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The 70's and 80's in Ireland

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  • #2432
    Hotblack Desiato
    Registered Users Posts: 33,866 ✭✭✭✭Hotblack Desiato


    Edgware wrote: »
    Leave North Wall around 10p.m. Friday and land in Liverpool around 6.00 a.m.

    8 hours on the ferry!!! A truck ferry rather than cars presumably, the drivers would need an overnight rest anyway so no point going faster. The daytime car and passenger ferries were faster, I never sailed to Liverpool but going to Holyhead took about 3.5 hours. It was the 90s not the 70s or 80s when the HSS came in, 99 minutes and smooth and comfortable too. They added about half an hour to the trip time in its later years to save on fuel, cheap air travel killed it really.

    Life ain't always empty.



  • #2433
    Hotblack Desiato
    Registered Users Posts: 33,866 ✭✭✭✭Hotblack Desiato


    nthclare wrote: »
    Are the fog horn's still harping away ?

    The foghorns were done away with about 15 years ago a bit less than that, thanks L1011 :)

    When I lived in Clonskeagh which isn't that close to to coast, you could hear the foghorns on a still, foggy night.

    Life ain't always empty.



  • #2434
    Hotblack Desiato
    Registered Users Posts: 33,866 ✭✭✭✭Hotblack Desiato


    JohnnyFlash wrote: »
    It was a mixture of both! You have a good way with words, and that Dublin propensity for being nostalgic about the ‘rare auld times’.

    The poster did point out the bad as well as the good.

    Lie down on the couch there Johnny and tell us about your childhood :cool:

    Life ain't always empty.



  • #2435
    mikemac2
    Registered Users Posts: 2,926 ✭✭✭mikemac2


    Geoff Read was laughed at by Gay Byrne on the Late Late show in 1981

    Most of the nation joined in. Irish people buying water pah!

    Mr Read went on to launch Ballygowan and become wealthy


  • #2436
    pretty boy floyd
    Registered Users Posts: 52 ✭✭pretty boy floyd


    I’m quite sad to say that I didn’t think twice about trying to find a job in Ireland when I finished uni in 1991. It still seemed very difficult to do much unless you were connected. I left that year and I am still an emigrant


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  • #2437
    branie2
    Registered Users Posts: 10,288 ✭✭✭✭branie2


    National Lottery started in 1987


  • #2438
    Buford T. Justice XIX
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,633 ✭✭✭✭Buford T. Justice XIX


    If any song destroyed the 80s, it's this one...:eek:



  • #2439
    L1011
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 67,611 Mod ✭✭✭✭L1011


    branie2 wrote: »
    National Lottery started in 1987

    Are you intending this as a positive or negative of the 80s?

    It effectively replaced the insanely corrupt Hospital Sweepstakes, which is a good thing at least.


  • #2440
    branie2
    Registered Users Posts: 10,288 ✭✭✭✭branie2


    L1011 wrote: »
    Are you intending this as a positive or negative of the 80s?

    It effectively replaced the insanely corrupt Hospital Sweepstakes, which is a good thing at least.

    definitely positive


  • #2441
    The Princess Bride
    Registered Users Posts: 18,581 ✭✭✭✭The Princess Bride


    Babooshka wrote: »
    We had a fruit and veg man who came in a van.

    This brought back memories.

    We had a van deliver to us in rural midlands in the late 70s.
    Every Tuesday evening, Tommy would arrive in the van and my mother would get whatever she needed.
    A loaf of white bread with us fighting over who'd get the crust.
    A few rashers for the dinner the following day.

    And an occasional Curly Wurly if we were very very good children.


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  • #2442
    L1011
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 67,611 Mod ✭✭✭✭L1011


    We actually had a fruit and veg van around in the early 90s; but for some reason my mother can't remember it at all. Guy who ran it still has a normal greengrocers shop that I still use

    We still have a milkman, a door to door dry cleaner/laundry/alterations/cobbler and newspaper delivery.

    Back in rural Donegal where my parents spend about half the year now there is still a butchers van (that sells some other stuff too) and a twice weekly shop van; but the ones I still have + the old veg van were in a suburban area.


  • #2443
    newirishman
    Registered Users Posts: 270 ✭✭newirishman


    The Princess Bride wrote: »
    Every Tuesday evening, Tommy would arrive in the van and my mother would get whatever she needed.

    Right.



    Well, I guess it was Pre-AIDS after all...


  • #2444
    Lucy8080
    Registered Users Posts: 1,969 ✭✭✭Lucy8080


    You'd read Oliver Twist in school, back then, and think, "what a spoiled little b*stard!"


  • #2445
    Manach
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 9,663 Mod ✭✭✭✭Manach


    We did not have to worry about Political correctness nor the presence of the presence of the state adverts saying how to behave.


  • #2446
    L1011
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 67,611 Mod ✭✭✭✭L1011


    Manach wrote: »
    nor the presence of the presence of the state adverts saying how to behave.

    You clearly didn't actually watch TV, then. "public information" advertising was at a high in the 80s. Road safety, water safety, alcohol consumption, power line safety; if we go back to the 70s you can add nuclear safety to it too


  • #2447
    Lucy8080
    Registered Users Posts: 1,969 ✭✭✭Lucy8080


    branie2 wrote: »
    National Lottery started in 1987

    I remember my father having a great plan to buy a couple of these lottery scratchcards every pay day. Bought two the first week ,won nothing and swore he'd never buy one again.

