A Poitin (Poteen) Industry For Connemara? Ireland 1977
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- Опубліковано 5 лют 2024
- Comharchumann Cois Fharraige has a plan to legalise and develop illicit poteen making it into an industry for the West of Ireland.
Michael Lally of Comharchumann Cois Fharraige outlines the proposal for RTÉ News.
For generations, poteen-making has been big business in Connemara.
People have been making poteen in the Hills of Connemara for generations. It is an illegal industry, but as the Gardaí have been unable to halt production, it is also an industry that is very much alive, and lucrative. One bottle can cost £3.50, but the production price can be as little as 30 pence.
It’s because the profits are so big that Comharchumann Cois Fharraige wants to turn poteen making into a multi-million pound industry.
The Connemara Gaeltacht cooperative’s spokesman Michael Lally explained to RTÉ reporter Jim Fahy that if poteen were to be made legally, it would be a sizeable economic asset to the country. News of Comharchumann Cois Fharraige’s discussion paper on this subject had been leaked to the press, prior to its publication. On the basis of rumour alone, four separate companies had contacted them to express their interest.
People within the trade realise the potential of the suggestion that we are putting forward, and by no means is this a far-fetched story.
According to Comharchumann Cois Fharraige, legal poteen making has the potential to provide employment for up to a thousand people on a national basis and would be able to contribute 40 to 60 million pounds to the Irish economy within ten years.
An RTÉ News report broadcast on 25 February 1977. The reporter is Jim Fahy. - Розваги
john cussack's finest role.
Last time I visited home, I came back with a bottle of poitin!
Bring 2 or 4 it gets better with age and tell the customs man that it is holey water, it is the water of life
From the hills of Connemara, to the Apalachia, to the back woods here in Newfoundland... Poitin, shine, mountain dew, white lightning, it doesn't matter what you name it, or where you brew it, it is a part of the people's history. Corporate interests will always want to profit off the back of the artisans and makers. The rarity of old recipes or finely honed craft will never be replaced, but they can be lost to greed and time. I quit the drink 4 years ago, yet see no harm in responsibly going about it, and handing down the old ways to the next generations.
I fully agree with every word you said, people did not get rich from making Poitin, shine, mountain dew, white lightning, they made a little money for their hard work and great skills,
This is the 1970s Irish Version of breaking Bad and Instead of Walter White you have Jack O Brien Whose Alias is Murph
"The best efforts of the gardaí"😂😂😂.
I say lay off the real Poitin makers, this fine and honorable trade is being devalued by big profit companies who come along and steal the story, the name but yet they do not produce the same best quality, theirs is but a poor imitation of the real stuff. My dear departed father as a very young man with his younger brothers made some of the finest Poitin that ever came out of the hills of Connemara. Long may the true and so called illegal Poitin makers continue to produce their finest water of life.
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I wonder what Jim done with that bottle?
"Big business" lol. It was an important part of rural culture but the idea that it was a big money maker is rather amusing.
It is an insult and a lies, if someone made a few hundred pounds for their hard work then they would have done well
Hilarious
Total lies about the three-quarters of a million pounds made between Sep and Dec 1977. the 1,000 people who would gain jobs from a proper company producing their dishwater pretend Poitin
Never happened unfortunately.
It has was legalised a number of years ago