ohnonotgmail wrote: » yes, but is it white?
farmchoice wrote: » it was brilliant and joyous and it primed the pump for 1990. the day we beat England!! the 12th of June 1988 ill never forget it it was the day idid my confirmation and i refused to go out to a restaurant for something to eat, i had to go home to watch it. then afterwards everyone was mad for Jackie Charlton and the team every qualifying game was followed so it just built and built for italy. the qualifying home games were always on a wedensday afternoon because there were no floodlights in lansdowne road at the time. so everyone would be trying to get off school. the principle took to making up spurious reason to have half days!! i think we were only school for one of them!!
branie2 wrote: » Dermot Morgan played a host in the film who introduced a stripper act.
Cryptopagan wrote: » I love 90s nostalgia until it gets to all that Jacks Army stuff. The 90s was a decade when Ireland was slowly liberalizing, the economy was finally moving, we were opening up to immigration and tolerance, when Seamus Heaney became a Nobel Laureate and Father Ted satirized the stifling Catholic orthodoxy that was passing into history. And then you’ve got a football team managed by a dour Englishman that play a notoriously negative game being feted as some kind of high point.
farmchoice wrote: » https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpKM4JPzeGQ Joxer goes to Stuttgart sums up the whole thing. ''that day will be the highlight of many peoples lives'' the live version is particularly good just for the cheer that goes up when ''ray Houghton stuck it in the net''
Edgware wrote: » Pathetic lives if thats the case
Grandeeod wrote: » I spent most of my teen years in the 80's and I have nothing but happy memories. I firmly believe that most people from Dublin have better memories because it was far ahead of the rest of the country, while far behind a lot of other European cities. I have no memories of all this doom and gloom people talk about, not that it wasn't like that in some parts. I wasn't from a wealthy family either. If you were an adult in the 80's I suppose it was different. The work situation, particularly outside Dublin and other cities was bleak. I came to appreciate that in the early 90's when I knew loads emigrating after we finished college. For me, the Church had no influence on me after the age of 13. We actually had sex in our teens too.:eek: We even had cable TV. In fact all my life from my first memory of TV we had RTE and the English channels. Playschool, Rainbow, Blue Peter, Magpie, Corrie etc. Being off school sick in the 70's and watching Mr. Benn and Trumpton at lunchtime. I think the main problem with 70's/80's Ireland was outside Dublin.
Grandeeod wrote: » I spent most of my teen years in the 80's and I have nothing but happy memories. I firmly believe that most people from Dublin have better memories because it was far ahead of the rest of the country, while far behind a lot of other European cities... I think the main problem with 70's/80's Ireland was outside Dublin.
EmmetSpiceland wrote: » People from the country, especially older ones, are always going on about Dublin like it’s the “last days of the Roman Empire”. Never anything nice to say. They’re particularly harsh on the people. I’m guessing it stems from jealousy and an inability to compete with the Dublin wit.
Baybay wrote: » I think if you look at some of the earlier posts in this thread, Dublin did not have a monopoly on relatively doom free years for some other teenagers & some grew up nowhere near Dublin!
Grandeeod wrote: » We actually had sex in our teens too.:eek:
Cryptopagan wrote: » Where’d you get the johnnies?
topper75 wrote: » I can't pretty up unemployment for anyone. But the high rates meant little or no speculation in the housing side of things. If you did get that job, then a house would follow. The mortgage deposit % wasn't as rigourous something like 10%. Yes the monthly repayments would be rough. But it was at least ATTAINABLE. Big difference to today. It is pointless looking back at a historical period saying Oh they had no X like we have today. We didn't know about it back then, and what you don't know ... An Irish CB ran the rate for the punt. It was a currency/rate for OUR economy, not for a depressed German banking sector or a roaring Parisian property market. It was ours. By us, for us. And our politicians gave that away without ever asking us.
4ensic15 wrote: » I don't know what decade you are talking about but it is not the 70's. Ireland had sterling throughout the 70s. the British Pound or GBP. Interest rates were decided in London. Deposits for houses were 20%. Repayments were cheap because there was mortgage interest relief in full and wages went up every few months due to high inflation.
Grandeeod wrote: » Have you ever read; Diarmaid Ferriter’s book, Ambiguous Republic: Ireland in the 1970s?
4ensic15 wrote: » What of it?
Grandeeod wrote: » Worth a read. Could inform you.
Grandeeod wrote: » Buying a house in the 1970's.
