CORK IN THE LATE 90s

[@kieranwhoriskey7270]

Man I went to CIT in the early 2000's. It had a great atmosphere back then. Came back for a visit recently and its full of Turkish barber shops and junkies.

[@chrisChris6969]

Fucking sickening how these junkies have just been left takeover our city centre

[@xeropulse5745]

@@kieranwhoriskey7270 Turkish barbers are the best. Junkies... not so much. 🤣

[@kieranwhoriskey7270]

@@xeropulse5745 Ewww you hang out in Turkish barbers?

[@xeropulse5745]

@@kieranwhoriskey7270 No, I haven't cut my hair in 4 years. But everyone I know who does get their hair cut goes to the turks because being a barber is nearly an ancient tradition to them. Irish barbers are fuckin SHITE. if you want a good haircut, go to the turks or the Amish

[@xeropulse5745]

@@kieranwhoriskey7270 Not me personally, I haven't had my hair cut in 4 years. But anyone I know who does get their hair cut goes to the turks cause Irish barbers are fuckin' SHITE. If ya want a daecent haircut you go to a turk or an Amish lad.

[@marky30]

Great memories, the city all changed now for the worse I think. Times were much simpler then.

[@barryahern6645]

people are accepting the distruction of our city and country with that evil government who rigged the election voting dont work the michael collins and the dan breen way is the only way

[@unasperanza9803]

When we was fab. God I miss the old Paul street , Gingerbread House , The Moderne and ROches Stores, Porters and Body Shop etc..how vibrant and alive and safe it was and the old cork .THis was the beginning of the End and we never knew it!!Don't go near the city anymore it breaks my heart.

[@russell-di8js]

When big issue sellers were Irish?

[@Jaymes400]

safe? lol yeah like people weren't mugged or beaten up in town in the late 90's??? thats ridicuous, i was mugged twice, and twice had me and my friends ganged up on by scumbags from the northside, sorry but you're talking shite love, that you're feeling is nostalgia, not reality.

[@unasperanza9803]

@@Jaymes400 The muggings now involve knives and machetes and other cultures its a lot more violent and frequent and you are less likely to survive. In the 90's we never had 16 people having a turf war up and down the main street armed, men and women , with police being injured , these folk mean business as well one Sunday night a few weeks ago.

The Gingerbread House was a place that I have many memories from.

[@barryahern6645]

time to take take back our city and country the hard way as it has always been in our history

[@julian5496]

really cool to see how much the city centre has changed! Like i know that Cork has been around a lot longer than I have but it's really cool to actually see how things are different. With the works going on in the city now, they'll be people in 20 years who'll never know the difference I did

[@Ogma3bandcamp]

I tiled the toilets in the Gingerbread House. Green and yellow! It used to take me an hour to get from one end of Patrick St to the other, stopping to talk to folk. Nowadays, I don't know a soul there. Fairly sure that mime artist/clown was called Colm and we all used to hang out in The Harlequin Cafe. Good times, the best of times. So many talented people, poets, musicians, actors, entertainers, woodcarvers, plasterers, sculptors.

[@NathairRi]

Who did you work for back then ?

[@Ogma3bandcamp]

@@NathairRi Private job.

[@colmlarkin8665]

Where was Harlequin cafe?? From cork myself but never heard of it!!

[@KMKM.S94]

Thanks for the upload , great times

[@sorchab-c6461]

Great blast of nostalgia, thanks!

[@brendanbutler7571]

Great stuff. Real good times

[@shanegriffin8682]

The city has been on the slide from about 2014 onwards. The drugs problem in Cork has just gotten way out of hand. The junkies have completely taken over the city centre now. No Garda presence on the streets either. This video makes me both happy and sad at the same time. It takes me back to the days when we had a beautiful city. It still had it's issues the joyriding problem was very bad back then, but the 90's and early to mid 00's version of Cork was way nicer than the city in it's current incarnation imo.

[@r.b.3666]

You could buy concert tickets hassle free at the counter of every music store, hmv golden discs, virgin etc.

[@barryahern6645]

it should still be like that today

[@johnm4608]

Fantastic, thanks for uploading

[@killianobrien7740]

If you made the same film today all you would see is a load of people standing around staring at phones 🙄 Great film, thanks for sharing.

