What a hero...so relieved to see a popular public figure speak truth for a change. I'm tearing up. More Irish people need to wake up and speak out. Our government is corrupt and is selling us out.
@@johnjennings9693 If you could stop getting distracted by laughable conspiracy theory bullshit for five seconds you might be able to get something done. The World Economic Forum is a talking shop, and not even one of big ones. While people like you are whining about things that aren't real and don't matter, the Irish middle class are swanning around Blackrock in their Range Rovers and the American multi-nationals are paying as little corporation tax as they want.
Thank you. I think I understand a little bit more about Ireland now. I can understand the « unpolitical » way there. I like your work. GL for the future 😊
You forgot to mention the part where people are so complacent with terrible infrastructure and transportation that they don't even complain anymore because they subconsciously know if the government tries to get involved they will only make it worse
I think it's because we want to be seen as the good guys of the world that are great craic and always up for having a laugh. If we go out and protest en masse that image gets tarnished somewhat. We collectively put too much weight on how we're seen by everyone else in the world and we derive our confidence from it. I'm sure it's probably a fallout of being oppressed for so long but I just wish we could have enough confidence in our own culture and ability to pave a different path..
@@AC-ib3jj so what you're saying is that we should build a few rocket engines, slap it under all the counties(idk maybe one or two could go, nobody will remember carlow tbh), and sail through the cosmos leaving earth?
Unless you want to only travel to Dublin and back, we don't have a planned Motorway network. We decided to blow all our EU loans on thousands of "bypasses" instead.
Of course. Slaves were expensive to keep. Slave owners had to provide accommodation, health care, food, clothing & hire security/managers to ensure the slaves were worked. Now they give "free" slaves a minimum wage & make them buy all those things themselves.
Please stop trying to push that white supremacist Irish slave myth nonsense, thanks. I'm assuming you're a Yank since you're all so obsessed with slaves.
1 million people on HSE wait lists in 2023. Why do we accept this crap!!! 4 year waits and then more for treatment. 3rd world stuff. Mass immigration the final straw. Won't end well. Huge hassle awaits as people are getting really peed off. Recession in 2024.. that will crank people up to speak up and protest for their rights.
5 years and waiting also just to have a ball/lump actually seen and checked by a consultant/specialist. More than five years to find out if a lump is actually cancerous. Free health care alright, to the people profiting off this scam.
@@seaniepc4 Actually, they are f*cking over both the foreign nationals and Irish citizens. We are all on the same side against those amoral pr*cks in the Dáil.
I've just been back to Ireland as an actual Irish tourist in Ireland! I feel you should give a shout-out to the beautiful car hire companies in Dublin airport who work tirelessly to contribute the awareness of the real Ireland by ripping the life of out all tourists' credit cards (including mine) up to the hilt and then some. They do a brilliant job so they do. *clap clap*It was wonderful to hear all the different nationalities arguing with the staff before they set out to experience Leprechaun Economyland!
@@lew3813 The subtleties of his writing make me imagine he's actually Irish. - Saying Dublin Airport instead of Dublin International, as is the convention in the US. - "ripping the lift out of" sounds fairly Irish to me. - "Back to Ireland" could either mean he is Irish or perhaps he's just been before." - Leprechaun Economyland is definitely a self-deprecating joke we would make on ourselves in fairness.
Moved to ireland from sweden in the end of 2021, been loving it here as i came here for work in Cork. People here are one of the kindest and frendliest people i've ever met, super social and just overall fun people to be around. Customer service here is amazing and service workers treat you amazingly. But there are so many things in ireland i never expected to see. Housing crisis here is no joke, 900 euros for a moldy studio apartment/room with rusted pipes so the water comes out thick orange. "newley renovated" houses that they only put some paint over it and after a while the paint starts falling apart and show the problem under and the response you get is "meh it is what it is". hundreds of empty houses and apartment buildings everywhere that woudl easily fix the housing crisis, but they just let them sit because its too much work. For such a rich country to look the way it does just shows how corrupt the government really is. The goverment really failed its people here and its so sad to see since the irish has gone through so much but at the same time are the nicest people really hurts to see. I really hope something gets done about it soon, the irish deserves it.
Perfect timing on this release too. Really feeling this after having to watch the "fighting irish" leprechaun from an american football team dance around Dublin as we moved heaven, earth and homeless tents to accommodate American money.
Didn't they also move homeless tents from the gates of the phoenix park when joe Biden was visiting michael D.. Where is the outrage over that? It makes me cringe the way we fawn over american presidents and celebs. All any of them have to say is "I love guinness" or something along those lines & we're putty in their hands.
It’s as if William Boroughs and an Irish Milk maid, had a love child and raised it to pursue a career in Gonzo Journalism by way of a polite conscientious objectorism.. kudos x
My mates all left 30 years ago, talk to people in their 20s who feel the same……nothing has changed, the cream leave and the shit floats to the top and have the run of the land. Thanks frankie.
