@ShiftCtrl85 That sounds so good 😞 I miss the days of being able to go out and sit in a dark, dank pub... Even the piss-sodden toilets... It all sounds great.
Lovely to see 'Big Jim' getting so many kind comments. Yes, he is still a big strong man - used to be the anchor man on local tug-o-war teams in his younger days. Last of the gentleman bachelors.
I'm one of those "Blow In" Brits from England as I've been called in rural West of Ireland. I purchased a run down old cottage with no neighbours, nearest neighbour is a old fella like him in the video, when I first went past his cottage I thought it was derelict and empty. I moved here just before Covid, it's only been me checking on the old guy and getting his grocery shopping once a week to avoid covid. Loneliness I've found is a big problem in rural Ireland, very sad.
@@kidpresentable6004 I have Irish heritage and try to go back every five years. I notice big changes every time I visit, it is becoming too much like the UK and losing all it's charm.
Loneliness 🙄Nahh! City's full of foreign people is a huge huge problem in the city's.. Rural Ireland is the heart of Ireland and always will be Anyone who don't like The smell of silage in the morning boii and beautiful Irish countryside sure they can move to Dublin or any big city I don't care
@@benlotus2703 bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla That's all you say koward bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla
@@benlotus2703 No he will not be globalist coward degenerate go away! It's not even possible tho for one of does durt you speak of to replace a man like him 🙄Not possible
A bunch of us drove around Ireland (from Wales) in the 80s. Got lost. A girl, with us, headed up a lane to a cottage for directions. After a little chat, she came back having been proposed to. They might be lonely there, but they don't pass up on a chance.
@@joseph1845 i live in the countryside and it is the biggest shit of wifi I can barely search anything and having moved from Australia in the town and Australia has the slowest WiFi in the world well it’s nothing compared to rural Ireland
@@ihonestlydontcare1158 Really?? Oz has the slowest WiFi in the world? That really surprises me. I mean, with such a small population, all spaced nicely in ‘hubs’ around the rim of the continent.... logistically, at least, one would think it would easy to cover with top-notch WiFi.........
@@angelogandolfo4174 well when the test the speeds they always go to Dublin or cork which are very populated areas with fast speeds but there is still so many parts of Ireland with no WiFi or very slow WiFi like my speeds drop to kilobytes and the highest is 2 mb so ya
Leo doesn't give a shit about Jim and rural ireland, The Elitist in the government want them to just die away, It makes me very angry, Jim should be treasured and shown as a great example of what a man is.
It is not Leo that is pushing the change. It is the media that are the architects of the change as it is them to drive the political game. Any politician in the western world who tries to bring the issue up are automatically labelled as a racist by the media.
You think of the great men and women of Ireland who gave their lives for her to be free. Leo doesn't even deserve the passport. Odious little man. We need more fella's like Jim.
Oh Barry... don’t you know men are now toxic? Unless Jim here was from a “minority” group. Well then Leo would have his best interests at heart indeed.
What a lovely man I think it's very sad that the government are not taking care of rural Ireland I'm from dublin but iv always loved the countryside my daughter lived in Mayo for a couple of years and Galway and I used to love driving down to mayo and Galway everything about both places were great the people the friendliness was so refreshing any shop you went into the people couldn't do enough for you ,we've lost that friendliness in Dublin now I'm sad to say ,So look after rural Ireland Please 🥰🥰
The best way for government to take care of rural Ireland is to for government to do nothing. It is all the government interference that is causing the issues in the first place. Ireland closed down several of its power generations facilities so that the government can claim it is is lowering carbon emissions. Next they are going to ban coal and turf for people in the countryside.
Love the Irish and traditional people like this. It’s so heart warming and precious. Such a sad and inevitable fact that the passage of time and globalisation means we lose such people to the realms of history. God bless him and give him good health.
