Fatima Mansions Dublino, 1981. Dai un’occhiata e dimmi ora come sta ottenendo “peggio” Dublino.
di FORDEY1965
Fatima Mansions Dublino, 1981. Dai un’occhiata e dimmi ora come sta ottenendo “peggio” Dublino.
di FORDEY1965
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“Life is much harder for young people these days. Boomers had it easy!”
It was always a rough old hole
The eighties in Dublin were grim. People try to compare it to now. We have problems but nothing like back then.
You can’t be making posts saying that Ireland is anything other than a failed state on the brink of collapse.
Just because things improved doesn’t mean we have to be OK with them getting worse again, just because it isn’t as bad. Asinine post.
No-one had money anywhere in Ireland in 1981
Yes, Dublin is a lot better than it was 45 – 50 years ago but is it better than it was 10 years ago?
If the answer is no, then it is getting worse.
It isn’t linear, things can improve and then regress again.
Fucking foreigners 😬
The off city centre areas of Dublin improved dramatically due primarily to immigration. Suddenly people working for a living were in these areas and there was less of a throw stones at outsiders attitude.
The commercial centre has become more dangerous in the last 10 years.
A lot of the people claiming the 1980s were great are middle aged people who were just kids then. They are just nostaligic for their childhoods. They had no memory of the mass unemployment and mass emigration, moving statues, the Kerry babies…
Are you sure that’s not just a photo of Dublin today?
Who can tell?
Didn’t they move a lot of folks out of here to places like tallaght and clondalkin and Ballymun and finglas
So much for the famed working class spirit. Pensioners being terrorised.
I think its better to evaluate Dublins situation comparing to relative cities in current time frame rather than looking back 40 odd years. we can always say we are better off compared to 100 years ago if we stretch this argument.
Yes, also Ranelagh’s Mount Pleasant buildings:
https://youtu.be/jJhtNOkB07I?si=mgzX-WC78CZG91Ux
My favourite thing whenever you see anything like this posted on Insta, there’ll always be comments like “back when Dublin was Dublin”
It’s still Dublin like.
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The people you are aiming this question at will not be able to answer today as they are still too upset over the rugby. Relax Hugo ,it’s a joke.
It’s pronounced Fa-him-a.
Our current problems can be dealt with if there’s the will. The outlook in the 1980s was very bad because fundamentally it was difficult to see a way out of high unemployment and emigration. The country was broke. Today there’s full employment and we’re running budget surpluses. The improvement is so huge it can only not be obvious to someone who didn’t experience that period directly.
And I’m not trying to minimise the problems people face today. In fact what angers me is my conviction that the obstacle to addressing them is not economic conditions but will.
Duh, compared to the 80s it’s much better, but compared to 10 years ago it’s much worse
I don’t think this is comparable to today.
In the 80s, everyone apart from Charlie Haughey and his cronies had nothing. They were corrupt so in that regard the government hasn’t actually changed.
What has changed is back then, the finances of the country were bad so we didn’t necessarily have the services required but we also didn’t have a huge population.
Today the government is awash with money yet we don’t the services required by the growing population. We can’t house people even in shit holes like the flats back in the day.
So are we better than we were in the 80s, I’d say no, we just have better esthetics to the country so everything looks good but doesn’t work.
Mentalities like this is why nothing will ever get done in this country.
So rampant in Irish society too.
Edit – You can downvote me, but if we look back at what the country was like 40+ years and say look how worse everything was, while negating the issues that are pertinent in Ireland today, you aren’t gonna further progress.
What car is that?
I was born in the 70s and I can guarantee you Dublin is better than it ever has been. The infrastructure hasn’t kept up with the population growth is all, and that can be fixed with proper management.
We don’t have proper management
Also, in the video they describe the Mansions as being city centre. They were in D8, past Dolphins Barn.
https://youtu.be/ZTYkbyL4Yxk?si=05AlicR_97rK3OHo
Too often in online discourse, the nuance is missed. Here no less so. Ireland has tranformed positively since the 1980s by almost every measure, but nobody wants them (or any other time) to be the ultimate baseline by which we measure progress either. Our aspirations are naturally much higher now. And there’s other aspects of life that could be similar or better then in different parts of the country that aren’t going to be covered in such a video because this video is presenting particular challenges in a particular area.