Moving Statues: The Summer of 1985 (RTE)

Say Your Number

Anyone watching this, were people just a bit bored or was something else going on

joe35

I see it finished round September. Kids bsck to sc and shorter evenings. Boredom for sure

NIMAN

People were just daft.

Plumbthedepths

Hysteria.

Say Your Number

That ould one on the Late Late is like your typical After Hours poster

Harry Palmr

It was mainly a combination of mass hysteria due in part to tired eyes sqinting at brightly lit statues in the dark and the worst summer weather in recorded history. It generated some tourist activity.

TheRiverman

I had a great moving experience in 1985,Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band at Slane Castle."The mystery,the majesty the ministry of rock n roll".

the dark phantom

"I saw our lord come into our lady" "grottoburger" "there was hands everywhere...looking for pints" :pac:

sligojoek

People were very innocent back then.

Mad_maxx

Sounds like it gave a bit of economic injection, however localised

sligojoek

Yeah, the bus operators, chip wagons and pubs did well out of it. I'd say there was many a priest goin around rattling a can too.

Say Your Number

I imagine all the people making money off it were trying to get rid of this fella.

fryup

sligojoek wrote: »

People were very innocent back then.

and backward and....lets face it...thick

Sardonicat

Mass hysteria.

What baffles me at this remove is the legitimacy given to this nonsense by the media at the time. It made an international laughing stock out of us.

Say Your Number

fryup wrote: »

and backward and....lets face it...thick

It's not that long ago people in Dublin were up all night blowing their car horns looking for donuts, are we really that much more advanced?

jos28

The documentary is hilarious in places - very Linehan and Mathews.

Harry Palmr

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=kcYsMlvr5zk did they include this footage? Hilariously straight faced.

Oscar Bravo

Some good tunes from 1985

pixelburp

I was about to mention the donuts, and we have people camping outside Apple stores, attending corporate conventions and get sucked into zealous political self-harm through Brexit et al. People are as easily led today as they were 34 years ago, it ain't even a lifetime. But I guess it's part of the "I'd never be that handilly suckered!" mantra

Hedgelayer

It was intriguing to say the least, us kid's were a bit afraid of her as she was everywhere.

Had nightmares of her jumping off a podium and chasing me down the road, I was a very bad boy.

Every statue was moving towards the last week of it...

Some prods from the north vandals they battered a few statues... something to do with worshiping false idols.

TheRiverman

There was also a church in a place called Fahy in Co. Galway where people thronged to see what was claimed to be a vision of Our Lady on one of the internal walls.I went as a sceptic at the time,and left even more skeptical as all I saw was a bad paint job on the wall.

gozunda

And all this just one year after a young girl Ann Lovett died in a Marian grotto giving birth to her child ...

https://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-style/people/ann-lovett-death-of-a-strong-kick-ass-girl-1.3429792

TheRiverman

Oscar Bravo wrote: »

Some good tunes from 1985

Bruuuuucccccceeeee.

jh79

jos28 wrote: »

The documentary is hilarious in places - very Linehan and Mathews.

They did a skit on it for Brass Eye.

NIMAN

Sardonicat wrote: »

Mass hysteria.

What baffles me at this remove is the legitimacy given to this nonsense by the media at the time. It made an international laughing stock out of us.

I would have to guess that should someone claim a moving statue these days, it wouldn't get any coverage?

Wasn't there one back in the 80's when people were told the sun was doing something? And to see it, you only had to start at it!!

Stare at the sun for more than 10secs and your eyes will see a lot of crazy things moving. Maybe permanently.

Sardonicat

gozunda wrote: »

And all this just one year after a young girl Ann Lovett died in a Marian grotto giving birth to her child ...

https://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-style/people/ann-lovett-death-of-a-strong-kick-ass-girl-1.3429792

I was just about to mention that.

I think this event was behind the mass hysteria in the first place. People desperate to cling onto the image of a good Catholic country where young girls went to grottos and had visions not the reality of the young girl going to the grotto and dying of exposure because no one, not a statue or a vision or a living human being came to her aid until it was too late for her and her child. In that instance, Mary was unmoved.

jos28

jh79 wrote: »

They did a skit on it for Brass Eye.

I also remember a sketch on Who Dares Wins, I think it was Rory McGrath selling moving statues. Can't find it online but he did a great line in Jumping St Josephs.

sligojoek

TheRiverman wrote: »

There was also a church in a place called Fahy in Co. Galway where people thronged to see what was claimed to be a vision of Our Lady on one of the internal walls.I went as a sceptic at the time,and left even more skeptical as all I saw was a bad paint job on the wall.

Is that you Bishop Brennan?

The Satanist

The Talking Bread

That oul wan that made a fool of them all on the LLS deserves her own statue!

Some eegits back then.

Dakota Dan

sligojoek wrote: »

People were very innocent back then.

Were you even around back then?

Dakota Dan

The Talking Bread wrote: »

That oul wan that made a fool of them all on the LLS deserves her own statue!

Some eegits back then.