Thumbnail made me think he was gonna be a ranting raving angry man lol, such well mannered old gentlemen, also looking well for 80, them boys know how to eat right and live right, good luck Jim 👍😄
I only went once in 1998 after getting involved in Irish music and it was one of the most memorable experiences of my life. I drove from Dublin to Kilrush and then toured around for a week. A lovely country with lovely people and some fantastic exports especially the people that now live in the UK
Rural England too. When I moved to the hills two miles out of the village 33 years ago, there was a butchers, post office/shop, hairdressers, garage and two pubs in the village. Now there's one pub and the nearest place to get a pint of milk is five miles away. Not the end of the Earth, but awkward for older country people, who's ranks I'm beginning to join!! They buy up the shops and pubs to make housing, accountants and small businesses buy up smaller shops (like the old hairdressers) so they can work in a rural environment, and they have more financial clout than a girl doing hair.
@@davidkerr797 I'll hide in here too lads! Looks strong as an ox! Seen a few of the comments saying he used to be anchorman on the tug-of-war team..looks every bit of it too.
@@thursoberwick1948 post offices closing weekly 120 garda stations closed over the last few years,no ambulance service to rural areas,the list is endless ... seasonal flu kills more than this bullshit, people surely now see what's unfolding before there eyes has nothing to do with a disease.
@@earthsgard Aye, the slow drip abolition of cash over twenty or thirty years... The destruction of real communities, their replacement with interest groups... Everything going on line, but mostly onto a handful of websites with heavy censorship. They want us to sit staring at a machine, probably eventually some kind of matrix is simulation. If we're needed at all when they automate all the jobs. As for the disease a friend spent three weeks in hospital with Covid or something like it he caught in New York. There is something out there but I don't think its origins and fatality rate are quite what they claim.
Fresh and well you are looking Jim. 80! People need their local post office. If that means a subsidy from the government, só be it. Save rural Ireland!!!
What do you think the past year has been about? They don't want offices, shops, physical banks etc, they just want the peasants to stare at screens all day so Gates, Bezos and co make more money. Most national governments have used this year to accelerate t.
@@raibeartthehairypict4696 The man makes my skin crawl. I used to think he was just a nerd but he now combines that with a messiah complex. It saddens me that the SNP is pursuing so much of this globalist drivel. It's like the billionaires have bought out all the major parties.
@@thursoberwick1948 Totally agree with that. Voted for them for thirty years. They've lost me now. I've been saying for a while now. Maybe it's time for a new political party in Scotland.
@@raibeartthehairypict4696 I've always been 100% pro-independence, but I can't be doing with the woke keich. The Greens pushed out Andy Wightman with this crap and he was one of the few decent folk they had. If anyone thinks I'm automatically evil for being white or male, they don't get my vote. I spoilt my ballot last time because we had a couple of candidates like that. These folk also tend to be anti-working class, ageist and bigoted about folk's religion. I honestly think we haven't moved any nearer to independence since 2014 despite Brexit. It's all policies like raising the price of alcohol and taking control of children from their parents.
So fucking sad and rage inducing at the same time. The people who ignore this shit, vote it in or make excuses for it are just as responsible as the powers that be. Never forget that.
my god i nearly fell off my chair when he said he was nearly 80..ive defiantly seen 45 yr olds that look older...good onya Jim, you're doing something right
No need to close any post office. The government creates the money and pay for anything it wishes. The government’s not saving money by closing post offices, it’s actually preventing people from acquiring the currency to do business and pay off their tax liabilities 🤷♂️ Government spends first, tax payments and bond purchases are done after, if at all
My local village in Tipperary is shocking.. when I was growing up there were about 3 thousand people around the place and a bustling main Street... Fast forward to today !! 2 pubs gone, post office closed, chippers closed, marine and fishing shop closed, and both shops on the main Street closed !! The only shop in the village open is the hair salon.. well it's closed now due to covid obv but remains to be seen if that will disappear now too... Last rumor I heard.. less than 800 people left in the village... All my old friends are gone.. not one of them around... What happened ?? it's genuinely a ghost town... If u don't believe me it's called Littleton.. on the way to Cashel on the old main road...
