didn't have a care in the world.

If the wife is reading this is 2008, when I met her

HalloweenJack

Best: 2005.

First proper girlfriend and all the added fun.

Wanderers returned to the Premier and Chelsea won the league.

Transition year so school was an absolute doss.

Worst: 2012.

A few failed attempted romances.

Lots of instability, moved three times (to three countries), changed jobs something like eight times.

Racked up a rake of debt which tookna while to pay off.

Your Face

Least favorite year 2016 - the year in which I read this thread.

Ice Maiden

1996 was pretty awful - a lot of illness and a lot of unwelcome changes in my life. Thankfully things were much better into 1997 though.
Also: The Spice Girls, Britpop becoming terrible, dreadful one-hit wonders like You're Gorgeous, Breakfast At Tiffany's, How Bizarre and that ****ing Lemon Tree yoke; the TFI Friday lad culture muck. Also the Levi's ad with that Space Man tune which sounded so class all speeded up... and then the actual song was released. One of the worst things ever recorded.

Macarena! :mad: And the Fugees cover of Killing Me Softly was good enough initially but got played too much and I switch it off if I hear it now.

2001 - college; just one big partay, Celtic Tiger, plenty of part-time work, so much optimism and possibility - in general and in my personal life.

harry Bailey esq

My worst year undoubtedly was 2003,I lost a lot of people close to me in sudden circumstances, me da being one of them. Definitely the worst year of my life. I went to such a low point in life I seriously considered ending it all. I got some help and threw myself into my work at the time and thankfully spared my family the anguish. And in saying that I don't disrespect the families or friends of suicide victims whatsoever,as after all I'm part of that club many times over myself,victims in our own right it must be said. I could probably say that my favourite year was the year I turned 20. I was single,no kids,living in a penthouse apartment down in the IFSC with two of my best pals and pulling in a ridiculously high wage for a 20 year old. The parties were somethin f*ckin else,not a worry in the world. There's life in the old dog yet mind, and if a similar thread pops up in a couple of years my best year might have changed. But I can't see meself sinking to the dark place I was at in 2003,fingers crossed.

sryanbruen

2012 - the worst year - the year everything in my life changed when my nanny died who was the one who I spent more than half of my life with (even more than my actual family (i.e. my mother, brother, father). I went into 6th class and it was the second worst school year I had to suffer so that did not help my depression for this terrible year.

2010 - my favourite year - the most recent heavy snowfall event that I got to experience. Man, can we have that next Winter? Especially after given how warm, wet and snowless this Winter was.

sryanbruen

Your Face wrote: »

Least favorite year 2016 - the year in which I read this thread.

Harsh....