Reeling in the Years

[Dr. FIVE]

Italia 90 bit is probably my favourite bit of television ever. Tears every time without fail lol

[PaddyJoe]

Italia 90 bit is probably my favourite bit of television ever. Tears every time without fail lol

It never gets old

[fluffybiscuits]

Italia 90 bit is probably my favourite bit of television ever. Tears every time without fail lol

It is one of them hair stand up on the back of your neck moments!

[PaddyJoe]

Some chancers the Saw Doctors were too

[Dr. FIVE]

The scenes back home is what gets me

[PaddyJoe]

Don't remember the RTE strike in 1992. Obviously didn't watch TV at the time

[PaddyJoe]

Bishop Casey and Annie Maguire.

[PaddyJoe]

Ben, cocaine and hookers.

[PaddyJoe]

1992 really was a drab year. Albert Reynolds and Wee Daniel.

[Baron von Biffo]

1992 really was a drab year. Albert Reynolds and Wee Daniel.

Reynolds showing the first sign of his unique talent for collapsing governments.

[Slim Buddha]

Don't remember the RTE strike in 1992. Obviously didn't watch TV at the time

What I remember about this strike was the fact that Haughey resigned in the middle of it. This led to the Scrap Saturday team of Morgan, Stembridge, Roe et al releasing a special "Scrap Charlie" tape with the career of Haughey as the central theme. It began with foreign news services (France, Germany, USA, Russia and the UK) "reporting" the resignation of "Grossenfuehrer Charles J. Haughey", "fun-loving iron man Charlie Haughey", "Diktatorski Haughey" and "controversial Tee-sock, Charles J. Hockey".

It was some of the best work of the Scrap team but unfortunately did not get the airing it deserved.

[PaddyJoe]

1978 on now with the marches to save Wood Quay. Huge crowds. If it happened now you'd be lucky to get a few hundred.

[PaddyJoe]

Carnsore Point anti nuclear protests; resistance to dumping asbestos in Ringaskiddy; even big demos in support of pirate radio.
Maybe there really is something in the water these days

[Baron von Biffo]

1978 on now with the marches to save Wood Quay. Huge crowds. If it happened now you'd be lucky to get a few hundred.

Traipsing around the streets shouting and roaring didn't work back then when it involved lots of people focussed on a clearly defined single issue so why would anyone think it will work today when it's just a few clots who'd be hard pressed to know what day it is let alone what they're protesting about?

[Simonsays]

Traipsing around the streets shouting and roaring didn't work back then when it involved lots of people focussed on a clearly defined single issue so why would anyone think it will work today when it's just a few clots who'd be hard pressed to know what day it is let alone what they're protesting about?

Traipsing around on the streets shouting and roaring, while waving placards, with the usual suspects doing their usual antics on the platform into a mike, is a waste of time. 100,000 marched demanding tax reform. It didn't happen. 50,000 including myself, marched against the destruction of Wood Quay. It didn't make any difference. The left never seems to learn that though. Their standard response to every issue - 'lets have a march' and they then clap themselves on their shoulders after it for having done it, despite it not making the slightest difference. They remind me of this scene from Fr Ted - just replace 'march' for 'Mass' and you have the standard left wing response for how to react to something.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nC_abUffrcE
With tactics like that, no wonder the left in Ireland are so irrelevant.