First signs of the Celtic tiger

19-10-2010 12:16PM #1

Anyone remember the first time they saw signs of the Celtic tiger ( or lost the run of ourselves ) depending on your point of view...

I remember reading an article about a shoe department in a shop in Dublin and i think it was the late nineties ...anyway the article was about Nike shoes for toddlers...i remember thinking people must have more money than sense if they were buying designer runners for toddlers!!

orourkeda · 19-10-2010 12:17PM

http://www.inspiringcities.org/documenten/citycult/asbestos/lost/308499768_6d2ac96970_by_jaqian_celtic_tiger_house_prices.jpg

mikom · 19-10-2010 12:18PM

I think it was when I first saw Nike for lesbians advertised.

I remember the strapline well.........

New "Nikes For dykes".
50% more tongue and you can get them off with just one finger.

thebigbiffo · 19-10-2010 12:19PM

trying to convince my dad in about 1998 that building on the site he had and selling the gaff would make us a fortune. his argument was that the housing market would crash before we'd be finished the house. i was right in the end. if i had of had that argument with him 9 years later i'd have been wrong.

ChopShop · 19-10-2010 12:21PM

mariaalice wrote: »

I remember reading an article about a shoe department in a shop in Dublin and i think it was the late nineties ...anyway the article was about Nike shoes for toddlers...i remember thinking people must have more money than sense if they were buying designer runners for toddlers!!

I remember Sky Jordans (Toddler Air Jordans) on the shelves in Marathon Sports around 91 or 92. However well they sold...

The Aussie · 19-10-2010 12:24PM

I turned up here in ireland in 2001, so dont know the start but i know when i got here i thought this country is mad, the bosses wife was flying to the US 4/5 times a year for shopping trips and sh!t, i brought a 3 year old Transit off them for 4 grand (next to nothing) because he wanted a new one, i was getting more doing cash jobs on weekends than i was working the whole week and i was getting double then what i am now, money was like toilet paper in this country.

Hannibal Smith · 19-10-2010 12:24PM

when stamp duty on property became an 'every man/woman' issue and was no longer just for the posh people

KungPao · 19-10-2010 12:25PM

£1.20 for a coffee?

Get outta here.

smash · 19-10-2010 12:27PM

KungPao wrote: »

£1.20 for a coffee?

Get outta here.

or

What do you mean what type of coffee do I want... there's 30 different types?

thebigbiffo · 19-10-2010 12:31PM

also,

when i realised that 'jimmy choos' was not some type of cockney rhyming slang for simply 'shoes'. when i saw the price tags - thats when i realised the country was flying/screwed, depending on what humour i think about it in

KungPao · 19-10-2010 12:32PM

steve06 wrote: »

or

What do you mean what type of coffee do I want... there's 30 different types?

Yeah.

When you started having to speak fucking Italian to get a coffee with milk....oh sorry a Cafe Latte.

mikemac · 19-10-2010 12:33PM

When people quit school and went laboring pulling over 700 a week on sites
And some jobs were cash in hand too

KeithM89_old · 19-10-2010 12:33PM

People buying bottled water, or paying for something you can get for free in general

why did i subscribe???

mickydoomsux · 19-10-2010 12:38PM

feelingstressed wrote: »

When people quit school and went laboring pulling over 700 a week on sites
And some jobs were cash in hand too

Yeah, pretty much this. Half the lads in my class didn't come back to school the summer after the Junior Cert because they all went off to be labourers and apprentice block-layers and such.

They made a fortune at the time but spent it unwisely and now they're all on the dole and most have a couple of kids.

Wicklowrider · 19-10-2010 12:38PM

A girl I worked with had a nice white handbag and some scumbag had scrawled graffiti on it ( or so I thought) with a thick black marker - then she explained to me who Louis Vitton was and why she spent more than a weeks wages on the bag.

Luxie · 19-10-2010 12:41PM

steve06 wrote: »

or

What do you mean what type of coffee do I want... there's 30 different types?

Yeah, I've been away so was away before during and after it, but I remember being in Cork one day, and just wanting a ham sandwich in a particular shop, and could I get one? Could I feck, all they did was paninis and the like.

prinz · 19-10-2010 12:42PM

The price of a bag of Tayto.

