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In this video we react to a compilation of funny Irish Police moments. Also known as the Gardai or Garda, Irish Police seem to have a great sense of humor. We thought these clips were hilarious, except for the last one. This makes me want to learn more about policing in Ireland as it seems there are probably quite a few differences compared to the Police we're used to.
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In Ireland, there are three levels of legality. There's "Ah, you're doin' fine", there's "Don't push your luck" and there's "Oi, now you're takin' the piss" That's the level that you get arrested.
lol.
Same in England. I cant talk for the rest of UK. But I think they are all pretty much how they are in Ireland. I was in Belfast back in the early 90s and they were more serious, but back then it was understandable, due to the tension going on. I dont know if things have relaxed anymore now.
@@dawn5227 That was the RUC totally different force.They were 90% protestant force back then so catholics who were about 45% of the population then.The successor force the PSNI are a good bit more representative but still its 75% protestant despite being 43% of the population so there is a bit to go.
lol 😂
Same in some parts of England.
My hometown had a thing for a while between the police an all the bar doorstaff where people caught urinating in shop doorways or similar found a mop and bucket would materialise from the nearest bar and be handed to them by the police. Provided they cleaned up their mess there and then no further action was taken.
It was actually very effective
30 years ago I was driving to a business meeting in the South of Dublin and I was comming from Belfast in the North. I became completely lost near central Dublin during morning rush hour and saw a gardai car stopped at the side of the road so I pulled over to ask directions. After several attempts to give me directions, each of which ended by the gard with " no that's too complicated" he finaly said "tell you what, just get in your car and follow us". Four miles later they slowed down and pointed to the building I was looking for and gave me a big wave.
😂❤
I'm from skerries
@@David9LUFC God help you😁!
Not just the guards... I was on a bus in summer and it was really hot and sunny. Bus driver stopped his bus at a shop and went into buy everyone on the bus an ice cream 😂
Awesome!!
My kinda bus driver! What bus route were you on?
we had a bus driver that when the busses were cancelled due to the snow last year took out his own car and drove everyone to their drs appointments, nursing home visits etc, he is a really lovely guy! he is a west cork driver but did a city to north cork run as well
That sounds like something would happen in Ireland alright😁
That sounds like 'I want an ice cream. I really want an ice cream but if I stop my bus to get one I'll get in trouble. BUT WAIT! I'll buy all these feckers an ice cream too then they'll keep quiet."
I was on a packed public bus going nowhere fast due to traffic jam it was in Dublin. So the bus driver did a full comedy skit over the speaker system to keep us all entertained. Making fun of all the passers by and traffic mistakes along the way. The entire bus full of people were bent over laughing I had tears in my eyes. It was the best trip of my life I wish I was still on that bus. 😂❤🇮🇪
When someone asks us a nosey question we say’ a gard wouldn’t ask me that’😆
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂❤
WHEN MY FRIEND WAS 8 MONTHS PREGNANT SHE DECIDED TO GET A MATRESS OVER TO HER SISTERS HOUSE, SMALL CAR BOOT OPEN MATRESS HANGING OUT THE BACK OF COURSE WE GOT PULLED OVER, GARDA COMES UP TO THE WINDOW TAKES ONE LOOK AT HER AND SAYS "I GOT 6 KIDS AT HOME, I`M NOT ARGUEING WITH A WOMAN ABOUT TO HAVE A BABY" TURNED AROUND AND WALKED OFF, LMAO
Smart man. Choose your battles carefully!
Solitary Irish Garda clearing a student sit down protest at Trinity College in the mid 80s: "Right lads , you've made your point. Time to clear out now"
Students sing " we shall not, we shall not be moved.."
"Ah com'on now, if ye don't clear out there could be serious consequences!"
" we shall not, we shall not be moved.."
"Last warning, if ye don't clear the Aula in the next 10 minutes I'll start taking arrests"
"We shall not, we shall not.."
"Ye do know that if you get a criminal record you've NO chance of getting into America, don't ye?"
Aula clears immediately 😅
Try find the show into the K. It's a documentary following the K District or Dublin After Dark.
Are Irish (and UK) police more or less `nice' and easy going? I think it boils down to the fact that they don't carry guns. Unarmed police have to develop good people skills and be capable, first and foremost, of defusing situations rather than go in mob-handed with force. Policing by consent makes for a more `easy going' approach.
UK police do carry guns
@@georgebarnes8163Not that many do routinely on the UK mainland, though.
They don't let citizens carry guns because things would happen
There are 147 thousand officers in the UK, just over 6 thousand carry guns.give or take it's about 4%
there are 9,000 armed police in NI alone@@Poweroftouch
The Gardai are generally good,when i had to isolate myself in the house during covid a garda did my shopping as part of his job.However there have been issues of corruption and the gardai themselves not being treated right in terms of pay and conditions.Also the gardai numbers haven't kept pace with the population growth.
I was on a girls weekend a few years ago in Dublin, we were rather tipsy when we saw a policeman directing traffic and we asked him if we could have a photograph taken with him. We were stunned when in the middle of the road he stopped the traffic in both directions put his arms round our shoulders let us get our picture and cross the road before he let the cars move again. We were impressed with all the police we came in contact with, nothing was too much trouble for them.
