Do you know where you were on 7th December 2000?

Murrisk

hairyslug wrote: »

Good chance i was in Quinn's, the big tree, the palace or McGowans. Then probably ended up in the Temple or back gate afterwards and would have stopped off at the Midnight express afterwards for a burger and chips.

Are you my sister? You literally namechecked almost all of her first-year-in-college haunts! :eek:

andekwarhola

I used to go to a particular bar in Belfast with a good friend a lot of Thursdays in that half of 2000 so there's a very good chance I was there that night and about a 50% probability it was a Drum & Bass night.

I'm doing exceptionally well to remember this much given the, er, spirit of those times.

JeffKenna

I think that was the night I wore my blue jumper

Ubbquittious

Pretty sure I was playing this game

Cause that's all I did back then

ChunkyLover54

I was in Leaving Cert. The only things I remember from that era were Foot & Mouth disease and the ASTI strike.

As the date in question was a weeknight in December I was probably either watching the soccer match on TV or I was playing something on our PS1.

Hope this helps!

Toots

I was only 15 so would have been at home in bed.

seamus

I was 18 and in first year in college so there's a good chance I was somewhere, drinking.

So no, I haven't a clue where i was.

josip

After soccer training I probably would have gone to the Hill for either 3 or 6 pints with the lads and back home to Chester Road from there.
We usually saved the Barge for Friday nights.

pawrick

pawrick wrote: »

Cant recall which one it was but i passed over the dodder at ballsbridge and on to baggot street bridge before following the canal up towards rathmines. nearly certain I came back though for a nighlink as I never used one before and my friend had to show me where to get it from, it's stuck in my memory that i got it home that night and thought never again.

Both bridges in Ballsbridge are pretty high.

Are you sure?

I mean a human giant could walk under thw pavement of these bridges with ease, they're so far above the shallow riverbed. And you were knee deep in water?

That would mean that either Pembroke Road or the DART Line and surrounding houses were under a foot of water, or more

sorry if this sounds confrontational, there's probably something lost in translation. It just sounds like nothing ive ever seen or heard of in this area

TheQuietBeatle

odyssey06 wrote: »

Thanks... if you can remember getting a nitelink then that must have been how I got home cos I'm sure I didn't walk it and there were no taxis.

It's a little weird you're role-playing as a missing person.

Murrisk

ChunkyLover54 wrote: »

I was in Leaving Cert. The only things I remember from that era were Foot & Mouth disease and the ASTI strike.

OMG, yes!

I was in college; but I was living with my grandparents that year and if I was out after 5pm they'd call the police. So I know I definitely have nothing to add.

Brilliant idea OP. Good on you.

Dr. Kenneth Noisewater

I was 15 at the time and was most probably stuck on an Internet chatroom on a Thursday night.

Edit; 17 years on, my Thursday nights seem alarmingly similar....

me_right_one

Bredabe wrote: »

At home in D9, trying to calm down cause the boss's son had spent all day passing comments about how "all my culchie relatives", would be in their portable chicken sheds headed into town the next day. Even when it was pointed out that as I was from Cabra and he from Celbridge he still didn't stop. Guess he didn't know where Cabra or Celbridge were.

The ignorant baxtard. Hope you have better workmates now. How did that job end up?

prinzeugen

In the pub getting pissed all day having inherited big bucks a few days earlier.

Posy

I had just started college that year and was living at home in Dublin. My uncle brought home a new Christmas tree that evening.

I definitely wasn't out drinking as I was only 17 when I was in first year of college and only looked about 14, so not a hope I'd have been served!! Once I could legally drink, Thursdays, being a big student night out, were usually spent in the pubs around Dublin 2, but not for me back in 2000.

ArnoldJRimmer

A friend of mine was doing a promotion handing out balloons on Shop St in Galway for ESAT. The weather was brutal, so myself and some of my mates took 100 or so balloons from her so she could get rid of them and finish up early. We took them back to the apartment where we had a ceiling of balloons for a couple of weeks. I remember all this because it was my 21st birthday the following night.

