The Hamlet, Gardiner St., #Dublin, 1985.
From my #DublinBeforetheTiger series (1982-1992). For more info visit https://t.co/MrT74XBaUj pic.twitter.com/cEphqzqNhZ— David Jazay (@DavidJazay) July 8, 2020
Hic.
What replaced The Hamlet?
That is the question.
Anyone?
Garda Rapid Response Unit, Moyvane, Co. Kerry, 1980’s pic.twitter.com/LfKPWr1jTl
— RareIrishStuff (@RareIrishStuff) June 10, 2020
Name that jammer, anyone?
Meanwhile…
Unsafe , 2 Gardai killed in a Punto in early 2000's in Cork during a pursuit.
— Midland Celt (@MidlandCelt) June 10, 2020
Anyone?
Evan ‘The Nerdwriter’ Puschak explores how Michael Jackson bridged 70s funk and disco to 80s pop with his first breakthrough hit – 1979’s ‘Don’t Stop Till You Get Enough’ from the Off The Wall album.
Behold the angular, Reagan-era chutzpah of a 1988 Aston Martin V8 Vantage Zagato.
Between 1986 and 1990, only 89 of these controversially styled GTs were ever made.
This rare beast can be yours for upward of €678,000.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGpsmoAzlZo
Good times.
Nat King Coleslaw writes:
Pleasantly random selection of Irish TV Christmas moments from the 80s. Particularly fond of the drink-driving ad at 0:16 “Don’t drink and drive, but if you insist: not more than two”
The latest video from Aunties GeekEasy Comedy.
In which George Fox talks about the Netflix series, Stranger Things, an American supernatural horror-science fiction series set in the 1980s, and looks back at other 1980s movies and their themes.
*Spoiler alert
https://vimeo.com/177310026
The rot goes deep.
Helen Murray, writes:
This is a 1.35-minute clip of the 1985 Today Tonight documentary Law and Order in Donegal [broadcast on November 13, 1985].
Donegal County Council sued RTÉ for defamation as a result of airing the documentary dealing with the inappropriate relationship between Donegal [County] Council and the Garda, plus some.
The resulting suit saw RTÉ removing it, on the steps of the High Court.
The importance of this documentary, in relation to the Mary Boyle case and Gemma O’Doherty’s documentary Mary Boyle – The Untold Story, is that it establishes the cultural and systematic relationship of political interference in Donegal, a major component argued in The Untold documentary; wholesale denied by current politicians today.
Meanwhile…
Via Gemma O’Doherty
Previously: For Your Consideration: Mary Boyle – The Untold Story
Eric Luke tweetz:
Tuned in and wired for sound,a photo taken in Dublin in the 1980s……from my old negatives #myoldnegatives #Dublin
