The Great Condom Debate of 1991, Limerick, Ireland

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  • Опубліковано 30 кві 2022
  • I put this video together from a tape of raw footage shot by a group of FÁS trainees back in 1991. The intention at the time had been that some of the footage would be used for a slot on RTE's Saturday morning program for young people, Scratch Saturday. But none of it ever saw the light of day due to a complaint received by RTE shortly after filming.
    For whatever reason, the trainees' tape was sitting among my father's box of old tapes, and when I came across it, I just thought it would be worth editing and posting the now 30+ year old footage.
    It''s an interesting snapshot in time. Although it's apparent that the Catholic Church still had a major standing in certain parts of Irish society, it was clearly already on a steady decline. The general contrast between the attitudes of the younger generation interviewed and those of the older generation gives an insight into the extent to which the church had shaped moral attitudes in the preceding years.
    Of course the influence of the church continued on its steady decline in the years that followed - for better or for worse, depending on one's point of view.

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  • @garibaldi54
    @garibaldi54 Рік тому +4475

    Everyone saying 16 yr olds are to immature and irresponsible, surely thats an argument for them not getting pregnant.

    • @dinkster1729
      @dinkster1729 Рік тому +7

      And not coming down with an STD, right?

    • @paudsmcmack3117
      @paudsmcmack3117 Рік тому +18

      4:14. Condoms! Sure they're all the rage! We're all wearing them now sure, to be sure!

    • @LoLFilmStudios
      @LoLFilmStudios Рік тому +59

      No, but we need to instill proper values, and teach the about protection.
      They shouldn’t be sleeping around though.
      Young people care too much about sex.

    • @TedEhioghae
      @TedEhioghae Рік тому +52

      How about not having sex before marriage?
      It is a sin.

    • @garibaldi54
      @garibaldi54 Рік тому +296

      @@TedEhioghae In your opinion. The catholic church are the last people who should be talking about sexual activity.

  • @FeathersMcGraw_
    @FeathersMcGraw_ Рік тому +4905

    I love how no one buys condoms but everyone's friends buy condoms.

    • @bradsoup2241
      @bradsoup2241 Рік тому +131

      Yeh i need to go shop to get some rn… for a freind tho

    • @khiachenille834
      @khiachenille834 Рік тому +6

      😆

    • @pow1983
      @pow1983 Рік тому +5

      @@bradsoup2241 At least you can disguise it with some soup, buh dum tsh, I'll see myself out

    • @bradsoup2241
      @bradsoup2241 Рік тому +1

      @@pow1983 good gtfo

    • @muhammadreddy
      @muhammadreddy Рік тому +9

      They are worried their parent may be watching lol

  • @angelicalaflame8413
    @angelicalaflame8413 Рік тому +1040

    Being able to get married at 16 but unable to buy condoms is absurd.

    • @joshswain6495
      @joshswain6495 Рік тому +141

      Its like in America, being able to go to war at 18 but not being able to drink till 21

    • @angelicalaflame8413
      @angelicalaflame8413 Рік тому +2

      @@joshswain6495 yup.

    • @cae2525
      @cae2525 Рік тому +1

      It's not absurd. Marriage is a holy union while condoms are a way to degeneracy.

    • @j.knight9335
      @j.knight9335 Рік тому +9

      The use of contraception is mortally sinful.

    • @MAMBA187
      @MAMBA187 Рік тому +6

      I guess it’s a good way to bring those Irish population numbers back to those pre-famine days lol

  • @liammacaodha4783
    @liammacaodha4783 2 роки тому +1494

    It's a pity they weren't aired, they done a good job.

    • @tomasflatharta
      @tomasflatharta Рік тому +22

      Apparently you need permission to enter the chemist.

    • @moonaddict
      @moonaddict Рік тому +1

      it's kind of obvious from the questions that part of their goal was to really embarrass people. "Do you buy condoms?" is a pointless question that leads nowhere.

    • @riseandshinemrfriman5925
      @riseandshinemrfriman5925 Рік тому +1

      420k views anno 2023. A bit late but better than never. :P

  • @interesting2491
    @interesting2491 Рік тому +1004

    The pre social media era is so precious

    • @RainbowCoda
      @RainbowCoda Рік тому +11

      So true 💝

    • @cedgar000
      @cedgar000 Рік тому +117

      All of human history except the last 10 years

    • @RainbowCoda
      @RainbowCoda Рік тому +18

      @@cedgar000 true ahah I find it fascinating the change, I would want too see a documentry on this

    • @Revilkappa
      @Revilkappa Рік тому +2

      What do you find has changed

    • @RainbowCoda
      @RainbowCoda Рік тому +72

      @@Revilkappa the innocence of communication aha
      The global world americanised a lot
      Ireland was still a local village
      Everyone did their own thing
      Know one was in competion
      Everyone just concentrated on themselves and to get through life
      Even though times were harder and jobs were hard to find

  • @liammacaodha4783
    @liammacaodha4783 2 роки тому +709

    They really went for it, fair play to 'em. Priest and all, everyone was asked.

  • @fowleheidi482
    @fowleheidi482 Рік тому +924

    I lived in Limerick and loved every minute.
    This presenter has BIG BALLS for doing this in '91. I'm surprised nobody told her off! Very impressive work.
    In '94 it was almost impossible for me & my Irish boyfriend to rent an apartment. We'd decided to get wedding rings and lie. Then we met our landlord ♥️ Joan, in her 80s. I called ahead and told her we were an unmarried couple. She said "Surely, that's none of my business"! She was amazing I used to sit in her kitchen 🚬 and 🍷 we visited after we were married in USA. We brought her a large (huge) photo of our wedding, she hung it on her wall.
    The only bit that surprised me in these interviews was ANY direct answer!
    If anyone reads this & goes to Nancy Blake's tell Donal & any LONG time staff Heidi their American bartender says HI!! XXX

    • @niamhhogan9862
      @niamhhogan9862 Рік тому +54

      Sent on the message to the current manager ✌️ worked in Nancy's for a bit, it's still going strong!

    • @imahappycamper2022
      @imahappycamper2022 Рік тому +8

      Did you not actually watch it, the very first clip is a pharmacist giving out to her. They explained at the start that this female pharmacist wrote into RTÉ complaining and had the program cancelled. And I'd imagine that majority that didn't , was only because it was on camera and they're only teenagers.