I believe you - I see it when I drive around Ireland. I think it has to do with young people moving out of villages and towns, first for further education and then for jobs. The town just dries up without young people. However - there are signs that this trend may be reversed, due to Work From Home trend. The WFH will continue long after COVID, because its much cheaper for a company NOT to have a HQ in a pricey part of the capital city. The big losers will be the developers, landlords (and banks that lent billions for inner city high end corporate offices - more bailouts on the way). Once people realise that they don't need to pay 600,000 euros for crappy flat in dublin so that the office (who wants to sit in a crap apparment staring at your laptop) they will be able to move out to the towns and villages and buy a proper house with large garden, fresh air etc for half that. When they do come - make sure they are welcome. Don't fall into that trap of thinking - they're not from round here, they're pushing out our young people etc. Your towns are dead now, they will bring life. Cafe's, pubs and shops will reopen.
They're planning to close the post office in Birkenhead over here in England, my nan and her friends are so angry because it's the only post office they can get to since they don't drive, and some of them still pay bills at the post office because they don't use computers, my nan doesn't even have wifi in her house
It's the country air and manure. It keeps you young and healthy. I feel terrible for him though. Cavan is a very forgotten place at the best of times and the older citizens really suffer as a result. I work in the medical field and the hospital coverage in Cavan is atrocious. If anybody wants to get an MRI or a CT-Scan for life threatening illness for example, they have to travel a fair distance to have it done. The alternative is to go on the public waiting list in Cavan General, but you might be dead by the time it happens. Desperately sad.
What a strong looking man for 80 and a gentleman to boot must be living in the good fresh air and working hard preserved him a privilege to hear his perspective and opinions.
Looks fine for his age, I would never have guessed. Love that part of Ireland, up around Ballinamore. Any excuse to go on a business trip from England, and I'm there. Fine country and a damned fine people. Don't let mass immigration ruin it.
The border counties : Cavan and Fermanagh are two of the most beautiful places in Ireland. In Europe even. I spent an eventful afternoon in Blacklion a while back .!
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Hilarious Lupin :)
not wrong
I’ve seen older-looking 30-year-olds, lol.
Globalist degenerates that's why..
@ShiftCtrl85 That sounds so good 😞 I miss the days of being able to go out and sit in a dark, dank pub... Even the piss-sodden toilets... It all sounds great.
id say late 50s
@ShiftCtrl85 Go away eh durt degenerate.. And remember we are your greatest Fear
@ShiftCtrl85 are you special ? Most people don’t even make it to his age.
Almost 80?
Looks like a 40 year old Belfast man. 😉
😂🤣. Andy England 🇬🇧 👍
Hes just a whipper snapper im 60 & Look 95 looks like Amazon are affecting & Infecting all in the world
I want what he's on, good lad
He's a real man.. No globalist shyte junk bag rapper wannabe 🙄
@@AwRighttttt I wish he was my father, honestly
Lovely to see 'Big Jim' getting so many kind comments. Yes, he is still a big strong man - used to be the anchor man on local tug-o-war teams in his younger days. Last of the gentleman bachelors.
Thats why he looks so good and strong,he never got married,its all making sense now!
No wonder still fit and strong, being a bachelor !
Women don't just drain you financially !!!
Say hello from the internet when e see him again Patrick , thank you peace to all , n stay safe
If you bump into Jim. Give him my best wishes. Cheers Patrick.
I have a feeling 'big Jim' is loaded.
I'm one of those "Blow In" Brits from England as I've been called in rural West of Ireland. I purchased a run down old cottage with no neighbours, nearest neighbour is a old fella like him in the video, when I first went past his cottage I thought it was derelict and empty. I moved here just before Covid, it's only been me checking on the old guy and getting his grocery shopping once a week to avoid covid. Loneliness I've found is a big problem in rural Ireland, very sad.
