Do you know where you were on 7th December 2000?

odyssey06

This is just about whether you know, or would be able to figure out, what you were doing on the night of 7th December 2000. It was a wet and stormy Thursday night, and there was a taxi strike in Dublin.

As it happens, I attended a company christmas party that night in a pub in Dublin 2, but as there was a taxi strike on, I don't know how I got home.
I don't think Nitelinks would have been running on a Thursday night in early December.
It was not the kind of party (open bar) that one leaves for the last bus.
Edit - another poster thinks they got a Nitelink, so my mystery is solved!

So this led me to wonder how many - if any people - could account for their whereabouts on that night if they had to.
Had it not been a christmas party night, I would likely not be able to account for my whereabouts after this much elapsed time.

Some events to help jog the memory:
- In sports, Liverpool beat Olimpiacos 2-0 in the UEFA Cup.
- Al Gore spoke before the US Supreme Court in the 'hanging chads' case to decide the US President Election.
- Some 4,000 protestors clashed with police at the opening of the EU summit in Nice.

Housekeeping:
I've marked the poll as private.

Note there is another thread discussing the possible fate of one man on that night (http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2057729470) but please keep any discussion of that subject to that thread.

MilesMorales1

Erm. I was 7 years old. Thursday so I was probably in school in day. Sitting in the house watching tv in the evening.

Winterlong

I am not sure where I was earlier in the night but I ended up in the Barge pub on Charlemont street for last drinks. I lived between the Barge and Leeson st at the time so obvious reason for remembering.

Dr Crayfish

Christmas party in Break for the Border. I remember I had salmon at the meal. Another memory just came to me, I tried to order a triple vodka or something but they wouldn't give me a triple, so insisted on giving me a double, and then a single in a different class. So there you go.

erica74

I was 13, school night, probably reading until about 1 am

Dr Crayfish

Winterlong wrote: »

I am not sure where I was earlier in the night but I ended up in the Barge pub on Charlemont street for last drinks. I lived between the Barge and Leeson st at the time so obvious reason for remembering.

That guy we're all talking about was on Charlemont st that night...

Barry Badrinath

On 07th December 2000, I was a fresh faced 19 year old on my first UN mission in Lebanon.

Stuck in an outpost that was surrounded by minefields with lumps and chunks taken out of it by years of mortar and machine gun fire striking it.

I slept in a 2 man portacabin with a leaky roof, a door that didnt close, and a furious masturbater from Monaghan that would rather piss in a bottle at night time than walk to the toilet.

I was surrounded by lunatics and loved every minute of it.

RayCon

I can't remember where I was 7th December 2016 !

Winterlong

Dr Crayfish wrote: »

That guy we're all talking about was on Charlemont st that night...

Yup, thats the reason I remember where I was that night.

Donald Trump

erica74 wrote: »

I was 13, school night, probably reading until about 1 am

1am ??

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRsPheErBj8

Charlie19

Nope, I have no idea what 20 year old Charlie was up to that day.

greenflash

I watched Bohs lose to Shels at Dalymount then went round the lads' gaff in Cowtown.

odyssey06

Senor Fancy Pants wrote: »

On 07th December 2000, I was a fresh faced 19 year old on my first UN mission in Lebanon.
Stuck in an outpost that was surrounded by minefields with lumps and chunks taken out of it by years of mortar and machine gun fire striking it.

Well this is certainly a more convincing alibi than "I was playing Command and Conquer all night".

Barry Badrinath

odyssey06 wrote: »

Well this is certainly a more convincing alibi than "I was playing Command and Conquer all night".

Medal of Honor! Get it right ffs!

:pac:

hairyslug

Good chance i was in Quinn's, the big tree, the palace or McGowans. Then probably ended up in the Temple or back gate afterwards and would have stopped off at the Midnight express afterwards for a burger and chips.

Barry Badrinath

hairyslug wrote: »

Good chance i was in Quinn's, the big tree, the palace or McGowans. Then probably ended up in the Temple or back gate afterwards and would have stopped off at the Midnight express afterwards for a burger and chips.

Aaaaah The Back Gate!