    • @Ken-sh8vr
      @Ken-sh8vr Рік тому +4

      Just shows what a sad country Ireland was that this could be controversial in 1991

    • @imahappycamper2022
      @imahappycamper2022 Рік тому +3

      @@Ken-sh8vr It wasn't in 91, It was recorded in the late 70s early 80s. It clearly explained at the start of the video that old woman in the pharmacy wrote into RTÉ complaining and got it stopped from being aired. Ireland was literally ran by the church back then, not the government and it was the controversy of going against the church not actual condoms. The fact it's young people doing the interviewing comes across to the elderly and older adults as them being cheeky, that's why they were all getting so offended. It's the total opposite now

    • @jackcleary500
      @jackcleary500 Рік тому +17

      @@imahappycamper2022 it says at the beginning March 1991 and in the description and title 91 lad

  • @jonno777
    @jonno777 Рік тому +470

    Great presenter. So confident. Hope she did well in her career. Classic piece of footage. Thanks 👍👍

  • @Bystander333
    @Bystander333 Рік тому +256

    I loved this documentary at so many levels.
    The older people are probably dead, the teenagers are probably in their mid 40s and have teenage kids of their own.
    Whoever the presenter is - I hope they had a long and succesful career!

  • @elizabethhoover4672
    @elizabethhoover4672 Рік тому +287

    What an incredible historical artifact of the political climate concerning sexual health in the 90's in Ireland. This young woman did a fabulous job with her questions and asking a good range of people. It is so wild to think you could marry at 16 but not have condoms.

    • @pseudoplotinus
      @pseudoplotinus Рік тому +8

      I know, I went into this thinking I'll just give it 10 minutes, instead I ended up watching the whole thing. It wasn't just the Q&As that kept me engaged but also the environments, the peoples' behaviours and their way of speaking and the way they looked, the sounds. The world was spiritually a much different place back then, it almost made me nostalgic for a time I never lived in.

    • @mariorpg4276
      @mariorpg4276 Рік тому +1

      No it isnt. The reason that you can get married early, and should, is that not only are you more likely to stay with that person if it is a morally good society, but also to relieve the sex drive without being an adulterer. There is no "sexual health". I say this as someone under 18. It is not wild at all, and it is sad that this happened to Ireland.

    • @twostupidasianonecupnoodle
      @twostupidasianonecupnoodle Рік тому +4

      @@mariorpg4276
      Yeah, it’s no surprise that you’re under 18. If you don’t trust a 16 year old with sex, then you definitely should not trust a 16 year old with a lifetime commitment such as marriage. It’s very clear that you are immature. Stay in school.

    • @anthecrawford3957
      @anthecrawford3957 Рік тому +3

      I had no idea that there were restrictions for buying condoms in Ireland but it certainly makes sense why my nephew was conceived by two 17 year olds. I'm from Australia but would visit family in a village 20 minutes outside Limerick every Christmas from 1994 - 2003. So apart from my step-brother having a son in 1988, the village had a huge amount of teenagers pushing buggies around the place but I thought it was due to abortion laws at the time. I knew divorce was a new thing and historically weird just like this remarkable snippet into 1990's attitudes in Limerick...it certainly explains why intelligent girls around my age had to drop out of school never getting the opportunity to go to uni and travel like I did or consider a career. A fantastic reminder why The Church cannot have a political pulpit!

    • @anthecrawford3957
      @anthecrawford3957 Рік тому

      @Jonathan Joestar, hey snap out of the 1990's, your own individual sense of morality cannot train teenagers into abstinence without a marriage certificate. At home and in schools you teach them prevention and protection and why. Sex education started in year 10 human biology where it's taught as science because it is. Science always trumps doctrine and laws are not created because my God said so...if it did we'd no longer live in a democracy and human rights would not exist.

  • @dogchaser520
    @dogchaser520 Рік тому +234

    "Don't buy condoms. Rawdog it. That's how we used to do it, and we got pregnant and started families at 17."

    • @SilencedButNotForgotten
      @SilencedButNotForgotten Рік тому +7

      They actually started families just a couple years earlier than couples nowadays, lol.

    • @AeolisticFury
      @AeolisticFury Рік тому +13

      Funnily, historically irish were one of the oldest to start having children in europe, around age of 30 . Even in the 1920s and 30s. It is factually incorrect that many people were pregnant at 17 before birth control. In fact teen pregnancy rose since the 90s in Ireland.

    • @kasperdomagala7031
      @kasperdomagala7031 Рік тому +24

      @@AeolisticFury source: my arse

    • @jessiemagee1760
      @jessiemagee1760 Рік тому +2

      @@AeolisticFury come with the back up my man

    • @Will-lo1zq
      @Will-lo1zq Рік тому +2

      @@AeolisticFury Funnily, if you look up teen pregnancy in Ireland the first thing that comes up is a article called "What are the factors behind a 73% drop in teenage pregnancies in Ireland?" (Irish Times, 2022) over the last twenty years. In other words you're talking complete utter shite and didn't even bother to do a google search.
      In fact a quick search using Ireland's office for national statistics shows that in 1970 the average women had their first kid at 25.3, this figure was at age 31.1 for 2018.
      Not only are you wrong but you couldn't be further from the truth, the takeaway here is that research matters and you shouldn't just take your luddite grandparents "facts" at face value.

  • @Success4u247
    @Success4u247 Рік тому +217

    Just saw my mother being interviewed in Limerick.❤️☘️

  • @nullx2368
    @nullx2368 Рік тому +146

    11:32 this woman is so mature yet she recognizes that the kids are more mature than her technically. I love that people with a brain tend to recognize patterns way better than just parroting a general opinion. I hope she knew she was brilliant regardless of her age.

    • @venmis137
      @venmis137 Рік тому +5

      She actually made a good point. 16 year olds nowadays might on average be more mature (especially when it comes to that sort of thing) than 16 year olds in her time. A lot of these old people saying that "16 year olds are too young and uneducated" might be working from the way their generation was at 16 rather than the current one, which would explain at least some of the disagreement.

    • @conc3d189
      @conc3d189 Рік тому +2

      @@venmis137 I think as people got access to more info they grew up faster. They "saw" more things in a day, and learnt more, perhaps got more jaded. Whether that stuff was helpful is another thing, but they accumulated more shit from a broader range in a shorter time. That's my theory

    • @dannyhightower911
      @dannyhightower911 7 місяців тому +1

      She did not say that they are more mature than her. She said that they are more mature than how mature she was when she was 16. Huge difference and you are misstating what she said.

  • @Smurfy12
    @Smurfy12 Рік тому +330

    I am absolutely shocked watching this. O' Connell Street before the council completely wrecked it

    • @michaelcollins1211
      @michaelcollins1211 Рік тому +11

      Wrecked it ? It's brand new modern street ffs

    • @Shane2day
      @Shane2day Рік тому +53

      Yes it is very sad watching how busy, vibrant and atmospheric Limerick City Centre was back then now it is souless and a total mess.