Ye deffo cheered him up😉✌🏻
The Irish sense of humour is legendary! 😂. They're so good at making fun of themselves, without causing any offence 🤪
True, at the Euros in France, Irish fans sang to Swedish fans 'Go home, to your sexy wives, go home to your sexy wives' to the tune of Go West by Pet Shop Boys. 😂
The guards are useless
Yeah I'm from dublin and no matter what well in my house we always just slag each other no matter what happend we always laugh cause if u don't laugh you'll cry
@@user-gj7nw4dv3cmy wife thinks I am strange for slaying my brothers and friends ,that’s just lads in an Irish house
@@blackietotheend 😂😂😂 I think it's just normal in a Irish house your leg could be falling off and they would tell you to give it over but I'm an only girl and the youngest with 3 bothers and that's they way we get through everything we always slag each other no matter what
My uncle who would have been in his late 70's was out on a Saturday night, missed the last bus/taxi so got the Garda to drive him home. He was around 30kms from home so his local Garda met them half way, still a story he tells in the nursing home😂. They were so good to the elderly during lockdown, delivering groceries & medication. The same old boy thought lockdown was bs, so he went out in his tractor (no driving license, but can drive a tractor on main roads) 🙈. They had to stop him & send him home😂, then would look in on him regularly. As a Scot I am amazed how laid back they are.
I was on holiday from England to Scotland with my Mom and Dad guess I was about 12 years old and it was in the mid 1970's we took a day to visit Glasgow I was horrified in the city centre how brutal the police were hitting to my mind very innocent young people with there big batons just for standing around chatting while the shops were closing at the end of the day
A police officer drove me to a funeral so I wouldn't miss it when the suspension broke on my car and blew out a tire when I was on the motorway. The other officer stayed behind with my car awaiting breakdown to come and pick it up and insured it got delivered to a garage. That's in England.
I've never had any problems with police, always been friendly and understanding. Probably because I'm not a criminal intentionally doing something wrong. I got pulled over when my son forgot to put on his seatbelt and I hadn't noticed. I just apologised and got my son to put it on and was sent on my way. No ticket, no fine against me, he could have if he wanted but he just warned me. I agreed all was good.
He was right. The lockdown was bs. A lot of cops knew it was bs too. That's why they turned a blind eye to a lot of the nonsense rules.
Steve and Lindsay, you need to watch Father Ted.
Everybody needs to watch Father Ted.
Sure an all!!
I just made sure I had Father Ted bookmarked. Based on thumbnails looks like it was a funny show.
Love Father Ted. Me and my mom were only laughing this afternoon remembering some scenes. Priests lost in a lingerie department. ‘Are you a racist now, father?’. Not letting the milk float drop below 4 miles an hour. ‘These are small, those are far away’. Classic.
ua-cam.com/video/TzItKb7W7Tc/v-deo.htmlsi=3FwrgTLTnzsP5gfU American UA-camr made this overview of the series Father Ted
I was at the Foo Fighters concert in Slane when we all started repeating what the garda was saying 🤣
I was at the Foo Fighters concert in Slane when we all started repeating what the garda was saying 🤣
I was at the Foo Fighters concert in Slane when we all started repeating what the garda was saying 🤣
I was at the Foo Fighters concert in Slane when we all started repeating what the garda was saying 🤣
The one where they are chanting "who is the sexy garda" was in France, I think, at the football European tournament or, as we call it, the "euros"
I thought it was at this year's Rugby World Cup, but you could be right.
Those were French police surrounded by Irish football fans.
It was in France and the French police loved the Irish football fans because they never caused any trouble
While the English were trashing the streets and fighting the Irish was singing to police and a little baby on a train 🚆 ❤❤❤❤
I remember after one of the football games in France the Irish supporters celebrated, then pulled out trash bags and went around picking up all the rubbish left behind. The European police love the Irish fans - loud, singing, and funny but no harm.
Some years ago i was driving along a motorway in dublin with my daughter. I was pulled over by a garda on a motorbike who told me my left back tyre was a bit flat. He proceeded to change my tyre..told me to drive carefully as i had no spare and wished me a nice day. Generally Irish garda are very friendly.
A garda who cared❤❤
Can't do that now, feminists would put him out of a job.
@@Brendan77132 😅
In Ireland and the UK the police are here to protect and serve, not control and scare. You can have a chat with any of them on the street, you can have a laugh with them and they will join in with stupid stuff. I would never be afraid of the UK police but that doesn't mean I don't respect them. They have a job to do and they know when to use that power and when to let it slide.
IRISH police are controllind and scaring others , mc gregor got a threat from the scum for stating his views and they call it " hate crime "
WHAT? That is the furthest thing from the truth. They're bullies, they protect the ruling class and foreigners and sacrifice the rest of us. A woman praying silently in her head gets arrested. Posting your opinion online gets you arrested. People walking down the street filming get harassed by them and they lie on camera. We see it time and time again. Oh and there's the with holding of the details and descriptions of a criminal if they are not white. And the 60 years worth of protection and cover ups for the muslim ray p gangs who target white working class children. British police are evil. I don't know one single person who trusts them.
The UK police know they are there to serve the public.
They are British so share our sense of humour I remember watching a police show and they caught a guy that had run away from the police and the cops sent the dog to chase him and once caught the guy was giving it large saying "that dogs slow" took him ages to catch me"- the cops just laughed at him and had a joke. If you step out of line with them and swear though you will get arrested pretty quickly so you should respect them!
I would be careful when having a joke or fun with our british police they are not all like it but some have anger issues I would urge caution
UK police are an embarrassment and are scared of a certain religion, they let children be abused by gangs of muslim paedos in towns around the country and lied about the Hillsborough disaster.
Isn't it amazing to live in a country where your police don't gun you down simply for existing!
