Dublin Bombings 50 years ago today.

[Bo]

That was our generation’s JFK moment. How do you remember the day ?

[DP Kilfo]

That was our generation’s JFK moment. How do you remember the day ?

I worked in Sackville Place at the time the factory didn't open on Saturdays my mother was nervous about me going into work on the Monday , going to take a minute at teatime today , how suddenly life changed on that day.RIP

[Vico2]

I can only remember the absolute shock at hearing what had happened

[DP Kilfo]

I can only remember the absolute shock at hearing what had happened

Shocked all on the news that night ,

[dinny]

I remember being in town that morning for a few hours...and walking down to Parnell St a couple of hours before the bombs went off.......years later when we moved into our first house...my next door neighbour who I got to know very well was telling me his brother , his brother's wife , their beautiful 17 months old daughter and 5 months old baby girl were all killed in the bombing .......Absolutely horrific !!!!!!!!!!!

[Bo]

Walked up to Parnell Street from O Connell Street to get the Finglas bus home. Then realised there was a bus strike so I headed towards Capel Street where I knew the Company I worked for had a bus that dropped the workers home would be going by shortly. I was only 5 minutes heading that way when the bomb went off. It shook the boundary block wall I was passing by. Had the bus strike not been on ant the time ,I and dozens more would have been killed.

The Mcinerney bus that I was waiting for eventually came about an hour late. by at the junction of Bolton Street and Capel Street. No one on the bus had a clue about the bombs , even though they were stuck in the ensuing traffic jam I wasn’t a 100%sure myself, there was no one even around to ask while I was waiting. It’s hard to believe now that once you left the few streets away from O Connell Street , other parts of Dublin would be deserted.

Our driver switched his radio on and the reports started coming in. I don’t we realised the seriousness of the situation until later on when we got home

The Coalition didn’t cover themselves in glory that time. They virtually did nothing to bring the killers to justice, even Cosgrave could barely allow himself to condemn the bombings , wanting to spread the blame everywhere.He acted like we deserved it. Contast that with the outrage in Birmingham when bombs killed dozens in the City centre 6 months later.

[dinny]

You were very lucky Bo....

[ob1kenobi.23]

My dad worked in Chrysler in Whitehall, later Talbot.
Coming down Gardiner St on his way home he had just passed the junction with Talbot St & heading to go round the Custom house to Butt bridge when the bomb went off.
My mother said when he got home & discovered what happened he was quite shaken.

[Bo]

You were very lucky Bo....

Not for the first or last time Dinny.

[DP Kilfo]

Walked up to Parnell Street from O Connell Street to get the Finglas bus home. Then realised there was a bus strike so I headed towards Capel Street where I knew the Company I worked for had a bus that dropped the workers home would be going by shortly. I was only 5 minutes heading that way when the bomb went off. It shook the boundary block wall I was passing by. Had the bus strike not been on ant the time ,I and dozens more would have been killed.

The Mcinerney bus that I was waiting for eventually came about an hour late. by at the junction of Bolton Street and Capel Street. No one on the bus had a clue about the bombs , even though they were stuck in the ensuing traffic jam I wasn’t a 100%sure myself, there was no one even around to ask while I was waiting. It’s hard to believe now that once you left the few streets away from O Connell Street , other parts of Dublin would be deserted.

Our driver switched his radio on and the reports started coming in. I don’t we realised the seriousness of the situation until later on when we got home

The Coalition didn’t cover themselves in glory that time. They virtually did nothing to bring the killers to justice, even Cosgrave could barely allow himself to condemn the bombings , wanting to spread the blame everywhere.He acted like we deserved it. Contast that with the outrage in Birmingham when bombs killed dozens in the City centre 6 months later.

Cosgrave name being and gone in Irish politics , When did we last have a charismatic leader for the ordinary Joe soap .

[DP Kilfo]

Walked up to Parnell Street from O Connell Street to get the Finglas bus home. Then realised there was a bus strike so I headed towards Capel Street where I knew the Company I worked for had a bus that dropped the workers home would be going by shortly. I was only 5 minutes heading that way when the bomb went off. It shook the boundary block wall I was passing by. Had the bus strike not been on ant the time ,I and dozens more would have been killed.

The Mcinerney bus that I was waiting for eventually came about an hour late. by at the junction of Bolton Street and Capel Street. No one on the bus had a clue about the bombs , even though they were stuck in the ensuing traffic jam I wasn’t a 100%sure myself, there was no one even around to ask while I was waiting. It’s hard to believe now that once you left the few streets away from O Connell Street , other parts of Dublin would be deserted.

Our driver switched his radio on and the reports started coming in. I don’t we realised the seriousness of the situation until later on when we got home

The Coalition didn’t cover themselves in glory that time. They virtually did nothing to bring the killers to justice, even Cosgrave could barely allow himself to condemn the bombings , wanting to spread the blame everywhere.He acted like we deserved it. Contast that with the outrage in Birmingham when bombs killed dozens in the City centre 6 months later.

Cosgrave name being and gone in Irish politics , When did we last have a charismatic leader for the ordinary Joe soap .

[Bo]

Cosgrave name being and gone in Irish politics , When did we last have a charismatic leader for the ordinary Joe soap .

Bertie tried to be that, but he was just a dope.

[rasher]

Cosgrave was living up to his name sure wasn’t it WT Crosgrave who took men out of prison and murdered them during the civil war

[Vico2]

You were very lucky Bo. Cosgrave was useless. I remember my dad saying many years ago that he never trusted Cosgrave senior, so I guess the apple does not fall far from the tree

[ob1kenobi.23]

Halls pictorial weekly characterised Cosgrave as the minister for hardship with his minister for finance, Ritchie Ruin(Ryan)
They parodied him saying, We're going to end unemployment, we're raising the school leaving age to 40.