I think It's just a grim place now, it was a lot safer and looked better overall, ok there was some horrible things about it back then too but that's nothing compared to how bad it is now, especially down towards the AIB bank where theres a massive vacant site sitting there for years its terrible looking...it has been very neglected over the last 20 years and it's so sad to see it the way it is now.
@@speakertreatz she probably means that Dublin was full of Dubs. Your not offended by that I hope. Its a diverse city now and she can be nostalgic if she wishes for the old days, as am I.
No mobiles, fb, covid, restrictions on absolutely every little thing you say and do pubs where great craic people more genuine, life was alot more simple back then
It sure was, but it was not all that great in many ways either. I don't like the times we are living in in many ways now, as you say mobile phones, fb, the genuine characters and atmosphere of the pubs. But times back then were bleak for many people, a happy and good mix of both worlds would be great. It's in our hands. Smile and talk to people, you will find the old Dublin still there.
Kevin Regan It was Illegal to be gay and a bomb could suddenly go of anywhere in public places killing people, it was also poorer. So no id say it was pretty s*** lol wasn’t great at all.
We had a good football team we were winning the eurovision most of the time we knew our neighbours we were all slim and we had a lot more common sense Jesus I miss dublin of the past
The needle was not yet a thing of the future. Last time in Dublin, 2009. We live in Australia, but every so often we expend a couple years back. Malahide, was hour home, not recogniseble now, that is call ""PROGRESS. ""
@@solsol1624 I couldn't even drive then as I was only born in the June of 88, but even still city centre and all surrounding areas are just a nightmare to drive
In fairness there were far fewer people in Dublin at that time compared to now. Many young people had emigrated and there was little immigration. People had less money then too so many families didn't have a car. It just doesn't make sense these days to have lots of vehicles passing through Dublin city centre.
@@emmams5 Actually I have a car which I use to get to work but if I need to go into town I take the bus or luas. I just don't think the city centre should be clogged with cars. I do cycle at times usually to get to places nearby.
The fashion has drastically changed since then:) and the 80s haircuts lol :)😀.. the music and the cars..Double decker bus existed already back then:)The streets look alot cleaner than today Easy going times in the 80s!!:)
The Dublin City Council building absolutely destroyed that back view of Christchurch, how did it ever get the go-ahead? It's a good modern building but why it was planted there, completely blocking the church from the Liffey side..This footage goes straight to my heart because I was 16 in 1988, but when you watch it at face value now, the whole place does look very grim. Deeply depressing in fact. All the 'but sure the people had a great community spirit' talk in the world isn't going to convince anyone otherwise.
Very good point iv never seen this side of the building and what a view of beautiful architecture hidden in plane sights I live only down the road too 😂
@@thefisherman4334 lol I was the same when I lived near Christchurch and every day walked back up that hill from work without realising it, then I think it was under a FB photo, one of those 'Dublin in the old days' pages, a discussion was raging underneath a pre-Civic Offices photo, people slamming the decision to put a building right in the way of a national landmark (and tourist spot). And I saw what they meant! Afterwards the whole thing came back to me, I could remember it the way it was, my Dad drove home from town up that hill all the time. What were they thinking??
@@thefisherman4334 this is a similar discussion which goes back further than the Mk1 Dublin City Council building put up in the 80s, to the controversy before it was built involving the viking remains at the site (you can see in the photo everything has been flattened in preparation for the office) facebook.com/dublin8irl/posts/wood-quay-was-the-site-of-the-original-viking-settlement-in-dublin-it-is-now-alm/2286786414693147/
@@briancd37 Depends on your personal values, in my opinion Dublin was far more cohesive and friendly as a society, we knew everyone on our street growing up and there was a sense everyone had eachothers back. The city had more character, you had more individual characters who were their own people compared to now. I like some of the changes to the city and they were well needed, but we have lost too much of our identity in gaining them and I see Dublin continuing to lose its unique character and morphing even more into a generic run of the mill dopamine thrill fuelled city that you can find anywhere in Europe.
Going to go against the grain here: It looks very nice, but not massively different, nicer in some ways, less nice in others. People here really need to relax and take off the nostalgia goggles - things changes, it's always been that way, it always will be
Priority for bikes must end - I do think the city needs an inner motorway ring (like many European cities), but that the city centre should then be reserved mainly for pedestrians and public transport. I think the Luas is a great system, but there's a need for much more. Also, the DART Underground should have been built years ago.