What made you move to Ireland?
I'd rather be lonely than be around a load of foreigners in the heartland of eire
@@kidpresentable6004 Ireland is changing, there will probably be a lot more foreigners heading to Ireland now that Brexit has gone through.
@@VincentRE79 I know ,its very depressing
@@kidpresentable6004 I have Irish heritage and try to go back every five years. I notice big changes every time I visit, it is becoming too much like the UK and losing all it's charm.
Loneliness is a huge problem in rural Ireland. I find this quite sad. Such a lovely man.
Loneliness 🙄Nahh! City's full of foreign people is a huge huge problem in the city's.. Rural Ireland is the heart of Ireland and always will be
Anyone who don't like The smell of silage in the morning boii and beautiful Irish countryside sure they can move to Dublin or any big city I don't care
Loneliness is a problem but idd never hugg a Post Office
@@AwRighttttt well said
@@brianmilligan1787 Wonderful comment.
I live in Dublin and i can tell you that its gone downhill since they let all the foreigners in. Rural ireland is the real ireland
Looks great for 80
He's great
I thought that
samderrida That Jemison'll pickle ya proper!
Nearly 80, 57.
I thought he was like 50
Never in a million years would I have known he was 80! Wish him well.
We are sitting back and letting precious things slip out of our hand. Never to get them back. And for what? Fools indeed we are.
He will be replaced by a black man in 20 yrs time.
Adios Eire.
Beautiful country.
@@benlotus2703 bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla That's all you say koward bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla
@@benlotus2703 No he will not be globalist coward degenerate go away!
It's not even possible tho for one of does durt you speak of to replace a man like him 🙄Not possible
@@benlotus2703 bigger backbone in a frog than thus boy obviously
So what's your solution?.The church fucked the country forever along with the Brits.
A bunch of us drove around Ireland (from Wales) in the 80s. Got lost. A girl, with us, headed up a lane to a cottage for directions. After a little chat, she came back having been proposed to. They might be lonely there, but they don't pass up on a chance.
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Haha! Classic.
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Was the proposal for marriage, or something more transient?
@@alexanderSydneyOz I guess you're kidding, but just in case - for marriage, yes.
I'm English but work with Irish people all the time. Great people. God bless all of ya.
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blokes like this deserve free high speed broadband
Wired, not wireless. Go into the countryside away from the RFs and try sleeping a few nights and you will see how bad for you this radiation is.
@@joseph1845 i live in the countryside and it is the biggest shit of wifi I can barely search anything and having moved from Australia in the town and Australia has the slowest WiFi in the world well it’s nothing compared to rural Ireland
@@ihonestlydontcare1158
Really?? Oz has the slowest WiFi in the world? That really surprises me. I mean, with such a small population, all spaced nicely in ‘hubs’ around the rim of the continent.... logistically, at least, one would think it would easy to cover with top-notch WiFi.........
@@angelogandolfo4174 well when the test the speeds they always go to Dublin or cork which are very populated areas with fast speeds but there is still so many parts of Ireland with no WiFi or very slow WiFi like my speeds drop to kilobytes and the highest is 2 mb so ya
He can't even work out the digital TV.... you don't know old rural people.
As I know about many of my fellow American acquaintances, Jim is, with no doubt, the salt of the earth sort of fellow! God Bless Ya Sir.
Leo doesn't give a shit about Jim and rural ireland, The Elitist in the government want them to just die away,
It makes me very angry,
Jim should be treasured and shown as a great example of what a man is.
It is not Leo that is pushing the change. It is the media that are the architects of the change as it is them to drive the political game.
Any politician in the western world who tries to bring the issue up are automatically labelled as a racist by the media.
