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WHEN BRUCE FREDERICK Joseph Springsteen kicked off the European leg of his Born in the USA tour at Slane Castle on June 1 1985, things were pretty different in Ireland. Here’s how things were 27 years ago.
We had a Doctor for a Taoiseach (Garret FitzGerald) and condoms had just been allowed for sale without prescription for the first time.
The Cold War was still freezing and Germany had a west and an east. Margaret Thatcher was Prime Minister across the water and Dennis Taylor was a snooker world champion, having hoisted the cue above his head in a still memorable moment.
Just 22 days after Bruce’s Slane triumph, however, there was less cause for celebration. A bomb exploded on Air India Flight 182, causing it to crash 190 kilometres South-West of the Irish coast, killing everyone on board.
Hope in humanity was restored somewhat less than a month later, when Live Aid made the world aware of the famine in Africa.
Ireland was in recession then just as it is now, showing that the more things change, the more they stay the same.
Another thing that hasn’t changed in 27 years is Ireland’s love for ‘The Boss’, as his two sell-out shows in Dublin’s RDS prove.
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You started a valuable campaign which will continue. Now look after yourself and your your family, it’s time to relax. Thank you for a job well done.
In giving her time she has given the most valuable thing that she has and all to help and protect the health of so many women in this country, I certainly won’t forget the bravery she has shown and continues to show, stay strong,,, the world is a better place with people like her.
@Devilsavocado: And would be a better place without the likes of Harris
@Jason Higgins: wrong thread mate….
Get well wishes Vicki
Slow down and look after yourself vicky,wish you all the best.
Vicky please take care of yourself.
This country needs people like Vicky. She personifies so many things.
I hope she takes all the time she needs, as her cancer hasn’t spread any further its a good time to reconsider everything and try and get back to something approaching “normal “life.
But her campaign will never far from her heart, and as someone who has been through the aftermath of a serious cancer diagnosis, this survival part of this disease is harder than the treatment from a mental and emotional perspective.
I use this to try and explain what it feels like….a few years ago John Lewis had a Christmas ad which showed a little girl looking at the moon through a telescope, she sees an old man sitting on bench alive but alone in his thoughts.
Unfortunately surviving cancer felt like that for me, not everyone would agree but like the disease surviving is also unique to the person.
And still today its charities only that provide almost all post treatment care, and God knows they aren’t flush with money.
Vicky will be involved in the continuing to improve our cancer services, as many of us are even if its just talking to fellow survivors or patients.
This disease can hang on for a long time thus the insidious nature of it.
Best of luck Vicky, learn to be a small bit greedy.
@the druid: Thank you.
Thank you so much Vikki you probably saved thousands of lives. You didn’t need to stand up but you did, you are a hero.
Best of luck in the world xxxx
Vicki you will never know the number of hearts you have touched. You are a national treasure and as such we don’t want to loose you. Please take care of you and your family.
Look after
@Ciaran105: look after yourself Vicky and continued good health to you .
Powerful woman
Oh and I did write a few blogs but cant find them now. Think the site is no longer up was called “Nuime.com”
I say the government had a wee word with her now
@Darren Farrell: It would be the only word, as they have no services for survivor’s at all.
I have had a go at a few TDs but simply gave up they have no interest despite the mental scars left behind.
So, I run charity events to raise a few bob and research the progress
@Paul O Mahoney: what’s the link for all ur work
@Darren Farrell: No link…..but involved with Movember, ICS, Marie Keating, Arc, Relay of Life……
I simply run quizzes, race nights, Movember shave offs, peer to peer stuff, and Im trying to write a memoir where all proceeds go to cancer research.
Its local stuff but great craic
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