a reporter actually reporting different opinions, very very rare.

The 2nd to last guy absolutely nails it.

@24yrukdesigner

3 жыл бұрын

wow people really were switched on back then!! Amazing to see intelligent life forms. Now days they say things like, "I'm not sure really, I like travelling....." lol Just blows my mind. :)

@bolso66

3 жыл бұрын

Nails it so much that you guyz are out of the game now, chill out

@Ligerpride

3 жыл бұрын

@@bolso66 I've no idea what that is supposed to mean.

@bolso66

3 жыл бұрын

ligerpride dumb, FO out of the EU and think for yourself

@waynekerr8719

3 жыл бұрын

His toupé killed me though, sign of the times...

If only Jacob Rees Mogg had viewed this.

The lsat fella looked like Kevin Spacey , 2nd last fella was on the button.

"I wouldn't like to see too many things controlled by Brussels", a valid concern considering where we are now.

It's weird to think that probably everyone in this interview is now dead. It was a different time and before we know it, we will be that piece of history.

@sir243_simr

3 жыл бұрын

The lad at the start is alive more than likely

@rcarey131

3 жыл бұрын

I also had the same thought watching this and other old clips not werid at all lol

@Lalita_Chevaliere_108

3 жыл бұрын

@Paul that's so sad. I clicked on the video because he seemed thoughtful and kind and looked like a renaissance painting. Funny how much we can think just from seeing a face.

@johnmurphy7316

3 жыл бұрын

@Paul Sorry to hear that.

@samnicholson5051

3 жыл бұрын

I wouldn't say everyone.

The EEC was very different to the EU.The headlines in the 70s and 80s on the morning news was about the grants we got from the EEC for our shitty potholed hopeless roads, grants for the farmers ,etc,we got bucket loads of money for years from the EEC.No questions asked.

@treborsirrah7916

3 жыл бұрын

I was 22 in 1972 and I can tell you that Ireland was a backwater or a shithole if you like ,anyone with drive got out ,or were driven out by unemployment , half my siblings had emigrated before I did in '71 ,I didn't know anybody that owned a car,my father cycled to work ,it was a farming country,but even they were usless as butter was twice the price of Northern Ireland butter

@Dreyno

2 жыл бұрын

@@treborsirrah7916 People whinging about the EU and how Ireland has “lost it’s soul” or whatever other bollo€ks either have the rosiest of rose tinted spectacles or weren’t even born to see how bad it really was.

@RazorMouth

Жыл бұрын

​@@Dreyno it wasn't till the 1990s till we had a few quid to spare. Even in the 80s we were piss poor.

Did they speak to any working class Dubliners in this?

@roisinmalone3015

2 жыл бұрын

No

@theeaskey

2 жыл бұрын

Just west brits

@OscarOSullivan

10 ай бұрын

@@theeaskeyWest Brits in what sense

Next year in 2023 it's going to be the 50th anniversary of when bought Ireland and Denmark joined the EU. And with any luck for next year the UK will give Ireland back the last six counties it tuck from us. And it'll be the biggest celebration in history. It would be like the Hong Kong Handover in 1997.

0:59 That was a serious pick!

@Kevin-rw4yw

3 жыл бұрын

🤣

@RazorMouth

Жыл бұрын

I read that as prick until I looked again 😂

I've never met anyone like any of those people ever in Dublin . Ever.

@roisinmalone3015

2 жыл бұрын

Me neither

@Danny-po5vp

Жыл бұрын

It's from the 70s of course we've changed

@elliegreen4738

2 ай бұрын

They looked like actors to me and what a coincidence that they all were in favour of joining the EEC! Looked as though they'd all been to hair and make up in RTE even though they were trying to look like people going about their ordinary business.

We are much better off now then we were then.

@mogznwaz

Жыл бұрын

Perhaps you would have been anyway?