    • @Smurfy12
      @Smurfy12 Рік тому +43

      @@michaelcollins1211 Modern? It's like a building site

    • @eighteenfiftynine
      @eighteenfiftynine Рік тому +17

      @@michaelcollins1211 sounds bloody awful! I don't know about Ireland, but in England things were lovely till the post war era and modernisation!

    • @ianhomerpura8937
      @ianhomerpura8937 Рік тому +11

      @@eighteenfiftynine well, the Blitz happened.

  • @Tinseltopia
    @Tinseltopia Рік тому +98

    The girl at 8:34 is amazing, goes off in a laughing fit. I wonder what a lot of these people are doing now. 31 years later

    • @theparanoidandroid3583
      @theparanoidandroid3583 Рік тому +37

      I love how you can still hear her howling in the distance 🤣

    • @dh-ig2ji
      @dh-ig2ji 9 місяців тому +3

      That's me with her with the red bablndana I ran home and told my mother some one had asked us about condoms in town she went mad I was only 14 a different Limerick now 😅

    • @DeathBurialResurrection
      @DeathBurialResurrection 6 місяців тому +1

      @@dh-ig2ji how are you now? Why did your mom went mad?
      GOD created human body, male and female take wisdom and understanding on this topic from the words of God king James Bible.
      Did school teach on Sex education from the Bible at your school.

  • @jonathandowling7311
    @jonathandowling7311 Рік тому +616

    As I expected, the youth were way ahead of the government on sexual issues. Most of them, especially in Limerick, were very enlightened despite the lack of sex education in schools at the time.
    The older generation mostly won't answer questions, they are totally in denial. The chemists that won't stock condoms have a terrifying amount of power.
    A factor that kept the country conservative for longer than it should have been was that emigration was so high, the young people that would have pushed for social change just kept leaving. But this was filmed in 1991, the first year of the Celtic Tiger. Things changed rapidly after that and net emigration became net immigration.
    I couldn't help noticing how nice and new the priest's house was. No shortage of money there.

    • @Motion4000
      @Motion4000 Рік тому +22

      Who’s “enlightening” them I wonder? The same influences that spoon fed you your opinions I bet

    • @kingy002
      @kingy002 Рік тому +26

      It is the same today. The younger generation want to see societal change, more equality, climate issues addressed, sexuality to become irrelevant, etc. and the older generation want to maintain the status quo. That tension has always existed. We could be more advanced today if only we had accepted their premises.

    • @yourdad3275
      @yourdad3275 Рік тому +53

      @@Motion4000 does your cynicism have a point to it?

    • @ThatGuy-ky2yf
      @ThatGuy-ky2yf Рік тому

      People like OP are the gen X/millennial types that are completely fine with neoliberalism destroying Ireland from the 2000s onward as long as the church's power declines and we get enough workers to fuffil a godforsaken MCN quota

    • @bravestchicken3528
      @bravestchicken3528 Рік тому +5

      Perhaps being young, dumb and broke meant something

  • @sporotrichos3854
    @sporotrichos3854 Рік тому +75

    My son got a bicycle for his birthday, but I think it's to dangerous for him to ride it. That's why I refuse to get him a helmet. This way I know for sure he won't use it.

    • @meganaxeliar
      @meganaxeliar Рік тому +1

      there’s an abundance of helmets and they’re easily acquirable, and we’re always taught to wear helmets… yet overwhelmingly boys still do not wear them when deciding to ride their bikes.
      Why? Because simply throwing a helmet at your son will not fill the void of your failed parenting and failed, degenerate, impulsive, sick society.
      but of course, you don’t actually care about this issue, as hospitals can fix a cracked head… or crack your unborn grandchildren’s heads in an abortion.

    • @Ravi-fx6vf
      @Ravi-fx6vf Рік тому +2

      @@meganaxeliar And yet, even less people would wear helmets if they weren't available for purchase..

    • @meganaxeliar
      @meganaxeliar Рік тому +1

      @@Ravi-fx6vf
      they’ve been available to purchase everywhere for decades, even out given free, taught in every school - and you still fail, they aren’t being worn by a significant amount of people. what’s next? surgically attach helmets?
      at what point to Gen X, boomer, late millennial parents just admit their liberalism has failed and caused extreme societal degeneracy.

    • @Ravi-fx6vf
      @Ravi-fx6vf Рік тому +3

      @@meganaxeliar I'm not sure where you're going with this. On one hand you say its bad that not enough people are wearing them, on the other you want to restrict their access to it? Makes zero sense.
      Having said that, STDs and teenage pregnancies are much lower these days than back in the day (including time of that video)

    • @meganaxeliar
      @meganaxeliar Рік тому +1

      @@Ravi-fx6vf
      No, you’re misunderstanding my stance:
      I’m saying you’re all morally bankrupt and it’s scary how oblivious you are to it. You’re completely rotting our societies.
      Contraception couldn’t be anymore accessible and ‘sex education’ is hounded at children from a young age, up until our teenage years by schools, the media and on top of parental guidance for most of us.
      Yet, STDs and unwanted pregnancies are HIGHER than they have ever been in history - (just appeased/guised by the ability to treat the diseases and abortion of unborn children).
      So what’s your’s and everyone else’s response to this issue? It is straw-manning and doubling-down. Apparently we should throw MORE condoms in peoples faces, do MORE abortions, do MORE ‘sex education’ classes. What’s next after it obviously doesn’t work? Teach young people sodomy in school to stop unwanted pregnancy? Like I said, you’re all morally bankrupt.
      The rise of liberalism/progressivism sparked the trivialisation and de-root of sex from love, sanctity, marriage and parental-bonding. Hyper-sexualisation, objectification and fetishisation has spread across our cultures. The issue was exacerbated and allowed by the introduction of contraception/abortion.
      Thus, you’ve bred impulsive, degenerate generations of people which do impulsive, degenerate things… like have unprotected, frivolous, meaningless, hedonistic sex.
      The solution to this matter is not ‘black and white’ or simple. We have to spark a revolt cultural-shift in our societies. A great start would be the complete ban or demonetisation of pornographic content, strip clubs, etc. We need to re-introducing healthy relationships, perceptions of each other and behaviour. That’s just the first step… this will be a battle of attrition and mostly to save the future generations from turning into us.
      Eventually contraception and abortion would be available but irrelevant/rare in use (as it was always meant to be).

  • @IOwnKazakhstan
    @IOwnKazakhstan Рік тому +27

    "They're not mature enough to use condoms and have sex, they should have unprotected even MORE dangerous sex!"
    Is essentially the message coming across.