[@aoibhdeane4415]

Herman Bailey busking 6.55 min, oh the memories 🎶

[@Neo-mw1pp]

Who was the whistle player!?

[@aaronburke2604]

It looks cleaner.

[@russell-di8js]

Loads less encroachment by shops stealing the footpaths for chairs in a desperate attempt to be cosmopolitan!! Does me head in having to squeeze & wait for ignorant ppl who never say thanks & the street only half full but no space!!

[@xeropulse5745]

back then the county council actually used businesses street maintenance tax to... well, keep the streets clean🤣

[@hotdoggitydig]

amazing footage

[@TheActualCathal]

I think I remember that mime.

[@jessicagray21]

I'd like to make a 2024 snapshot to the 90s comparison version! Would it possible for me to get in contact with you for the original footage? I'm an American that has been living in Cork for two years and manage the International Society at UCC.

[@kieranwhoriskey7270]

That comparison would be way too depressing, please don't make it.

[@jessicagray21]

@@kieranwhoriskey7270 That is certainly YOUR perspective. Thank you for your unsolicited negativity. I hope you find a way to see positivity through the sadness.

[@kieranwhoriskey7270]

@@jessicagray21 Well it's not just my perspective, it seems to be a lot of peoples perspective. As for the unsolicited part, well you are commenting in a comment section on social media. I went to college in cork in the early 2000's so I have a perspective that you wouldn't have if you just arrived recently.

[@VanBurgen]

It's a great idea and would be cool to see. Also get to see how much the city has gone to shit. And I wish that wasn't true 😢

[@doge8606]

@@kieranwhoriskey7270 Just because your miserable doesn't mean you should drag other people down with you

[@declantwomey7525]

Brilliant thanks for shearing 👍🏻

[@judedonnelly4100]

Sheep !??

[@Ogma3bandcamp]

A cutting remark!

[@darphy2009]

Much simpler times back then. No smart phones. No social media. People actually talked to each other. You had to actually approach a girl to get to know her rather than swipe right. Loved my city back then.

[@punishedfoxo]

lol imagine thinking this pointless, fluff statement had any importance or value. You're like the 400,000th person to say something like that on historic footage videos.

[@Eldaaa]

Fucking boring times 😅

[@Theophilus200]

The absence of smartphones actually did make a difference - people talked to each other a lot more. Also you couldn't change plans at last minute as you had to meet people first in order to discuss the change. Recently I spotted four late teens / twenty somethings on a bus, they were together as a group, but each stuck in their own smartphone world for the duration of the trip, hardly a word exchanged between them. Better or worse? I won't comment, but certainly 'different'. Just one generation of a difference, but a big difference.

[@gearoiddom]

@@EldaaaThe diametric opposite in fact. The wildest stuff would happen and in the morning everyone could move on. Current generation cannot even conceive this. 😂

[@marioboi323]

Your comment is generic. Just accept that times have changed and we can’t go back. I bet your grandparents thought life was a simpler time when they were a child and told you that. History just repeats itself. Eventually, your kids r gonna say that to their grandchildren. So you have to accept that while you can’t go back to the past, you can always look through it every once in a while

[@Sabih9.6]

The comments don't connect with my interactions at UCC or Cork. The people are warm and friendly.

[@johnflavin1602]

Thansk for uploading.

[@HMoyn215]

Imagine we were able to get around without the stupid wide skating rink footpaths and you could stop on Patrick st. I stay out of the place as much as possible now its dangerous and really nothing to take you into Town Whereas then town was a brighter place . Cornmarket st still had traders on it. Game, hmv, Easons didn't sell tat, Merchants quay was flying. I reckon this was sometime in 96 because the Queens old castle was probably still open but really on it last legs before Virgin and argos came along

[@user-oo8wt3hr1t]

It's gone to shite now

[@julian5496]

Also a lot of the comments seem to hold such a distain for the Cork of today. Why? It's such a vibrant city, I always run into someone, there are some great buskers, loads of space to walk and hang out. Nostalgia for people's youth seem to cloud their eyes

[@donncha1]

Agreed. It's easy to be down on the city today because of the derelict sites and empty shops but Oliver Plunkett Street, and McCurtain Street are so much better now. The junction in front of the Capitol looked bloody dangerous. The pavement now is much better too, although I'm a bad way on lots of places due to tarmac replacing tiles in some places. People don't spend as much as they used to in local shops now. The city is changing.