@JohnJKelly-of4dc

Ай бұрын

Yes....we have all the trappings of a modern western country...islamists...African gangs....Eastern European sex slave traffickers... grooming gangs....oh we are so hip

I was only ten back then and i was shouting NO DONT JOIN

@666Eva

3 жыл бұрын

And you were wrong.

@UsacHunt

3 жыл бұрын

You were correct.

@pmacc3557

3 жыл бұрын

Good evening Mr. McWilliams!

@666Eva

3 жыл бұрын

@@pmacc3557 nice to meet you Jacob

@pmacc3557

3 жыл бұрын

@@666Eva u was right

The dumb herd not having a clue about the main agenda ,no borders no nation states just European centralized rule the maastricht treaty, Orwell said people will demand their own enslavement and not even know they are doing it

@charlotteritchie9969

3 жыл бұрын

Orwell was a socialist... democratic socialist to be exact. He'd probably has disapproved of the EU solely bc it's top leaders aren't elected by the people.

@Elzilcho87

3 жыл бұрын

"Dumb herd"? "Demand their own enslavement"? What is it about you stupid little conspiracy theorists constantly projecting your weird personal problems onto EVERYTHING you see? Just go back to that fantasy land in your head and let the sane people do the all hard work. I'm sure the inter-dimensional communist lizard men will be here any day now to take you away on their flying saucer.

@mcgannpster

3 жыл бұрын

Jetpack Rorschach Right, because that’s what he said

@ghostriderinthesky6685

3 жыл бұрын

@@Elzilcho87 based on your reply it sounds like you have some serious personal problems, take a break from the web and try to put the pieces of yourself back together. Using the comments section as an emotional punching bag will perpetuate this negativity to resemble a bottomless cesspool. Better to keep your head out of sand than in it I say! Peace

@EveryTongueShallTell

3 жыл бұрын

@@Elzilcho87 You use conspiracy theorist as an insult, you just don't know how insufferable normies like you are. Do you really think that no conspiring goes on in this world?

0:37 Wisest among them. Just getting on with her little life. Everyone these days is an expert and demands to be heard and will start riots to do it.

@daithiocinnsealach1982

3 жыл бұрын

Nobody has a clue what's going on. That's all I know. So I'm just trying to get on with it.

@EveryTongueShallTell

3 жыл бұрын

@@daithiocinnsealach1982 Los of people have a big clue to what's going on, try alternative sources over msm and you might learn something.

Dubliners?

@treborsirrah7916

3 жыл бұрын

Spot the Dub ,just like today

@kitsilanomusician2669

3 жыл бұрын

What then, Kerrymen?

@jimbobjimjim6500

2 жыл бұрын

Middle class Dubs.

"It'll end in tears" says I. But did they listen?

@roisinmalone3015

2 жыл бұрын

What will end in tears?

Then you got an Indian Sausage Jockey

Bet they're not so keen now.

@christianmccann7884

3 жыл бұрын

AIB01 Hello from Dublin ... you'd lose that bet ... LOL

@aib0160

3 жыл бұрын

@@christianmccann7884 So 100% are pro EU membership now are they? This article from an Irish paper would suggest that Eurosceptism is growing? www.thejournal.ie/readme/euroscepticism-eu-1756294-Nov2014/

@aib0160

2 жыл бұрын

@Cu Chulainn It may come as a surprise to you but we're in a vast majority of nations not shackled to the EUSSR, it's currency or having it decide who gets how much of your fish and all while paying for the privilege. Rest assured we're just the first.

@samnicholson5051

2 жыл бұрын

Between 84 and 90% of Irish people are in favour of EU membership according to polls.

@aib0160

2 жыл бұрын

@@samnicholson5051 The trend is becoming continually unfavourable. Ireland has for decades has been a nett receiver of money from the EU and that has changed recently, so now its starting to pay its way. Ireland is also seeing more foreign boats take it more and more of its fish and seeing an influx if immigrants many of whom have a very different culture and values. Ireland will be experiencing more and more of the same till the point people say enough and want out. Don't expect the EU to listen, they won't as they only listen to Germany and to a lesser extent France.