  • @RoyBattyLives
    @RoyBattyLives Рік тому +60

    Great reporting. I hope she went on to great things. It took a lot of bravery to ask these questions of the older generation in rural Ireland in the early 90’s

    • @gearoiddom
      @gearoiddom Рік тому

      A rural city? Is that a Green Party thing 😂

    • @RoyBattyLives
      @RoyBattyLives Рік тому +7

      @@gearoiddom I was referring to her interviewing people in villages of Limerick county. Did you watch it that far?

  • @paigeherrin29
    @paigeherrin29 Рік тому +247

    The Indian at 6:23 nailed it. No hesitation, he offers a reason (prevent disease) before she could even ask, “why would a 16 year old buy a condom”.

    • @oscarosullivan4513
      @oscarosullivan4513 Рік тому +3

      Now widely available

    • @FoMoCo123
      @FoMoCo123 Рік тому +24

      How do you know he is/was Indian?

    • @oscarosullivan4513
      @oscarosullivan4513 Рік тому +5

      @@FoMoCo123 Interesting question

    • @musicjunk8266
      @musicjunk8266 Рік тому +18

      @@FoMoCo123 Maybe because there's a billion of them spreading around the globe?

    • @johnmcgahern3946
      @johnmcgahern3946 Рік тому +54

      ​@@FoMoCo123 You might as well ask, "how do you know the rest were Irish", FFS🙄

  • @vazap8662
    @vazap8662 Рік тому +87

    Loved this video.. Having grown up in Ireland in the 80s, it's mad to see how fast things changed in the 90s..

    • @soeffingwhat
      @soeffingwhat Рік тому +12

      Yep, a few years later when saf sex adverts started appearing on RTE i felt proud that Ireland was starting to mature, even though we had a bit of a way to go.

  • @notorioustampaton
    @notorioustampaton Рік тому +20

    I enjoyed this and subscribed. You can tell the interviewer is quite immature (not in a childish way, more in a novice sense) about how she goes about asking people questions. I think that’s actually one of the things that makes this authentic. Like the way they approach that nun was quite unprofessional and (for lack of a better term) aggressive, even though that was clearly not the interviewer’s intention. Very well done overall. Brings me back to media studies.
    Can’t wait to see more of these gems.

  • @Roo408
    @Roo408 Рік тому +23

    I was 5 this time , lived in moyross , it's nice to have a piece of that past that will never be again

  • @mynameisjongreen
    @mynameisjongreen Рік тому +116

    It's quite a frightening example of what happens when the church has power over the law.

    • @Waldemarvonanhalt
      @Waldemarvonanhalt Рік тому +7

      Literally not a day goes by where I don't see proof vindicating Humanae Vitae.

    • @dean1111
      @dean1111 Рік тому +1

      Oh absolutely

  • @n1msu
    @n1msu Рік тому +278

    This is fascinating to watch; and as usual, the younger people interviewed seem to have more intelligence and articulation than some of the older interviewees who say that 'they're too young and uneducated etc'. Since we know that one doesn't need an appointment to visit a chemist; have you thought about contacting RTE? I'm from England so I don't know what sort of if any political leaning this channel has but if it's supposed to be neutral. I really think this video has significant historical value and if they have archivists, they might be able to make sure this video is archived for posterity. Please let me know if you do decide to try to get this archived in any way. If this has only been seen by your family members and a few hundred of us on youtube I think it's quite sad!

    • @Janus-yv8zm
      @Janus-yv8zm Рік тому +52

      @Jack_Tisson Condoms are not at fault for the falling birth rate. People will have as many kids as people want to have, regardless of the existence of condoms.

    • @laut0
      @laut0 Рік тому +40

      @Jack_Tisson you don't really think at all, do you?

    • @HogieVision
      @HogieVision Рік тому +19

      @Jack_Tisson So you’ve never actually lived in Ireland yourself, have you?

    • @lastyhopper2792
      @lastyhopper2792 Рік тому +1

      @Jack_Tisson people of old times needed to have many children because of how easily they died from disease or accident. Example would be how Julius Ceasar's sons all died in young age.
      Now in the modern era, where the health care have become more available and better.. You can make sure your child don't die that easily. Thus to have many children is not needed.
      Besides, the world population has become too large in my opinion. I don't think the planet can sustain too many of us.
      We are talking about: 1) Transforming another forest into farmland, 2) Diverting water from lakes and rivers to our cities, 3) Managing the polution from our power plants and factories

    • @yourdad3275
      @yourdad3275 Рік тому +25

      @Jack_Tisson you’d rather ireland be a nation of unwanted accidents?

  • @StudioSappy
    @StudioSappy Рік тому +24

    Man the 2 dudes at 7:20 are interesting. The dude on the left quietly judging his friend but also completely accepting his viewpoint. I wonder if they're still mates.

    • @ballygeale1
      @ballygeale1 28 днів тому

      I'm from croom and the two are still alive

  • @mvan1225
    @mvan1225 Рік тому +8

    Amazing how some people are so hostile towards the idea that they don't even want to explain why they're against it

  • @shiteguides
    @shiteguides Рік тому +512

    Incredible footage from a scary time of state brainwashing. Thanks a million for uploading this,

    • @liamfoley9614
      @liamfoley9614 Рік тому

      The last 40 years has been continuous state brainwashing. It's easy when RTE does it for you.

    • @2kfootballclips931
      @2kfootballclips931 Рік тому +35

      Worse now mate

    • @froggbertt6845
      @froggbertt6845 Рік тому +9

      @@heofonfyr6000 good god 💀

    • @Kretek
      @Kretek Рік тому

      Those were "scary time of state brainwashing". Look around buddy.

    • @UltraProchy
      @UltraProchy Рік тому +2

      ​@@heofonfyr6000 your life must be so important

  • @henelema
    @henelema Рік тому +24

    Aside from the political commentary, this is actually a great snapshot of what life in Ireland was like during the 90s.

    • @tomada5681
      @tomada5681 Рік тому

      Feels like the Church had a mob type control of people afriad to even voice opinions.

  • @heshamabdo4557
    @heshamabdo4557 Рік тому +71

    I feel sorry for the interviewer , many people were aggressive to her.

    • @theeggtimertictic1136
      @theeggtimertictic1136 Рік тому +18

      I don't think you understand the word aggressive 😳

    • @Sophie-lv6so
      @Sophie-lv6so Рік тому +8

      yeah but when they said no they dont want to talk she’d keep at them and ask why they dont want to, nobody really even got agressive they just walked away

    • @heshamabdo4557
      @heshamabdo4557 Рік тому

      @@Sophie-lv6so thanks for clarification

    • @zyzzsdisciples6707
      @zyzzsdisciples6707 Рік тому +2

      @@theeggtimertictic1136some of them were a bit mean

    • @xsuploader
      @xsuploader Рік тому

      its been 32 years id imagine shes gotten over it.