[@Harveybeau]

Nah. We lived through a better cork city. This period was the end of the magic that cork city used to have.

[@doge8606]

It feels alot more hostile now, I wouldnt want to be around there by myself, even when im with a few other people sometimes we still get hassled, my mother and 2 sisters have been attacked in the city, while im sure that did happen back in the day it seemed to be alot less often from what iv heard

[@karl1677x]

Beautiful Irish city full of Irish people.

[@kevinfitzsimons41]

No little boy racers or anything!!!! Happy days

[@johnbalance3989]

Was a spate of deaths from joyriding in the late 90s in Cork including a number of pedestrians.

[@petermac989]

When it was safe to walk the streets of Cork

[@barryahern6645]

that shower in charge who masterminded this mess

[@ericdoran24]

When Cork was Cork and a beautiful city and before the government's unwanted guests turned up.😢😢 Brings a tear to my eye to see what it's like today.

[@Gwilym.Kernow]

What was the tipping point. ? When did it get really bad ? I haven't been there for 7 years.

[@xeropulse5745]

Unwanted guests? like heroin? Or do you mean the American corporations who introduced the greed that's forced our people onto the streets? The corporations are a mixed back, bringing foreign money and jobs usually, but some just lobby our government for the negative, including investment corps.

[@xeropulse5745]

@@ericdoran24 By unwanted guests you mean the American corporations who've corrupted our system with tax fraud and lobbying, right?

[@bohsgerry]

Pity no youth subcultures of the time shown-Daunt Square,Mc Carthys shoe shop

[@Theophilus200]

Sorry for the oversight! The main youth cultures of the time were grunge, emos, goths. There were a few neo-punks but they had mostly vanished by '96, their main hangout was the Liberty Pub. A lot of shiny shellsuits around, as always (plus ca change), the strains of Bob Marley could generally be heard in any fine weather in Bishop Lucey Park, along with a waft of weed. There was a small metal sub-culture as well.

[@seamusdoherty]

And they will gas light us about how terrible a place Ireland was.

[@barryahern6645]

how terrible it is now a forced foreign invasion of our city and country

[@fleetingglimpse5663]

A lot more cars in city centre then, so a change for the better BUT a lot less mass obesity then, so a change for the worse !

[@Ogma3bandcamp]

Orla 12:00

[@philip.aocallaghan4602]

What a fabulous place it was... a brilliant city to go out in...and not a foreigner to be seen... Look at it today...depressing and dangerous

[@xeropulse5745]

I live in Northside and work in city centre. Never had a bad experience with a foreigner. Every assault, robbery, etc. myself or my extensive friend group ever experienced is from the Irish. No need for the unfounded racism, lad.

[@irishsphynx]

@@xeropulse5745thank you for calling out this knobs racism

[@fleetingglimpse5663]

rascist sc*mbag !

[@Neo-mw1pp]

Well said Pal ☘

[@dallasmotorcade]

Colin the clown Mr Colin Lucey seeing him is a trip

[@Ogma3bandcamp]

Is he still with us?

[@dallasmotorcade]

@@Ogma3bandcamp the last time I saw him he was unicycling down barracks Street back in September 99 🍄

[@johnbalance3989]

I knew he looked familiar. Didnt really know him, more to see. Spoke to him once or twice.

[@WakaWaka2468]

No invaders

[@barryahern6645]

time to chase them all out all africans suddenly appearing all this crap foreigners not knowing their place in another persons country

[@KenLives333]

Between Scylla and Charybdis. Ireland stillborn. Now a dream of itself, forever. You missed your shot, no second chance. Welcome to Onerope.

[@johnbalance3989]

What are you blathering about?

[@RepublicIcon]

Before the invasion 😬

[@Dafydd.Bovril]

M o n k e y p o x

[@xeropulse5745]

@@RepublicIcon The Brits came 700 years ago. this footage is only 30 years old. dafuk you on about, lad?

[@Andrew-yr9yy]

Born and reared in Cork. The right-wing melodrama in the comments is hilarious! Oh the sheltered little lives of those who think Cork City is dangerous.

