Nah by then cunts were chasing houses and investments. In the earlier years it was pints and holidays and Prada tracksuits 
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1994
I think excess is part and parcel of the peak. It was a time where we in the West thought we were on the final level of it all by cancelling African debt.
2005/2006/2007 just before the crash was the absolute peak, lads had totally lost the run of themselves, plasterers and bricklayers driving two mercs and working 4 days a week with holiday homes in Spain, getting choppers to the Galway races, weekend shopping trips to NewYork etc
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John Hayes crying in Croke Park the day we grew up as a nation was peak Ireland
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Being flown up and back from Cork to the Leinster v Munster ERC semi in Landsdowne in 2006 was peak for me. Premium Croker seats all year too that year.
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We lived behind the crown
Roughhouses
Shared a house with ; 5/6 west of Ireland men
Lunatics but no hassle
Lot of alcohol probs around that area
We used drink down the road in Kilburns finest
The old bell( previously the volunteer)
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That was his first time in Croke Park apparently!
Still the finest anecdote of the Celtic tiger that didn’t involve the Indo colour supplement.
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I’d never seen it before. Proud to give it the 10th
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Ah it was a very historic occasion whatever way we twist it or however much it was overblown. God save the queen being played in the stadium where bloody Sunday happened.
Neither had Darragh McCarthy until a few weeks ago and now it’s his playground.
In fairness to Hayes he played football and hurling for Cappamore in his youth. He only took up the rugby around the age of 19. Surprised he didn’t follow Limerick to one of the finals in 94’ or 96’.
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Too busy farming
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Getting your Communion/Confirmation in those years was BOX OFFICE.
Lads throwing 50’s at you left, right and centre.
I’d say Kieran Fallon getting Oratorio up to beat Motivator in the Champions Stakes at The Leop in 2005 was the peak of the Celtic Tiger and Ireland in general.
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Katy French’s death foretold the end
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Ireland’s failure at the 2007 Rugby World Cup foretold the end.
The belief that people from Ireland could manage the Irish association football team foretold the end.
The emergence of an unimpeachable “superstar” of the GAA whose "greatest of all time"ness must never be questioned in any way, foretold the end.
Kerry dominance foretold the end.
Official Ireland’s gradual drift away from actual sports towards rugby, golf, horse racing and bouncy castles foretold the end. The Ryder Cup foretold the end.
An evil idiot US president in their second term foretold the end.
All of this stuff has happened or is happening again.
The rise and fall of Munster rugby, on and off the field, traces the same graph as the Celtic Tiger.
On the field a team of dockers and binmen bested the poncy doctors and barristers of Leinster.
Off the field, the plasterer from Limerick was driving a bigger car than the barrister from Donnybrook for a while too.
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She didn’t die. Except literally
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There was a serious class of person in the Anner in 1996 when Lowry came home.
Two time All Ireland winner Bobby Ryan there at the front giving the great man a big pat on the shoulder.
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Charmless Man by Blur playing in the background 