Moving Statue Report, Ballinspittle, Co. Cork, Ireland 1985

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Thousands flock to the grotto in Ballinspittle, County Cork where a statue of the Virgin Mary is claimed to have miraculously moved.
For the past two weeks, crowds of about 8,000 people have been drawn to the grotto in Ballinspittle where the claims of moving statues have been made. After two local women claimed to have seen the statue moving, word spread and crowds grew. There is now a 24 hour vigil in place and a local committee has been established to manage the crowds that gather at the site each evening.
Believers say that after 10 o’clock in the evening the statue is seen to move in a human way from the waist up, moving its arms and head. Others see the face of Christ superimposed on the statue.
Michael Ryan chats to some of those who have claimed to have seen the statue moving. Dr. Michael Murphy, Bishop of Conor and Ross comments on the claims that have been made.
An RTÉ News report broadcast on 31 July 1985. The reporter is Michael Ryan.

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  • @YoutubeUser..
    @YoutubeUser..3 жыл бұрын

    This old footage you have on this channel is gold! Very interesting.

  • @MrKFNeverGiveUp
    @MrKFNeverGiveUp3 жыл бұрын

    Real life Father Ted! :)

  • @sullieking
    @sullieking3 жыл бұрын

    Back in the good ol days, pints of Guiness, women on the half glasses, kids in the pub, crisps, kp peanuts, bacon fries, live music, and massive feckin Craic, CRAIC CRAIC, FECKIN LOADS OFFFFF ITTTTTT, COME ONNNNNN

  • @Discover-Ireland

    @Discover-Ireland

    3 жыл бұрын

    Well said,,,and on a Sunday you go to the pub and make sure ya ordered 2 pints before 2.00 pm ,,,as by 2.30 they put you out and you’ll have to wait till 4.30 till they opened again. Last drinks were 10.30 on a Sunday night.

  • @sullieking

    @sullieking

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@Discover-Ireland never heard of pubs doing that tbh. What year and were abouts they do that?

  • @Discover-Ireland

    @Discover-Ireland

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@sullieking Back in the early 90s It was the law all pubs had to do it. Many a time I was having a pint on a Sunday and some pubs might leave you in ,,,but the bar man or woman wouldn’t go behind the bar till 4.30 again

  • @sullieking

    @sullieking

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@Discover-Ireland Jesus never knew that. Cause I asked me mother and she said she couldnt remember that. Thats a mad oul law, wonder what the reason was for that? Pubs use to be a goldmine back in the day, now they a burden, scary times!

  • @Discover-Ireland

    @Discover-Ireland

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@sullieking It was just the ways the law was back then. Sure I remember going to the oul nightclub back in the 80s ,,and ya got a meal when ya got in. Curry chicken with rice. The pubs went down hill when the cigarette ban came in.

  • @HPLovecraftsCat87
    @HPLovecraftsCat873 жыл бұрын

    That would be an ecumenical matter.

  • @larsanderson3072

    @larsanderson3072

    2 жыл бұрын

    Drink!!!

  • @odonnchada9994
    @odonnchada99942 жыл бұрын

    Hail Holy Queen Of Ireland And Heaven Our Blessed Lady Mary.☘✝️🇮🇪

  • @missadda8890
    @missadda88903 жыл бұрын

    The real beauty of this clip is no cell phones

  • @michaelwalsh9145

    @michaelwalsh9145

    Жыл бұрын

    Also no media brainwashing like today, funny how people that weren’t born back then foolishly believe that everyone n ireland believed in moving statues, it was only a follow the crowd mentality just like Garth brooks Irish concerts.

  • @daithiocinnsealach1982
    @daithiocinnsealach19823 жыл бұрын

    What a strange species of animal these humans are.

  • @martinwalsh3228
    @martinwalsh32283 жыл бұрын

    The reporter is Michael Ryan.

  • @damiendaly983
    @damiendaly9833 жыл бұрын

    ah go on ted

  • @jcronin3155
    @jcronin31553 жыл бұрын

    People were gullible back then, but they are even more gullible now.

  • @dellhell8842

    @dellhell8842

    3 жыл бұрын

    Good point. I suppose the modern manifestation of this is all the people who fall for conspiracy theories and anti-science propaganda on the Internet. Education, in particular at third level, greatly reduces this gullibility by the learning of critical thinking. Ireland has helped itself in this respect by investing in education.

  • @jcronin3155

    @jcronin3155

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@dellhell8842 Most of the conspiracy theorists and also people who believe that science can't be manipulated to sell a product that I know are third level educated. Gullibility works many ways.

  • @geoffbridge6204
    @geoffbridge62043 жыл бұрын

    They made some money down around there during this.

  • @therobbieunited

    @therobbieunited

    3 жыл бұрын

    1000 shillings a week

  • @michaelosullivan9318

    @michaelosullivan9318

    3 жыл бұрын

    The chip van even had a "grotto Burger"

  • @Tony_Kidvaski
    @Tony_Kidvaski3 жыл бұрын

    I remember this well. It happened. It was real.