[@danielmoore9209]

3 kids get stabbed: no proof of danger Protest in Dublin City where a bunch of public property is damaged: WON’T SOMEBODY PLEASE THINK OF THE CHILDREN

[@xeropulse5745]

@@Andrew-yr9yy City is dangerous but it's not foreigners. it's the Irish. My brother has been assaulted (and stabbed) several times in the past year for no reason, people hurl threats (and food once,) at me on my way to college... And a couple weeks ago two of my friends were punched in the face by different men on Patrick street in the same night. Every time it's been Irish lads committing the crimes, but the city is getting dangerous.

[@Andrew-yr9yy]

The shouting abuse, assaults and egging have always been going on to an extent unfortunately. That's shocking about the stabbing though and definitely a new development on the streets. I hope you're brother is recovering well! ​@@xeropulse5745

[@maryobrien777]

@Andrew-yr9yy what exactly do you mean by right wing melodrama? Have you become one of the extremely uneducated mainstream propaganda leftists?? Cork in the worst economic times of the 70’s and 80’s was beautiful and vibrant and extremely safe before i government sold our country down the river to the EU now our beautiful city is no longer plagued by addiction, crime and all our lively Irish businesses closed down . Sadly so many people have bought into the leftists propaganda and care more for Palestine than our own people. I am certainly not against charity to others in fact I’m all for it but charity does begin at home . I still love my hometown I have the greatest memories of our lovely city and hope and pray it comes back to its former glory maybe just a pipe dream but I’ll still hold on ❤️🇮🇪🙏

[@beekay4906]

Looked a lot nicer before we were enriched by all the diversity

[@aspartamexylitol]

nothing has changed in 30yrs

[@kieranwhoriskey7270]

Are you for real?

[@murielmoloney1043]

No.druggies.or homeless.simple easier times

[@johnbalance3989]

You clearly weren't around then if you think Cork didn't have druggies and homeless people in the 90s.

[@kieranwhoriskey7270]

@@johnbalance3989 A better class of druggies and homeless I would say.

[@shanegriffin8682]

@@johnbalance3989 The heroin wasn't an issue back then though. It wasn't until 2008/2009 that heroin started to become a problem in Cork. There was issues back then as well, but the city had more life and a better vibe to it back in the 90's and early 00's imo.

[@fintonmainz7845]

You missed the big issue seller?

[@seamusdoherty]

A great lack of diversity.

[@damienlyncheconomics2238]

Great city then.... and a great city now. I'm not being angrlic .... same level of corruption and social problems as any city in the world..... But it is a good place to be

[@barryahern6645]

Not not a great place now

[@tadhgcronin175]

Cork used to be a nice place, not much to look at but the place had great character and humour. Now it's turning into a diverse multi cultural dump. I only go into the city when I absolutely need to.

[@sk-23.]

Good to know. Keep it that way, please.👋

[@irishsphynx]

Tadhg no one misses you and your racism

[@desoneill6021]

Same in Dublin, it’s an absolute shite hole now.

[@barryahern6645]

they can diverse and multi culture off some where else

[@legomationdotcom]

To be honest .. it looks scruffy and tired... roads, footpaths were even worse than they are today !

[@El_Nombre-e3x]

But the people look alive and that's what counts

[@Theophilus200]

It was a bit scruffier to be fair... we had just come out of the depressed 1980s, there were a good few derelict buildings and sites waiting to be redeveloped, like the North Gate Bridge, none of the docklands developments and smart new glass-and steel buildings had yet been built. But Cork has always had a kind of charm. I used always say Cork is a not a 'monumental' city like Rome or Paris, it doesn't have any of that awe-inspiring architecture or wide vistas. But it has a lot of charming details and is a human-sized city, a place for people to live, not just work or exist or for tourists. It's a city with a village heart, where an ambulance or police car with sirens stopping in the street can still attract a crowd of onlookers. So here's a little 'Cork detail' - if you go along the set of railings near the top of the South Mall (the Parnell Place end), in front of one of the buildings past the Imperial Hotel (I think it might be the second building past the Imperial) and touch the back of each railing, you will find that the backs of the railings are all rounded, except one which is flat-backed, because it was broken and replaced with a new railing in the 1920s. This was one of those little 'Cork details' I learned from my own father when I was a youngster, and he had learned it from his! Cork lore, boi.

[@SeanONeill-mw4jc]

The Sir Henry Days!

[@trevordoolan5011]

The Love Doves 🕊 .

[@barryahern6645]

@@El_Nombre-e3x HERE HERE we were FREE