Fishermen lost then and after losing again with the Brexit deal. Also a lot has gone from this country than has come in.

@charlotteritchie9969

3 жыл бұрын

Ireland gave up part of a less profitable business (fisheries) because what they were promised were gains in the agricultural sector which came with the common agricultural policy. There's give and take in any international deal, the real issue is trade deals like Mercosur and the deal with Canada that threaten our markets.

@padraigsisk4057

3 жыл бұрын

@@charlotteritchie9969 And then we lost the Sugar beet. This affected thousands upon thousands

@thecaptain9697

3 жыл бұрын

Lol what a ridiculous comment!

@roisinmalone3015

2 жыл бұрын

@@charlotteritchie9969 Do you rate peace? That's what the EU brought

@roisinmalone3015

2 жыл бұрын

@@padraigsisk4057 Do you rate peace? That's what the EU brought

Left One union the UK, just to join another Union, the then EEC now the EU!

@beaglaoich4418

3 жыл бұрын

Pretty big difference between em. Don’t remember the French or Spanish burning farms or cottages.... 🤔

@Dreyno

2 жыл бұрын

Left one Union that stole land, murdered and pillaged for hundreds of years and joined another that raised our standard of living from the worst in Europe as part of the U.K. to one of the best in the world within 3 decades. Sling yer hook, muppet.

@connoroleary591

2 жыл бұрын

@@beaglaoich4418 not quite true. Per head of population, far more Brits came to Ireland than Irish people to Britain. That's why you have so many British names in Ireland and sitting in Dail Eireann and there has never been a Murphy or an O'Brien PM in the UK. It might hurt your butt to acknowledge it, but it's our own home grown "Brits" that burnt people out of their homes and pushed us off our own island. Those doing the evicting were not brought over from Britain, they were among the one million plus who turned up in Dublin and Cork to wave their Union flags in honour of the visit of Queen Victoria to Ireland during the famine in 1849.

@beaglaoich4418

2 жыл бұрын

@@connoroleary591 I’m not entirely sure of the relevance of what you’ve said. All I’ve said is that the EU is not anything like the UK by pointing out that the EU doesn’t have people enacting punitive measures like the UK has implemented in the past. I know we have a large number of people of people from Great Britain here

Yup Mass inward tourism from third world country's and you did loose your sovereignty. And second last gentleman nailed it Total control from brussels!

Bet you wish you'd have stayed out now eh.

@roisinmalone3015

2 жыл бұрын

Eh No

@samnicholson5051

2 жыл бұрын

Irish people are more pro-EU than any other member state with 89% saying they would vote to remain in a membership referendum.

@yagsipcc287

Жыл бұрын

@@samnicholson5051 Most Irish people are idiots anyway we are full of clowns also anyway the "EU" EEC back then was very different it was about trade more than anything else now they control pretty much everything, who a country can and can not trade with, laws that countries must impose or face sanctions this is at every single level. They want all countries to agree on everything or else you will be punished by unelected presidents of the EU these days.

@OscarOSullivan

10 ай бұрын

Nope

-100 billion euros+ later 😒✌❤👍

@simonmartin5048

3 жыл бұрын

Ffs what would they say now

@tomthumb3500

3 жыл бұрын

Absolutely

@roisinmalone3015

2 жыл бұрын

How high do you rate peace?

Ireland outside the EU Common Market ,redevelopment funds and grants galore is unimaginable. Also or corporation tax would result in no multinational investment. The single biggest plus is what Europe has brought culturally , this has been a reciprocated.Keep the borders open information and currency flowing.

Getting independence from Britain and then signing up to the new USSR ....out of the frying pan and into the fire...propaganda at the time ensured the people acquiesce.

@thecaptain9697

3 жыл бұрын

What 50 years later!? Not quite the same son!

@Standard_Jay

3 жыл бұрын

Typical gammon headed comment equating foreign occupation and colonialism to a political and economic union....beyond help you lot

@seanoriordan

3 жыл бұрын

@Tony. O'Brien its my opinion, if you think the European Union today is what Irish people voted for to join the ECC then your delusional.

