Pre Celtic Tiger Ireland

[PussyinBoots]

Was it really all that bad?

- no homelessness
- working people could actually afford a house
- crime almost non existent (Dublin went from having an almost zero murder rate to one of the murder rates in Europe)
- no foreign criminals
- landscape beautiful as ever (probably more unspoilt) and vacationing in Ireland cost nothing then.
- jobs might have been harder to come by but with the common travel area anybody could work in the UK without visas
- very few drug issues save for certain areas of Dublin
- people weren't as wealthy but there was always food on the table and a roof over your head. What's the point of making good money when you can't even afford your own home?
- church was a bit too influential but so what? They're actually preferable to all the athetist loony lefties around these days.

 

[Stacky]

Was it really all that bad?

- no homelessness
- working people could actually afford a house
- crime almost non existent (Dublin went from having an almost zero murder rate to one of the murder rates in Europe)
- no foreign criminals
- landscape beautiful as ever (probably more unspoilt) and vacationing in Ireland cost nothing then.
- jobs might have been harder to come by but with the common travel area anybody could work in the UK without visas
- very few drug issues save for certain areas of Dublin
- people weren't as wealthy but there was always food on the table. What's the point of making good money when you can't even afford your own home?
- church was a bit too influential but so what? They're actually preferable to all the athetist loony lefties around these days.

Plenty of homelessness - Cork Simon was set up.
Interest rates at 16% for mortgages
Mass emigration
Huge crime in Dublin as their was a heroin epidemic and gangland criminals.
Parts of Dublin city centre looked like a bomb site.
Average monthly income and wealth below the E.U. average-now it is above.


But "So what" to a cabal of corrupt child rapists and women being placed in Mgadeline Laundries etc indeed as a backward insular inward looking Ireland floundered.

 

[PussyinBoots]

Plenty of homelessness - Cork Simon was set up.
Interest rates at 16% for mortgages
Mass emigration
Huge crime in Dublin as their was a heroin epidemic and gangland criminals.
Parts of Dublin city centre looked like a bomb site.
Average monthly income and wealth below the E.U. average-now it is above.


But "So what" to a cabal of corrupt child rapists and women being placed in Mgadeline Laundries etc indeed as a backward insular inward looking Ireland floundered.

That's not fair

 

[jimmym]

Lots of people look back on the 80s with misty eyed nostalgia, The early to mid 80s in particular were bleak, Fords, dunlops
went to the wall in Cork, I will say people seemed to have lower expectations than people today,

 

[TheOutdoorThreadmill]

 

[Roxetten]

That's not fair

Ignore him, it's part of his "routine" to pretend that everything is great nowadays and life was unrelenting grim up to the 2000s.

I have some very happy memories of life in the 80s and early 90s.

 

[Handy Run]

Was it really all that bad?

- jobs might have been harder to come by but with the common travel area anybody could work in the UK without visas

"Was it really all that bad? I mean, you had to fock off to find a job so even if it wasn't all that bad you wouldn't be there to enjoy it"

- J Tizzle

 

[Stacky]

Ignore him, it's part of his "routine" to pretend that everything is great nowadays and life was unrelenting grim up to the 2000s.

I have some very happy memories of life in the 80s and early 90s.

It focking was in many areas.

The "We had nothing but we were happy" schtick will only sustain you for so long.

98% of my graduation group had to emigrate, there was an actual focking war in the 6 counties and to even leave the island cost almost a months wages.

Are things perfect right now?

No, definitely not but they are a whole lot better.

 

[Great-Bit-O-Stuff]

Lots of people look back on the 80s with misty eyed nostalgia, The early to mid 80s in particular were bleak, Fords, dunlops
went to the wall in Cork, I will say people seemed to have lower expectations than people today,

The 90s were better

 

[Drucker]

Was it really all that bad?

- no homelessness
- working people could actually afford a house
- crime almost non existent (Dublin went from having an almost zero murder rate to one of the murder rates in Europe)
- no foreign criminals
- landscape beautiful as ever (probably more unspoilt) and vacationing in Ireland cost nothing then.
- jobs might have been harder to come by but with the common travel area anybody could work in the UK without visas
- very few drug issues save for certain areas of Dublin
- people weren't as wealthy but there was always food on the table and a roof over your head. What's the point of making good money when you can't even afford your own home?
- church was a bit too influential but so what? They're actually preferable to all the athetist loony lefties around these days.

Not to mention that the road to Midleton was shite and the train only went as far as Cobh so it was much harder for hordes of Knuckle dragging Midleton spudgobbling mucksavages to get to Cork, making the city much more pleasant.