Christ,ur after reminding me. The stink from the engine if u sat downstairs at the back and forget about being able to hear anybody talking ,bloody deafening!!
@@catfordkat Couldn't agree more! I'm a Dubliner born and bred and nowadays I feel like a foreigner in my native city- it's like being in African or Pakistani slum ! City has gone to hell- I avoid the city centre when I can- it's too depressing to see how Dublin has been destroyed by mass immigration, globalism, and woke tripe (the mess of rainbow flags/Ukrainian flags)! Disgraceful how we Native Irish have been betrayed while any terrorist scum can buy an Irish passport for the right price! Sell-out politicians are to blame!
pt breakers ,if you seen a pt van when black jack was a sweet only a half you could buy 1 smoke in the van give us a drag was 3 pulls of a smoke Butt's on a apple crying if you got the last of the bat* water after everyone was washed before you the flee market on the hill bag of chips 25 cents greeny was old english 2 litter of cider
I'm 24 and can without doubt say I prefer modern Dublin. Sure this city is far quieter, less traffic, less people, but it feels poor, dirty and depressed. Looks like a video from an Eastern European soviet state from the same period just with blue jeans and pop on the radio. Older people long for this time but only because they fit in better then. Honestly, I'll take the modern buildings, bustling streets, diversity, youth, clean buildings (trinity and Dublin Castle look black from air pollution), cosmopolitan feel and general European openness of modern Dublin and Ireland. You can smell Catholic Ireland through this. People wearing sueor long skirts and all the men in the same jeans. People were lacking in artistic expression and fun. Anyone who was anyone left the country. Amazing video but damn modern Dublin is a huge improvement. (just need to get those rents down and more trams and trains up).
There was more to it than meets the eye. It just felt more Irish back then. I know what the old and new Ireland feels like and the old felt more Irish that's really all their is to it.
I do like aspects of modern Dublin, but without doubt for me its lost a large chunk of its character and soul. We could have had all those improvements you mentioned without compromising that. Mid to late 90s Dublin probably came closest to it. We had one of the youngest, creative populations in Europe then. Had diversity, but still felt Irish. There was an enthusiasm and craic about the place that is not present to the same extent today. I run an airbnb in town and a lot of my guests are disappointed with Dublin. I think its because with all those improvements you mentioned its lost a lot of it's charm and uniqueness, it really has just become a bit of a generic less personable european city now.
Difficult times economically we were on our knees. Trouble up North was in full flight. You are very much entitled to your opinion, however you do come across as being somewhat smug.
@@redfishswimming The History books say that Ireland was a 3rd world country in the 1980s. Full stop. No one emigrated to Ireland, all the Irish who could emigrate did it.
Ahhh thats the Dublin I remember
Growing up in Dublin was great
You wouldn't know the place now
@Paul hahahaha
O'Connell Street looked so much better in 1988 than it does now, it's horrible now they made a bollox of it.
There was no blanchardstown shopping centre , the square or omni centre .. you could only really shop in city centre ..
In what way?...
I think It's just a grim place now, it was a lot safer and looked better overall, ok there was some horrible things about it back then too but that's nothing compared to how bad it is now, especially down towards the AIB bank where theres a massive vacant site sitting there for years its terrible looking...it has been very neglected over the last 20 years and it's so sad to see it the way it is now.
Who's "they". It's the local people engaging in criminality and drug dealing that are the problem
@@caezar55 they meaning Dublin City Council they are responsible for the current state of O'Connell Street.
I miss these days so much.
Everything seemed a lot easier back then.
When Dublin was Dublin.
Happy days..
What is it now
Do you hear the noise and chatter in Henry Street. It was a great place to shop back then. You could be in any country now.
@@azazali
Unless you we're around in those days you wouldn't understand.
Or have a clue what I'm talking about.
@@patriciabracken7546 I was around so you can answer me. 'When Dublin was Dublin'...meaning what?
@@speakertreatz she probably means that Dublin was full of Dubs. Your not offended by that I hope. Its a diverse city now and she can be nostalgic if she wishes for the old days, as am I.
How skinny everyone was... Great video ❤️. The clock at Easons...every catch up in the city started there
The clock at Clearys for some ..