  • @FORANWFS
    @FORANWFS3 жыл бұрын

    Bita lord jayus on a bike cyclen backwards

  • @marcusuadonnghaile1855
    @marcusuadonnghaile18553 жыл бұрын

    I'm up in Belfast & could have sworn that I saw that statue coming out of the off-licence last week?

  • @michaelwalsh9145

    @michaelwalsh9145

    Жыл бұрын

    Stick with the day job, comedy isn’t your style.

  • @johnkeogh1401
    @johnkeogh1401 Жыл бұрын

    We had only had two channels back then

  • @johnking5174
    @johnking51743 жыл бұрын

    This is what happens when you don't have access to British TV on cable television. Poor people, relying on RTE Television, they have no entertainment, but to go outside and think statutes are moving.

  • @COV61
    @COV613 жыл бұрын

    Gullible people will believe anything you tell them!!

  • @michaelwalsh9145

    @michaelwalsh9145

    Жыл бұрын

    Did you believe the rona and climate farces?

  • @moonlightttt156
    @moonlightttt156 Жыл бұрын

    Straight out of father Ted.

  • @tramorester
    @tramorester3 жыл бұрын

    The priest is flabbergasted "how do ya believe this child's fairy tale" , he wants to tell them to wake up

  • @michaelwalsh9145

    @michaelwalsh9145

    Жыл бұрын

    It would never happen today, oh wait it did and is with the rona and climate farces, media conditioning at its finest.

  • @huey9992
    @huey99923 жыл бұрын

    "If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him" - Voltaire.

  • @electricrussellette
    @electricrussellette3 жыл бұрын

    I'm surprised that with so much historical footage and with so many young people witness to it at the time, there hasn't been a documentary made about this yet?

  • @williambinions4205

    @williambinions4205

    3 жыл бұрын

    There has no Documentary being made about this because the children that thought they saw something have said since realized that they had been brainwashed at that time and are to embarrassed to speak about such nonsense they were caught up in. Also they are to embarrassed to speak in Camera about how their parents and grandparents were total and utter gullible Moran’s. Hopefully the children of that era got counseling to suppress this horrible experience

  • @electricrussellette

    @electricrussellette

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@williambinions4205 I think you've just outed the Moran family anyway.

  • @goldenboy06

    @goldenboy06

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@williambinions4205 I wonder if the Morans knew where to include an apostrophe.

  • @williambinions4205

    @williambinions4205

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@goldenboy06 I would not know anything about their grammar skills. I believe people have noticed their astonishing ignorance and their gullibility far more than their English skills. They probably are skilled musicians. ( dueling Banjos style)

  • @michaelwalsh9145

    @michaelwalsh9145

    Жыл бұрын

    @@williambinions4205let me guess you followed the rona farce like a true believer?

  • @bitzannbobz
    @bitzannbobz3 жыл бұрын

    is it a class 3 relic?

  • @bitzannbobz

    @bitzannbobz

    3 жыл бұрын

    @John Hill will it still be a class 3 when they remove it? from... 🙄😶

  • @bitzannbobz

    @bitzannbobz

    3 жыл бұрын

    @John Hill "len"

  • @williambinions4205

    @williambinions4205

    3 жыл бұрын

    Be serious about this. Is there any class one Relics in Ireland. I want to travell back in time .I then want to bring Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin Archbishop Charles McQuaid and Eamonn Devalera back to life and Oh I want to clone a few dinasoirs for I pet farm/theme park that I had an idea about building on the Aran Islands

  • @bitzannbobz

    @bitzannbobz

    3 жыл бұрын

    @John Hill dont call me len you little bollocks 😂

  • @ryanoconnor3477
    @ryanoconnor34773 жыл бұрын

    i was there with my mother father brother and i was 8 years old ... there was lads behind us drinking can lager laughing .... i saw above the rock face red monument shacking ..... mother mary pulled her vale down walked to her right of rock face she looked spanish the bluesiest eyes ... the lads behind us were not taking the mike as they we're all clearly seeing something

  • @cogybear
    @cogybear3 жыл бұрын

    Someone please cgi this

  • @christopheroshea9799
    @christopheroshea97992 жыл бұрын

    our lady must be a Fianna Fail member anywhere she moved economic booms arrived 😂

  • @dannymullins4356
    @dannymullins43562 жыл бұрын

    This is hilarious.

  • @johnsheehan5109
    @johnsheehan51093 жыл бұрын

    To think that adults are caught up in this kind of nonsense. No, my good-hearted Irish brethren, there just ain't no magic...

  • @daithiocinnsealach1982

    @daithiocinnsealach1982

    3 жыл бұрын

    I know. I used to be too. Boggles the mind almost, but the poor ignorant plebs have no idea. They want comfort and security and the like from these fables.

  • @michaelwalsh9145

    @michaelwalsh9145

    Жыл бұрын

    @@daithiocinnsealach1982I bet you lapped up the rona farce?

  • @onemanandhisdogsgoawonderi4630
    @onemanandhisdogsgoawonderi46303 жыл бұрын

    I glad the know what jesus looked like lol

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