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The 70's and 80's in Ireland

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What was it like in the 1980's in Ireland?

I have seen pictures, video and my god it looked like a depressing place. :eek:

Grey, delapidated, hopeless.

What was it like? How did you get by without internets, wheelie bins, toilets...?

Would you go back if you could??

*Might as well throw in the 70's too for people of that vintage.

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The Princess Bride wrote: »

I had this horrible recollection yesterday, of a dental or public health nurse coming to our school in the 70s, and giving us all a vile mouthwash.
We had to swish it around our mouths for what seemed like hours before spitting it out.
To this day, I can remember it all too vividly, yuk.

They served it in strange cone shaped paper cups.
Vile stuff.

Sardonicat

Big Nasty wrote: »

branie2 wrote: »

A family Christmas tradition started for us in 1989 - opening our presents from under the three on Christmas eve night

Which three?

The Chrithmas three?

Free the Christmas Three!

branie2

Sorry, I meant tree.

Big Nasty

branie2 wrote: »

A family Christmas tradition started for us in 1989 - opening our presents from under the three on Christmas eve night

Which three?

The Chrithmas three?

branie2

A family Christmas tradition started for us in 1989 - opening our presents from under the three on Christmas eve night

Peatys

The Princess Bride wrote: »

I had this horrible recollection yesterday, of a dental or public health nurse coming to our school in the 70s, and giving us all a vile mouthwash.
We had to swish it around our mouths for what seemed like hours before spitting it out.
To this day, I can remember it all too vividly, yuk.

I'm sure it was to highlight your cavities. She then put a dot for each one onto a tooth map and you had to bring it home to the folks for them to sign. Name and shame the parents who weren't getting their kids to brush their teeth properly.

Peatys

Mad_maxx wrote: »

I remember the nurse coming to the school, the indignity of stripping off to your underwear while the teacher looked on and having your balls felt by a grey heard sixty year old spinster.

Circa 1986.

St Fiachras!

Billy86

Remember that in the early 90s too, our whole class basically got told to just strip down to underpants out of the blue.

igCorcaigh

Yup, I remember that too.

branie2

We never had that in the school I went to, thankfully.

The Crowman

Mad_maxx wrote: »

I remember the nurse coming to the school, the indignity of stripping off to your underwear while the teacher looked on and having your balls felt by a grey heard sixty year old spinster.

Circa 1986.

Jaysus, we had that too. Around the same time, 86 or 87. WTF what that in aid of?

Joe_ Public

Don’t think TJ Hooker is the answer, more an 80s show I’d guess, but I do recall an episode where Cap Kirks hot daughter Heather Locklear got kidnapped.

branie2

NewbridgeIR wrote: »

The Streets Of San Francisco (1972-1977) was repeated on RTE2 around then.

It wasn't that, the detectives consisted of a few men and women, one of whom was blonde, and ended up kidnapped in one episode.

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branie2 wrote: »

there was a tv detective series on RTÉ 2 shown on Friday evenings, probably in 1986 or 1987. It was an american TV series from the late 70s/early 80s.

The Streets Of San Francisco (1972-1977) was repeated on RTE2 around then.

branie2

I can't remember the name it, but there was a tv detective series on RTÉ 2 shown on Friday evenings, probably in 1986 or 1987. It was an American TV series from the late 70s/early 80s.

Heroditas

Corned beef was fancy back then for sandwiches.
Billy roll, garlic salami or Hazlett were the fillings of choice. The cheap plastic garlic salami though. Christ they all stank!

iamwhoiam

oleras wrote: »

Every Friday though ? And I always got a big bag of sweets from the teacher afterwards...

The nurse didn't come every Friday ?

Floppybits

oleras wrote: »

Every Friday though ? And I always got a big bag of sweets from the teacher afterwards...

Were ya asked to cough?

oleras

Buford T. Justice V wrote: »

It was a routine inspection for undescended testicles.

Every Friday though ? And I always got a big bag of sweets from the teacher afterwards...

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Grandeeod wrote: »

Don't recall no fillings. Corned beef was definitely the highlight of the week. A soggy room temperature sandwich that still managed to taste better than my homemade sandwich.:D I remember in first class a corned beef sandwich being left over after lunch. We were practicing singing for our communion. The teacher promised the leftover sandwich to whoever sang the best. The amount of lads singing their heads off to win that sandwich. It was funny yet years later I find it sad.