So your telling me they care about the city's? 🙄😳The absolute state of most city's in Ireland ish a joke
You think of the great men and women of Ireland who gave their lives for her to be free. Leo doesn't even deserve the passport. Odious little man. We need more fella's like Jim.
Join the National Party
Oh Barry... don’t you know men are now toxic? Unless Jim here was from a “minority” group. Well then Leo would have his best interests at heart indeed.
Youngest looking nearly 80 year old I've ever seen. He even sounds young.
He wants his pension early 🤣
Sharp as a tack
Jim is as fresh as ever he only gave up football last year through injury he got a kick in the Bollocks playing for Cavan.
Holy fuck hahahaha
Hahahaha epic
Hilarious 😂, he’s a fit and young looking man. Up the dubs
Cavan have taken more than a few kicks in the bollocks down through the years...!
Good man John, telling it straight... Best laugh I've had in weeks. From a Monaghan man...!
What a lovely man I think it's very sad that the government are not taking care of rural Ireland I'm from dublin but iv always loved the countryside my daughter lived in Mayo for a couple of years and Galway and I used to love driving down to mayo and Galway everything about both places were great the people the friendliness was so refreshing any shop you went into the people couldn't do enough for you ,we've lost that friendliness in Dublin now I'm sad to say ,So look after rural Ireland Please 🥰🥰
The best way for government to take care of rural Ireland is to for government to do nothing. It is all the government interference that is causing the issues in the first place.
Ireland closed down several of its power generations facilities so that the government can claim it is is lowering carbon emissions.
Next they are going to ban coal and turf for people in the countryside.
Jim Kilbride is a horse of a man. 👍
Love the Irish and traditional people like this. It’s so heart warming and precious. Such a sad and inevitable fact that the passage of time and globalisation means we lose such people to the realms of history. God bless him and give him good health.
Thumbnail made me think he was gonna be a ranting raving angry man lol, such well mannered old gentlemen, also looking well for 80, them boys know how to eat right and live right, good luck Jim 👍😄
I only went once in 1998 after getting involved in Irish music and it was one of the most memorable experiences of my life. I drove from Dublin to Kilrush and then toured around for a week. A lovely country with lovely people and some fantastic exports especially the people that now live in the UK
Rural Ireland is getting fecked over.
Ya can say that again
Rural england is getting fecked over as well.
Rural England too. When I moved to the hills two miles out of the village 33 years ago, there was a butchers, post office/shop, hairdressers, garage and two pubs in the village. Now there's one pub and the nearest place to get a pint of milk is five miles away. Not the end of the Earth, but awkward for older country people, who's ranks I'm beginning to join!! They buy up the shops and pubs to make housing, accountants and small businesses buy up smaller shops (like the old hairdressers) so they can work in a rural environment, and they have more financial clout than a girl doing hair.
@@bellerophonchallen8861 sounds like life in rural Canada where I am.
Your Fecking wright Fecking Disgrace talking Fecking Liberties Its Fecking True Feck
God bless him he's a fresh 80
As a Dublin Man its always nice to see the point of view from the very hard working Countryman
Here here. Our globalist, west Brit government have sold out those in rural Ireland
He reminds me so much of my grandad the way he talks. Hope he’s still going strong, doesn’t look 80
I've never thought "I wouldn't want to take a dig off him" when I saw an 80 year old before
Ah thought that as well man.
@@davidkerr797 I'll hide in here too lads! Looks strong as an ox! Seen a few of the comments saying he used to be anchorman on the tug-of-war team..looks every bit of it too.
"That's how you know your neighbours are still alive.... You meet them at the post office" 😂😂
I wouldn’t mind looking fresh like him if I reach 80
He says he's almost 80. He also forgot to mention he has no use for the internet other than porn. Not that there's anything wrong with that
Is it gone the post office, disgraceful.
The government is just shafting rural Ireland and Ireland as a whole...
This is global. What do you think has happened over the past year. Social distancing has a double meaning. This isn't all disease control.