And today we have the climate change boogeyman and if we don’t adhere to our overlords we are all doomed.

sligojoek

Dakota Dan wrote: »

Were you even around back then?

I was.

Dakota Dan

sligojoek wrote: »

I was.

So you were innocent back then? Only a very small fraction of the population went to see the statues and the majority of them went out of curiosity and somewhere to go.

fryup

sligojoek wrote: »

People were very innocent back then.

fryup wrote: »

and backward and....lets face it...thick

Say Your Number wrote: »

It's not that long ago people in Dublin were up all night blowing their car horns looking for donuts, are we really that much more advanced?

ah c'mon now, donuts and moving statues are worlds apart

you can't blame people for queing up for donuts esp Krispy Kreme donuts:cool:

Dakota Dan

The Talking Bread wrote: »

That oul wan that made a fool of them all on the LLS deserves her own statue!

Some eegits back then.

Some irony in that post.

sligojoek

Dakota Dan wrote: »

sligojoek wrote: »

I was.

So you were innocent back then? Only a very small fraction of the population went to see the statues and the majority of them went out of curiosity and somewhere to go.

Far from it. I'd copped on to the Catholic church's nonsense well before then

Dakota Dan

sligojoek wrote: »

Far from it. I'd copped on to the Catholic church's nonsense well before then

Even though the Catholic Church passed off the moving statues as nonsense?

E mac

It was the Irish equivalent of crop circles and aliens wasn't it.....

seasidedub

I discovered sex the summer of the moving statues. Fabulous, amazing, lusty no holding back sex. And contrary to what the nuns told us, the sky did not fall in, the fires of he'll did not engulf me, in fact nothing happened at all.

Far more miraculous than the moving statues.

When my folks passed on and the house was sold I had a good laugh looking at the barrow bed in my old room with the statue of the sacred heart I got for my confirmation on the shelf above it.

If that statue could talk.....

The Talking Bread

Dakota Dan wrote: »

Some irony in that post.

There is absolutely no irony in that post. Unless you have a very loose handling of what irony is.
The statues weren't moving.

Sarcasm on my behalf stating that the woman who called them all out on the LLS during the mass hysteria deserves her own statue does not make for irony.

But.........anyway.

If you believe in porcelain, plaster, cement or concrete rocks shaped out of imaginary beings can move, that is your perogative.

fryup

now you know where the makers of Fr Ted got their inspiration

dubdaymo

Sardonicat wrote: »

Mass hysteria.

What baffles me at this remove is the legitimacy given to this nonsense by the media at the time.

Exactly. But already mightily surpassed in these times by the mass hysteria generated by the social media brigade of lunatics including such as #metoo, Michael Jackson, the climate change tree-huggers, the vegan militants, etc., etc., etc.,....


Yes, it's baffling all right .

Dakota Dan

The Talking Bread wrote: »

There is absolutely no irony in that post. Unless you have a very loose handling of what irony is.
The statues weren't moving.

Sarcasm on my behalf stating that the woman who called them all out on the LLS during the mass hysteria deserves her own statue does not make for irony.

But.........anyway.

If you believe in porcelain, plaster, cement or concrete rocks shaped out of imaginary beings can move, that is your perogative.

But I never believed that statues moved and never saw them move. I was referring to your spelling.

Ipso

People were probably locked in rubber rooms for less.

The Talking Bread

Dakota Dan wrote: »

But I never believed that statues moved and never saw them move. I was referring to your spelling.

Oh, ffs, this brings grammar nazi behaviour to a new level. And for what?

"oul wan" is an affable phrase that people use, just in keeping with the tone of the whole debacle of the time, you don't have to play clever and infer that I misspelt "old woman" by accident.

It is a forum, people use out of dictionary phrases/words in forums, just to express a tone, I wasn't writing a thesis.

Jesus wept......... (again a phrase in keeping with the tone of the whole topic of the programme)

jay1988

The Talking Bread wrote: »

Oh, ffs, this brings grammar nazi behaviour to a new level. And for what?

"oul wan" is an affable phrase that people use, just in keeping with the tone of the whole debacle of the time, you don't have to play clever and infer that I misspelt "old woman" by accident.

It is a forum, people use out of dictionary phrases/words in forums, just to express a tone, I wasn't writing a thesis.

Jesus wept......... (again a phrase in keeping with the tone of the whole topic of the programme)

Pretty he sure he meant you spelling eejit, as eegit, but good rant anyway, well done you.

The Talking Bread

jay1988 wrote: »

Pretty he sure he meant you spelling eejit, as eegit, but good rant anyway, well done you.

Well I have always used the term eegit, I won't deny that! If that is an insult to the English dictionary, so be it!

The Crowman

joe35 wrote: »

I see it finished round September. Kids bsck to sc and shorter evenings. Boredom for sure

Exactly, I was 11 at the time and the class messer tried to convince everyone the statue in the local grotto was moving. No one believed him. Another girl in our class said something about a statue in a neighbouring town bleeding and the teacher tore her one and told her not be spreading such nonsense.