  • @saitejach5996
    @saitejach5996 Рік тому +9

    This is the content youtube is actually made for.

  • @westminsterwatcher5152
    @westminsterwatcher5152 Рік тому +29

    This is glorious! Brilliant array of characters! God bless the people of Limerick!

  • @happybee7725
    @happybee7725 Рік тому +86

    All the old Irish biddies are like “condoms? NOOOO THEY’RE THE DEVIL!!”

    • @vin8754
      @vin8754 Рік тому +9

      It's fascinating seeing how different just one generational gap is, isn't it?

    • @sharonrigs7999
      @sharonrigs7999 Рік тому

      Ireland is a great place to Rawdog GILFs

  • @Jayfive276
    @Jayfive276 Рік тому +38

    Also something to point out to the younger viewers out there - cameras or video recording equipment were rare to see outside of tv stations using them. Mainly because video camera were expensive, big and heavy. So that’s why people were like “oh shit!” And scarpering like the old lady in the shop and the nun.

  • @FoMoCo123
    @FoMoCo123 Рік тому +68

    13:41 The confident lady in the Mk1 Fiesta was way ahead of the times and the Nun's reluctance to speak says it all. Perfect Zeitgeist of the times and the Church State separation.

    • @lorcansnow2111
      @lorcansnow2111 Рік тому

      Pretty sure she was English, so in terms of social policy views so would most English have been in comparison.

    • @FoMoCo123
      @FoMoCo123 Рік тому

      @@lorcansnow2111 No I'd be confident she is a lady from the locality

  • @acs2735
    @acs2735 Рік тому +32

    All I see is absolute fear in many of the older people’s faces. So sad 😢

    • @goku-pops7918
      @goku-pops7918 Рік тому

      It's true, how sad

    • @xsuploader
      @xsuploader Рік тому

      id imagine that generation is gone after 32 years.

  • @oliviaosullivan9177
    @oliviaosullivan9177 Рік тому +8

    This is fantastic footage, and familiar scenes and faces to those of us who were teenagers at that time. Thank you for sharing it.

  • @olivercassidy863
    @olivercassidy863 Рік тому +10

    What a great find. Thank you for putting this together.

  • @middler5
    @middler5 Рік тому +35

    The collapse in teenage pregnancies says thank you.

    • @thehound9638
      @thehound9638 Рік тому

      Many marriages were shotgun marriages, which means many marriages didn't happen and the child that made the marriage was not born nor any of the siblings that would've joined her/him. This has happened throughout the west and consequently we are now importing the children we didn't have at such a rate that many countries are currently predicted to become minority majority countries!

    • @zaketenyu1932
      @zaketenyu1932 Рік тому

      @@bebd9665 I agree with most things but what the fuck does race have to do with anything lol

  • @SteffHanson
    @SteffHanson Рік тому +41

    they asked a nun in the full nun uniform and everything 😂😂😂😂

    • @ate_a_radio
      @ate_a_radio Рік тому +1

      Uniform XD

    • @Subjagator
      @Subjagator Рік тому +6

      @@ate_a_radio
      Yeah. I chucked at the use of that word too. We all know the correct term would be cult attire. Pfff, uniform....

    • @enneff
      @enneff Рік тому +2

      She of any of them should have something to say!

    • @ta_pegandofogo2988
      @ta_pegandofogo2988 Рік тому +1

      It's not uniform, it's nun skin's mod pack.

  • @Dartnitt
    @Dartnitt 9 місяців тому +2

    I love watching these old interviews/videos, there is something special about it

    • @evilcommunistpicklerick3175
      @evilcommunistpicklerick3175 9 місяців тому

      I especially like paying attention to the fashion, vehicles, buildings and mannerisms

  • @kevinmcguinness6526
    @kevinmcguinness6526 Рік тому +12

    It’s amazing this was about 30 years ago. Ireland has changed dramatically. It’s funny how little clips in time like this can show us how far we’ve come.

    • @JohnCenaFan6298
      @JohnCenaFan6298 8 місяців тому +1

      "how far we have come..." towards nihilism, consumerism and declining birthrates, the end of the society

  • @jackmaverick8588
    @jackmaverick8588 Рік тому +8

    Apparently, everyone in Ireland is either 16 or 97 years old.

    • @2prize
      @2prize Рік тому +3

      yea wtf i guess all the 30 year olds were at work

  • @ImagesByDavid
    @ImagesByDavid Рік тому +5

    Thanks for the upload. Fascinating to see Limerick in 1991 I was a young teenager then. You should approach RTE with this footage.

  • @potatokinishes7479
    @potatokinishes7479 Рік тому +5

    love that last lady, she is so well spoken and sounds so intelligent and compassionate. hope shes doing well wherever she is

  • @anthonybradley6141
    @anthonybradley6141 Рік тому +5

    To quote John Cooper Clark, "In Ireland, people used to smuggle in condoms in bags of heroin'.

  • @zaynevanday142
    @zaynevanday142 Рік тому +9

    i hope she kept on as a reporter she’s good ❤

  • @paigeherrin29
    @paigeherrin29 Рік тому +29

    What were people so afraid of talking for? Some of these responses are as if interviewer was chasing them with a knife.

    • @anthonym3351
      @anthonym3351 Рік тому +13

      Back in the day people were more private in comparison to today where people like the attention

    • @paigeherrin29
      @paigeherrin29 Рік тому +3

      @@anthonym3351 I mean, okkkk, but… I’m 51. I was 20 years when this video was made and I recall that condoms weren’t controversial to talk about then. Maybe kids still giggled and acted weird, but adults were not afraid of the topic. I even lived in the deep South at the time and it wasn’t so weird that we super freaked out and ran into a back room. Plus, they were already being sold in the US everywhere.
      And is discussing the access to safe sex something that’s done for attention? That seems hyperbolic.

