Ger Roe wrote: » A funny story about that ..... I had a friend working in RTE TV on video tape playout and he often took the late shifts because he preferred the peace and quiet. This was in the early 1980's and he told me this story..... On night, up in Belfast, BBC NI lost the signal from their main Divis Mountain transmitter and the backup plan was that the transmission site would automatically scan for a BBC signal that overspilled from Scotland and relay that until the uplink from the BBC NI studio could be restored. However, due to weather conditions, the Scottish BBC signal was not strong enough to lock on to and it latched on to RTE instead. It was very late at night, during 'the troubles' and the BBC engineers didn't relish the thought of heading up the mountain in the late night to see what was going on. They rang RTE to confirm that the film they were seeing was coming from them and were told that it was and that it would finish shortly and then close down. They hadn't received any calls about the breakdown and so decided to let it run and then head up the mountain at first light. They forgot however that when RTE closed down at night, they played the 'heather, streams and cobwebs' video of the Irish National Anthem and this duly went out over Belfast when the film finished. I was told that the BBC engineers left the building very quickly and turned off the answer machine to avoid any angry calls Supposedly a true story... and one that I have heard from several sources.
dieselbug wrote: » Maybe mentioned already "who loves ya baby"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSPcSFSpkmUhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0xG888KrTk
Amprodude wrote: » Remember amhran na bhfiann played at the end of the night of rte1 before it shut down for the night.
cameramonkey wrote: » We had a smoking room in our school for students.
whitey1 wrote: » There was a big scandal in our town when an unmarried couple went on vacation and had a film developed in town that contained some x rated pictures
whitey1 wrote: » In our secondary school the rule was that First Years were prohibited from smoking. From Second Year onwards you could smoke away to your hearts content 5th and 6th years had discos at a local hotel/nightclub where exemptions were regularly granted for a late bar This was all in the 80s
Trigger Happy wrote: » My dad was given his first cigarette in hospital by his parents when recovering from having his appendix removed at 11 years old. That was the 1940s though.
fryup wrote: » and you had to be that extra careful taking a photo cause you only had 24/36 shots...whereas nowadays you can delete and re-take willy nilly....and then you had the week long wait for them to be processed and then collect them at the chemist
Billy86 wrote: » Remember that in the early 90s too, our whole class basically got told to just strip down to underpants out of the blue.
NewbridgeIR wrote: » I only made it to Bartley Dunnes towards the end - finally got in summer of 1990. Great spot.
branie2 wrote: » Another detective series in the 80s was Dempsey & Makepeace, about an American cop and a British detective who joined forces in England
nice_guy80 wrote: » photos where everyone is smoking
AndrewJRenko wrote: » It had a real alternative music scene in the 80s, goths (in the days before they were called goths), punks, cureheads and hangers on like me. There was a 'Bartley Dunnes Reunion' guy on Facebook who used to get the crowd back together from time to time.
Paddy Cow wrote: » I was an 80's child and we had one bathroom for 2 adults and 7 kids which seems like luxury compared to what I've heard 70's generation had to put up with. Is it true ye only had one outhouse per street with a chamber pot for nighttime wee wees or was that just a British thing?
Edgware wrote: » Bartley Dunnes Ooooh Vicar!
Heroditas wrote: » Brilliant! Thanks for reminding me of that ad!
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