    Price of a pint back then was about £1.20-£1.40. I reckon that's what put him off scratchcards.


  • #2448
    L1011
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 67,611 Mod ✭✭✭✭L1011


    Scratchcards were 50p at the time - the direct equivalents are €3 now (Winning Streak, All Cash with similar prize values) so they'll still make a big dent in the price of a pint. There's €1 ones with much smaller prizes which are barely dearer than the original ones and obviously a much lower % of a pint though.


  • #2449
    Lucy8080
    Registered Users Posts: 1,969 ✭✭✭Lucy8080


    L1011 wrote: »
    Scratchcards were 50p at the time - the direct equivalents are €3 now (Winning Streak, All Cash with similar prize values) so they'll still make a big dent in the price of a pint. There's €1 ones with much smaller prizes which are barely dearer than the original ones and obviously a much lower % of a pint though.

    Somewhere in the back of my mind I thought they were a pound. I still don't remember them being 50p. Not doubting you by the way.


  • #2450
    kyote00
    Registered Users Posts: 1,562 ✭✭✭kyote00


    -- If you drink, don't drive but if you do, just two will do....
    -- Safe cross code
    -- Where's grandad https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NjWHrjCG1LQ
    L1011 wrote: »
    You clearly didn't actually watch TV, then. "public information" advertising was at a high in the 80s. Road safety, water safety, alcohol consumption, power line safety; if we go back to the 70s you can add nuclear safety to it too


  • #2451
    Lucy8080
    Registered Users Posts: 1,969 ✭✭✭Lucy8080


    The BBC and I.T.V. used to have "schools and colleges" programmes on weekday mornings. It must have been a service to the national curriculum in British schools.

    So,one morning in the seventies , I'm off school in Ireland (holy day) ,eating my cornflakes , home alone at ten a.m. watching some hospital programme.

    The next minute,there's a screaming woman ,legs akimbo , blood and mess everywhere and out pops a crying baby. Fcuk me, it must have been sex ed. for secondary schools in Britain.

    I've never forgotten that moment. Some days you go to bed knowing your little world has changed for ever.


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  • #2452
    the purple tin
    Registered Users Posts: 10,943 ✭✭✭✭the purple tin


    Young ones now expect their parents to fund a holiday abroad with their friends for doing the leaving cert.
    Back then you were straight into summer job of full time work as soon as you finished the exams, one night on the beer maybe to celebrate.


  • #2453
    the purple tin
    Registered Users Posts: 10,943 ✭✭✭✭the purple tin


    Remember when the TV channels used to close down for the night, you would get the annoying ringing sound and a test screen like these


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  • #2454
    branie2
    Registered Users Posts: 10,288 ✭✭✭✭branie2


    The clock on television before programmes started


  • #2455
    Buford T. Justice XIX
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,633 ✭✭✭✭Buford T. Justice XIX


    O Domhnaill Abu playing on RTE radio 1 at 6.30am every morning until the news at 6.33.


  • #2456
    branie2
    Registered Users Posts: 10,288 ✭✭✭✭branie2


    haunting tune


  • #2457
    Carfacemandog
    Registered Users Posts: 2,042 ✭✭✭Carfacemandog


    the purple tin wrote: »
    Remember when the TV channels used to close down for the night, you would get the annoying ringing sound and a test screen like these


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    Times certainly had improved when instead we got Feeder, Damien Duff bowing and an injury to the dreaded big toe area.


  • #2458
    branie2
    Registered Users Posts: 10,288 ✭✭✭✭branie2


    the purple tin wrote: »
    Remember when the TV channels used to close down for the night, you would get the annoying ringing sound and a test screen like these


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    RTÉ 1 and RTÉ 2 had 2 different sounds with their test screens.


  • #2459
    Hangdogroad
    Registered Users Posts: 4,883 ✭✭✭Hangdogroad


    the purple tin wrote: »
    Remember when the TV channels used to close down for the night, you would get the annoying ringing sound and a test screen like these


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    Yes. I remember the RTE one well as that was all we had. I used to call the test card the roundy thing and I remember as a child watching it impatiently waiting for the programmes to start


  • #2460
    beauf
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,651 ✭✭✭✭beauf


    Hotblack Desiato wrote: »
    8 hours on the ferry!!! A truck ferry rather than cars presumably, the drivers would need an overnight rest anyway so no point going faster. The daytime car and passenger ferries were faster, I never sailed to Liverpool but going to Holyhead took about 3.5 hours. It was the 90s not the 70s or 80s when the HSS came in, 99 minutes and smooth and comfortable too. They added about half an hour to the trip time in its later years to save on fuel, cheap air travel killed it really.

    I can remember getting an overnight ferry to Liverpool and having a cabin to sleep in. Mostly went to Holyhead. Did that a lot. Haven't been on a Ferry in a very long time.


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  • #2461
    the purple tin
    Registered Users Posts: 10,943 ✭✭✭✭the purple tin


    beauf wrote: »
    I can remember getting an overnight ferry to Liverpool and having a cabin to sleep in. Mostly went to Holyhead. Did that a lot. Haven't been on a Ferry in a very long time.
    You can still go on the lorry boat for quite cheap. I saw a musician from england once and he said that's how travels to ireland for gigs. There is a cabin with loads of bunks like a hostel but most truckers nowadays would sleep in the cab instead.


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