Tallaght Snow Scene 1985 (C)Liam Fay

More footage from Liam Fay.

Tallaght in the snow. Circa 1985.

Category:

Autos & Vehicles

Tags:

• roads
• snow
• buses
• traffic
• tallaght
• cie
• Dublin
• 1985
• TEC
• KD
• KC

[jankirstein]

Hi Liam, this is a real gem. Where is this filmed? Which Street? Looks very familiar but I can't quite identify the Street?

I remember that winter. I was a student at TCD and shared a house with some Dutch Students in Old Bawn Way. A friend of mine came down from the North to spend Christmas with us and got stuck at Connolly Station. No buses that day.

The winter of 1981 was much worse. A lot of traffic got stranded and retarded criminals stole the wheels off the stranded cars.

[tecmovie]

jobstown / the blessington road

[Irishsouthdub]

mad, reminds me of the bad old days of the recession

now we are facing the recession again

[richiecanavan]

thanks, makes me feel old watching this

[moveit1231]

its mad all the kids that are in that video are all adults now time flies

[evantis121]

Great footage. My family moved out to blessington in 1989 but i still went to school in churchtown so remember the 65 well. Funny you'd picked the spot were the duel carriage way went back to the original N81 country road. Each year one of those big trees would fall down. Only one or two left now. The roads were so filthy from sand trucks that ppl couldn't see out of the lower deck windows and often missed their stops. They were bleak times, today's youth don't know the half of it.

[James4683]

@Noeladishi noo the 59 is



[PojebanyMany]

Since when irish knew how to drive in 1985 ? Was preety sure there was no cars those days in Ireland :D

[birdman404]

classic loved it thank u so much!!!

[supereliptic]

Ah jeeesus. I remember those "Dan-Air" ad's. Its on the side of a buss at 1:52. =)

[Noeladishi]

hey Liam what inspired you to take this footage? Its very good

[Noeladishi]

haha the 76. the most unreliable bus in Dublin!!

[mulbrogue]

Actually I think the green bombardier buses were a lot better ( aesthetically ) than the blue and yella things we got today. Not a gritter in sight and buses bombing along in the snow. Of course that's when we even had a driver in Formula 1, Daly I think his name was. He was known as "The Flying Irishman" for a spectacular flip at Monaco.

And don't forget the "cheap" Danair flight to Gatwick...only 99squids return!!! Didn't know how good we had it.