No
Isn't it amazing to live in a country where you can stab 5 people including children and then the press and police will only focus on the riots that were the result of their response to the stabbings
Some of us live in a country where the Police don't carry sidearms.
@@incamoran9532 This is true, there are some countries out there where the police do not carry guns at all. Here in the UK quite a lot of police carry guns.
Irish gardai don’t carry guns and I prefer it that way
There is always an exception to the rule. But generally the garda are a decent bunch, usually they live in the community that they police, know the locals, drink in the pubs, kids go to the local schools etc. (I live in rural Ireland, city policing so could be very different) Garda seem to be slightly more about the "spirit" of the law as opposed to the letter of the law.
Live in the community they police.. in Rural Ireland.. What part of rural Ireland are you in when the area being policed isn't a massive area with many small towns and villages?
Most towns have a Garda house but most are closed most the day if not totally and served from a larger regional station.
If by "part of the community" you perhaps mean part of the GAA / upper mid class circles.. That is only a select portion of the community. Even in rural Ireland
That's good to know. Sounds like the police in my area as well.
the ones that were say who is the sex garda, were having fun, but if that female officer needed help after that, because she took it in good fun, there would be 50 men from the public to support her,
Well said.
There's a story in my town a WPC had arrested a lad and had him in the back of the car when she was assaulted by "a nother". So this guy gets out the back of the car and gave her attacker a good kicking then got back in the car.
That clip was from the Euros in France
The clip of the football fans singing to the policewoman was France at the Eoros. They took it in good heart!!❤
That was in Poland not Ireland.
It clearly states, in the last clip, that it was a terror training exercise. The Garda don't carry firearms as there is a special unit that will be deployed if firearms are required.
Yeah it was an exercise. But still, that flash grenade was REALLY close to that person's ears. That had to hurt
They probably would have been wearing ear plugs for health and safety reasons, usually they would be fellow officers, serious compensation would be paid if proper safety guidelines were not adhered to
The guards don't give a shit
@@David9LUFC You had a bad experience?
I wonder why.
@@MsFionaxxx my car was broken into and the guards caught the lad. They did absolutely nothing about it. They are fucking useless and couldn't give a shit. They don't want to be bothered.
Great video, it’s pronounced guard-dah (singular) or guard-dee (plural), it means Guardian(s)
It’s actually nnnnnnnnnaaaaardee
The sexy garda one was filed in France during the euros 2016,
We are known as the best fans in the world and were having a laugh with the local police. There is some great videos of the fans singing a baby to sleep on a tram and cleaning up the streets after the party.
"Yolks" is slang for ecstasy. Instead of searching concert goers for drugs, the guard was dancing along with the music.
Thank you, you’re the first one I found that actually answered that 😊
Yolk basically means thing/object/person. Especially in the west of Ireland. Kind of like "thingy", like a substitute word for anything you can;t or won;t name.
@@paulthomas8262 I think you'll find that Yolk is derived from the expression, country Yokel, what in Australia we would call a Bushie, in from the country and not so street wise as the locals.
@@barbarae.2925I live in N. Ireland and my wife is Irish the word is actually yoke not yolk it was misspelled. It means "thingy" any object or thing.
To call drugs yokes make sense becuase it is a substitute word.
A yoke is also what you attach to cattle to pull things. I'm not claiming that is the origin but, Yokel is less likely as it doesn't relate to objects.
The word for a country folk is culchie main said by jakeens. Which refer the the Union Jack to mean city folk (or contemptuous person), which accuse each other of being the last to take down the union Jack. -een is diminutive.
Aslo country folk substitute word for people especially in the west is Yon.
"Yon hoor" (That hore) Ya know yon? (You know that person). They may also say Yer man or Yer wan, to refer to a man or woman. The collective you is Ye and Dublin and the North Yous.
@@barbarae.2925no not at all, yolk is like saying thing. It refers to objects not people
The Gardai are also very efficient, in my personal experience. When I was in Dublin I was about to get pickpocketed on the street, but before I even noticed anything, two plainclothes Gardai swooped in and intercepted and arrested the perps. Very chill and polite, took up my contact information and even sent me an official letter about the court proceedings later.
Last one was a parody ad. Everyone was wearing earplugs when the flashbang went off. I was the sound man. Ear plugs and noise cancelling head phones, I knew it was coming, we had a countdown. It still scared me.
We all went fot a pint afterwards
Looking back I realized that was probably the case, because if that lady wasn't wearing ear plugs her ears would've been bad off.
@@reactingtomyroots The last one wasn't a parody it was a training exercise with fire arms. The one where they were doing silly things in the room was a parody.
The last one wasn't a parade, the one before was. The last was a training/drill as the own video states, but they are protected, the woman obviously did not get hurt at all otherwise they would stop the drill.
@@reactingtomyroots It says Garda terrorist Drill at the bottom of the screen @10:40
Was that the one in Docklands Station, 6 or 7 years ago? It was 11 in the morning. I work in Irish Rail control room, it was after the morning services ended. Absolute bowsies, I can't believe there was no invite.
The Irish Guards are unarmed.
Mainly easy going and friendly.💕
I agree but not always. I was physically assaulted on the street by a male - which they saw - and said I was afraid to walk home alone and they wouldn’t even drive me home which was less than 2km away. I had a broken nose and black eye. Not fun
There is the An Garda Síochána armed support unit.
They generally don't shoot you or beat you half to death.
Unless u carrying out an armed robbery ,there's special branch armed units for that
The Gardai (pronounced gardee) are usually fair, good humoured people as are most Irish people. My daughter was very sick and my wife was driving her to hospital for what would be severe kidney infection.
