The Irish Times has been having a bit of a nostalgia-fest lately, what with drawing parallels with the grim days of the 80s and early 90s.And who can blame it? It's easy copy after all.
The picture left, taken in April 1992, shows a small selection of the thousands of school leavers and graduates who queued for jobs as car-park attendants, waiting staff and all the rest, at Disney's new European branch in Paris back in the day.
Your very own Gombeen Man had already fled the old sod by six lovely years at this stage so missed it all, thankfully.
But bloody hell - it's always a stampede one way or another here in Ireland, isn't it?
Either they are up at 5am to queue for Mickey Mouse jobs, or Mickey Mouse apartments off the plans - there's always a spectacle. The snappers must love it.
Anyway.
You could spout a lot of cliches about how things were then and how things are now, and all the rest. For me, what adds delicious irony to the pic above is that it was taken in the grounds of the old New Jurys Hotel, Ballsbridge.
A site bought by developer Sean Dunne for the record price of €380 million in 2005.
Had you predicted that to one of the hopeful interviewees, they might have laughed in your face.
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