It still does. That or in the Insomnia on the Abbey Street side of Easons.
Not a refugee, Ukrainian, eastern European Gypsy or African in sight....ah Dublin was great in 88
a few too many blacks these days
The Floozie in the jacuzzi !
The hooer in the sewer 😁
Ah God love her,she wasn't appreciated when she was there. I had to pause to have a good look at her again! Iconic.
Was always full or rubbish and scum but miles better than that shite Spire
This is the Dublin I remember
who remembers the millenium 50ps?
I have loads of them if ya wanna buy them.collectors items.
No mobiles, fb, covid, restrictions on absolutely every little thing you say and do pubs where great craic people more genuine, life was alot more simple back then
It sure was, but it was not all that great in many ways either. I don't like the times we are living in in many ways now, as you say mobile phones, fb, the genuine characters and atmosphere of the pubs. But times back then were bleak for many people, a happy and good mix of both worlds would be great. It's in our hands. Smile and talk to people, you will find the old Dublin still there.
@@andrewlyng4855 agreed Andrew but people were pretty mean to one another at that time cause there wasn't enough to go round. So glad I got out of it.
Kevin Regan It was Illegal to be gay and a bomb could suddenly go of anywhere in public places killing people, it was also poorer. So no id say it was pretty s*** lol wasn’t great at all.
Amazing I loved this old Dublin .before smart Alex's were around with there Masters Degrees Etc.........
Ah, 1988 - when people noticed when you pointed a camera at them.
O'Connell St before the despicable Spire
We had a good football team we were winning the eurovision most of the time we knew our neighbours we were all slim and we had a lot more common sense Jesus I miss dublin of the past
Very few young people as there was no work here and most were in England , the USA or Australia.
In terms of work - looks like we've come a full circle...
Nice, a rare S12 Silvia next to the double decker bus.
Dare I say it looks better then
The needle was not yet a thing of the future.
Last time in Dublin, 2009. We live in Australia, but every so often we expend a couple years back.
Malahide, was hour home, not recogniseble now, that is call ""PROGRESS. ""
Thats a fair amount of time away from home...maybe it isnt home to some...understandable
Back when you could drive through the city centre, oh how they've bollox'd that up
Was just about to say that. I autuaclly enjoyed driving then. Even out of thee city it's constant speed bumps and idiots on scooters.
@@solsol1624 I couldn't even drive then as I was only born in the June of 88, but even still city centre and all surrounding areas are just a nightmare to drive
In fairness there were far fewer people in Dublin at that time compared to now. Many young people had emigrated and there was little immigration. People had less money then too so many families didn't have a car. It just doesn't make sense these days to have lots of vehicles passing through Dublin city centre.
@@DanielHowardIRE, you must be a cyclist?
@@emmams5 Actually I have a car which I use to get to work but if I need to go into town I take the bus or luas. I just don't think the city centre should be clogged with cars. I do cycle at times usually to get to places nearby.
What a wonderful time that was!!
Makes me feel old watching this video 🙄 great to watch
Fantastic footage, just seen family member pass by the camera. Incredible footage thank you so much for posting.
That sounds a bit tall Tom 🇮🇪☘😂😂
@@danbreen6946 I’m in the height of it Henry 😉😉☘️🇮🇪
so cute how everyone waves 2 the camera
How little traffic there was on the streets.
looks like Sunday afternoon traffic
poverty i got back from USA around this time ,it was one recession after another ,few had cars compared to today
It was shot in August, everyone was probably in Courtown.
The fashion has drastically changed since then:) and the 80s haircuts lol :)😀.. the music and the cars..Double decker bus existed already back then:)The streets look alot cleaner than today
Easy going times in the 80s!!:)
The Dublin City Council building absolutely destroyed that back view of Christchurch, how did it ever get the go-ahead?
It's a good modern building but why it was planted there, completely blocking the church from the Liffey side..This footage goes straight to my heart because I was 16 in 1988, but when you watch it at face value now, the whole place does look very grim. Deeply depressing in fact. All the 'but sure the people had a great community spirit' talk in the world isn't going to convince anyone otherwise.