KungPao · 19-10-2010 12:43PM

People buying pre-made or made for you sandwiches, with little or no taste for a hefty chunk of change.

When people simply had to have a new mooobiiiiile.

When sweets replaced fruit for Halloween.

Double-barrel surnames suddenly became widespread.

A new car every January started to become the norm.

The sunglasses-on-the-head look sadly became widely acceptable.

Nodin · 19-10-2010 12:43PM

I remember a few moments.....

'When did people start turning into ****.....' after listening to "upwardly mobile" talk from people I used have a lot of time for.

'who the fuck is going to stay in these poxy hotels' after I'd passed 3 being built over the course of a day or so.......

starbelgrade · 19-10-2010 12:44PM

I studied architecture & the year before I left college, all the students from the year ahead of me all headed off to Germany to get work... there was no work here & tonnes of it there as they were re-building much of the former East Germany.

When I left college just a year later, there was no shortage of work here & even as a student straight out of college, you could walk into virtually any office & be offered a really good salary.

A few years later, every office in the country was full of architects & technicians from all around the world.

Not so any more!

KungPao · 19-10-2010 12:44PM

Luxie wrote: »

Yeah, I've been away so was away before during and after it, but I remember being in Cork one day, and just wanting a ham sandwich in a particular shop, and could I get one? Could I feck, all they did was paninis and the like.

The worst is Ciabatta. :mad:

Because if you just want a sambo or a roll, you're like sooo not with it.

admiralofthefleet · 19-10-2010 12:45PM

when coffee became americano/mochiatto/mocha/frapachino

when tea became green tea/camomile tea/lapsang tea and other such bollox

mike65 · 19-10-2010 12:45PM

The first Ross Kelly O'Carroll article in the Tribune in early 1998

Nodin · 19-10-2010 12:46PM

KungPao wrote: »

People buying pre-made or made for you sandwiches, with little or no taste for a hefty chunk of change.

In fairness, thats been going on for a very very long time - pre minimum wage, in fact. You used see people who barely earned more than the dole spend christ knows buying food out and every feckin week complain about having no money......

southsiderosie · 19-10-2010 12:56PM

admiralofthefleet wrote: »

when coffee became americano/mochiatto/mocha/frapachino

when tea became green tea/camomile tea/lapsang tea and other such bollox

When Ireland finally offered food options that were generally available in the rest of the developed world for years. (and it still has a long way to go in this regard)

Yes having variety is sooooo horrible. :rolleyes:

rossie1977 · 19-10-2010 01:10PM

when all the main roads in the west of ireland stopped being narrow, windy, grass covered, pothole infested country lanes..............oh wait that never happened, they still are narrow, windy and full of potholes :mad:

skipz · 19-10-2010 01:18PM

Being asked to put window sills in on a site of a apartment block at the weekends for 35euro a window. We would do up to 10 windows a day sometimes, saturday and sunday.
And then back into the site monday to friday laying blocks for 1.50/2.00euro a block:D.
Ah i miss them days!

Sea Sharp · 19-10-2010 01:19PM

I first realised things were improving when my family went abroad on holiday. :eek:

KungPao · 19-10-2010 01:21PM

southsiderosie wrote: »

When Ireland finally offered food options that were generally available in the rest of the developed world for years. (and it still has a long way to go in this regard)

Yes having variety is sooooo horrible. :rolleyes:

Well I think he was referring to the pretentiousness of it all. There's nothing wrong with variety, but back in the day you could order a black coffee or a coffee with milk or whatever. But now its Cafe Latte and Americano. Why change the names to Italian? It's pointless.

scientific1982 · 19-10-2010 01:26PM

When I was making 400 euro a week even though I was in college.

Cianos · 19-10-2010 01:37PM

KungPao wrote: »

Well I think he was referring to the pretentiousness of it all. There's nothing wrong with variety, but back in the day you could order a black coffee or a coffee with milk or whatever. But now its Cafe Latte and Americano. Why change the names to Italian? It's pointless.

You can still order a black coffee, or a coffe with milk. They didn't change the names to Italian. The 'new' ones are made differently, so they obviously need different names.

First signs of the Celtic tiger

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