She was stopped by a guard near Cork city for speeding. When she told him our daughter was sick he told her to follow him and redlit her into the city sirens blazing and called into the hospital a day later to see how she was!!
If that's not great policing I don't know what is.
For a country the size of Ireland, 5 million people, the Gardai are well known worldwide and I've seen that they get forces worldwide sending people to learn from them.
I'm not a guard but a chef, I'm just praising my police force! They get knocked sometimes and every barrell has a bad apple but overall they do a great tough job!
Only just realised the main difference between police on each side of the pond : In the UK and Ireland the police call citizens 'Sir'. In the US it's the other way round !!
There are no citizens in the UK, only subjects. The people of the UK do not have a constitution, but Ireland has both citizens and a constitution.
In Ireland Only School Teachers are called "Sir" or Miss. No one else
@@monad8880 I live in Ireland and have been called "Sir" on countless occasions. I am sure that it occurs in most English-speaking countries, as it is a respectful term if you are not using a given name or other due title. The question at issue here is how American police address their citizens, and do they mean to be respectful or not.
Thats true now I think of it, you're right.
Years ago in my teens - late 70's - we were on holiday in Glandore, Cork. Guards had descended on the place as there was an important English person present - cannot remember whom. My father was in the pub where he was and a Guard offered him a lift back to the house where we were staying. Dad offered him a drink before he returned back to the pub. After a time, dad said should he not get back for the Superintendent. The reply was "Fuck the Superintendent". 🤣
They are very good. If you don't wear your seat belts or speed, you get points on your license. If you are respectful. They are nice.
The Irish Garda are so nice but of course professional too , seatbelt laws & speeding very strict here.The last segment of the video was a training thing ,it didn't happen it was staged , looking for a yoke means looking for something ,it's commonly used here ,a yoke covers a multitude of things ..the group singing was Irish soccer fans in France , the Irish fans are renowned in Europe for having the craic (fun ) & never causing trouble , there's actually videos about this you should look at some & do a reaction to it .
The Irish are just very relaxed chilled out people , who genuinely love fun
I love that your wife is joining you ,she's doing great as is your baby girl ..
I've also hear people use "yoke" for some sort of illegal drug. I don't know which kind, because it's not exactly something I *want* to know about. But I have heard people who are into that sort of thing, talk about "taking yokes", so I assume that is the context.
Yokes = ecstacy pills
What does yoke mean Irish slang?
Yoke. This is Irish slang for something that you can't remember the name of, like how you would use the word “thingamajig.” For example, “Give us that yoke there.” It also has the equivalent meaning of “thing,” for example, “You're a mad yoke.”
Irish and also UK Police have a mandate based on crime prevention (where possible), and also to serve the public. There was a saying when I was young; If you want to know the time, ask a policeman. These days you can still ask for help in any form, and they will generally help you where possible, or at least direct you to where you can get that help. Of course, they also come in for a lot of stick, but anyone that has lived in other countries will appreciate how helpful and friendly they are. It is policy to be part of the community and not just controlling it. On the grammar/pronunciation.... It's 1 Garda (gar-da), and 2 or more Gardai (gar-dee), the Irish just tend to call them guards, but it actually means guardians.
Searching for yolks means looking for ecstasy tablets.
A yolk is an ecstasy tablet in Dublin slang.
As a side note, a few years ago, the Gaurds confiscated my car from me on the side of the road for the car tax being out of date. 😂
The Gaurd was very apologetic because he had to take the car off me and told me to take my time taking my belongings out of the car and to make sure I contact someone for a lift.
As car confiscations go , it wasn't too bad. 😅
It cost me nearly 900 euro to get car from the pound.
That guard looked like he was on yolks, fair play to him.
The last part you saw was training, the flash bangs are louder, it was training exercise
Even in a training exercise, anything loud and powerful enough when going off to phisically jump off the ground is not something you want going off right by your head.
At that.. why are they using a device to stun people in ENCLOSED AREA in a masive open one.. The effect of these things doesn't work unless it's an enclosed room (or your the woman who had her brain serriously rattled and possibly eardrums bust by the force of that thing going off while basically touching the back of her head.
@@dzzope i agree, i think if was traing or for real, it was all wrong , you had a few on the ground, the guy with sheild should have been first, then went in engaged without protection, 3 guys on the floor, an office walk past one, had his back to that person, he did not check, he could have been part of the terror group, then came the guy with the shield, after, there was a guy in the right hand corner in black, which they did contain, but he was 20 yards away, he could have emptied a gun at the police,
I know, just looked like that bang would've hurt the lady's ears. Looking back on it I'm thinking maybe they were wearing ear plugs.
‘What is searching for yolks?’ Sometimes I just love Americans 🤣🤣🤣👏👏👏
I think that the Gardai seem to be like the UK police in that they look for the best rout to co-operation. If something serious is going down, then their response will be swift and firm, but if they just want someone to comply with the law, often the best way is to engage them in banter, and then advise them on what to do going forward.
Obviouly there are issues with community relations in some areas, and sadly not all cops are a credit to the service.....but this is what most of us see day-to-day in the UK, and even more so in Ireland.
The founders of the Irish state made a very deliberate decision that the country must be policed at the will of the people and not at the point of a gun. That is why for the most part the police are unarmed and rely on holding the moral ground and the support of the citizens in carrying out their duties. And yes they are normal decent fun loving people who will apply common sense in dealing with you. But as you say in the final clip, they are more than capable of delivering a lethal blow when necessary.
