Standard Toaster wrote: » Has to be the 90s starting with the 1990 World Cup. Olé olé olé!!
Johnny Foreigner wrote: » What was your favourite decade in Ireland and why? For me it was the 1980's. I loved the fashions, music, Punts, pubs, cars.
mikemac1 wrote: » 80s Ah were poor but we were happy Only rich people had two cars, many had none so you thumbed at the local crossroads. This was considered perfectly safe and school children did it no problem. You drove a Ford Cortina. A BMW or Merc was an exception and a head-turner, nowadays they are as common as muck If you were a rich fecker and bought a new car, oh la di da, you could buy it from August onwards and put "for reg" and then register it in January. "For reg" is long gone There was such a thing as running in a new car. Modern cars don't need this It was perfectly acceptable to open your front door, call over children and give them money to go the shops to get you cigarettes. Nowadays if you give children money and call them to your front door the gardaí will probably question you as some pervert. :eek: You could spot the poor kids in school as their books were covered in wallpaper, I was one of these. It was common for families to share one book between sibilings. Teachers understood so if you didn't have the book they would not shame you. A flight to the UK cost up to two hundred punts, ridiculous money. So a holiday was a day out to Leisureland in Salthill. Money was tight, people could not afford heating oil so you went to bed with so many blankets you could barely move or turn over. Years later I never feel the cold. There was no Wikipedia or google. You went to the cabinet and got the encyclopedias for that. People sold those door to door. It was considered acceptable to order a phone line from Telecom Éireann and wait over six weeks to get it. Then just as now, the Dubs were arrogant when it came to GAA football and everyone was sick of listening to them There was no Oxygen but by the end of the decade we got Féile and The Trip to Tipp. :cool:. It's how Michael Lowry launched his career. On that note politicians were crooks then as well as now. But we still voted for them, nothing changes
LordSutch wrote: » For many the 80s was the last mass exodus out of Ireland! (due to Ireland being so dead & rife with unemployment). The 80s was indeed great for music, pubs, clubs & fashion, & cheap car insurance, but London was where it was at, not here.
44leto wrote: » 80s or 90s simply because I was young.
mikemac1 wrote: » There was no Oxygen
ScumLord wrote: » What fashion? Ireland in the 80s looked just the same as it did in the 70s and 60s.
Pace2008 wrote: » Christ, dunno how you enjoyed that decade, I nearly pass out if I hold my breath for even a minute. Having been born in 1988, I've only really experienced two decades. I was a kind growing up in the nineties, and came of age in the 00's, so I'm looking at the two from fundamentally different viewpoints and can't really compare them. I've always wanted to have experienced the birth of rave culture when I was in my prime though, must have been quite the buzz. The whole thing went right over my head as a four-year-old kid.
