the next celtic tiger

johnny_tractor

seen as the new celtic tiger is coming whats your best story from the last celtic tiger,

my brother bought a racehorse for 1/2 million euro, as a stud-horse,

the horse died after a week or two of covering mares, (breeding)

(heart attack) (not insured)

johnny_tractor

johnny_tractor wrote: »

seen as the new celtic tiger is coming whats your best story from the last celtic tiger,

my brother bought a racehorse for 1/2 million euro, as a stud-horse,

the horse died after a week or two of covering mares, (breeding)

(heart attack) (not insured)

That's your best story? How horrible was your brother to you growing up?

The_Valeyard

I remember paying six Euro for a pint in town during the boom. Crazy stuff!!!


Oh wait.....

Yourself isit

The_Valeyard wrote: »

I remember paying six Euro for a pint in town during the boom. Crazy stuff!!!


Oh wait.....

To be fair its 8 years later. Very unusual to have no increase in pints in 8 years.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

I spent an extra €5 per week on bin charges for all the offers of loans, property deals etc that appeared in the post every day.

OldMrBrennan83

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Yourself isit

Patww79 wrote: »

Where are you getting your pints for as low as €6?

I get my pints fire as low as 5euro or less. In Dublin.

NIMAN

I remember seeing that litre bottle of water in a supermarket in Balbriggan, think it cost €50 or so.

Had a little chain around the neck of it.

darkpagandeath

NIMAN wrote: »

I remember seeing that litre bottle of water in a supermarket in Balbriggan, think it cost €50 or so.

Had a little chain around the neck of it.

Bling ?

Satriale

darkpagandeath wrote: »

Bling ?

Rosary beads, for the last Rites when you see the tag. :eek:

whiskeyman

NIMAN wrote: »

I remember seeing that litre bottle of water in a supermarket in Balbriggan, think it cost €50 or so.

Had a little chain around the neck of it.

Was called Bling water.
I remember Superquinn stocking it.
Bottles had Swarovsky crystals on it!
The company still exists. I wonder when they'll be stocked here again...

worded

I over heard a woman in a coffee shop discuss a friend /
Neighbour who
Was a spender

She got a hot tub installed for approx 4-6 K in the boom

Had to pay someone 400 to take it away !

KungPao

I remember seeing a labourer in a high viz throw the change from his breakfast roll in the bin, before jumping in a helicopter to go to his property development where he sold 10 houses to Bertie Ahern just before the crash.

DEFTLEFTHAND

I'd actually love to get into the bottled water industry. I've invested in a domestic tap water purifier recently and was thinking of setting up a stall at my local country market.

My overheads will be very low, my production facilities consist of a kitchen sink at my house.

gramar

I stopped burning my rubbish.

Your Face

A friend of mine is a plumber.
During the boom he bought his house and renovated it.
He bought a new van for his business and hired lads to work for him as business was booming.
Once he had all that sorted he married his girlfriend and had two children.
Later he set up college funds for his children so they dont have to break their backs like their old man.
When the work dried up he was okay because he saved and did a few jobs where he could and worked part-time as a janitor.

What a prick.

Yourself isit

Your Face wrote: »

A friend of mine is a plumber.
During the boom he bought his house and renovated it.
He bought a new van for his business and hired lads to work for him as business was booming.
Once he had all that sorted he married his girlfriend and had two children.
Later he set up college funds for his children so they dont have to break their backs like their old man.
When the work dried up he was okay because he saved and did a few jobs where he could and worked part-time as a janitor.

What a prick.

His real mistake was not training the kids to be plumbers.

OldMrBrennan83

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Your Face

Yourself isit wrote: »

His real mistake was not training the kids to be plumbers.

No it wasn't.

Galway_Old_Man

I went down to one of those foreign property fairs once. Was mental. I really felt like I was in an episode of Sliders and had ended up in a weird version of Ireland. People were falling over themselves to land a house in a country they couldn't point out on a map.

andekwarhola

Something about decking and East European property from my Mount Sinai of smug hindsight (read: I was a student and didn't have access to credit in 2006).

Galway_Old_Man

andekwarhola wrote: »

Something about decking and East European property from my Mount Sinai of smug hindsight (read: I was a student and didn't have access to credit in 2006).

You missed out man. At those fairs, and more frequently at open houses/estates, you'd get some free food and maybe some champagne (well fizzy wine). You could feel like a real hot shot early on a Saturday morning, going around to these with the missus.

And as for your student status... train-tracks bitta ching ching right?!

Riddle101

NIMAN wrote: »

I remember seeing that litre bottle of water in a supermarket in Balbriggan, think it cost €50 or so.

Had a little chain around the neck of it.

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

I'd actually love to get into the bottled water industry. I've invested in a domestic tap water purifier recently and was thinking of setting up a stall at my local country market.

My overheads will be very low, my production facilities consist of a kitchen sink at my house.

These two comments are exactly what happened in an episode of Only Fools and Horses once. Del and Rodney going into some fancy grocery story, and they have bottled water on display that cost a lot more money to buy than ordinary water because it's organic or something. So Del gets the idea to start selling his own water by pretending he found a water source. It's all just one of Delboy's schemes of course, and in fact they were just using tap water the whole time. They made quite a profit off of it as well. That was until his scheme fell apart.

valoren

Went to O'Briens last Saturday.

Got a regular tea, a regular coffee, a caeser salad wrap, a club sandwich and two of those lily o'brien chocolates.
€22.15

We're back baby!!!!!!!

pumpkin4life

Hate to be that guy, but the Irish economy utterly is fùcked and sitting on a mountain of private debt right now.

As for stories?

Not a bad day's work for the confirmation! (I barely saw it from my own background tbh)

bear1

I remember people who were saying they were off to New York for shopping cause it was a bargain over there.
I always thought how ****ing idiotic do you have to be to think it's a bargain if you need to book flights, hotel, food and then your shopping.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

Riddle101 wrote: »

These two comments are exactly what happened in an episode of Only Fools and Horses once. Del and Rodney going into some fancy grocery story, and they have bottled water on display that cost a lot more money to buy than ordinary water because it's organic or something. So Del gets the idea to start selling his own water by pretending he found a water source. It's all just one of Delboy's schemes of course, and in fact they were just using tap water the whole time. They made quite a profit off of it as well. That was until his scheme fell apart.

They called it Peckham Spring Water.

whiskeyman

Riddle101 wrote: »

These two comments are exactly what happened in an episode of Only Fools and Horses once. Del and Rodney going into some fancy grocery story, and they have bottled water on display that cost a lot more money to buy than ordinary water because it's organic or something. So Del gets the idea to start selling his own water by pretending he found a water source. It's all just one of Delboy's schemes of course, and in fact they were just using tap water the whole time. They made quite a profit off of it as well. That was until his scheme fell apart.

Coca Cola Executives must have watched this back in the noughties when everyone was cashing in!


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