Meat was something to be savoured greatly back then as it was relatively expensive and families were larger - it didnt need to be said that you couldnt just have as much meat as you actually wanted to have. Even as late as the early 00s when my brothers and I used to draw cartoons, one of the tropes would be that if a character was comically rich he would have lots of money, his own tv in his bedroom and unlimited meat (in the form of giant hams (presumably) with a huge leg bone sticking from it!). I cant imagine kids nowadays associate meat with luxury in that way.

Mad_maxx

The Princess Bride wrote: »

I had this horrible recollection yesterday, of a dental or public health nurse coming to our school in the 70s, and giving us all a vile mouthwash.
We had to swish it around our mouths for what seemed like hours before spitting it out.
To this day, I can remember it all too vividly, yuk.

I remember the nurse coming to the school, the indignity of stripping off to your underwear while the teacher looked on and having your balls felt by a grey heard sixty year old spinster.

Circa 1986.

Floppybits

Jesus those sandwiches were disgusting, always looked forward to wednesday for bun day and even better when they also had buns on friday.

I remember the visit from the health nurse, a room full of boys all in their vests and y fronts and the nurse weighing you and then cupping your scrotum and asking you to cough. Then dressed and back to class.

Joe_ Public

Buford T. Justice V wrote: »

It was a routine inspection for undescended testicles.

Cheers, I never actually knew that and pretty sure we weren’t aware of the purpose of it at the time.

Buford T. Justice XIX

The Princess Bride wrote: »

:eek: Was there cupping?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fANwTBK3Ylg

It was a routine inspection for undescended testicles.

The Princess Bride

:eek: Was there cupping?

Joe_ Public wrote: »

Have no recollection of a vile mouthwash but I do recall school visits from a nurse whose inspections included what can only be described as a bit of a rummage around the scrotum area! I remember it as more a source of amusement for us than anything else.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fANwTBK3Ylg

Grandeeod

AndrewJRenko wrote: »

Wasn't there one day of bread-and-butter sandwiches, no filling at all?

Corned beef was definitely the highlight of the week.

Don't recall no fillings. Corned beef was definitely the highlight of the week. A soggy room temperature sandwich that still managed to taste better than my homemade sandwich.:D I remember in first class a corned beef sandwich being left over after lunch. We were practicing singing for our communion. The teacher promised the leftover sandwich to whoever sang the best. The amount of lads singing their heads off to win that sandwich. It was funny yet years later I find it sad.

snotboogie

People always talk about the power of the church in the 70’s and 80’s but the state was the second pillar, almost every industry of note was state owned and the vast majority of well paid jobs were working for the state. I saw a documentary about the county hall in Cork last month and the workers were reminiscing about sunbathing on the roof of the 17th floor, meanwhile Ford had shut its doors and the city was in the depths of a crippling recession. Two different worlds...

mikemac2

A few months ago it was proposed the public health nurse and visiting doctor would weigh primary school children and give advice to parents on childhood obesity. A growing issue in Ireland. Certainly wasn't in 70's and 80's. Cue much outrage on Joe Duffy show and parents threatening to withdraw their children from school if this ever attempted. Sounds a bit precious to me but maybe people are more confident and questioning

Which brings me back to when we were lined up to meet the nurse and checked for head lice. If you had them you were given a slip of paper to bring home to the parents. They would get some industrial strength shampoo from the chemist which smelled like sheep dip. Probably was sheep dip tbh! The smell off that stuff would nearly knock you out.

Nobody questioned it, nobody thought it was humiliating to line up children and pick out those with nits. Different times :pac:

Do school kids still get their hair checked in school by the public health nurse?

JupiterKid

Hotblack Desiato wrote: »

1985. Still in a glass bottle then! (not the same as the big glass bottles with the orangey wrapper people used to bring into hospitals though. And grapes. For some reason it was an accepted fact that sick people needed to eat lots of grapes.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4YTB5FZeHQ

Daley Thompson. What a man. Wahat an athlete! I fancied him as a young lad!

:pac:

iamwhoiam

Azatadine wrote: »

I remember that too! What the heck was that stuff. There was a horrible smell off it too. Not just a horrible taste. Hated the conical cups too. Seemed to enhance the vileness.

I am almost sure it was a flouride rinse