Here in Ireland we still have a relaxed nature. The GARDA don't want to kill us or throw us in jail. They have a v hard time in Dublin City Centre but the rest of Dublin we are very proud of our Garda.
I mean Dublin City centre is fucking mental m8 would hate to be a guard
Deffo disagree!!!
The one with a sexy garda was actually a french police woman ,it was during the Euro football championships in france.We don't normally call foreign police garda but everyone was off there head.Yes the gardai are usually friendly and laid back
Irish garda were sent over to liase
The last bit was hilarious as it was a training exercise and the cop nearly deafened one of the actors!! 😂😂😂😂
This is hilarious 😅😂 we definitely have our own culture and humor here. They typically are very relaxed but of course not always they will arrest and give tickets for breaking the law
A friend and I had to get security footage downloaded from work for the Gardaí, and mentioned the unexpected detour meant having to pay into the nightclub. College students at the time so short on cash. They stuck us in the back of a Mariah (police van), and drove us right to the front door with the sirens on to get us there before the cut-off time for free entry. 😂
Nah. They have to provide valid reason for using the sirens and lights (it's in the system once they turn it on). Getting students in the night club definitely doesn't fit.
@@violetarobic516 you don't have to provide a reason in no-one gives a f**k.
The clip at 4:35 is from a skit called "The Savage Eye - Garda Pronunciation Class", and how to pronounce the plural of Garda. Worth checking out 😂
Met an undercover Garda at a petrol station queuing up to pay for petrol years ago.We were talking , then he takes out his wallet to pay and there's his badge. My mouth swung open and i said shit! He laughed and said don't worry about it.I was drink driving, had a beautiful friend in the car. His partner asked if he could speak to her i was like work away. As myself and garda were walking back to the cars he tells me they're part of some mad secret unit. The other garda over heard and told him to be quiet, he just laughed and said don't worry about it he's not gonna remember 😂 I wasn't that drunk. Second garda got my friends number and i got a hand shake off both gardai and off we went 😂. Not like that now but 20 years ago it was a totally different time
I'd believe it, but my god how attitudes to drink driving have changed in the past 20+ years
True story. A relative got lost in Dublin and asked a Guard for directions to a main thoroughfare. The Guard directed him through an an area that stated clearly " No through traffic. Deliveries only" with the admonition "Just drive carefully - and wait until l get round the corner." Wouldn't have happened in London or New York.
That Foo Fighters one was at Slane Castle in 2015 we were at Slane in 2017 for Guns N Roses and they did the exact same thing there too
Irish don't carry guns only armed response units which thank god don't see and are generally nice friendly people
In Ireland, we do get fines for speeding, for not having valid tax/insurance/nct discs on display. We also get points on our license for each of these offences which you have to declare when taking out future insurance, and it will cause you to pay more for the policy. And when you hit a certain amount of points, your licence will be taken away. Most of our Gardaí are great tho. You’ll always find the one or two tossers in there, but generally they are nice and respectful if you treat them the same.
“One gardaaaaah, two nnnngeardaiiiiiii”
Basically one guard, two guards, in Irish 😄
Yokes are extacy / molly pills
The incident around the 11:00 mark was a tazer training drill.
Most of the gardai are fine and approachable. I find my local gardai are particularly nice and I have had an argument with one on the phone. They're nicer here than in the UK
The song playing during the Gardai recruitment video is The Lonesome Boatman and the dancing is the exact same as Father Liam Finnegan 'Dancing Priest' in Father Ted lol
'Gar thee' will put you in the ballpark
'Yolks' are Ecstasy tabs.
In Ireland a "yoke", not yolk, can be any thing,. It equates to thing or object.
@@ptidunne As well as Ecstasy tabs. lol.
Pretty much like this all over western Europe
The police are our friends
Even here in Switzerland, where almost everyone has a firearm, nobody walks around with one
i disagree, irish and UK police waste time , dancing in LGBT festivals and arersting people for " hate speech " while letting murderers go
@@girlsdrinkfeck Not irish police ,but unfortunately with the introduction of hate speech that will be the case.
I remember going on a school skiing trip to Switzerland back in the early 80s.
Before we went we were told about the police carrying guns and told not to be afraid as its normal.
We were fascinating at the airport seeing the police with guns.
And we came from a school in London, how things have changed😂
@@girlsdrinkfeckI've never seen this yes I've seen the joining in at local festival type events butletting murderers go..never
@@gallowglass2630 Irish police tried to censor mc gregor
Steve and Lindsay, so glad you are doing these videos together more and more. You are great together. Not to say that your solo videos are missing anything, Steve. I love them too. It seems like we Americans have trouble thinking about police being so friendly and kind. Actually, when I was a child, police were more like this where I grew up in Skokie, IL. But by the late seventies things were changing, and I think the real change came after 9/11. It is so sad. I don't have a car right now, so, thankfully I don't have to worry about being stopped. We used to be presumed to be innocent until proven guilty. These days it feels like we are presumed guilty unless we can prove our innocence. It's messed up! I loved seeing this and reading the comments below and remembering a kinder more friendly time in the U.S. I hope we can grow to that again. Peace
The Foo Fighters gig... that's just the audience getting on board with the safety notices before the concert starts
We don't worry about our hearing. Have you ever heard an Irish mammy shouting?
I've been binge watching some of the videos with your wife..she's brilliant 👌🏻 (the whole family!!). Watching this on a stormy evening in Dublin, thank you for this 😊😊. In all my 22 or so years here, the police is generally super good..never had an issue with them and you can have a laugh with them.