Conor Bourke

I was probably working. I was 16 and my parents wouldn't let me work on 'school' nights (I was a waitress in a hotel) but I would've had the next day off and there would've been Christmas parties on so I was probably on. Either that or I was at home not doing a whole lot.

EDIT: I've a feeling I was working that night actually as there was a fire in the satellite kitchen beside the bar I worked in that night and the asshole manager on duty gave out to me for hitting the alarm when I discovered it coz everyone got evacuated out into the pissing rain and it was an exceptionally bad night

freshpopcorn

I was eight and I was looking forward to having the next day off school. I was also looking forward to visiting Santa and the lights going on and of course Santa coming!
I have a great memory of the 7th of December 2001. I was travelling from Cork to see my aunt in Laois with my mother and brother. I was off school that day and we were heading up that afternoon. It was a Friday afternoon and traffic was busy mainly due to it being a Friday afternoon and it being pre-motorway days.
As we drove up we heard on the radio the Bank of Ireland in Urlingford had being robbed and the bank was sealed off when we passed it.
The traffic stopped a good bit outside Abbeyleix's. We were talking to my aunt on the phone back in the day when you could whilst driving. She was also stuck in the traffic at this stage we were at the 40MPH limit and she was at the 30MPH limit entering Abbeyleix's. We eventually heard the AIB had being robbed and the Gardai apprehended the robbers and they ran up a lane way beside the bank and a Garda was shot dead. We eventually passed the bank and I saw the getaway car(Nissan Almera(I think)) was still there.
When we arrived in Portlaoise we went shopping and got a lot of sweats/biscuits for my aunt in Tesco.
We went to her house and we heard on the news about the incident. I turned out eventually it was another Garda that shot the Garda. We watched and taped the Toy Show that night. I remember Atomic Kitten was on.

Murrisk

RayM wrote: »

I was 18, probably at home watching TV. I can't remember what I was watching, but I've attached a pdf of everything that was on that night.

Ooh, Frasier!

oneilla

greencap wrote: »

Not a feckin chance.

Couldn't tell you last week.

I'm similar. Not a chance I could tell you where I was on December 7th 2016 nevermind 2000.

Ask me specifics of recently and I might recall two weeks ago going by weekly routines and the like.

Victor

I was in Urban Outfitters in Temple Bar, working for the building contractor until about 1am. I then told the architect that I was going to see if I could get a 'cab' home. He mentioned the taxi strike. I explained the difference between a hackney and a taxi. There used to be a hackney place on George's Street, I think it's now the launderette.

I think the shop opened the Friday, around 11am.

Six days later, i joined boards.ie.

oneilla

Victor wrote: »

I was in Urban Outfitters in Temple Bar, working for the building contractor until about 1am. I then told the architect that I was going to see if I could get a 'cab' home. He mentioned the taxi strike. I explained the difference between a hackney and a taxi. There used to be a hackney place on George's Street, I think it's now the launderette.

I think the shop opened the Friday, around 11am.

Six days later, i joined boards.ie.

How did the hackney situation fare out?

Victor

oneilla wrote: »

How did the hackney situation fare out?

I believe there was a delay of 10-20 minutes, but I did get one. I don't have the receipt as I submitted it with my expenses.

hairyslug

Murrisk wrote: »

Are you my sister? You literally namechecked almost all of her first-year-in-college haunts! :eek:

*Looks down at penis*

No I'm not your sister

A lot of people seem to fix their memory by reference to the taxi strike, as if it defined one night.

It went on for almost 3 weeks. There is an obvious risk, at this remove, for elements of false memory, people recall the strike, the disappearance, knew they were out around that time...and then settle on being out that very night. Not that this voids all effort, but people have to be careful.

Jrop

I was probably out with my then boyfriend (now husband).

branie2

In my flat in Cork, when I was in UCC.

saggycaggy

I was 17 and up in Dublin for the Culchie Christmas Shopping with my mum and sister. I think it was the only year we came up on the "official" shopping day.

GritBiscuit

I could tell you which country/city I was living in...but that's about it. No idea as to the specifics on any given night tho.

seamus

I'm pretty impressed that a third of people can say that "yes" they do remember what they were doing on a specific day in december almost 17 years ago.

