The street art was brilliant and the girls on the guitars sounded great. Where are they now? Has Ireland lost it's soul since then?

I grew up in Dublin in the 80's. I remember the Concerned Parents. From what I recollect there were 8 kids found dead in a flat in inner city Dublin one morning, from a cocaine overdose. It was later discovered that the cocaine was laced with arsenic as one drug gang tried to take over another's territory (they obviously didn't care about the consequences of their actions). Anyway, in the aftermath of that, a group of parents, having gotten no joy from the police, got together and formed a group which took back the neighborhoods. Basically, they blocked off all entrances to the flats with barrels, so it was impossible to drive through freely. Anyone who arrived at the "checkpoint" was questioned by the parents. If they couldn't provide an address to which they were going, and a valid reason for their visit, they were told in a very direct manner to F*** Off. Then the parents went the homes of the dealers living in their area and smashed their windows. They also put signs outside their houses telling them they had 2 days to get out.........or else. It worked and it worked so well that it was taken on in several areas of Dublin where drugs were an issue. What are the chances that people, not just in Dublin, but in any city where there is a drug problem, would be allowed to do this today?

The 1980s were a bad time. Fashion was absolutely rubbish. Anyone who hadn’t emigrated was subjected to church types or crap discos.

Women in yellow sounds as if shes on something herself

Eh I'd blame not the dunnes but the higher ups like the Mansfield no one marched on them

Dublin tday is way worse towards bck then dublins inner city is a sorry sight to see homelessness and illegal refugess gets treated and houses built personally how they want it and how many rooms they want , while the irish are living on the streets 2024 rufuges are in 5 star hotels put up by government while irish single mothers with 3 small kids and struggling make ends meet are dying in tents on the streets of my home 😢 to many are dead due to homelessness cold severe winters u have no other choice to drink vodka or whiskey to heat wrm u up or else die in your tent in winters it gets tuff -3 tonight rise up ireland refuges are in 5 star hotels fed washed and dole 233 euro a week along with it while irish with small kids are dying of pneumonia and hypothermia in there tents selling herself to put food in her tent she wants the best for her 3 kids will somebody plz raise this in the government buildings are own are dying like no tomorrow and turned blind eye to each one they are hang your heads in shame put the irish with small children in the 5 star hotels other way around vice versa instead of pyomg for growing men not even from this country living it up in 5 star warm hotel 😢

Bck in late 1980s dublins inner city was plagued by a heroin epidemic and tday 2024 homeless is rife of the charts

During the 1980s when the dunnes flash Larry and that where in there prime dublin inner city was destroyed by a hero*n epidemic many family's where destroyed and many most beautiful young people passed due to it and over dosed at young age crazy times dublin is worse tday tho 😢

Dublin❤

I busked on grafton street with friends for a while at weekends pints afterwards in Bruxelles ❤ or grogans ❤

Now they have imported Africa to our home

Shocking to see the foreign numbers today compared to then

I would love to go back to Bewleys Cafe, Grafton Street , and see the characters who have now disappeared into the ether 💀

Believe it or not but the man playing the banjo is the same man that use to play at the very end of dún laoighrie pier for many years. He played it beautifully and everyone enjoyed him, he gave alot of people nice memories for no charge. I heard him ring out amazing grace using tremelo pick probably with the same instrument one summers day about 22 yrs ago now on the pier, it was a moment i will never forget, thanks for the memories pal.

Where's all the foreign people

Dear Fr.Smith.A Great Friend.God rest his sweet soul, and the souls of All our loved ones who have lost there lives to drugs. And yet right up to today there is no detox beds manned by doctors and nurses to Help addicts to come off the Terrible round they are on.Shame Shame Shame on the Irish Government for not helping to gt addicts clean in this Country that can help (No Bother ) to find homes and look after them ! How About the Government Helping after All these yrs of Misray ad heartache that poor FAmilies have had to endure Right Up To The Present Day ! I say to them Do Something to Help addicts and there Families to Find There Way Back Out Of The Mire !