Thanks for the kind words and I'll let Lindsay know. Definitely looks like the police know how to laugh at themselves, which is great. :)
Wanted to join the Gardai. Was a student in photography in the early 80's and asked about becoming a police photographer. Told would have to join and apply as the position came up. One of the requirements was to speak Gaelic. Couldn't, so thought that was that. Years later my sister - who is a solicitor - told me that since I was from Ireland, that didn't apply to me. FUCK.
I dont think that's a requirment now. Refugees can join the gards now. It's on the garda website.
It did apply back then, regardless of where you were from. So your sister is wrong. When I joined 33 years ago, Irish was a requirement, and nobody apart from the Irish actually joined.
I watch now and then reaction channels. Do you want to know how I remembered I had seen one of your videos before? Because your wife has such a bubbly personality! Her smile is so radiant!
Lads, in Ireland having a laugh is described as having the craic, it's just what we do. A 'yoke' could be anything, it's a 'thing'. In most situations having the craic is the priority, gardaí in Ireland are unarmed - usually, so very laid back. However, there are armed units who take their job very seriously.
Searching for yolks would be looking for pills.
An ecstacy tablet in Ireland is called a yoke
"Do ye have any yokes?"
"3 yokes for twenty"
"Those bleedin yokes have me head fried"
"I haven't done yokes in ages lad"
"No yokes here garda"
I’m out of me nut lol
The last one is a training exercise it was funny cos they defended the people on the floor helping the they really weren't hurt
I live in Ireland (born and bred) and last night I actually had a dream about the Gardaí. I was in a car park with a guy I used to know in from school who was a trouble maker. He started hitting cars and setting off alarms on purpose. A garda car shows up immediately and I'm like "I didn't do anything! I'm not in trouble because it had nothing to do with me!", but they were actually really nice and believed me right away, and gave me a lift in their car, talking and joking the whole time as if it was a taxi. I ended up going to the station with them where it turned out another guy I knew worked there now, so we just hung around the station and chatted a bit before I hopped in another car to go home. No threats, no interrogations, no holding me against my will, or false accusations. It was all actually just fun. Funny that I had this dream literally earlier today, and now I see this 😂
There is a Garda Band, they also police events such as concerts etc and that was showing the activities you could be doing if you joined. The last segment was a simulation for training.
The Irish are just like us Scots and just like to party 🎉😂
The Scots are just Irish anyway when the Irish colonised Scotland.
The difference is the Irish will buy a round 😂
"Yoke" has many meanings, depending on the context. In the video here, a "yoke" is related to drugs. Maybe an Ecstacy pill, somethin' like that. Other times a Yoke is a "thing/ object". -"Pass me the yoke off the shelf".
Sometimes, Yoke can be about a person if they are a bit unique, odd, or funny. "Yer man is some Yoke!!""😂 - As in, "He is quite the character!".
It can be used as an insult, derogatory term aswell. "Thats a bad aul' Yoke, I wouldnt bother with it".
G'way ye mad yoke, will ye?
Sorry, couldn't resist 😂
@@ShizuruNakatsu Ah shur, yer grand, lad😁 Loves the aul craic like this for non Irish to read and wonder whats going on!
Did y'have any of Storm Fergus today? Fair aul' bit of fierce wind out there. Quare cowld tonite! 😁 Lietrim got some damage, tis a bad aul Yoke, all the same! 😁😁
I would say it always means "thing/object", but the context usually provides a more specific meaning. It would be used when you can't remember the name of something, like "thing-a-majig", or if you were purposely not wanting to use the word you mean as it might be too crass or incriminating, as in the example in the video: Given the context of a dance music gig or rave, "Yoke" in this case is a specific nickname for an ecstasy pill.
When complimenting someone else's equipment, gadget or creative handiwork, one might say "Thon's a quare yoke". The use of thon and yon is falling out of use, but the rest is going strong! I've never heard yoke used to indicate a living creature or person, it was always objects or machinery (in south Fermanagh).
@@colinmorrison5119 In the south Wexford area, Id hear "Yer man's some Yoke!", when someone is referring to a man that stands out from others, be it hes eccentric, or extra wild when hes drunk. 😁 Depends asya know, on the town/dialect.
"Quare" is used in Wexford allll the time, Ive heard it /used since I was a chap. "The song's Quare Good", or something like "Twas Quare bad when yer man got killed on Stranger Tings"😀 "Yer wan is quare mad at ya for shifting somebody else. You're some Yoke for doin' tha'. 😀😀
That first clip is from Nickxar. He does bushman scares around Dublin, and is good fun.
The law around seatbelts is wear them and the law around speeding is don’t 😂👍
The gards are brilliant 😂, i.remember visiting co clare back in the 80s they were very laid back 2 gards for the whole county and they would be in the pub 😂😂. I guess its all changed over there nowadays in 2023
I'm from Co Clare you're taking the p*ss, there's always been more than two guards ffs
@@Jess-Cwe had a bungalow in kilimihill lovely childhood memories and no jokes that was the case back then lol. No television no radio aswell. I remember collecting the turf from the roadside to cooraclare with my brother bringing it back to the bunker for it to dry out and shoving it in the raeburn the bungalow even had a well which we forbiddin to go near, I remember making friends with kids in the village 😂fishing in the local stream with bits of bacon and playing football and pool in the local pub which was literally everything a shop.firelighters. kieran from England
@@Jess-Cmy dad's mot ran out the local gard told him youre english I wouldnt worry 😂
@@Jess-Chappiest times of my childhood were spent in kilimihil. Kieran from England
Nothing they could do about anyway, MOT means nothing in Ireland@@chucky2316
I wish the Police would be like they were when I was a child. There was one or two policemen just walking around the neighbourhood or shops. Community policing on regular patrol.Don't get me wrong, they were not perfect, but we felt a little more safe than these modern times. 🇬🇧🇺🇸
i leave in Ireland for 12 years and i had many encounters with garda in traffic or on the street. I never had a negative situation even if i was in the wrong. They prefer to give you a life lesson and encouragement instead of a taking your money with tickets
Very strict on speeding, especially as there has been an increase in road deaths this year, Seat belts is mandatory, but Gardai (police ) approach in a good way
The Irish Police are indeed laid back. Unless you are rude to someone’s mother or grandmother. Then you better run!