Very good point iv never seen this side of the building and what a view of beautiful architecture hidden in plane sights I live only down the road too 😂
@@thefisherman4334 lol I was the same when I lived near Christchurch and every day walked back up that hill from work without realising it, then I think it was under a FB photo, one of those 'Dublin in the old days' pages, a discussion was raging underneath a pre-Civic Offices photo, people slamming the decision to put a building right in the way of a national landmark (and tourist spot). And I saw what they meant! Afterwards the whole thing came back to me, I could remember it the way it was, my Dad drove home from town up that hill all the time. What were they thinking??
@@thefisherman4334 this is a similar discussion which goes back further than the Mk1 Dublin City Council building put up in the 80s, to the controversy before it was built involving the viking remains at the site (you can see in the photo everything has been flattened in preparation for the office)
facebook.com/dublin8irl/posts/wood-quay-was-the-site-of-the-original-viking-settlement-in-dublin-it-is-now-alm/2286786414693147/
We marched to keep wood quay but to no avail
Back in the day when people had roofs over their heads and hardly any beggars to be seen. What the hell went wrong??
Dave Rennix you think Dublin and Irish society was better in the 80s????!!! Mmm... no!!!
Half the people on housing list in dublin weren't born in Ireland, that's what's wrong, and a huge mistake.
@@briancd37 Depends on your personal values, in my opinion Dublin was far more cohesive and friendly as a society, we knew everyone on our street growing up and there was a sense everyone had eachothers back. The city had more character, you had more individual characters who were their own people compared to now.
I like some of the changes to the city and they were well needed, but we have lost too much of our identity in gaining them and I see Dublin continuing to lose its unique character and morphing even more into a generic run of the mill dopamine thrill fuelled city that you can find anywhere in Europe.
Greed. That’s it.
Mass immigration.
The black tar on the roads was cleaner looking than the stuff they use today.
I was tryin' to spot myself or the Missus, we were back in Dublin in August of 1988
wow...to me it feel nostalgic , although i wasn't yet born in 88
Going to go against the grain here: It looks very nice, but not massively different, nicer in some ways, less nice in others. People here really need to relax and take off the nostalgia goggles - things changes, it's always been that way, it always will be
Great stuff. More please.
How did we go from this to the shit hole we are in now
Liberalism
It was shit then and its shit now
The yellow reg car reminds me of the game we played as kids when we saw it first we gave a dead arm to our mates
Mini pinch.
I was only 2 years old in 1988 i was born in dublin
DART was only 2 years old in 1988
O Connell st, still a kip back then.....
An actual Irish city. Wow
Yeah the same actual Irish city’s still exist now , you are stupid aren’t you !
@@louistamone7528 yeah and some areas have no Irish whatsoever. Well done you 👏
A
Simple happy life
Deadly video; anyone notice the Millenium "Dublin's Great in '88" logo in the top window of BHS @ 3:14
Life is all a dream
I love those videos and as a car enthusiast they bring back fond memories. Great to see the streets before they were messed up for bike lanes etc.
Priority for bikes must end - I do think the city needs an inner motorway ring (like many European cities), but that the city centre should then be reserved mainly for pedestrians and public transport. I think the Luas is a great system, but there's a need for much more. Also, the DART Underground should have been built years ago.
I was 8 then but remember puking my guts up every time I got on them buses
Many the time 😊. Something about the big heavy engines I think.
💯🙈
Christ,ur after reminding me. The stink from the engine if u sat downstairs at the back and forget about being able to hear anybody talking ,bloody deafening!!
Get your cheeky Charlie
Heree aw Press!
Flowwuurrsshhhh twoooo furraaa pouuunnndd 😂 good aul days of Henry street
Glad I emigrated.
It looked like it was a dull day out
I was born in August 1988 =)
I miss Dublin.so much . I left Dublin in ,2000 and.now I'm living in Spain . I miss Ireland haven't been home in ten years
Cigarette lighters two for a pou
I remember hearing that everywhere in 89, and I wondered before I watched if it would be on this video - it was the first f**king thing.
😂😂
Demz was simpler timez
3-4 months after RTE hosted the Eurovision
Trying to figure out whether that’s Frere Jacques visible on Dame Street - Dublin was a better city when Frere Jacques was in operation…….
3.31 ah ther she is🥰🇮🇪
Clearly the traffic was as bad then as it has been in more recent years
❤️❤️❤️
Northern Reg Renault 5 @2:14
Better times when Dublin was Irish just like I remember as a kid.
