Ireland v England 1995

Remember the game well, we were in Paddy Cullens before the game, great atmosphere, don't recall any English fans in the pub, and we were seated in the East Lower down near the Havelock Sq end, went straight back to the Cullens after the match was abandoned and got hammered.

Was on the north terrace.
No trouble my way but learned later there was a crush as people made their way for the exit and how it was lucky no one was seriously injured or worse

You need a few more points to have PM rights.

Lads, hit thanks on Shane's posts to free him up.

Went to the game straight after school with a friend and his grandad. Both of them were up right beside the Tans while I was down with a few others in the school boy terrace South stand. You could feel it in the air that something was gonna happen. The english didn't stop singing no surrender etc. when it all kicked off there was a surge of our lads to the gate to have a go at the english. Met me friend and his grandad after and they said it was mental up there beside the English support. His grandad (ex boxer) gave one of them a dig straight to kidneys and yer man went down then they legged it as it was getting out of control. A match and atmosphere I will never forget in lansdowne road.

The trouble at that match cannot be evaluated without analysing the prevailing political circumstances in the years prior to the game. It has been generally accepted that it was a premeditated riot orchestrated by well know far right activists with close loyalist connections. I was at the game on North Terrace quite close to a pen where a couple of hundred English fans were massed. When the trouble erupted and the match stopped, they broke through on to the pitch and ran over to the other England 'fans' in the West Stand. The ironic thing for me was despite what happened that night at the ground, there was very little trouble around town that night unlike in 1990 when there was lots of scraps all over town.

kevincronin2000 wrote: It was my first ever Ireland game as I was studding in Dublin at the time, had a few pints in Paddy Cullen's before the game was in the East Terence when it kicked off. Left the game and walked back to the North Star Hotel after the game. Most pubs and McDonald's were shut down on the route back to the city center . Later that night we were in a pub upstairs in o Connell street ( mcgraths maybe) riot gardai came up and took a few English out of it. The most disappointing aspect of the night was that we were tearing them apart on the pitch before it was abandoned.

Shoco wrote: greenforever wrote: Remember the game well, we were in Paddy Cullens before the game, great atmosphere, don't recall any English fans in the pub, and we were seated in the East Lower down near the Havelock Sq end, went straight back to the Cullens after the match was abandoned and got hammered. Avoided town like the plague. Was the east lower not all terraced, I was only 11 but remember not being able to see the game properly because of it

East lower was always seated then there was the East terrace in front of that

As has been said we were slaughtering them on the pitch.  Warren Barton made his engurlund debut and was being run ragged.  David Kelly was in great club form with Wolves if I remember at the time and was playing superbly.  Had one disallowed and scored one.  I remember McGrath had Shearer in his back pocket.  There was a moment Shearer turned McGrath but Paul then just pivoted the other way to take the ball off Shearer.  It was the finest piece of defending I've ever seen and if an England player had done it they'd still be showing it on TV!  We really could have stuffed them that night. 

I knew there'd be trouble when the fixture was announced.  There was still a scum element travelling to England games.  USA 94 had passed off so well with England not being there and it had been brilliant to not be worrying if there were scumbags in a bar looking to kick off as in Euro 88/Italia 90.