Spotlight On Rahoon

Short documentary about the Rahoon flats (Galway, Ireland). Before and during their demolition. (Made in 1998)

Category:

Travel & Events

Tags:

• westside
• galway
• flats
• rahoon
• 1998

[redhotsun51]

Used to live in No.2 Claremont Park opposite the McGinleys. Worked in Dunnes Westside as a trolley-man for two years, remember the SIPTU Strike, summer of '96. Drinking Cider and Buckfast, listening to lynnard skinnard and smoking hash! What a time... what fun we had.

[Stevedun07]

brings me back! I was one of the young fellas messing with the timber. we had a great fire that night (7:27)

[KidsOnCrack33]

the ballymun of galway

[Davedagoat]

@7:30 "if they wanted to come up there they would be afraid to come up.....what are ya like....you must be different!

[WESTSIDE19711996]

up da westside

[TheIrishDoll]

Thats me on the slide at 2:30, my god i remember that play park so well... :)

[TheIrishDoll]

I used to live there...number 249 lol, memories :P

[shaynalally]

ha, the lollipop women too

[noelio67]

I lived in the flats as a kid in the early eighties....the ones without the shop......number 214...and it was great....we used to go out and play all day up in the fields or in the playground

[Hessdarren]

the milk woman ha

[davidoffon]

I still haven't had confirmation That the Patsy Dodd in this video is one and the same as the Paddy Dodd that worked in GTP in Sandy row in 1979-80, does anyone know?