Thats some tuuuuunnnnne
Tis, '95 was a glorious year for that ilk.
I actually listened to that album on YouTube last week for the 1st time in ages last week.One of the lads i hung about with had “and the beat goes on” on cassette and used to carry it about with him so everytime we got a taxi to Bundoran that was lashed on at full height till we got to O Neills. 
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Between national school and secondary school.
Massive heat.
Obsessed by sport. Leitrim and Liverpool. Matches on the radio.
Farming. Lads baling into the early hours at 20 degreees.
Underage Ga.
Banter with lads from Clare painting our house with the hurling,
Gangsta’s Paradise.
Just magic.
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A bad year weather wise though no?
I was joking about the turf.
You can’t kid a kidder.
1989, 1990, 1992 and 1995 were all hot, sunny summers. June 1992 was a scorcher.
1991 was a bit of a let down weather wise, I think 1993 and 1996 were too.
1985 by all accounts was a biblically bad summer.
It would want to have been biblically bad to compare to 2007 which was as depressing a summer weather wise as I have ever lived through.
95 was a great summer.We made nothing but square bales that year and a few rucks a hay where the baler wouldnt go.
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I had it in my head that 1991 was very good weather wise but I could be wrong,
1993 and 1994 were a disaster.
We played Galway in Carrick and were beaten. Match was on at 6pm on a Sunday evening - televised. That was the beginning of the televised matches.
Yes i remember listening to it on NWR.Mcloughlin fucked up at the end when he should have goaled,we left that connacht title behind us.
We did.
And would have had Tyrone in the semis. Although they would have probably hammered us.
GAA matches are a good indicator of what the weather was like as a whole over a summer.
In June 1991 I attended Croke Park on four out of five Sundays.
June 2 Dublin v Meath - fresh and changeable with sunny spells
June 9 Dublin v Meath - dry but cold - I developed chicken pox during the second half and extra time of theis match - it was doing the rounds at the time
June 23 Dublin v Meath - very changeable - mostly wet but the second half of extra time had brilliant sunshine
June 30 Leinster hurling semis Dublin v Offaly and Kilkenny v Wexford - wet and miserable
June 16th had Kerry beating Cork and that was a wet and miserable day.
July 6th was the fourth Dublin v Meath match and that was played in briliant sunshine.
July 7th was Cork v Tipp (draw) and that was wet.
After that it was mostly dry enough for big matches with the exception of Meath v Laois in the Leinster final which was a wet day.
June 1991 was definitely very wet - it was the first time Wimbledon had to use the middle Sunday becasue of the backlog of matches.
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I doubt it they struggled agin galway for long periods iirc.We were well able for Tyrone in the early 90’s.
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I recall listening to those Dublin Meath matches on my Dad’s car radio while he was on a neighbour’s silage pit. I have memories of scorching heat but that could be clouded in nostalgia.
The decider was a scorcher.
June 1992 (and most of the second half of May) as I said was a proper scorcher. Look at the videos of Ulster championship matches from that year, the dust rises up off the pitch in nearly all of them.
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Not wet.
A quick look at YouTube would suggest it was wet, umbrellas up at the back of the stand and at half time, players slipping all over the place, Ger Canning talking about the “very greasy conditions”.
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I stood on the City End Terrace and didn’t get wet.