As someone whose robust knowledge of Ireland is based on the Leprechaun movies and American Saint Patrick's Day customs, I have to seriously question the authenticity of this portrayal. Not one pot of gold, no corned beef and cabbage, and not a drop of green beer? This can't be real.
this was one of the best meditations I've ever experienced for my anxious mind. From now on I'll be even more anxious around Irish people, thank you Frankie
As a Scouser I have always wanted to make a return but housing was crazy, when you find a house an okay price their is literal mold up and down the walls and carpet, so bad they don't even try and hide it in the pictures
The way the Irish government works Machine guns will be given to the scrotes on Irish rail, and rainbow flags and Tik Tok dance routines for the Gardaí
This was very touching, Frankie! I already donated a meager 11 potatoes for your cause. Its not much but it is all i can spare i hope it helps tho. We are all struggling but if we stick together we can make it to the other side. 💪
*This* is the biting satire I came for. Love the Cultural Observations and all that as well, but this is even better. "That didn't work. I have a plan." Namaste. 🙏
SF will sort it out down South like they did up North . . . oh wait. It's all the same because all the parties in the West are run by exactly the same type of people, and you get exactly the type of people you vote for.
@@rubyjames3105 You Canadians probably have it worse then us in Ireland, I'm from Blackrock which is chronically expensive and I found Canada excessively priced
I’ve stayed in Ireland three times from 2014 to 2015. I love it. And I listened to people all the time I was there. And now I have listened to you………there’s a consensus……and the power of comedy trumps all….
We all moan about Ireland. We give out about the corruption, the housing, the multinationals and the shallowness of our culture but at the end of the day, we feckin love this place. Otherwise we would leave. And when we do leave, we miss it. It's a terrible place and a paradise. Nothing is perfect. Even Frankie is not perfect, as much as it pains me to say. What hurts us is that we know Ireland can be better than it is. Namaste.
@@spazzymacgee5648 If it wasn't for the multinationals giving us jobs, the corrupt politicians making us a tax haven and the feckin Brits giving us their shite language we'd be likely similar to Portugal, Sicily or Poland. Instead, we are - on paper - one of the wealthiest countries on Earth. A country where a fool like me can get a good job, marry a fine woman and raise a family in the countryside.
I think the Irish are actually too funny for their own good. Like I always thought Irish humour was the best thing in the world, but now I think that because it’s the main form of resistance to difficult circumstances means that people haven’t developed other strategies that might actually bring about social change.
Next door neighbours second cousins step-father-in -law’s dog had a part as a guide dog for a blind fella who walked past Ken Barlow’s house in Coronation Street in 1997. Still got a recording of it on video next to the photo of Dev ( not from Corrie!) the real Dev in Dublin, 1916. Ma says her da’s old supervisor at Will’s Tobacco is in the front row of the crowd there, ya can’t see him but he’s as close to Dev as any of the others there!……happy days! 🇨🇮🥃💚
Brilliant - it’s the same in the UK (if not worse) and to varying degrees in all countries which ‘enjoy’ or are converting to American-style neoliberalism.
We've moved up the world, so apparently, we're all Racist now, and therefore can afford to help pay for the re-colonisation of Ireland ourselves this time.
@@Charlie25068 I don’t know what about what I said indicated that I would be receptive to this sentiment but… I am not. I disagree with you very strongly. I am saying this to distance myself from you in the eyes of whoever stumbles across this. I will not be entertaining further conversation, whatever your reply.
@@user-qv2qf1jk5o That's what happens when you have no decent or truthful arguments to make other than attempt to infer Ireland and the Irish as being a former colonial power. It's pathetic, and yes it would be best if you slinked off, and had you post colonial revisionist jerk off somewhere else.
This should be required viewing for every resident of the country. Stop patting ourselves on the back while they pat us on the head and continue to take everything away, and charge you for the convenience.
Thanks for that, a guard (senior community officer) shot me point blank in the face with a hand gun, not in the back, broad daylight, the matter was pardoned and he's still employed, I froze in terror when you told me about weapon funding 😱 thanks again for this
I actually got criminally convicted for talking about this ie. they said I was inciting dissidence, they tried to kill me twice on the same day, double homicide - no problem, talking about it, in a public place!!!