There are probably about 20 specific dates in my entire lifetime where I can say that I remember where I was and what I was doing that day. There are 12,764 other days that all just mesh into an homogenous blob.

Do you all remember that day because of the TD case, or would you generally say you can remember what you were doing on a given date?

razorblunt

I was 15 in my Junior Cert year with Xmas exams on the way in school, so it's very safe to say I was playing Goldeneye on my Nintendo 64.

keano_afc

It was the day before my first Christmas party in my new job (and I still work here, 17 years on). I took the day off and went in to Debenhams and bought a new suit.

Bredabe

me_right_one wrote: »

The ignorant baxtard. Hope you have better workmates now. How did that job end up?

This is why I remember it so clearly, I was going to hand in my notice anyway, and I was trying to figure out ir I would do it the next day or wait till the last min and hand it in on the following week.

So as not to give the %^&*(er that satisfaction of saying he chased me out.He was the boss's son and expected everyone to be as impressed with him as he was with himself.

SusanC10

I was with my flatmate at the time (still my oldest, closest friend) in our Apartment in Dublin watching a movie and having a Chinese Takeaway. We had been out the night before with a larger group of friends and had decided on a quiet night in that night.

The reason I remember it so well was that my boyfriend at the time was out for his office Christmas Party that night. He was on Leeson Street too among other locations and also walked home alone v late that night. He worked on Haddington Road at that time.

We talked about that night a lot in the weeks that followed.

odyssey06

seamus wrote: »

I'm pretty impressed that a third of people can say that "yes" they do remember what they were doing on a specific day in december almost 17 years ago.
There are probably about 20 specific dates in my entire lifetime where I can say that I remember where I was and what I was doing that day. There are 12,764 other days that all just mesh into an homogenous blob.
Do you all remember that day because of the TD case, or would you generally say you can remember what you were doing on a given date?

I think there's a few common reasons for people remembering:

• It was the night of the TD case
• A lot of christmas parties were so it wasn't just a typical night
• Sporting events or concerts have registered with some people
• Significant \ tragic family events have registered with some people
• Work events have registered
• It was the night before December 8th so a few shopping trips to Dublin were lined up

whoopsadoodles

Most likely home in my teeny little flat with my one year old baby boy and his aul fella. Only a feckin child myself but never would have been out much, certainly not Thursdays, cos I got myself knocked up so young that college was put off for a few years in lieu of a full time job. He'd be 18 this year. Jaysus - and me only 22 on my next birthday :P

seamus

odyssey06 wrote: »

I think there's a few common reasons for people remembering:

• It was the night of the TD case
• A lot of christmas parties were so it wasn't just a typical night
• Sporting events or concerts have registered with some people
• Significant \ tragic family events have registered with some people
• Work events have registered
• It was the night before December 8th so a few shopping trips to Dublin were lined up

Tbh, excluding the sporting events and significant family events, the rest still blow me away. I've been to ~15 Xmas parties (and hundreds of work events) since then, I couldn't tell you the date any of them occurred and can probably only tell you where 5 or 6 of them took place. Not because I was drunk but because my brain just doesn't retain that information.
Same with shopping trips, though perhaps if someone had a tradition of shopping on that date in particular it might make sense.
Even in terms of the TD case, I don't remember giving it any specific thought, certainly not enough that I can recount 17 years later where I was.

It's the 33% figure that amazes me tbh. I can understand some people remembering, but a whole third is incredible.

Graces7

Forgive if this is ... but why that date in particular? What happened of world value?

I was still on the island then.

odyssey06

Graces7 wrote: »

Forgive if this is ... but why that date in particular? What happened of world value? I was still on the island then.

See the first post on this thread:
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2057729470

AudreyHepburn

No idea but if I had to guess I would think I was at home trawling through my mountain of Homework and studying for my Xmas exams - I would have been in 2nd Year of Secondary School then.

Senna

I was at college in Portrush, I think a Thursday's nights were spent in the Anchor pub in Portstewart. So I would be 99% sure I was there.

Graces7

odyssey06 wrote: »

See the first post on this thread:
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2057729470

Thanks and my sincere apologies. I was not yet in Ireland and had not opened the thread on him as had not heard the name...

odyssey06

Graces7 wrote: »

Thanks and my sincere apologies. I was not yet in Ireland and had not opened the thread on him as had not heard the name...

