My uncle that filmed this footage ( He's holding the camera ). Shouting things and being funny, unfortunately passed away the other month. He will be dearly missed. RIP Tony Lawless

05:22 'We should hold on this film cos in a few years time this will all be gone' He was dead right! Fair play for recording it and keeping, great to watch 20 years later

0:00-2:10 Sheriff St Lower westbound 2:10-2:55 Junction with Commons St facing east down Sheriff St 2:55-3:30 Commons St southbound 3:30-5:00 Mayor St Lower eastbound 5:00-5:45 Guild St northbound 5:45-6:17 Junction of Seville Place/Guild St/Sheriff St Upper 6:17 Old Weighbridges on Sheriff St Upper facing east 6:27-6:58 North Wall Quay eastbound starting from old drawbridges 6:58-7:41 North Wall Quay eastbound, further east towards 3Arena

Jeasus dont remember it being such a ghetto. If anyone got out of there alive they deserve every bit of happiness they get in life.

Thanks for posting Michael great to have ...ideal for a drive through today to compare.

Brilliant piece of documented Dublin history.amazing to see the changes over the years. Even the ship the Asgard 2 which is part seen and spoken about at the very end, sunk in 2008. Great video 🙏☘️☘️☘️

So basically they did the place up before filming.

Absolutely fascinating bit of archive footage. Amazing how the line between 'real' Sheriff Street and 'staged' Belfast is so blurred. It's amazing who such a massive swathe of the city was left to moulder….at this point, and I remember this as a kid, the area had gone beyond deprived and into a sort of post-war, ghost town and was ready for the plough and the bulldozer… but of course, despite the IFSC in the 90s, then the hotels, financial institutes etc setting up, and the likes of the Josephs, Laurences Mansions etc being levelled, many of the social problems remain. The heroin problem is as bad as ever.

5:56 That’s the Church of St Laurence O'Toole. Stephen Gately’s funeral took place there (the guy out of Boyzone). He grew up on Sheriff street.

Excellent stuff . Golden oldie , great to see history saved .

on videos like this you will always get people who judge but until you live in an area like this and know the people you will never understand how good the place and people actually were

excellent video!

my Nan lived there, we stayed for the six week holiday ever summer in the 60's

Great video. Unbelievable to think this is what parts of the IFSC looked like

A rough area. But a lot of genuine heads reared here. Soul.

Some areas of town used to be well dodgy. I remember going to dolphins barn as a kid and the lads outside the ice rink were on yokes and gear..Some of them their eyes were poppin out of their heads and the others were nodding or asleep on the side of the road. Lads used to always get mugged with syringes and knives to their throats. There was a heroin epidemic. Nowadays the majority of heroin addicts are in their late 30's or 40's

very funny...brings memorys...the might have been hard time but there was great times..great people from the area that had its orthers back in good and bad times... hard to find folk like that these days...

Sheriif Street really was like a social experiment in quarantining human beings. Almost like some sort of war crime!

excellent video :)

if any of those bikes were actually paid for I'll eat my hat

It was a disgrace that the Irish government allowed people to live in these conditions and not much has really changed

Great video

great video

interesting to see this.. hard to believe that this is Dublin...its looks so deprived like something out of the 3rd world..

It's changed a lot since then

Were there 3 complexes on sheriff street (st bridgids gardens laurences mansions and phil shanahan house)

Jesus it never changed a bit

This is great. Although it’s hard to distinguish film set from real place.

I remember it well.19/6/2013. Irish time 2:55am.

A major improvement

Lol you got to love the dubs especially th north inner city attitude for the time lol young kids

Hi Michael, is this a home video belonging to you?

5.25 how right he was

What a kip

It looked like Syria does now. Then 22 years later, I went to college where those flats and broken warehouses were.

Gas video Michael! I'm actually looking for people who might have been extras in 'In the Name of the Father' for a documentary series. Do you know anyone or can you point me in the right direction?

Ahhhh...mythical mystical orrland!

He was right when he said this place may be gone

The kids at the start 😂

what car is that? Cool dash.

Not a foreigner in sight back then..brilliant!

"Look at the balls on him!"

My street 😂😂

How was the church left alone and not burned out of it.

Thats ma. never knew it was that bad there.

216 or a honda prelude

place has changed so much dat i cant even recognise were d flats were located now

Worse than the slumps of Monbassa

ltr

great video :)