@@samdumaquis2033 Love thy neighbour and Thy Lord as thy neighbour and you shall not be harmed, they abducted after shooting me, abandoned me in vehicle roadside, reabducted with new guards, brought me to a holding cell/barracks, stripped me naked, 8 pigs held me down and a man in a suit tried to disembowel me with a hook knife used for culling pigs, again, unharmed, then they sent me to a psychiatric hospital and forced a first generation chemical labotomy so I'm no longer a credible witness, I hold it against the tax payer for funding kiddy killers, Aisling Murphy
An armed Garda shot you? The only armed gardai are the Armed Support Units only used in seriously risky situations: From Wikipedia: 'A Garda Armed Support Unit may be deployed to support local Garda officers in certain high-risk operations. This principally involves offering armed assistance to ordinary Gardaí who are dealing with an incident in which firearms or other weapons (knives, etc.) have been produced. It also includes: Confronting and disarming persons who are carrying knives or guns Providing tactical support to other Gardaí carrying out searches Carrying out high visibility static and rolling checkpoints and other operations to counteract the movements of criminals Overt armed airport and port patrols to counter terrorist attacks[ So why not give us some more details about the incident?
currently working in limerick 10 hour shifts, 4 days a week. the shop i work in is about 2 hours away from home by two buses, if they show up on time. 4 houra of commute for a 10 hour shift paying minimum wage. i come home exhausted w barely enough energy to enjoy my day off. i cant get work anywhere else bc ive got fuck all qualifications and seemingly nobody in the hospitality industry wants to hire fulltime staff. im 22 years old. this is my life. and idk how its gonna change. ive been here 8 months now and its killing me.
"What need you, being come to sense, But fumble in a greasy till And add the halfpence to the pence And prayer to shivering prayer, until You have dried the marrow from the bone; For men were born to pray and save:Romantic Ireland’s dead and gone, It’s with O’Leary in the grave." W.B. Yeats
Thank you for spelling it out. Housing IS the most basic of human rights. Ireland is a small country there shouldn't be anyone living on the streets / hotels / couchsurfing / stuck at home in adulthood. 😑🙏
@derekdempsey8506 youre just making a lazy appeal to authority. it might not be on the books but that doesnt mean its not a basic human right and it doesnt mean it shouldnt be on the books. dont use contemporary policy and law as the basis for your own morality, there can always be unjust policy and law and just bowing the head and accepting it are the actions of a coward.
@@derekdempsey8506 @derekdempsey8506 you misspelled housing. I know it's not yet a human right. Ireland is disproportionately obsessed with home ownership because of our colonial past, as well as refusing to accept long term renting as another option. The sooner we stop repeating master / servant patterns the better for everyone on this island.
@@TheCCBloom agree this is the only part of this vid I don't like, the home ownership. We're obsessed with owning a house. We have among the highest home ownership rates in Europe, after Spain and Greece...and yet complain about our low levels of home ownership...and which countries in Europe were worse hit by the housing financial crisis? Spain, Greece and Ireland so not sure whether really high rates of home ownership are beneficial at least they weren't for the last financial crisis. Otherwise great video. We've sold ourselves out (but I guess we kinda had to wasn't much happening here other than immigration before the FDI came in).
The gambling part is true. All the times I've seen a great uncle over on this side of the Irish Sea, he always buys heaps of scratch cards and tell us about the first black man in his home town at my nan's dinner table.
I didn’t know you could do that on this app. Thank you very much. While I don’t have the capacity to feel positive emotions towards others this gesture has at least made me feel more contempt for all the commenters who haven’t done the same. Namaste 🙏🏻
Where has the Eireann of old gone? Where are the mystical forests of connacht, the thunderous shores of munster, the magical power of leinster, and the ruggedness and legend of Ulster? Where is the Ireland that is home Cu Chulain and all the other great heroes? Now we just have big cities where we move over for the money, sometimes into homelessness or poverty, and farmers fields with 10ft hedgerows so you cant see the beauty outside of them. Where has the magic gone from Ireland? Theres a reason that the faeries haven't been seen for 200 years.
"Where are the mystical forests of connacht"? ...according to the archaeologists they were cut down five thousand years ago by property developers to build the Céide Fields. Plus ca change.
"That didn't work. "... "I have a plan. " proceeds to flame throw it. Lol. Same everywhere mate. It is not, just Ireland. Snead O Conner sang a lyric -Ireland is like a child that got his face bashed in-. Some healing needed. I love the Irish. Would love to visit. Give everyone a hug.
Ireland is worth fighting for, but not more than any other country on Earth. No society is inherently the best and Irish exceptionalism is one of the targets of this video.
@@gordon1545stfu gordan. Ireland is better than any African country on every measure mate. We are intrinsically better than other countries what the fck are u talking about
Landlords passed a bill to ban pyromania... since then lighters have been 70% less effective. Was thinking of making a video similar to this recently enough. Happy ye put it together. Good job. Maybe this video will pay for another non-oil and vinegar tayto sandwich
This hit fking hard... being (formerly) one of the foreign skilled workers working for a multinational corporation with its EU HQ in Dublin. Hated the job, but fell in love with the country...
Ireland... a country where instead of looking for leprechauns, you now have to look for irish people, and if you spot one in the massive crowds of non irish consider yourself lucky
What a hero...so relieved to see a popular public figure speak truth for a change. I'm tearing up. More Irish people need to wake up and speak out. Our government is corrupt and is selling us out.
