Ireland was a different place in 1989, it was a country that was on a continual mark upwards in the World of football, heading from European Championships to a World Cup. But it was 1992 that everyone was apparently talking about, what with the European Union open for business and the borders coming down.
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Gay Byrne was the man to who got to the bottom of it all back then, and he knew that despite 1992 being three years off, that it the time was ripe to take the temperature on the issue from people on the streets of Cork..
Plenty of disinterest but mixed in here is a real sense of foreboding
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bM53tFEUaeY