    • @anthonym3351
      @anthonym3351 Рік тому +13

      @@paigeherrin29 Ireland was behind the times and it was also a big political issue. But even today older Irish people wouldn't be too fond of being on camera especially in comparison to Americans

    • @dinkster1729
      @dinkster1729 Рік тому +2

      @@paigeherrin29 I have to agree with you. I'm 73. I can remember a girl who worked part time in our class laughed about the time an adult came into her drug store and asked her where he would find the Sheiks (a brand of condom). She yelled across the drug store to the druggist, "Hey, Joe, Where are the Sheiks?" She didn't know what they were or she wouldn't have yelled her question out in a crowded drug store. LOLOL! The poor customer. That was in about 1966. I think by 1992, teenagers in Ontario would all know what a Sheik was. They are sold in drug stores here and, probably, in bars out of vending machines, but I'm not sure about that. We were given a rudimentary sex education in grade 12 here in 1966. The phys ed teacher told us that she could get in trouble for her efforts because sex education wasn't part of the curriculum. She and her husband were friends with the principal and his wife so she probably felt pretty safe and must have had the principal's tacit approval. It was a pretty blasé curriculum. No mention of homosexuality at all. We were even given to read a preprint from the Reader's Digest called "The Case for Chastity". I remember our English teacher let us debate the issue of abortion and the phys ed teacher came and saw our presentation. I don't remember who thought up the topic: was it a student or was it the English teacher? It certainly wasn't the phys ed teacher. I don't think it was the English teacher. He was fired by the end of year 2 though. I never knew why. He did some things that wouldn't be allowed today like having an affair with a student, but he later married her and had children with her. He was just a little too out there for staid, old Kingston, Ontario, I guess. A University of Toronto graduate. . . It's hard to believe this is 1992. I taught school in Newfoundland and Labrador in the 1970s. It has a huge Irish influence, but I got birth control pills there from doctors and I wasn't married at the time. I imagine condoms were sold in the drug stores. I do recall the principal of the Fogo Island High School for some reason had a discussion that centred around how sex education should be presented and he wanted to invite the clergy (Protestant and Roman Catholic) to present the topic. I don't think he was serious about talking about sex though. He just wanted to lead the teachers in a lively discussion or something. The curriculum would have to have come down from the Dept of Education. As far as I know, there was no official sex education curriculum. These Irish students all seem to know what a condom is though by 1992. I'm not sure the Fogo Island high school students would have known what one looked like.

    • @david_fitzmaurice
      @david_fitzmaurice Рік тому +1

      No phones around. People walking around with a camera was a pretty new thing compared to now.

  • @khalidalali186
    @khalidalali186 Рік тому

    Everyone should read the description. It’s great. Thanks for uploading this ✌️

  • @strategiccompanysale
    @strategiccompanysale Рік тому +10

    Fascinating. Thank you for your work in producing this.

  • @nanot.1984
    @nanot.1984 Рік тому +12

    The hairstyles and absolute aesthetic of the aftershock of 80s style merging into a new 90s distinct style is so poignant

  • @denisfitzgibbon5978
    @denisfitzgibbon5978 Рік тому +10

    This is excellent thanks for posting

  • @jboycaceres2871
    @jboycaceres2871 2 роки тому +188

    I remember back in my hometown in the Philippines, early 2000s. You can buy condom but in a very discreet way. You should whisper the item to the cashier. I had seen many men trembling while buying condoms...LOL

    • @oscarosullivan4513
      @oscarosullivan4513 Рік тому +10

      They are now available for free here

    • @RockinEnabled
      @RockinEnabled Рік тому +4

      Good morning miss
      Can I help you son?
      Sixteen today
      And up for fun
      I'm a big boy now
      Or so they say
      So if you'll serve
      I'll be on my way
      Box of balloons
      With the feather-light touch
      Pack of party-poppers
      That pop in the night
      A toothbrush and hairspray
      Plastic grin
      Miss Clay on all corners
      Has just walked in
      ...
      :)

    • @RockinEnabled
      @RockinEnabled Рік тому +3

      @Mat Sci it's from a music hit by Madness titled 'House of Fun'

  • @autoloadable
    @autoloadable Рік тому +13

    This was 31 years ago, just let that sink in

    • @xtdycxtfuv9353
      @xtdycxtfuv9353 Рік тому

      Yes. Time passes. I too was once young.

    • @diego032912
      @diego032912 Рік тому

      Shit I think it's rising out for me chief

  • @RetroReminiscing
    @RetroReminiscing Рік тому +7

    Interesting look back and hearing peoples views back then , thank you

  • @tulipchic34
    @tulipchic34 Рік тому +58

    Young guys. “Yes I buy condoms”. Young girls. “Nooooo”. 😂😂

  • @JuvianTV
    @JuvianTV Рік тому +13

    The energy of the girls at 12:39 is everything 💀🤣💀🤣 pure honesty

  • @nicoladouglas3270
    @nicoladouglas3270 Рік тому +9

    A rare glimpse of a young Mrs Doyle ... from FARTHER TED....in her school uniform...

  • @aleccastro4761
    @aleccastro4761 Рік тому +74

    I love it when young Irish people think for themselves - such a 180 from the elders colonised by state religion

    • @SquirreleLIV
      @SquirreleLIV Рік тому

      Lol. The woke brigade are the most feeble minded conformist morons in the history of the world.

    • @j.knight9335
      @j.knight9335 Рік тому

      The culture of Ireland is in rapid decay. Fool.

    • @aleccastro4761
      @aleccastro4761 Рік тому

      @@j.knight9335 how?

    • @j.knight9335
      @j.knight9335 Рік тому +6

      @@aleccastro4761 Total rejection of God, complete embrace of nihilism, mental health crisis, familial breakdown, sexual degeneration, rapid expansion of drug use. Need I go on?

    • @aleccastro4761
      @aleccastro4761 Рік тому +2

      @@j.knight9335 all of that stuff (aside from drug use) applies to the behaviour of many many catholic priests (*in my experience - not saying your experience is the same).
      So I'm happy for the young people of Ireland that at least now they get to choose what shape and form their rejection of god, embracing of nihilism, & sexual degeneration etc comes from..

  • @PeachBeach
    @PeachBeach Рік тому +4

    Fascinating! Thanks for this.

  • @cilliancallaghan9788
    @cilliancallaghan9788 Рік тому +10

    The past truly is a foreign country

  • @jeannemariagriffin5820
    @jeannemariagriffin5820 4 дні тому +1

    Priceless piece of social history

  • @n1msu
    @n1msu Рік тому +16

    Seeing the footage of the guys at around 19:42 also just seemed to highlight other issues which may have been going on. I don't know what 'Cromadh/Croom' is like now but it didn't look like a thriving town with opportunities. As I said I think this is historical footage which in a few hundred years when we are all gone will be valuable.

    • @shanksnag9359
      @shanksnag9359 Рік тому +2

      Croom never truly amounted to anything. It was Bypassed

    • @n1msu
      @n1msu Рік тому +5

      @@shanksnag9359 Sad as F, the worst thing is that this never got to TV to show what a poor state Croom was in.