Memories

The Backwards Man

I was probably working or lying drunk somewhere

odyssey06

Senor Fancy Pants wrote: »

Medal of Honor! Get it right ffs!
:pac:

I stand corrected by the Senor in the Fancy Pants

pawrick

I was walking in towards the city from ballsbridge with a friend that night after a Christmas party and passed around the area he went missing. I didn't notice anything out of the ordinary and there were other people walking also. Got a nightlink home eventually i think or maybe stayed in a mates house but got soaked up to my knees with flooding near a bridge.

erica74

Donald Trump wrote: »

1am ??

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRsPheErBj8

I'm pretty pleased I found a Simpsons pic to reply with

KKkitty

I was 19 so I was probably out getting drunk.

Laois_Man

My mother was in Beaumont Hospital having had major brain surgery 11/12 days previously and I was visiting her that night. I spent many days and nights in Beaumont over the previous and following period and I couldn't tell you anything distinctive about any of those nights except that one! A horrible, miserable pig of a night!

snowflaker

At my younger cousin's funeral that day.

Awake all night in grief I'd say.

r93kaey5p2izun

No. I remember that week well though. I went to see Placebo in the Olympia on Sunday 3rd. It had been really wet and stormy during the whole week. There were floods throughout the city and I remember trying to get in to the concert and phoning Dublin Bus to see if the bus was coming at all, but it was delayed due to floods.

Thursday the 7th I'm not sure. Most likely I was either in work 5-9pm or just at home - but I woud have been off the next day (holy day) so there's a chance I was out. Unlikely to have been out in town though, probably more local.

Your Face

Strange thread.

SEPT 23 1989

I was meeting Deborah

the name never suited her

Mena

Gambling in a casino in Johannesburg. Hit a jackpot worth all of €500. There goes my luck.

eviltwin

Probably at home. I would have been working the next day.

odyssey06

pawrick wrote: »

I was walking in towards the city from ballsbridge with a friend that night after a Christmas party and passed around the area he went missing. I didn't notice anything out of the ordinary and there were other people walking also. Got a nightlink home eventually i think or maybe stayed in a mates house but got soaked up to my knees with flooding near a bridge.

Any idea which bridge that might have been?

I've been checking for reports of flooding for December 2000 in Dublin but drawing a blank - but you are the second person to comment on flooding in that week.

iguana

It was my 22nd birthday.

C Montgomery Gurns II

Why were the taxis on strike, incoming deregulation?

"If you let anyone become a taxi driver, we won't drive the taxis!"


Shrewd logic at work there lads. As much as I think taxis are an honourable job it is quite ironic how the lads who benefited from deregulation and were resented by the old school drivers would probably shut the middle of Dublin down if Uber was allowed here (with good cause in fairness, I don't know why people would want to use the likes of Uber and Airbnb)

hawkwind23

In dive bar in Piedmont CA , was there everyday between 3 and 5PM before slipping off to McNallys bar in Oakland till around 8PM

Bredabe

At home in D9, trying to calm down cause the boss's son had spent all day passing comments about how "all my culchie relatives", would be in their portable chicken sheds headed into town the next day. Even when it was pointed out that as I was from Cabra and he from Celbridge he still didn't stop. Guess he didn't know where Cabra or Celbridge were.

johnayo

Senor Fancy Pants wrote: »

On 07th December 2000, I was a fresh faced 19 year old on my first UN mission in Lebanon.

Stuck in an outpost that was surrounded by minefields with lumps and chunks taken out of it by years of mortar and machine gun fire striking it.

I slept in a 2 man portacabin with a leaky roof, a door that didnt close, and a furious masturbater from Monaghan that would rather piss in a bottle at night time than walk to the toilet.

I was surrounded by lunatics and loved every minute of it.

i

You have a way with words my friend. Love it.

pawrick

odyssey06 wrote: »

Any idea which bridge that might have been?

I've been checking for reports of flooding for December 2000 in Dublin but drawing a blank - but you are the second person to comment on flooding in that week.