@EveryTongueShallTell

3 жыл бұрын

I think the independence we got from britain is just an illusion, the fact that we can't even speak our own language yet can speak more german or french after a few years just proves that we are still under foreign occupation. Even, a lot of the laws that were around during colonial times are still flourishing today, nothing really changed except the impression that we are free. Edit: looks like r/ireland is here, don't even try and debate them because they are suffering from some sort of mental retardation called liberalism, they actually think they are going to save the world.

@gingerbaker4390

3 жыл бұрын

@@Standard_Jay What is foreign occupation. Ireland is part of the British Isles. There are more Irish in the UK than in Europe. There's even been Irish prime ministers. The only thing that is foriegn to the British Isles is roman catholicism.

Thats joe biden first chap dere

@johnsmith-bx4rn

3 жыл бұрын

i thought he looked like a young David Beckham .

They all sound very English to me. I didn't know that some Irish accents were that much like English ones. They're not like the Irish accents I saw in your great movie 'Wind that Shake the Barley'.

@michaeljose8122

3 жыл бұрын

As an English guy i would say that all the accents were very unmistakably Irish. I think what might have thrown you somewhat is that the accents of 50 years ago were a bit more “polished” than what you might hear today. This true of both Britain and Ireland I think.

@pauliewalnuts100

3 жыл бұрын

The Wind that Shakes the Barley was set in Cork. This is in Dublin.

@Ligerpride

3 жыл бұрын

@@michaeljose8122 agreed.

@katoness

3 жыл бұрын

@@michaeljose8122 Nah, they where mostly middle class Dubliners.

@anthonym3351

3 жыл бұрын

@@katoness It's weird. I'm younger generation and stumbled across old late late shows, and the posh dublin accent was English sounding. Today, so many Irish have an American, neutral california accent. English influence has dwindled while American culture takes over

Biggest mistake we ever made. Ireland should be free and independent. Irexit.

@Petronium123

Жыл бұрын

What would the currency be if they left?

@mikegan73

Жыл бұрын

@@Petronium123 Punt.

@mikegan73

Жыл бұрын

@@robertmoray988 I don't know if you really want to come here, Ireland has become very Americanized culturally. Liberal Anglo-American culture has a huge influence on this country. Ireland had the highest uptake of the Covid-19 vaccine in Europe and the vast majority of people completely complied with the draconian Lockdown and mask wearing mandates, plenty of cowards in this country too. I blame the media mostly for that mindset.

@daniel11111

Жыл бұрын

All multinationals immediately leaves, immigrants leave, Irish goes back to eating potatoes and boarding ships to go beg in other countries. 😊

@mikegan73

Жыл бұрын

@@daniel11111 🤪

Now we're sorry we're in it

@dellhell8842

3 жыл бұрын

Most of us aren't. You obviously are. Rather than whinging online, why don't you go to Britain, they have recently broke free and are enjoying their new found sovereignty. Their economy is about to surge, they will be hiring in droves positive thinking go getters like yourself.

@gulag8735

3 жыл бұрын

@@dellhell8842 I cant help if you cant critically think. You're probably a snowflake millenial.

@dellhell8842

3 жыл бұрын

@@gulag8735 I'm far older than a millennial, but I'm happy with my life. You're not, so do something positive, whinging gets you nowhere.

@gulag8735

3 жыл бұрын

@@dellhell8842 its you're......just fyi

@dellhell8842

3 жыл бұрын

@@gulag8735 Thanks, I fixed it (I think).👍

A dark dark day in the history of Ireland

@tomthumb3500

3 жыл бұрын

Seriously???

@missingno88

3 жыл бұрын

@@tomthumb3500 yes tom you fucking header. how was this ever a good thing for ireland?