I doubt it😂

Well I bet that Mad Aul Wan with the Cross with the Rosary and Tricolour wrapped around it never got Arrested for Disturbing the Peace .

A very young Little John Nee

Yeah,,, before all the unvetted males in there thousands that have flooded the country to replace the irish Taxpayer's,,, eventually Ireland will be taken over by every other nationality,,the Irish will be few and far between 🥴🥴🤗🤗

Looks pretty boring. Needs something. A few million Somalians would probably spruce the place up nicely.

14/88🇮🇪🤍

nice vid old times , fuking great the 80s dublin , ya couldnt beat it witt a sticckk

99% Irish

Beautiful not a migrant in sight

This is what the left hates...you.

Beautiful video

And not an African or Arab in sight

no google map no internet, people looks much happier and lives in the present.

It was a great place to go in the summer now its like a 👾 different city pure shame.

Makes me sad to see this version of Ireland i remember as a child. Dublin is full of different nationalities now, and we have lost our identity. 😢

Where are the tents and the vibrant diversity that lives inside them? Ireland has gone

If they only new what was coming f worse now the crack is here fentinal 😢is her people are worse people with young kids and all are taken it 😢 f sad ❤🙏🙏🙏

When Ireland was Ireland 🇮🇪 😢.

I remember commuting from drogheda to dublin city in 95 to work and being told daily i lived sticks lol they couldnt believe i travelled the now 30mins drive to work daily 😂

The Vagrancy Act 1847.. A direct result of Genocide by the ruling classes. Not alone starve the Irish people but then criminalise them while begging because of starvation caused by the ruling classes. Then roll on 140 years and the Muppets in the Dail try to enforce it against buskers. Paddy whackery .

This footage is incredible and I want to use it in my next documentary - please could we chat? If you look up my name you'll find my website and contact details

Not a trigger insight

I can't even imagine Dublin without buskers, what a ridiculous idea to criminalise musicians and artists ffs.

My Daddy was part of this movement. I remember the black Mariah parked across the road 😮

I can't be the only one mentally switching "busking" with "wanking" I'm 5 minutes and an interesting documentary is transformed into magnificent experience

Lost forever. Thrown away by globalist shills

The injustice of the stunned me, this is how history will see Israel written and remembered

God I miss Dublin as it used to be. I remember popping in to The Alchemists Head every Saturday to check out the comics. Remember the smell of Hops? Better days.

Still Alcohol is the No:1 killer

I was in Dublin in 1986 and knew two brothers who were artists painting near the bridge...John and Dará...is this one of you guys in the video?

40 years later and it's still going strong, the drugs. Ballymun is Ballymun always will be. Buildings and the layout has changed. When it was built no infrastructure, nothing. It was like a small island onto itself. All the ills of the Inner city were shipped out to the outer limits heaping misery on top of misery. When regeneration happened they didn't learn from past F.. k ups. Now these same issues they had in the 80s are resurfacing. C19 was a disaster for people who need service's in their communities. Government and Councils working together have scaled down to skeleton services. Social welfare services have been hit the worst, not in payment's but in physical building's place's where we once went to sort our issue's out their no longer there, pulled out without a mention. Most are lost to what to do next WTF do they turn to. Technology doesn't work for everyone a good many need the physical interaction that humans need, people to meet place's to go remember that saying. Now it's, talk to the hand🖐️. Dublin in the bad old time's, new time's and it's worse. 😢☘️

I remember the smell of leather belts for sale in the Dandelion Market. The Diceman was a Saturday regular on Grafton Street ( usually up nearer the Green ). We were always kinda afraid of him. He was Other. Sad he died of AIDS. As in every high street in every country, Grafton street mainly has international chain stores. You see the same layouts and window displays in different countries. Who remembers traffic on Grafton Street ....

It's just accepted these days unfortunately

I remember all these mad day's, The Provos were backing the parents but could do with that kind again least they were alot more effective then the Garda mad old day's though 👍☘☘☘