  • @jamesdolan4042
    @jamesdolan4042 2 роки тому +103

    That was just before the Celtic Tiger, well before the abuse scandals that unraveled the catholic church and the catholic institutions, and well before also the NI Good Friday Agreement. These events among others I'm sure were to change many of the cultural norms that existed in the Republic of Ireland since the foundation of the State aka 1926. So the answers from the young are what I would, and also the answers from the older people are what I would expect in 1991.

    • @JazzyFunkaHolic
      @JazzyFunkaHolic Рік тому

      I never heard "Celtic Tiger" before, was that just the downfall of christianities Power over ireland

    • @godofcats5829
      @godofcats5829 Рік тому

      @@JazzyFunkaHolicThis may be a late reply! The Celtic Tiger refers to the massive foreign investment and economic boom in the 1990s to 2000’s that suddenly slowed before stopping in 2008 due to the crash. The Irish Economy lost most of its debt, and most peoples salaries tripled over a decade before the crash hit and ruined the economy.
      As of 2022, the economy has recovered from 2008, but yet again ruined by covid.
      Overall the reason regarding the church why this is important is because Irish people became more well off and started getting foreign viewpoints much more than they had in a long time, meaning that the church’s influence wasn’t as big. People did not need the hands out of the church anymore or needed to cling to it. So, naturally people started to waiver, and when some big scandals hit it was the nail to the coffin.

  • @scottgeorge4268
    @scottgeorge4268 2 роки тому +91

    How ridiculous - can marry at 16 but not allowed to buy condoms!

    • @dan812
      @dan812 2 роки тому +6

      Thats awesome, we should go back to it!

    • @dan812
      @dan812 2 роки тому +4

      @@cheistiandunn7988 We shouldn't have abandoned the many good values we had

    • @xxxvivzxxx
      @xxxvivzxxx Рік тому +9

      More people, more workers to make them money therefore condoms are bad

    • @xxxvivzxxx
      @xxxvivzxxx Рік тому +24

      @@dan812 I dunno if you've ever heard of STI's or STD's ? Why would you go back to not having condoms avaliable

    • @dan812
      @dan812 Рік тому +8

      @@xxxvivzxxx Maybe people should stick to one partner and commit to marriage with them? All the evidence shows the lower the partner count the more stable marriages are on average. Maybe you're not as clever as you think you are Viv?

  • @politicalphilosophy-thegre3894

    Thanks for posting.

  • @keithd99
    @keithd99 Рік тому +14

    Yikes that’s me @ 2:09

  • @The_Joker_
    @The_Joker_ 2 роки тому +34

    I was in this video. Lol what a blast from the past.

  • @lakuupippu
    @lakuupippu Рік тому +10

    The 16 year olds in this video are 47 today

  • @cigh7445
    @cigh7445 Рік тому +129

    That was a weird nostalgic experience. That's the soundscape of the Limerick I remember from growing up.
    As for the interviews, I think they would have had more luck talking to some of the older people without sticking a camera in their face from the start. Some people are shy and just want to get through their day quietly. The experience of somebody coming straight up to you pointing a camera at you is that it's rude, to some people, like an ambush or attack.
    If somebody holds a view that they know the tide of public opinion is turning against, especially if they're quiet people, the last thing you want if you want them to feel comfortable to share their opinion is to get them on the defensive from the get go

    • @orangeoog1766
      @orangeoog1766 Рік тому +9

      Little catholic old ladies don't wanna hear about it ;(( I don't think the issue was having a camera person there as street interviewing was kinda popular before this time period due to now random people having cameras. It's just the religious boundaries that are putting off the old people and you can tell, these are women who would have been raised in the age where if you had a baby out of wedlock, it was taken away and you were put through a womens home to teach you about god and not having babies outside of wedlock. No choice, your baby gone and you becoming a nun. I think having people break the idea that you can just fuck with no consequences is probably terrifying to these older people as they'll just think the countries going downhill, it goes against everything they were raised.
      If you look at street interviews from this time period or earlier, like the 70's, street interviewing someone EVEN if they disagreed with the interviewer never had people running from the camera, people liked cameras. It's not like now.

    • @takuma359
      @takuma359 Рік тому

      Religion is bad ong

    • @Subjagator
      @Subjagator Рік тому +3

      @@orangeoog1766
      Yup. You could tell most of them only got defensive once they knew the topic. They asked what the questions were about and once the condom word came up they ran away. It was very telling with the chemists. It wasn't the camera, or that they were being asked questions, it was the topic of the questions in particular.

  • @CorrinaMusic
    @CorrinaMusic Рік тому +3

    I honestly only clicked because the thumbnail screamed Harry Potter vibes at me. Fascinating video, love the presenter!

  • @jaylondon283
    @jaylondon283 Рік тому +31

    Watching this made me realise why the government target young people with information, older generations are so set in their ways to budge, it must take years to breed out each round of legislation they bring in

    • @douglasbergkvist6534
      @douglasbergkvist6534 Рік тому +6

      Your comment was spot on and quite frankly the truth for each generation. This fact you pointed out plays through all aspects of our society around the world. Douglas

    • @jaylondon283
      @jaylondon283 Рік тому +1

      @@douglasbergkvist6534 thanks Douglas! You are very correct, It’s hard to change narratives among generations you have engineered certain beliefs into. If you start with the youth their minds haven’t been exposed to too much yet so they are open to be trained into any mindset put before them. As a collective generation it becomes powerful. As they age and separate from their peers it’s hard to push anything new. But that’s where the BBC come in I suppose 😂

  • @bigbrother1190
    @bigbrother1190 2 роки тому +17

    Proper two way driving system unlike the city now, can't get a bicycle up o connell street

  • @williamjohnson1144
    @williamjohnson1144 2 місяці тому

    Well done! Straight forward questions and answers from ordinary people!

  • @JulianSildenLanglo
    @JulianSildenLanglo Рік тому +10

    12:51 - Why do you think 16 year-olds should be able to buy condoms? For the sex!
    Nice to see someone being unabashedly honest.

  • @Etcher
    @Etcher 2 роки тому +17

    Amazing video. 24:15 the voice of reason.

  • @WeebsArePathetic
    @WeebsArePathetic Рік тому +13

    Man I just realized 16 year olds are kids and it's actually kind of weird to have sex at that age. That being said, some of them are basically more mature than some adults so I can't say that about all of them.

    • @ate_a_radio
      @ate_a_radio Рік тому +8

      Yes, but if they have sex, it’s a very good idea to use protection. If sex is weird, then surely being a parent is worse:)

    • @ta_pegandofogo2988
      @ta_pegandofogo2988 Рік тому +1

      @@ate_a_radio i think you're right. Just because they can buy condoms doesn't mean that they WILL have sex, just means that if they really will have, they will avoid get pregnant or AIDS.