@@thursoberwick1948 post offices closing weekly 120 garda stations closed over the last few years,no ambulance service to rural areas,the list is endless ... seasonal flu kills more than this bullshit, people surely now see what's unfolding before there eyes has nothing to do with a disease.
@@earthsgard Aye, the slow drip abolition of cash over twenty or thirty years... The destruction of real communities, their replacement with interest groups... Everything going on line, but mostly onto a handful of websites with heavy censorship. They want us to sit staring at a machine, probably eventually some kind of matrix is simulation. If we're needed at all when they automate all the jobs.
As for the disease a friend spent three weeks in hospital with Covid or something like it he caught in New York. There is something out there but I don't think its origins and fatality rate are quite what they claim.
Most governments seem to be, about now.
Looks well for his age! What a gent, proud to see another Cavan man on me recommended page
Jim Gilbride is one fine example of a man.
Fresh and well you are looking Jim.
80!
People need their local post office. If that means a subsidy from the government, só be it. Save rural Ireland!!!
They're doing the same all over Scotland. The PO has always been an integral part of our rural communities. This isn't fair for the older citizens.
What do you think the past year has been about? They don't want offices, shops, physical banks etc, they just want the peasants to stare at screens all day so Gates, Bezos and co make more money. Most national governments have used this year to accelerate t.
@@thursoberwick1948 It's a bitter pill to swallow. Gates is buying up an awful lot of land just now. I wouldn't trust him as far as I could throw him.
@@raibeartthehairypict4696 The man makes my skin crawl. I used to think he was just a nerd but he now combines that with a messiah complex.
It saddens me that the SNP is pursuing so much of this globalist drivel. It's like the billionaires have bought out all the major parties.
@@thursoberwick1948 Totally agree with that. Voted for them for thirty years. They've lost me now. I've been saying for a while now. Maybe it's time for a new political party in Scotland.
@@raibeartthehairypict4696 I've always been 100% pro-independence, but I can't be doing with the woke keich. The Greens pushed out Andy Wightman with this crap and he was one of the few decent folk they had.
If anyone thinks I'm automatically evil for being white or male, they don't get my vote. I spoilt my ballot last time because we had a couple of candidates like that. These folk also tend to be anti-working class, ageist and bigoted about folk's religion.
I honestly think we haven't moved any nearer to independence since 2014 despite Brexit. It's all policies like raising the price of alcohol and taking control of children from their parents.
Lucky man that he's getting on in age.
Who wants to live through this coming shitstorm?
I do.
So fucking sad and rage inducing at the same time. The people who ignore this shit, vote it in or make excuses for it are just as responsible as the powers that be. Never forget that.
'The men with the nice smiles and the three piece suits.'
Very sad. No post offices, no banks, no pubs in rural Ireland . Well done politicians. And the people let it happen. Good luck to u Jim
1:12 'you'd never see a sinner' - that sounds like heaven to me
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Jokes aside it’s fairly sad. Rural Ireland is dying due to the government’s indifference and selfishness
This is where my mother came from. So I had not problem understand this old fellow. God bless.
80? Jaysus...he musta lied about his age to get the pension early back the years
Cute culchie
Good luck Jim and best wishes from England!
Always loved listening to the old guys.....quality....
Imagine how much better it would have been if he was sober?
Any withdrawal of services is a threat to communities. The value of social contact is greatly under rated.
It's highly rated. That is why it is being destroyed worldwide. They just want you to stare at screens all day.
God bless this lovely man! 🤩🙏💕❤💚
my god i nearly fell off my chair when he said he was nearly 80..ive defiantly seen 45 yr olds that look older...good onya Jim, you're doing something right
Sad for the old folk !!!
Come on people of Ireland ! Look after your senior citizens.
Fair play to him Looks only 60
Less.
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I expect that the algorithm wanted me to not understand him, but as a Newf, I understood every single word lol. LLLLLoves it!