@markc3258

Жыл бұрын

Time to get out now . Enough of the BS

Elon O'Musk @0:43

@treborsirrah7916

3 жыл бұрын

not really

We might not have been much better off but at least we wouldn't be in debt if Ireland stayed out

@Standard_Jay

3 жыл бұрын

Ireland would still be a third world backwater

@sir243_simr

3 жыл бұрын

@@Standard_Jay its a third world backwater as it is now

@Paul5520

3 жыл бұрын

Much better off in no doubt about it

@Standard_Jay

3 жыл бұрын

@@sir243_simr I remember the 1980's mate....the country has been transformed

@shaneshankly4518

3 жыл бұрын

@@Standard_Jay now its a tax haven for big corporations a slave to the fasict EU who placed a 54 Billion debt on Ireland the no country in Europe has more inequality, 1000 s of children homeless , all important decisions are taken by the fasict EU . Yeah all s good , clearly you haven't been left behind or have children who had to leave to survive

We've definitely regressed as a society

@jamesfagan7823

3 жыл бұрын

You got right

@roisinmalone3015

2 жыл бұрын

How have we regressed?

@herculesv1.247

2 жыл бұрын

@@roisinmalone3015 Murder, drugs, suicide, prison population per capita today would all out strip what they were here in 1972 by a long way. Even in terms civility, respect and culture they were well ahead

@roisinmalone3015

2 жыл бұрын

@@herculesv1.247 Weren't the Troubles happening at that time? A lot of murders and misery. And how high do you rate peace, because the EU brought peace? Culture? Wave after wave of Irish people emigrating? Ireland a backward, Catholic Church dominated, parochial, backwater, back then, besides all the murders and stuff on the island re the Troubles that the EU was massively instrumental in bringing an end to.

@herculesv1.247

2 жыл бұрын

@@roisinmalone3015 I knew you'd come out with a load of religion bashing and what-about-isms while totally ignoring my answer. I'm referring to the Republic of Ireland, Northern Ireland is a different country and part of the United Kingdom. The Catholic minority were fighting for their civil rights against an oppressive Protestant majority, but again this is a separate country we're now referring to. I know it's a small Island but you'll have to wrap you're head around the fact 2 separate countries exist on it with their own unique demographics, economic and social characteristics. I'm speaking purely in regards to the Republic of Ireland

"I've been in most of the capitals of Europe". Wow. How many Irish people nowadays can say that. Proof that Irish people were better off before becoming an EEC member. It's hard to take this woman seriously.

@roisinmalone3015

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah Irish people then going to all the capitals of Europe. Hmmm

@samnicholson5051

2 жыл бұрын

She may have meant the EEC which before the UK, Denmark and Ireland was only 6 countries.

The EEC allowed Northern Ireland to fester, No one took Irish Refugees .We were not welcome in most places we eked a living from ..Irish People have short memories .Our Celtic Tiger was won of the backs of 70,s and 80,s Emigrants, but that's never mentioned only thank you EU for it .Farmers are the only ones who benefited from it .

@RazorMouth

Жыл бұрын

The EEC allowed NI to what? Brussels doesn't interfere in domestic issues FFS what are you talking about?

Yeah, we are not poor anymore! Lol Kiss Me I'm Irish!

Worst mistake ever

@celticfire9881

2 жыл бұрын

@Cu Chulainn I meant to edit it, stop being a Globalist, and a Troll.

@celticfire9881

2 жыл бұрын

@Cu Chulainn Get with the times as you Lefties like to say.

@celticfire9881

2 жыл бұрын

@Cu Chulainn You are not getting my 🐐 goat, have a good night and may God bless you.

@celticfire9881

2 жыл бұрын

@Cu Chulainn 😂 I don’t agree with that, but I have to admit that it is a good funny comeback.

@jimbobjimjim6500

2 жыл бұрын

And still, somehow not as big a mistake as Brexit.

Mostly hot air from these people

@genghisthegreat2034

3 жыл бұрын

No air of any kind from your good self, mercifully.

@EveryTongueShallTell

3 жыл бұрын

@@genghisthegreat2034 back to r/ireland with yourself now where you belong