Deadly buzz we're getting green busses back now but the drivers aren't even orange.
Time traveler confirmed
Dublin 🍀💚❤️💚
How better the life was then , people very happy with what they had which wasn’t much unlike now when kids have everything and still miserable
Miserable August.. the days when u didn't need tax or insurance for your car. Producer to boogie address 🤫😅😅
Notice anything
In the rare oul times.. Ath cliath
Nothing's changed
@@catfordkat Couldn't agree more! I'm a Dubliner born and bred and nowadays I feel like a foreigner in my native city- it's like being in African or Pakistani slum ! City has gone to hell- I avoid the city centre when I can- it's too depressing to see how Dublin has been destroyed by mass immigration, globalism, and woke tripe (the mess of rainbow flags/Ukrainian flags)! Disgraceful how we Native Irish have been betrayed while any terrorist scum can buy an Irish passport for the right price! Sell-out politicians are to blame!
Imagine. Dublin full of Irish people.
What have they done?
pt breakers ,if you seen a pt van
when black jack was a sweet only a half
you could buy 1 smoke in the van
give us a drag was 3 pulls of a smoke
Butt's on a apple
crying if you got the last of the bat* water after everyone was washed before you
the flee market on the hill
bag of chips 25 cents
greeny was old english 2 litter of cider
There's no road markings on any of the streets
it looks like the neighbour calty
Your ma would always go to town to meet up with sisters or friends for cup or tea and cake and a gossip 😂
The Cranberries didn't exist yet!
That was difriend world,better
Loyders two furra pound.
I'm 24 and can without doubt say I prefer modern Dublin. Sure this city is far quieter, less traffic, less people, but it feels poor, dirty and depressed. Looks like a video from an Eastern European soviet state from the same period just with blue jeans and pop on the radio. Older people long for this time but only because they fit in better then.
Honestly, I'll take the modern buildings, bustling streets, diversity, youth, clean buildings (trinity and Dublin Castle look black from air pollution), cosmopolitan feel and general European openness of modern Dublin and Ireland.
You can smell Catholic Ireland through this. People wearing sueor long skirts and all the men in the same jeans. People were lacking in artistic expression and fun. Anyone who was anyone left the country.
Amazing video but damn modern Dublin is a huge improvement. (just need to get those rents down and more trams and trains up).
There was more to it than meets the eye. It just felt more Irish back then. I know what the old and new Ireland feels like and the old felt more Irish that's really all their is to it.
I prefer modern Dublin as well.
@@Goldedguy Did you guys watched " Die...Hard" in Odeon On that day?
I do like aspects of modern Dublin, but without doubt for me its lost a large chunk of its character and soul. We could have had all those improvements you mentioned without compromising that. Mid to late 90s Dublin probably came closest to it. We had one of the youngest, creative populations in Europe then. Had diversity, but still felt Irish. There was an enthusiasm and craic about the place that is not present to the same extent today.
I run an airbnb in town and a lot of my guests are disappointed with Dublin. I think its because with all those improvements you mentioned its lost a lot of it's charm and uniqueness, it really has just become a bit of a generic less personable european city now.
Difficult times economically we were on our knees. Trouble up North was in full flight.
You are very much entitled to your opinion, however you do come across as being somewhat smug.
Fluzin in daJacuzzi
Ah would you just look at all those IRISH PEOPLE🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪☘️☘️☘️☘️
And not a Ukrainian flag or rainbow flag in sight.....Good times!
lovely pale white faces.
better times.
Those were good times before the foreigners took over the place Grrrrrrrrrr
Appalling comment to make. No one would travel to Ireland in the 80s as the country was on its knees economically and politically.
@@tomthumb3500 it still is and they are here in droves
@@edbredin6406 Ireland was a 3rd world country in the 80s, no one would go there. It improved a lot.
@@redfishswimming The History books say that Ireland was a 3rd world country in the 1980s. Full stop. No one emigrated to Ireland, all the Irish who could emigrate did it.
@@edbredin6406 so you admit we were on our knees in the 80s, but you're calling them 'good times'?
NOT ONE SINGLE OIL RIGGER
A lot less congested and Not a African or Asian scrounger in sight far better times
Thats when Ireland was full of Irish.