COMMENT ... Extreme behaviour at Slane not the end of our youth

It was the ensuing witch hunt, and not the events at Slane, that deserves condemnation, writes Sam Boland

‘THE kids are alright’, The Who sang in 1965 as their debut album soundtracked the rise of Mod culture in Britain.

One of the first teenage subcultures, Mods were characterised by narcissistic fashion, glittering scooters, devotion to ‘their’ kind of music — The Who and the Small Faces among others — and heavy amphetamine use. Their ongoing conflict with another subculture, the rockers, led to the coining of the phrase ‘moral panic’.