The 70's and 80's in Ireland

nigeldaniel wrote: »

Well, I was born in 76 and remember day trips in the early '80s with the family to Dublin zoo. The Train up at 6 from Tralee. A lunchbox with sandwiches and some Twix bars. A flask of tea and a can of cola or two. Mom did nearly all the planning and Dad was just grumpy about the cost of a Taxi in the big city. .

Don't blame your Dad for being grumpy about the taxi - it's barely a mile's walk from Heuston to the Zoo.

Watching rte last night. Ireland v Russia 1974,Dalymount park. Think its called the shed end. Rusty corrugated roof covering the stands.probably a hundred or so supporters walking over it and sitting on it to watch the game.

Commentator during the game says. Alot of supporters congregated on the roof above the stands now. Not very safe but what a view of the game.!!!

malinheader wrote: »

Watching rte last night. Ireland v Russia 1974,Dalymount park. Think its called the shed end. Rusty corrugated roof covering the stands.probably a hundred or so supporters walking over it and sitting on it to watch the game.

Commentator during the game says. Alot of supporters congregated on the roof above the stands now. Not very safe but what a view of the game.!!!

ireland v world champions italy in 85

Hotblack Desiato wrote: »

Catholic church is really just a multinational, and a very wealthy one, and it pays no tax at all anywhere.




It's not as if we only started having good players then... you heard of Liam Brady?
We were absolutely robbed in the '82 qualifying campaign.
You could pretty much guarantee in every away game that we'd have a perfectly good goal disallowed for no reason anyone could make out, and the opposion would be let have a dodgy goal stand or get a dubious penalty.
I remember watching us on TV playing in Brussels in 1981, defintely large bundles of Swiss francs being exchanged over that one..

I’ve heard of Liam Brady :rolleyes: but it takes more then one very good player with a handful of others across a squad and a qualifying campaign to bring success....

The campaigns for ‘88 and ‘90 had us boast scores of players playing and achieving in the top echelons of world football and their respective leagues..

Kevin Moran, Paul McGrath, Ray Houghton, John Aldridge, Niall Quinn, Packie Bonner, Chris Morris, Mick McCarthy, Kevin Sheedy, Chris Hughton..

By my thinking were 2 players in the squad who were not playing in top division football...Gerry Peyton at Bournemouth, David Kelly at Walsall.

In 1982 while you also had the likes of Stapleton and Brady we were calling on the likes of...

Mickey Walsh,
Pierce O'Leary
Fran O'Brien
John Devine
Jerry Murphy

Whose mark on International football wasn’t quite as indelible as the aforementioned.

Hamsterchops wrote: »

Fiat cars with "Guaranteed Irish" badges affixed

Ooor Tee Eee, Nuacht, De Angelus, Dallas, big hair, tight jeans, platform shoes, moustaches, Big Tom & the Mainliners, massive perms, unemployment, Charlie Haughy, Priests & Nuns, Bib Geldof, the mailboat, Troubles up North, Raleigh Choppers, plimsolls, Dock Martins, Gay Byrne, Dickie Rock, Thin Lizzy, Garda Patrol, stockings, beards, polythene, peat briquettes, cigarettes, cigarette smoke (everywhere), spitting, gobbing, Disco balls, Shay Healy, Eurovision, pot noodles, Bewleys, Smithwicks, Guinness, contraception NO, divorce NO, Sex Yes, the Mini Metro, Ford Zetor tractors, Farmers journal, broken down buses, Mass, bin lids & bangers ......

Most of those things were still around well into the 1990s and many still are today.

The 70s and 80s in Ireland? Well, there was a sky above me, ground under my feet, and water was wet!

Strumms wrote: »

In 1982 while you also had the likes of Stapleton and Brady we were calling on the likes of...

Mickey Walsh,
Pierce O'Leary
Fran O'Brien
John Devine
Jerry Murphy

Whose mark on International football wasn’t quite as indelible as the aforementioned.

We still should've qualified though, and came close despite the dubious refereeing.

Hangdogroad wrote: »

Exactly, and they were nearly always voiced by the distinctive tones of Bill Golding "rabies kills, agonisingly! ". They were designed to get your attention and stood out from regular adverts.

When you hear the Air Attack Warning you and your family must take cover!! Wonderful optimistic messages from top of the pops Thursdays 730pm

I remember shopping in Dublin mid 70s my grandmother getting us to cross the road when she'd see a NI registered car parked. Similarities there with the fear of Isis in recent years.

Nothing open on Sundays. TV one channel land didn't start until about 6 in the evening and closed before 12. Kids collecting glass bottles to use as petrol bombs up north. Country pubs packed with cars outside.

Edgware wrote: »

It was a friendly. Italy were World Cup winners in 19841982. The place was packed and you could pay at the gate. No control on numbers. Typical F.A.I. incompetence. We came in from the School End free, the big gate was pushed open and we piled up on the bank. I didnt like what I saw was happening so I told the lads I was leaving. We pushed our way out and ended up in The Hut for the evening

yep it was madness could have easily been an irish Hillsborough

Kermit.de.frog wrote: »

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.

Imagine spending your whole childhood thinking that's normal. 😁
We still had fun though.

Zaph wrote: »

1982

I was at that game as well, Paul McGrath's Ireland debut. My father and I came in from the North Circular, and it was madness there. We stayed until half time and decided that it was just too scary and went home. How people weren't killed that night it a mystery to me, it was a disgrace how many they let in. Even more annoying because we actually had tickets for the game.

Sorry 1982 World Cup winners Italy. Who could forget Paolo Rossi and Trap's pal Tardelli?

You could buy international tickets at the little shop beside the Rovers grounds in Milltown.
And for All Ireland day just pay cash at the Hill 16 gate or Canal End.
As one lad said when the games became all ticket. "the scam starts higher up"

Edgware wrote: »

Sorry 1982 World Cup winners Italy. Who could forget Paolo Rossi and Trap's pal Tardelli?

You could buy international tickets at the little shop beside the Rovers grounds in Milltown.
And for All Ireland day just pay cash at the Hill 16 gate or Canal End.
As one lad said when the games became all ticket. "the scam starts higher up"

The Dublin v Galway final in 1983 put an end to the pay at the gate at finals. The GAA got a warning of what was to come at the Leinster final between Dublin and Offaly when loads broke in at the canal end. There was fighting all around Croke Park at the semi final between Dublin and Cork. Crowd control was non existent - the handful of cops on duty were expected to referee 70000 people at a match.