No harm, no foul. The thread is only peripherally related to that tragic incident.
You don't have to have been in Dublin (or Ireland) that night.

I was more curious to see how many people would be able to account for their wherebouts on a distant date in the past. And in fact, some of the comments on the thread have helped me to establish some of my movements on that night.

Graces7

odyssey06 wrote: »

No harm, no foul. The thread is only peripherally related to that tragic incident.
You don't have to have been in Dublin (or Ireland) that night.

I was more curious to see how many people would be able to account for their wherebouts on a distant date in the past. And in fact, some of the comments on the thread have helped me to establish some of my movements on that night.

OK! I was living on a small island trying to sort out a major move. That is the month,,

NOW if you ask me what I was doing the day President Kennedy was assassinated.... I had just got home to my mother's, for the weekend from University, and was on the floor in front of the RV when the news came on. Her immediate reaction was, "There will be a war.."

Violets always hold that memory now

Thankfully there was no war; having been born in one World War and lived through another...

November 22nd 1963

Ubbquittious

Graces7 wrote: »

OK! I was living on a small island trying to sort out a major move. That is the month,,

NOW if you ask me what I was doing the day President Kennedy was assassinated.... I had just got home to my mother's, for the weekend from University, and was on the floor in front of the RV when the news came on. Her immediate reaction was, "There will be a war.."

Violets always hold that memory now

Thankfully there was no war; having been born in one World War and lived through another...

November 22nd 1963

Which island was it? How'd ya find living there?

Graces7

Ubbquittious wrote: »

Which island was it? How'd ya find living there?

Off the top end of Scotland . next stop north pole,, Am hooked on islands and been trying to find one here to retreat to. I was all but self sufficient and miss that too... Maybe soon........ weather was.. interesting!

Rubberlegs

More than likely in Our Ladys Hospital with my then 6 month old.

Murrisk

Deleted User wrote: »

A lot of people seem to fix their memory by reference to the taxi strike, as if it defined one night.

It went on for almost 3 weeks. There is an obvious risk, at this remove, for elements of false memory, people recall the strike, the disappearance, knew they were out around that time...and then settle on being out that very night. Not that this voids all effort, but people have to be careful.

I don't see the problem with this in regards to people's memories. If something defines that era for them then it doesn't really matter if it was that exact night or not. From a social history perspective, it's still interesting. It matters for the Trevor Deely case but outside of that, people's recollections don't really need to be too accurate.

My own first post on this thread has details that I think are true but I'm not sure if they are. Nevertheless, it was an interesting exercise for me to look back on that point in my life and what was going on for me generally at that time. I'd love to go back and shake myself and tell myself that I am well able for the engineering degree that I ultimately demurred from applying for in favour of something that was a less perfect fit for me.

farmchoice

seamus wrote: »

Tbh, excluding the sporting events and significant family events, the rest still blow me away. I've been to ~15 Xmas parties (and hundreds of work events) since then, I couldn't tell you the date any of them occurred and can probably only tell you where 5 or 6 of them took place. Not because I was drunk but because my brain just doesn't retain that information.
Same with shopping trips, though perhaps if someone had a tradition of shopping on that date in particular it might make sense.
Even in terms of the TD case, I don't remember giving it any specific thought, certainly not enough that I can recount 17 years later where I was.

It's the 33% figure that amazes me tbh. I can understand some people remembering, but a whole third is incredible.

for those of us of a certain age who lived in dublin at the time the trevor deely case has a gret resonance.

i was 24 years old, working, had a few pound in my pocket and was constantly out drinking in dublin with my mates.
trevor deely was one of us, he was just like us, a young fella out on the town and he vanished.
by the new year every lamppost in dublin city center had a picture of him on it and i know that my mates and i all went to the trouble of really recalling exactly what we did that night, where we were, could we have seen anything.
usually we didn't give a **** about anything but ourselves and our little world, but this shook us.

we would often discuss it in the years afterwards and those who were in dublin that night can all recall what they were doing,as it happens i was down the country that night.