Cant recall which one it was but i passed over the dodder at ballsbridge and on to baggot street bridge before following the canal up towards rathmines. nearly certain I came back though for a nighlink as I never used one before and my friend had to show me where to get it from, it's stuck in my memory that i got it home that night and thought never again.

RayM

I was 18, probably at home watching TV. I can't remember what I was watching, but I've attached a pdf of everything that was on that night.

odyssey06

pawrick wrote: »

Cant recall which one it was but i passed over the dodder at ballsbridge and on to baggot street bridge before following the canal up towards rathmines. nearly certain I came back though for a nighlink as I never used one before and my friend had to show me where to get it from, it's stuck in my memory that i got it home that night and thought never again.

Thanks... if you can remember getting a nitelink then that must have been how I got home cos I'm sure I didn't walk it and there were no taxis.

Barry Badrinath

RayM wrote: »

I was 18, probably at home watching TV. I can't remember what I was watching, but I've attached a pdf of everything that was on that night.

No change to the tv listings in all those years!

RayM

Senor Fancy Pants wrote: »

No change to the tv listings in all those years!

Not a lot. It says Prime Time was on RTE1 at 9:30. Right now, it's 9:40 and I'm watching... Prime Time.

Agricola

I was 19, first year in college and living away from home for the first time with my best mate in a flat.

I have a vague recollection of there being a porn dvd floating around in the flat which was a big deal in the year 2000 and an even bigger deal for a lad from the country who saw a boob in a Playboy one time.
Was on my own one night watching a soccer match for a while and then temptation got me so I took matters in hand and stuck on the porn. Not long after my mate rang me on my fancy Nokia 3210 asking me what the score of the match was. I fumbled with the remote and tried to flick over to the match, but he knew I was enjoying the fine acting in "Swallow my Squirt 5" - I had been rumbled.

The match in question was Liverpool v Olympiakos in the Uefa Cup.

Weird.

greencap

Not a feckin chance.

Couldn't tell you last week.

odyssey06

RayM wrote: »

I was 18, probably at home watching TV. I can't remember what I was watching, but I've attached a pdf of everything that was on that night.

Cheers... no doubt I was recording Buffy the Vampire Slayer on TV3.

Ghekko

In Mayo for the night in order to visit my sons grave for his anniversary. A girl from Mayo also went missing that week - shocking story and she has never been found either.

RayM

Front page of the Independent on 7th December 2000:

Giveaway budget and Dave O'Leary being chased by Lazio and Inter.

How times have changed.

qo2cj1dsne8y4k

I was 12 so probably at home

Hannibal_Smith

I'm pretty sure our own Christmas party was that night. I remember it because I remember thinking, Jees I was only in Dawson Street. I'm pretty sure nitelinks were working. I'm pretty sure they worked extended hours at Christmas time because I know I got home, but can't remember how. Christmas was at the weekend that year, so it would have been fairly unusual to have a Christmas party that early, but it was the only date we could all agree on.

Laois_Man

RayM wrote: »

Front page of the Independent on 7th December 2000:

Giveaway budget and Dave O'Leary being chased by Lazio and Inter.

How times have changed.

And teachers giving out about pay!

Never heard of that since!

blade1

Sad day, the death of Vladimir Gotovac!

Barry Badrinath

2000 was a great time for the aul music charts.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_number-one_singles_of_2000_(Ireland)

Hollister11

I was 4, and my younger brother was due the next day. He wasn't born until a week later though.

Murrisk

I was 16 and in my Leaving Cert year (I would not turn 17 until two months before the LC exams) and was obsessed with studying my Honours Maths and preparing stuff for LC Art class at the time. It was Thursday night. AFAIR, my Maths grinds were on Thursday night. (we had a terrible Maths teacher in school so grinds were a necessity for any ambitious higher Maths student in my year)

So that night I'd say I went to grinds, came home and revised some of the stuff I learned at grinds that night, then maybe did some drawing, then I reckon drank tea, then rolled around on the sitting room floor playing with the cats and then finally, reluctantly went to bed around 1am, being an inveterate night owl then and now.

Very different to poor Trevor's last hours.

I got a B3 in both Honours Maths and Art in the LC and was slightly disappointed with both.