What Are The Images Of The Celtic Tiger, Real Or Imaginary That Stick In Your Mind?

[former wesleyan]

Flying to New York to buy cheap crap made in China instead of flying to Paris to get good stuff in the Printemps sale.

[Interista]

If ever a picture said a thousand words.....

[H.R. Haldeman]

Snorting coke from a plank of decking held up by an Eastern European maid at a barbeque while wearing a pair of Jimmy Choo shoes on a trampoline on a yacht out the back of a McMansion with a jacks with two wash hand basins 50 miles from anywhere while listening to Dan McLoughlin on the iPod telling me I was loaded.

Everyone--well especially young folk---carrying, and sipping from, bottles of water

Young guys rushing from office or Luas holding paper cup of latte in hand

Women bosses

The trial of the Blackrock boys for Annabel nightclub death. Images of them attending court every day: short hair, long loose, black coats, water bottles and latte, as above...

Trucks driven by young shirtless Eastern European guys, thundering through towns in the summer----lots of kitchens to deliver...deadlines, deadlines

Cleaners called Maria letting themselves into quite ordinary little houses on empty commuter estates, to clean for the working mother...

Huge glass box house extensions with black marble topped kitchen island.

Dental implants and tooth whitening

Virtual, cashless world: "I'll just book it with my credit card"

City breaks....Barcelona...Prague...New York

"Me Time" "Pampering Weekends"...

Cheap Chardonnay

Chick-Lit. (General dumbed down culture, you were not allowed to criticize---Cecelia Ahern, Boyzone, Louis Walsh)

All those "OO" Reg cars clogging up the roads in January 2000

Glass apartment blocks in Leitrim

Dormer windows on nearly every rural new-build

The Dundrum Shopping Centre

Gold.

[blackpitts]

Flying to New York to buy cheap crap made in China instead of flying to Paris to get good stuff in the Printemps sale.

[ManfredJudge]

The adoption of prejudice against redheads.

[LongShanks]

Bertie.
SUVs.
Smugness everywhere.
The proliferation of "marque" cars and their gimp drivers.
The person who told me "you think I'd lower myself to work in Spar, you must be joking".
The fact that nothing was too expensive.

[Cruimh]

Who he ?

[athlonedub]

I think I read somewhere subsequently that the chess set in the picture was produced by some artist (Le Brocquey?) and cost over €50k...............

[Tom Red]

Dublin city seeming to be awash in a sea of high viz jackets.

[Interista]

"Me Time" "Pampering Weekends"...

Otherwise known as 'girls' weekends'. Never saw the appeal myself. And until about 15 years ago, 'pampering' was what you did to a child with a bad head cold.

Chick-Lit. (General dumbed down culture, you were not allowed to criticize---Cecelia Ahern, Boyzone, Louis Walsh)

LOL yes! And RiverDance (as my brother called them: RiverHype). If you criticised them in any way you were a 'begrudger' or 'jealous'.