The agenda must be fulfilled who ever is government world economic forum and so on,
yep@@johnjennings9693
@@johnjennings9693 If you could stop getting distracted by laughable conspiracy theory bullshit for five seconds you might be able to get something done. The World Economic Forum is a talking shop, and not even one of big ones. While people like you are whining about things that aren't real and don't matter, the Irish middle class are swanning around Blackrock in their Range Rovers and the American multi-nationals are paying as little corporation tax as they want.
@@johnjennings9693Fight it……take a position and start will a grass roots movement to rid the corrupt government.
They are not selling us out, they have already sold us out. FF, FG, SF, G et al.
The irony of starting "across the Atlantic Ocean" while staring at a Google logo, in a UA-cam video, is just perfect, fair play you play fair.
That will sort it, they are quaking in their birkenstocks
Its even funnier when you've been in to that office. 😂
Thank you. I think I understand a little bit more about Ireland now. I can understand the « unpolitical » way there. I like your work. GL for the future 😊
Genuinely fantastic.
Also really enjoy that the only time I've seen you smile is while using an improvised flamethrower.
You forgot to mention the part where people are so complacent with terrible infrastructure and transportation that they don't even complain anymore because they subconsciously know if the government tries to get involved they will only make it worse
I think it's because we want to be seen as the good guys of the world that are great craic and always up for having a laugh. If we go out and protest en masse that image gets tarnished somewhat. We collectively put too much weight on how we're seen by everyone else in the world and we derive our confidence from it. I'm sure it's probably a fallout of being oppressed for so long but I just wish we could have enough confidence in our own culture and ability to pave a different path..
@@AC-ib3jj so what you're saying is that we should build a few rocket engines, slap it under all the counties(idk maybe one or two could go, nobody will remember carlow tbh), and sail through the cosmos leaving earth?
@@Dochartach no
I had a hearty laugh at this comment, its what I always felt subconsciously, so right! God help us when the government get involved in anything!
Unless you want to only travel to Dublin and back, we don't have a planned Motorway network. We decided to blow all our EU loans on thousands of "bypasses" instead.
You summed it up nicely. We've moved away from the slavery of 500 years ago and just exchanged it for wage slavery today and we're barely aware of it.
Of course. Slaves were expensive to keep. Slave owners had to provide accommodation, health care, food, clothing & hire security/managers to ensure the slaves were worked. Now they give "free" slaves a minimum wage & make them buy all those things themselves.
@@SaltVinegar2010 The world is only free for the 1%
If you are a wage slave today, you had the luck to find a job. What do I say? You have the luck you are still alive.
Please stop trying to push that white supremacist Irish slave myth nonsense, thanks. I'm assuming you're a Yank since you're all so obsessed with slaves.
@thatclonetrooperintheback No, it wasn't.
A health system thats left me on the waiting list for over 5 years
Exactly! Free healthcare is only free if you can get it!
Same here, I will be dead before I get any health care
1 million people on HSE wait lists in 2023. Why do we accept this crap!!! 4 year waits and then more for treatment. 3rd world stuff. Mass immigration the final straw. Won't end well. Huge hassle awaits as people are getting really peed off. Recession in 2024.. that will crank people up to speak up and protest for their rights.
5 years and waiting also just to have a ball/lump actually seen and checked by a consultant/specialist. More than five years to find out if a lump is actually cancerous. Free health care alright, to the people profiting off this scam.
Treat 'em mean, keep 'em keen, is the Irish motto
As an Irish guy, The housing bit made me actually laugh out loud. (It's a bit too accurate and it's sad)
The Housing for the Irish I think he means , not the foreign nationals shur they are building all over the country to house them all.
Laugh if not cry
@@seaniepc4 Actually, they are f*cking over both the foreign nationals and Irish citizens. We are all on the same side against those amoral pr*cks in the Dáil.
I've just been back to Ireland as an actual Irish tourist in Ireland! I feel you should give a shout-out to the beautiful car hire companies in Dublin airport who work tirelessly to contribute the awareness of the real Ireland by ripping the life of out all tourists' credit cards (including mine) up to the hilt and then some. They do a brilliant job so they do. *clap clap*It was wonderful to hear all the different nationalities arguing with the staff before they set out to experience Leprechaun Economyland!
Are you actually Irish, or an American?
why the fuck does that matter ? He is right. @@lew3813
@@lew3813 The subtleties of his writing make me imagine he's actually Irish.
- Saying Dublin Airport instead of Dublin International, as is the convention in the US.
- "ripping the lift out of" sounds fairly Irish to me.
- "Back to Ireland" could either mean he is Irish or perhaps he's just been before."
- Leprechaun Economyland is definitely a self-deprecating joke we would make on ourselves in fairness.
@@lew3813 Irish, from Dublin.
See, this is why the tourist industry is so angry with the car lease companies.. there is hardly anything left for them to fleece
Moved to ireland from sweden in the end of 2021, been loving it here as i came here for work in Cork.