irish chief police is a scumbag though, telling mc gregor he is a hate crime
I hope you're joking, very disrespectful, the Gardaí are a serious police force not to be messed with!
LOL, they are laughable at best, got hammered last week during the Dublin riots and a couple of years ago could not stop a Lidls store from being looted and demolished@@Jess-C
@@Jess-C Of course I am. 😚
Yup the majority of the Garda are chill. " Yoke" is someone who acts the " maggot" being a " ejeet" a fool. 😆 great craic. Love from Dublin Ireland 🇮🇪
Yolks are drugs, ecstasy tablets , they were at a music festival
The last one was a training scene for Garda
The Irish Garda Siochana translated into English means guardians of the peace. One Garda , two Gardai
They are polite and well trained, but they do enforce the law. I would not take them lightly
They a called Garda, it means Guards, I'm not Irish but my husband is from Kerry, and we spend a lot of time over there, The Garda and the British police are very friendly, and if your list in London or anywhere ask a policemen they will help you, UK and Irish police don't carry guns and are not scary, I've seen American car chases on UA-cam and the police in america are scary waving there guns around
UK police most certainly do carry guns.
Garda are not always so chill, V like US police, some are on a power trip, though thankfully without firearms for random cops.
Ive personally only had minor and mixed experiences with them and 99.9% of those is just passing them on the street. But
I once saw(I was across the road working, not drinking or anything) 8 Garda sprint into a slight altercation outside a club and start whaling on everyone with the old iron-wood battons even though there was only 2 boys throwing hands at each other at all and at that I think there were only a few punches thrown at all. 3 concussions, a broken arm, lots of sore heads and 3 ambulances later, they arrested 2 poeple not even involved untill they were bowled over by the garda charge..
So no.. deff not all this chill
There are also many cases of harrasment for petty reasons and such.
A Garda who cracked open protestors heads with a batton, found not guilty, others not chrged at all (3 protesters injured) and the ones who had battons had removed their ID from their uniforms before they went at it... Is currently a member of the "Expert Advisory Board to the Code of Ethics and Cultural Adjustment Steering Committee in An Garda Síochána"
So yea... chill🤐
We (my mother) used to have terrible trouble with rowdy students living in the house joined(Semi-detached houses)..
3 years of calling the Garda every other weekend when they had escalated to running up and down the stairs banging brushes off the walls(just partition dry-wall) to go with the loud music and people to be told "there is nothing we can do but tell them to keep it down"
1 Garda eventually did his job and laid out exactly what he could and would do if my mother had to call him again (not the general number) after over 100 call outs, 1 did his job. No problems since.
"Tend to give you the benefit of the doubt"
I also have friends who have been constantly hounded by them for stuff their older brother or uncle or close friend did and have moved away decades ago. 1 still gets pulled far more often than anyone else I know and he's not a bad guy, doesn't drink drive or do drugs or nout. Just related to someone the gards hate cos they could never catch in his petty crimes(smuggling some "luxury" items before the open border, no car tax etc.. minor stuff really)
Then there are the folk they let off, like the "businessman" (who got his money from the most unsavory of sources) burned down the historic building(pub) he owned because it was too small for what he wanted to make it and he couldn't get planning permission for alterations/additions.. Garda stopped him speeding from one village to the next town as the fire-brigade were going past him.. You could see the smoke from where they stopped him (and by accounts he was FLYING on a 50mph limit doing 80+) they let him go, not even a ticket at that speed (30% over the limit is almost automatically going to be a dangerous driving charge in most cases)
All that being said.. Not all are that way, not by any means but it often feels like it's a 50/50 whether you'll get a smile or a scowl for even saying hello.
(And this is rural NW Ireland, not even Dublin or Galway or Cork or Limerick)
It's not an easy job at the end of the day.. And it comes with alot of prejudice against them too and you never know what their last call or interaction was like. (as with anyone)
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My tax disc was expired and I was stopped with my little daughter in the car. She asked me if he was a real policeman and I said yes. She then asked if he was looking for bad guys. I started to giggle nervously and say yes, he is a good guy and he is just there to look for bad guys and keep us safe. (Wondering how the heck I was going to explain this!)
The Guard told my daughter that she has a wonderful mummy and I was going to get a new sticker for my car and waved me through with a wink. MY HERO!!!
I don't know about the Gardai. We never encountered any the 2 time's we visited ex's family. But my ex's sister husband and 5 children moved over to Ireland.
His brother and wife were first to visit them. When he returned he said they were getting into the laid back Irish way of life. Then said their brother in law was so laid back he's horizontal.😂😂😂
Yolks is drugs
Uk and Irish police engage with the community. They are trained to de-escalate. The use of any kind of force is always a last resort.
If you are fair with them, dont take the piss, accept when you have done wrong, the police will be fair with you.