Good man Jim 💚
Love from the Irish potato family.
Good strong Irish man right there.
Good man! Jim.
Pleasant interview!
He doesn't want to say those dorty words " The Internet ".
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Yeah, perv
WiFi is the ruination of family's nonody talks to anyone anymore they just type UA-cam comments and stuff
@@dannyboy8257 way to be different
My dad was from Cavan. Arva.
Great place great people.
Ain't been back since 93.
Dad from ballyconnel yrs ago he'd be well over hundered plus wonder if it's same. P o
Miserable tight wads with a dreadful accent. Worst place on earth.
@@Roger_Ramjet why did you live there my dad was from c I find this an insult I think Dublin people have a horrible accent lots of love x
There are druggy teens look exactly like this guy
They don’t make them no more.
Hear, hear.
80!? Looks fit for that age, I wouldn’t wanna tussle with him!
I heard he was a part time farmer and was really good tug of war player so I’m pretty sure he’s one of them strong old ones
@Vertubenflugen that was a joke comment. Do you really think there'd be 70 something year olds playing for their county?
@Vertubenflugen I said county not country. It's a gaa term as this is Ireland not the UK. You know... Gaelic football not soccer.
Look up Gaelic football and you'll see that that's no sport for an old man.
Ahhh. Bless 🥰. Change can be tough esp for the elders. May we help them ❤
No need to close any post office. The government creates the money and pay for anything it wishes. The government’s not saving money by closing post offices, it’s actually preventing people from acquiring the currency to do business and pay off their tax liabilities 🤷♂️ Government spends first, tax payments and bond purchases are done after, if at all
Jim for Taoiseach , he is a real Man of Ireland. Makes my blood boil what is being done to our Country.
He looks well for a man of his age . I hope he can get to the nearest post office these days .
My local village in Tipperary is shocking.. when I was growing up there were about 3 thousand people around the place and a bustling main Street... Fast forward to today !! 2 pubs gone, post office closed, chippers closed, marine and fishing shop closed, and both shops on the main Street closed !! The only shop in the village open is the hair salon.. well it's closed now due to covid obv but remains to be seen if that will disappear now too... Last rumor I heard.. less than 800 people left in the village... All my old friends are gone.. not one of them around... What happened ?? it's genuinely a ghost town... If u don't believe me it's called Littleton.. on the way to Cashel on the old main road...
I believe you - I see it when I drive around Ireland. I think it has to do with young people moving out of villages and towns, first for further education and then for jobs. The town just dries up without young people. However - there are signs that this trend may be reversed, due to Work From Home trend. The WFH will continue long after COVID, because its much cheaper for a company NOT to have a HQ in a pricey part of the capital city. The big losers will be the developers, landlords (and banks that lent billions for inner city high end corporate offices - more bailouts on the way). Once people realise that they don't need to pay 600,000 euros for crappy flat in dublin so that the office (who wants to sit in a crap apparment staring at your laptop) they will be able to move out to the towns and villages and buy a proper house with large garden, fresh air etc for half that. When they do come - make sure they are welcome. Don't fall into that trap of thinking - they're not from round here, they're pushing out our young people etc. Your towns are dead now, they will bring life. Cafe's, pubs and shops will reopen.
The old man is correct...he goes to the village to engage with other people. Life is nothing without other people around you.
A great son of Ireland, fair play to him
I knew a Jim McBride in London back in the late 1980s he was know as 'Big Jim' he was from Swanlinbar as well..
No different man he's gilbride away an clean ur ears out
I’d love to live somewhere like that place where you don’t see nobody but the postman once a week.
Awe, what a wonderful lovely character. Reminds me of my youth in rural North Cornwall.
*Aww
He actually said he’s nearly 18 not 80 guys
They're planning to close the post office in Birkenhead over here in England, my nan and her friends are so angry because it's the only post office they can get to since they don't drive, and some of them still pay bills at the post office because they don't use computers, my nan doesn't even have wifi in her house
Those type of great characters are becoming a rarity these days, bless him
He's either lying about his age or he looks fantastic for an 80 year old.