People here are one of the kindest and frendliest people i've ever met, super social and just overall fun people to be around.
Customer service here is amazing and service workers treat you amazingly.
But there are so many things in ireland i never expected to see.
Housing crisis here is no joke, 900 euros for a moldy studio apartment/room with rusted pipes so the water comes out thick orange.
"newley renovated" houses that they only put some paint over it and after a while the paint starts falling apart and show the problem under and the response you get is "meh it is what it is".
hundreds of empty houses and apartment buildings everywhere that woudl easily fix the housing crisis, but they just let them sit because its too much work.
For such a rich country to look the way it does just shows how corrupt the government really is.
The goverment really failed its people here and its so sad to see since the irish has gone through so much but at the same time are the nicest people really hurts to see.
I really hope something gets done about it soon, the irish deserves it.
Perfect timing on this release too. Really feeling this after having to watch the "fighting irish" leprechaun from an american football team dance around Dublin as we moved heaven, earth and homeless tents to accommodate American money.
Ha. That was terrible. As an American I apologize.
And half of the world
Didn't they also move homeless tents from the gates of the phoenix park when joe Biden was visiting michael D.. Where is the outrage over that? It makes me cringe the way we fawn over american presidents and celebs. All any of them have to say is "I love guinness" or something along those lines & we're putty in their hands.
@@AC-ib3jj they didn’t roll out the carpet for trump
@@grlfcgombeenhunter2897 yeah true but in general we just fall for anyone that says they love ireland
As an American I don’t comprehend what’s irony and what isn’t
As a brazilian I must state it as well.
As an Irish person, don't think or worry about it too much.
It's satire of the highest form.
That's why we don't really...like yiz all that much. Sorry, we know it's not your fault you're like this.
Most underrated comment on YT. EVER.
It’s as if William Boroughs and an Irish Milk maid, had a love child and raised it to pursue a career in Gonzo Journalism by way of a polite conscientious objectorism.. kudos x
This deserves an award. Almost cried at the end.
Speaks volumes on the inequality of Ireland. Not to mention the greed of multinational companies such as Google and Microsoft.
I came to this channel for unintelligible gibberish and stayed for the breathtaking cinematography.
This guy should be the new presenter for the Late Late Show 😂😂
Much better then that weasel
Yeah, unfortunately this country caters to the older generation
@@cowliver1032does it even though
My mates all left 30 years ago, talk to people in their 20s who feel the same……nothing has changed, the cream leave and the shit floats to the top and have the run of the land. Thanks frankie.
Sad but true
It always has been like that in Ireland
As someone whose robust knowledge of Ireland is based on the Leprechaun movies and American Saint Patrick's Day customs, I have to seriously question the authenticity of this portrayal. Not one pot of gold, no corned beef and cabbage, and not a drop of green beer? This can't be real.
Corned beef is Irish-American. The closest thing we have is spiced beef, which is an incredibly regional (cork) dish only eaten at Christmas time
And this is why we regard you lot with scorn.
Corned beef is a real regular Cork thing but for my parents generation, so if you don't know about it I'm guessing you're quite young@@Doradexplora
@@vrot9255I found the one Irishman who has never heard of sarcasm
@@DoradexploraI'm a cork lad and I've never heard of spiced beef at christmas
this was one of the best meditations I've ever experienced for my anxious mind. From now on I'll be even more anxious around Irish people, thank you Frankie
As a Scouser I have always wanted to make a return but housing was crazy, when you find a house an okay price their is literal mold up and down the walls and carpet, so bad they don't even try and hide it in the pictures
Machine guns on irish rail should be the next referendum.
i mean, too many scrotes about these dayz
@@TheMurphman1989 my scrotum is a scrote
The way the Irish government works Machine guns will be given to the scrotes on Irish rail, and rainbow flags and Tik Tok dance routines for the Gardaí
This was very touching, Frankie! I already donated a meager 11 potatoes for your cause.
Its not much but it is all i can spare i hope it helps tho. We are all struggling but if we stick together we can make it to the other side. 💪
Someday, I will visit Ireland and I'll meditate upon these meditations for my anxious mind.
It's a great place to come to meditate on how to leave. It’s full cicle stuff.
We need a totally new government.
You ain't the only ones mates, tell us about it.
But not Sinn Féin. They're not going to change things. More of the same.
Where you from? @@Jojo.R.Chipelago
Just not FFGSF. oh shid forget to start my own party called the aftershow party
After parties are good.@@hindenpeter2.04
*This* is the biting satire I came for. Love the Cultural Observations and all that as well, but this is even better.
"That didn't work. I have a plan."
Namaste. 🙏
This is amazing. A masterpiece. Never seen a video about Ireland more accurate than this, honestly.
I'm in Northern Ireland and I agree with everything you said. It's happening up here too.
Canada too, only worse. So many people living on the streets now.
