What I remember most from the 1980s is Fianna Fáil’s hypocrisy

They publish the state papers of 30 years ago around this time every year.

And every year, when I’m reading them, I realise that if I was much younger, the events of 1987 wouldn’t mean an awful lot to me. My kids, for example, have only a vague recollection of Stephen Roche, or Black Monday, or Johnny Logan’s second victory in the Eurovision. They have no recollection at all of the Herald of Free Enterprise tragedy or the Loughgall ambush.

I remember them all — although I suppose if I was older, events like that would begin to fade too.