He's 80. People in the comments know him as a local personally.
It's the country air and manure. It keeps you young and healthy. I feel terrible for him though. Cavan is a very forgotten place at the best of times and the older citizens really suffer as a result. I work in the medical field and the hospital coverage in Cavan is atrocious. If anybody wants to get an MRI or a CT-Scan for life threatening illness for example, they have to travel a fair distance to have it done. The alternative is to go on the public waiting list in Cavan General, but you might be dead by the time it happens. Desperately sad.
Wait until the corporate takeover of rural farms starts,push the small farmers off the land.
Started a long time ago
Wait until this happens and people then start to blame the “foreigners”. Nothing makes the capitalists happier than when we blame someone else...
You Can tell this man not mean from Cavan I would say a Heart Of Gold Lol These are the people we want to keep
A nice man
My grandfather was from Cavan. His older brother inherited the farm and he went off to be a carpenter in England and New Jersey
Not sure how I stumbled on this. But I hope they didn't close this post office. Cheers from Western Canada!
I LOVE CAVAN - FINEA. ~ JDS/CT. GOD BLESS JIM .
Further isolation.
He looks like both a grandad and his young grandson at the same time
He'd pass for less than 60.
In what country
He is well known locally for having faked his age to claim a pension. He's no more 80 than I am 150.
Almost 80! Must be all that fresh air, fresh fish, and locally grown greens, and Guinness.
Fucking A, Jim you are top banana for 80 mate ;) all the best from Scotland ;)
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I bet he could run to, and back, from the other post office anyway. A great fella, proper bloke.
The most laid back dismayed man ever. Hope I look that good at 80
What a strong looking man for 80 and a gentleman to boot must be living in the good fresh air and working hard preserved him a privilege to hear his perspective and opinions.
Same here in Wales closing everything 👎🏴
Agenda 21. Make rural life nearly impossible to force everybody into the cities
If I was near there , I would go visit him. God bless you anyway Jim, Good luck!
yes indeed!
Looks fine for his age, I would never have guessed. Love that part of Ireland, up around Ballinamore. Any excuse to go on a business trip from England, and I'm there. Fine country and a damned fine people. Don't let mass immigration ruin it.
You can stay put
Lovely to hear the accent .And interesting to listen to the response .
It’s a wonder bus loads of Africans haven’t been dropped off in the town
Like The Apex gangs all over Oz.
Australia is being over-run by gangs from Sudan, Africa.... all imported by Oz Gov
I know pal but they will in a matter of time
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Well done Jim......decent man
Such a shame for craggy Island
Jim Gilbride you legend !
There is an establishment in Hyde Park, Massachusetts named the Cavan House. A decent place to have a drop.
Huh?
Is it open these days?
@@Roger_Ramjet I'm not certain but it was a good place to be left alone to enjoy myself.
@@Roger_Ramjet I'm glad to report that despite the virus Cavan House remains open. Alcohol has antiseptic qualities!
Who the fuck needs the Mediterranean diet if you get to 80 looking like this?
The border counties : Cavan and Fermanagh are two of the most beautiful
places in Ireland. In Europe even. I spent an eventful afternoon in Blacklion
a while back .!
Oh me too! Some village…. Not fond of the queen…..
But that's another story, so to speak.
Looks strong at 80. What an admirable man.
He is from Glen ... ? Didn’t catch it.
Glan short for glangevlin,,,...Just outside swanlinbar
Glenamaddy. Seemingly there are four roads to take you to there.
It's called Glangevlin Glan for short
All the best Jim.
Nice to see an irish interview which wasnt a mocking childish pisstake of the accent or something.
Most RTE interviews aren't to be fair.
Smart dude. We should listen to him.