It’s happening globally, Schwab and the great reset!
SF will sort it out down South like they did up North . . . oh wait.
It's all the same because all the parties in the West are run by exactly the same type of people, and you get exactly the type of people you vote for.
@@rubyjames3105 You Canadians probably have it worse then us in Ireland, I'm from Blackrock which is chronically expensive and I found Canada excessively priced
the qaulity is just beautiful, you have really out done yourself frankie, and showed ireland in its true beauty :)
Holy crap! This is shot in 16x9! Welcome to the 20th century! It looks great!
the skateboarders got to him.
This is very important satire. You're right as well. Bullets are cheaper than therapists
@@shaolinotter skateboarders love 4:3 get off the gear
i like the 4:3 more, looks cooler
good video though
@@shaolinotter skaters would've used fisheye on him at least once
I’ve stayed in Ireland three times from 2014 to 2015. I love it. And I listened to people all the time I was there. And now I have listened to you………there’s a consensus……and the power of comedy trumps all….
The most irish thing about this is a fella in a field using a can of lynx as a flamethrower 😂
So great man. I hope this gets all the views you deserve
Grass so wet you can shoot it with a hairspray flamethrower for a solid couple of seconds at no risk of fire 😂😂😂
We all moan about Ireland. We give out about the corruption, the housing, the multinationals and the shallowness of our culture but at the end of the day, we feckin love this place. Otherwise we would leave. And when we do leave, we miss it. It's a terrible place and a paradise. Nothing is perfect. Even Frankie is not perfect, as much as it pains me to say. What hurts us is that we know Ireland can be better than it is. Namaste.
I am perfect
He is perfect
I like multi nationals
@@spazzymacgee5648 If it wasn't for the multinationals giving us jobs, the corrupt politicians making us a tax haven and the feckin Brits giving us their shite language we'd be likely similar to Portugal, Sicily or Poland. Instead, we are - on paper - one of the wealthiest countries on Earth. A country where a fool like me can get a good job, marry a fine woman and raise a family in the countryside.
I’m not stopping until you admit I’m perfect
I think the Irish are actually too funny for their own good. Like I always thought Irish humour was the best thing in the world, but now I think that because it’s the main form of resistance to difficult circumstances means that people haven’t developed other strategies that might actually bring about social change.
Great video boyo, let's hope some genuine benevolent values spring to life as soon as possible.🌱🌅☘️
Brilliant a bit of honest commentary. Gives me hope. You’re a legend bro
Brilliant Video honestly what the country needs to hear. Excellent work man!
Everyone knowing an extra was too real 😭 who doesn't love seeing ppl they know on like .5 seconds of a film and then hearing about it for years 😭
Next door neighbours second cousins step-father-in -law’s dog had a part as a guide dog for a blind fella who walked past Ken Barlow’s house in Coronation Street in 1997. Still got a recording of it on video next to the photo of Dev ( not from Corrie!) the real Dev in Dublin, 1916. Ma says her da’s old supervisor at Will’s Tobacco is in the front row of the crowd there, ya can’t see him but he’s as close to Dev as any of the others there!……happy days! 🇨🇮🥃💚
Great critiques nicely presented. Keep going, Frankie!
If I traveled back in time to my farm labourer great-grandparents I think they'd actually pity me.
We have really fcked it all up. No doubt about it. Maybe the foreigners can make something of it now, like Bradford, Rotherham etc.
Brilliant - it’s the same in the UK (if not worse) and to varying degrees in all countries which ‘enjoy’ or are converting to American-style neoliberalism.
i'm gonna have to steal the phrase "post colonial jitters" because it's exactly the phrase what i've been looking for
Ireland along with most of Europe (including Britain) is dominated by internationalists
We've moved up the world, so apparently, we're all Racist now, and therefore can afford to help pay for the re-colonisation of Ireland ourselves this time.
@@Charlie25068 I don’t know what about what I said indicated that I would be receptive to this sentiment but… I am not. I disagree with you very strongly. I am saying this to distance myself from you in the eyes of whoever stumbles across this. I will not be entertaining further conversation, whatever your reply.
@@user-qv2qf1jk5o That's what happens when you have no decent or truthful arguments to make other than attempt to infer Ireland and the Irish as being a former colonial power. It's pathetic, and yes it would be best if you slinked off, and had you post colonial revisionist jerk off somewhere else.
@Charlie25068 the great replacement
This should be required viewing for every resident of the country. Stop patting ourselves on the back while they pat us on the head and continue to take everything away, and charge you for the convenience.
Thanks for that, a guard (senior community officer) shot me point blank in the face with a hand gun, not in the back, broad daylight, the matter was pardoned and he's still employed, I froze in terror when you told me about weapon funding 😱 thanks again for this
I actually got criminally convicted for talking about this ie. they said I was inciting dissidence, they tried to kill me twice on the same day, double homicide - no problem, talking about it, in a public place!!!