Thats not to say there arent issues, but like everywhere the bad apples are a minority
Yeah, for most minor things, they'll likely just tell you to go home and stop being an eejit.
This is nothing to do with UK police.
@@murpho999 With respect, @nick7076 was just pointing out the similarity between UK and Irish policing practices. This was a perfectly valid observation, which was totally within the context with this particular video, other comments posted here, and JT's channel in general.
I'd say, if anything was irrelevant or out of context, it would be your somewhat hostile comment.
The tune he is playing is called the lovely boatman it is a lament a haunting melody 🤗
lonesome boatman
I've been caught loads of times speeding and only got prosecuted once. Guards are chilled ,only gobshites don't like them .Irish people are lucky to have a great police service.
You're either mad or stupid
06:30 a lot of ribald commentary about yer man not being able to break down the door... but the clip ends with someone walking round to the side of the house, to the back yard, where there is no doubt a back door left open... or a key under the mat!
4:45- "One- Garda, Two- Neeeaaarrdeee!!" That is based on a TV comedy sketch about the Irish Lanugage pronouncing plurals of "Garda" . A single Garda is said as "Garda". But when theres more than one its "nGardì"- or as brilliantly over stated here, Neeearrrdeeeee!😁 Its a play on the Irish language accent, and things like that.
Well, that's only when you have to add an urú, which only applies after certain words. But yes, "the guards" would be "na nGardaí", and this will definitely confuse the non-Irish 🤣
@@ShizuruNakatsu 😁 It reminds me too, of "At the Gate", which , I tink you'd say someting like 'Ag an nGeata". An NNNneata! 😁 Nìl mo chuid Gaeilge an maith, ach Is maith liom ag caint è. Slàinte.☘👍
Plural doesn't take an urú. Tuiseal ginedeach baby!
Thank you for going to the trouble of looking up the pronunciation 😊😁🇮🇪💚🧡
4:30 are Irish fans in France for a football tournament. So french police. Also yolks are pills typically MDMA
Yokes are probably E's...yes our guards are chilled out, they are our neighbours and friends so why would they be anything else. Nice video, love your wife's cheeky smile❤❤❤
It's sad to see this from England because we used to have community policing like this... Now we have officers with the word community on their backs, but they're hostile, confrontational and overtly obstructive.
What you're seeing here is true community policing from officers that still have a connection to the public. Again something we used to have in England a few decades ago. But it's become adversarial and all collaboration has ceased as you are assumed to be a criminal until you prove you aren't.
They were fairer years ago more willing to give you a telling off than to arrest you.i.guess today its about arrest numbers for their career.
@@chucky2316 you could talk to them, but these days the first thing out of their mouth is an accusation or demand for compliance. You are immediately pushed into an adversarial role and then cornered into feeling you have to resist.
Policemen and policewoman used to be people first and the uniform second. Now there's nothing but the uniform, and that's now a military grade spab proof vest and Taser they're all to quickly ready to threaten you with... The old night sticks never got pulled, they could defuse and de-escalate events by talking, now they push the issue escalating to force far too rapidly, assuming authority THEIR authority is the only issue.
All depends where you live. The MET are a disgrace
I suspect (but don't know for certain) that this varies across the different police services.
Sussex or Cumbria perhaps you'll see this style of policing.
I'd be surprised if it's still around in West Mids or the Met.
Ireland being laid back is changing and you can't blame them either
Yeah, was thinking that this might not be the best time to do a reaction to this.
I was over there ten years ago the east side was like being in England without the alcohol time limit the West was changing but still old fashioned its a shame 😢😢😢😢 immigration is a curse
@@chucky2316 Immigration is not a curse ,but its the way its being handled.Irish people have been immigrating to other countries for centuries,but apart from the opportunity to work we got no handouts and we were expected to integrate,whereas now in liberal times thats not the case the society recieving the migrants are expected to integrate to the incomers rather than the other way around.
@@chucky2316 Refugees can join the gards now. What could possibly go wrong?
@@gallowglass2630 It's a sneaky form of genocide by the sneaky multinationals who want to rule over us all.
the "sexy garda" was not an Irish police officer but a French police officer, this video was when Ireland was in the rugby World Cup in France and the Irish fans invaded a nd were praised by the French police and Media as been the nicest and polite fans who partied the hardest and would.clean up after themselfs and become the favorite fans of the tournament.
A danish police officer shamed me into NEVER driving without a seat belt again.
A fine for riding two on a bike never had the same effect.
Police all over the UK use bicycles it helps them get where cars can’t in catching bad uns on foot. Horses are also used but thankfully no guns. It's far better for police to interact with the public than intimitate them
The police have plenty of guns in the UK.
This is Ireland, the Irish police, nothing to do with the UK completely different countries!
Nothing to do with the UK.This is the national police force of ireland
Most Americans don't ride bikes, be pointless their police having them😂
@@georgebarnes8163 Of course they do but do some research on how many gun crimes there are in the UK compared to the USA you’ll be shocked because it’s 120 times greater in the USA compared to the UK and the police in the US kill more people in a month than UK police kill in 20 years.
Yokes are Ecstasy Tablets
The clip were they are in the classroom making the funny sounds is from a tv comedy sketch show called The Savage Eye.
Looks like a funny show. I'll bookmark it for later.
The Gardí are mostly sound. They’re very strict on driving offences though. We have a points system & usually not wearing your seat belt or a minor speeding offence would get you 3 points. The more points you have the higher your insurance & maximum points allowed is 12 in 3 years then you get a driving ban.