How did you survive ?
@@samdumaquis2033 Love thy neighbour and Thy Lord as thy neighbour and you shall not be harmed, they abducted after shooting me, abandoned me in vehicle roadside, reabducted with new guards, brought me to a holding cell/barracks, stripped me naked, 8 pigs held me down and a man in a suit tried to disembowel me with a hook knife used for culling pigs, again, unharmed, then they sent me to a psychiatric hospital and forced a first generation chemical labotomy so I'm no longer a credible witness, I hold it against the tax payer for funding kiddy killers, Aisling Murphy
@@Prodrive1 Republic means you can't sue, I got convicted for talking about it 😅😭👍
An armed Garda shot you? The only armed gardai are the Armed Support Units only used in seriously risky situations:
From Wikipedia: 'A Garda Armed Support Unit may be deployed to support local Garda officers in certain high-risk operations. This principally involves offering armed assistance to ordinary Gardaí who are dealing with an incident in which firearms or other weapons (knives, etc.) have been produced. It also includes:
Confronting and disarming persons who are carrying knives or guns
Providing tactical support to other Gardaí carrying out searches
Carrying out high visibility static and rolling checkpoints and other operations to counteract the movements of criminals
Overt armed airport and port patrols to counter terrorist attacks[
So why not give us some more details about the incident?
Revolution can take several forms.
The flamethrower is cool.
You sir are hillarious. Im gonna have a great time catching up with your videos since last i was here
Just wonderful poetry! 🏴☠️
currently working in limerick 10 hour shifts, 4 days a week. the shop i work in is about 2 hours away from home by two buses, if they show up on time. 4 houra of commute for a 10 hour shift paying minimum wage. i come home exhausted w barely enough energy to enjoy my day off. i cant get work anywhere else bc ive got fuck all qualifications and seemingly nobody in the hospitality industry wants to hire fulltime staff.
im 22 years old. this is my life. and idk how its gonna change. ive been here 8 months now and its killing me.
Thanks fella, keep communicating with our people
A tear to my eye you brought.... I need your solicitor's details now.......
That hit home, your on the ball with everything you said and orchestrated your point very well. Our people and land are hurting we need change
Brilliant and spot on
"What need you, being come to sense, But fumble in a greasy till And add the halfpence to the pence And prayer to shivering prayer, until You have dried the marrow from the bone; For men were born to pray and save:Romantic Ireland’s dead and gone, It’s with O’Leary in the grave." W.B. Yeats
Thank you for spelling it out. Housing IS the most basic of human rights. Ireland is a small country there shouldn't be anyone living on the streets / hotels / couchsurfing / stuck at home in adulthood. 😑🙏
There's no human right to houseing in ireland
@derekdempsey8506 youre just making a lazy appeal to authority. it might not be on the books but that doesnt mean its not a basic human right and it doesnt mean it shouldnt be on the books. dont use contemporary policy and law as the basis for your own morality, there can always be unjust policy and law and just bowing the head and accepting it are the actions of a coward.
@@derekdempsey8506 @derekdempsey8506 you misspelled housing. I know it's not yet a human right. Ireland is disproportionately obsessed with home ownership because of our colonial past, as well as refusing to accept long term renting as another option. The sooner we stop repeating master / servant patterns the better for everyone on this island.
@@thyowenin adult hood if you haven't managed to save up even a deposit there's something realy wrong with the individual
@@TheCCBloom agree this is the only part of this vid I don't like, the home ownership. We're obsessed with owning a house. We have among the highest home ownership rates in Europe, after Spain and Greece...and yet complain about our low levels of home ownership...and which countries in Europe were worse hit by the housing financial crisis? Spain, Greece and Ireland so not sure whether really high rates of home ownership are beneficial at least they weren't for the last financial crisis. Otherwise great video. We've sold ourselves out (but I guess we kinda had to wasn't much happening here other than immigration before the FDI came in).
Well done kid that was feckin brilliant,you have some vision for a young fella keep em comin
The gambling part is true. All the times I've seen a great uncle over on this side of the Irish Sea, he always buys heaps of scratch cards and tell us about the first black man in his home town at my nan's dinner table.
@lombmusic07 Least they'll learn something than burning the student flat down when they're at uni.
Very helpful to quickly explain the situation to my fellow yanks
Wait did you just give me money!
I didn’t know you could do that on this app. Thank you very much. While I don’t have the capacity to feel positive emotions towards others this gesture has at least made me feel more contempt for all the commenters who haven’t done the same. Namaste 🙏🏻
@@meditationsfortheanxiousmind They should really be ashamed of themselves.
Pure poetry 👏
Where has the Eireann of old gone? Where are the mystical forests of connacht, the thunderous shores of munster, the magical power of leinster, and the ruggedness and legend of Ulster? Where is the Ireland that is home Cu Chulain and all the other great heroes? Now we just have big cities where we move over for the money, sometimes into homelessness or poverty, and farmers fields with 10ft hedgerows so you cant see the beauty outside of them. Where has the magic gone from Ireland? Theres a reason that the faeries haven't been seen for 200 years.
The hedgeroes are fantastic for preserving the fertility of the fields and wildlife, they are keepers
@samdumaquis2033 the field hidden by that hedgerow was once a great wood with more history, diversity, and magic than the human race
Ulster is part of my country. Please keep to your own nation sate plz.
"Where are the mystical forests of connacht"? ...according to the archaeologists they were cut down five thousand years ago by property developers to build the Céide Fields. Plus ca change.
ah here lads... the filmography of this is actually out of this world!!
This rings true for my home as well, Cornwall just across the sea. Totally ruined by the rich to the point locals cannot afford to live here anymore.
That was brilliant! …Ireland also sounds just like Australia
Yep. Ireland has been sold down the river. Brilliantly put 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
It makes me so happy to hear other young irish lqds speaking the way you are man! It will be slow bt this is how we change things!
You’re a brilliant video artist, Frankie. God love ya, fella x
Everybody needs to be proud of Ireland and change the things that doesn't work for them to make things work better 🇮🇪❤️🇮🇪❤️🇮🇪❤️🇮🇪❤️🇮🇪❤️🇮🇪
Eh yeah all us normal people not in government and with zero power will just fix everything....
The clue is in the name.... Ire... Has noone ever noticed that?😅Nice hills though.
I actually thought I was the only one that knew that. Land of Rage 🇮🇪
That's in the imposed name of the imposed language amadans!
I call it Ire-ony
Love you for this lad.
the lord hath senteth this video to mine homepage amen on god
Québec here. We hear you. And we’re not even that picturesque.
All run by the same type of people
"That didn't work. "... "I have a plan. " proceeds to flame throw it. Lol. Same everywhere mate. It is not, just Ireland. Snead O Conner sang a lyric -Ireland is like a child that got his face bashed in-. Some healing needed. I love the Irish. Would love to visit. Give everyone a hug.
thank you for sharing your culture with us 🙏
IRL has fallen😢
Spot on, lad. Love this country of mine and hate how it's run into the ground.
Brilliant. 👏👌👍
Deeper than I was prepared for. Your writing is en pointe.
Solidarity from America. Love your work, thank you.
Ireland is worth fighting for, more than any other country on Earth.
Please don't lose hope.
🇮🇪 Tá Éire saor. 🇮🇪
Ireland is worth fighting for, but not more than any other country on Earth. No society is inherently the best and Irish exceptionalism is one of the targets of this video.
@@gordon1545stfu gordan. Ireland is better than any African country on every measure mate. We are intrinsically better than other countries what the fck are u talking about
Its bad enough I have to watch my currency turned to toilet paper. I can't imagine being a sovereign state and tying yourself to the US dollar.
Landlords passed a bill to ban pyromania... since then lighters have been 70% less effective.
Was thinking of making a video similar to this recently enough.
Happy ye put it together.
Good job. Maybe this video will pay for another non-oil and vinegar tayto sandwich
Landlords are mainly foreigners change my mind
This hit fking hard... being (formerly) one of the foreign skilled workers working for a multinational corporation with its EU HQ in Dublin. Hated the job, but fell in love with the country...
Superb! So well said.
"Allahakbarr!!'
David from Ireland 2023 ❤
Hey you could dub in Australia and most of this hits.
Amazing. All your vids are gas but the love letters are my favourite. Keep up the good work!!!
Ireland... a country where instead of looking for leprechauns, you now have to look for irish people, and if you spot one in the massive crowds of non irish consider yourself lucky
Don't let facts get in the way of your alternative reality.
Brilliant mate 👍 fair play to you 🙏❤️🇮🇪
All hail our Lord and Saviour, Eamon De Valera, for his wonderful contributions to our state, beginning and ending with the day he died.
😂😂 Blowtorch End Scene Pure Class.
As an Irish Ex-Pat all I have to say on this video is, Zero lies detected.
Amazing. Thanks to this channel and Blindboy I've become really invested in the issues of Ireland
Blindboy……is a symptom of issues in Ireland
@whitiemarsh3671 why a symptom? That makes him sound like a bad thing like itching or a headache 😂
@@jameswhee a grown man that wears a plastic bag on his head and is revered in certain circles is a reflection of the decline of Ireland
Time for the Irish spirit to rise like the brave pheonix she is. The world is with you Ireland. Time to take down the Gombeens.
master piece.
Well done mate, fkn inspirational
God forbid the Garda have something more then a pen and a neon high vis vest...
You should do one on people who wear retro colourful jackets to show how interesting they are.
Cool how it's comedy and really nice powerful poetry at the same time.
the irony of this man advertising four loco and then posting this
This man is underrated.
Return to the land of saints and scholars and no effing politicians