  • @edmundhamill2916
    @edmundhamill2916 Рік тому +2

    Brilliant piece of work ...

  • @ktan8
    @ktan8 Рік тому +2

    If you're laughing at them now, remember that young people 30-40 years into the future will be laughing at what we are thinking and discussing nowadays.

  • @NyR1337
    @NyR1337 Рік тому +6

    "do you think they sshould be allowed?"
    "no?"
    "why not?"
    *WINDOWS SHUTTING DOWN SOUND*

  • @S.J.MORTIMER
    @S.J.MORTIMER Рік тому +38

    I'm disappointed nobody gave their answer in the form of a Limerick.

  • @lydiaspears4047
    @lydiaspears4047 Рік тому +2

    at 4:40 the redhead boy is looking at the girl answering questions in the most precious way

  • @jakehiller6444
    @jakehiller6444 Рік тому +24

    "Like what? I've to go to mass." Classic.

  • @theeggtimertictic1136
    @theeggtimertictic1136 Рік тому +45

    I love the gentle Irish accents ... Before we were had Americanised accents

  • @Jinglis
    @Jinglis Рік тому +3

    Fascinating reactions, great work

  • @TheRattyBiker
    @TheRattyBiker Рік тому +9

    Religious connotations aside... AIDS had really gained a seriously scary foothold at the time (late 80's - early 90's) yet "testing" wasn't advanced enough to produce the fast results we see in 2022.... So supposing, if you and your Mrs happen to be the "grandest" Catholics to ever exist... You got married at 16 and consumated the marriage (which is actually a legal requirement of the procedure of marriage) you could still be effected by a nasty STD... Maybe one partner had a traumatic incident in there early years and were treated by a promiscuous Dr who happened to have a cut on his finger that day 🙄😤😤😤 not to mention the Priest that messed around with you who just happen to have dipped more people than the local farmer has dipped sheep.....

    • @Pheluv
      @Pheluv Рік тому

      Yes I know one widow who’s husband was infected with AIDS during a blood transfusion in the 1980’s. Absolutely tragic.
      Bryce Courtney’s book April’s Fools Day is the story of his sons life and death from contracting AIDS in the same way.

  • @safeinyourroom
    @safeinyourroom Рік тому

    Where did ya find this
    Thank you for posting
    Loved it

  • @ihateevilbill
    @ihateevilbill Рік тому +13

    My little sister once said "conny dom dom" in her class (She was 14 and this was ~ 1989). She got a "green" card for that which was a 2 week suspension from school at the time. We were so backwards back then XD
    (And yes, it was a catholic high school).

    • @Ward413
      @Ward413 9 місяців тому

      I remember being in 8th grade in 2003 and being sent to the principles office for saying “hella.” Forgive me but I’m from California so saying “that’s hella cool” was the fad back then. I always got the vibe growing up that a certain percentage of teachers got off on their authority over kids and took any chance to send them to the office for petty nonsense.

  • @mrcherrytits
    @mrcherrytits Рік тому +34

    One thing that I find fascinating about all these videos is the difference in people before smartphones came along. Everyone seems so much more focused and willing to talk. I wish we had no smartphones today.

    • @mrcherrytits
      @mrcherrytits Рік тому +2

      @@trevortalbot4325 I'm a complete extrovert and I don't own a smartphone. I wasn't talking about people being "willing" to talk. I meant the people that do talk, seem way more engaged than this generation. And I believe it has a lot to do with distraction and overstimulation. I mean that's known science. Things have absolutely changed. You don't have to agree that it's a negative, but its completely true.

    • @lizardlegend42
      @lizardlegend42 Рік тому +4

      @@mrcherrytits I really don't see that at all. The vast majority there seemed uncomfortable sharing their opinion and intentionally vague, even the ones that agreed to interview.

    • @mrcherrytits
      @mrcherrytits Рік тому +1

      @@lizardlegend42 yeah I think there's a noticeable difference to be honest.

  • @muhammadreddy
    @muhammadreddy Рік тому +9

    As someone who works in a store, it is a bit embarrassing for people to have to ask for condoms over the counter, they are over £5 so there's the theft issue but its awkward because you're basically announcing to the cashier that you're having sex and need emergency protection. it should really be on the shelves so people can buy it at their own discretion

    • @chorusofoddities
      @chorusofoddities Рік тому +15

      Nowadays, over Ireland and indeed the UK, they can be out on the shelves and in the majority of places are

  • @musicjunk8266
    @musicjunk8266 Рік тому +8

    the three interviews from 9:45 made me chuckle

  • @niamhcreativesoul6193
    @niamhcreativesoul6193 Рік тому +4

    Really good video, the presenter was fantastic.

  • @spicyowl3348
    @spicyowl3348 Рік тому +4

    this is early form of modern street journalism. way ahead of its time. imagine if there was instagram and YT that time.

  • @haberdasheryandspam
    @haberdasheryandspam Рік тому +8

    Thank God I'm not religious

  • @imahappycamper2022
    @imahappycamper2022 Рік тому +89

    Isn't it mad how so many people got uncomfortable being on camera, and today it's such a normal thing. It's also no suprise to me that it was mostly elderly people who were against the issue. Goes to show the grip the church had on our beautiful country for so long.

    • @youtubearmy_bg8265
      @youtubearmy_bg8265 Рік тому +4

      lmao there was another old video where someone said how before people were comfortable being on camera and now they are not

    • @oldmate99
      @oldmate99 Рік тому

      I will pray for you sinner

    • @imahappycamper2022
      @imahappycamper2022 Рік тому +1

      @@oldmate99 And I'd love to know what this so called sin is, especially when you take into consideration I didn't commit any sin.

    • @oldmate99
      @oldmate99 Рік тому

      @@imahappycamper2022 it's ok, you have now been saved... thanks me later

    • @imahappycamper2022
      @imahappycamper2022 Рік тому +1

      @@oldmate99 And it's a pity so many psych wards have been shut down so you can't be saved.

  • @AnnetteMurphyger
    @AnnetteMurphyger Рік тому +14

    Times have definitely changed

    • @BuffaloBuffalo-uc6zp
      @BuffaloBuffalo-uc6zp Рік тому

      Times didn't change.? Change was brought about to strip lrish people of their culture and identity by population replacement and everything else in between by the criminal gang in the dail

    • @PC.NickRowan
      @PC.NickRowan Рік тому +1

      In some ways they have, in some ways they haven't. People might not turn away today if you ask them whether teenagers can buy condoms or not, but are likely to turn away now if you ask them what is a woman

    • @SeanOCuinn.
      @SeanOCuinn. Рік тому

      For the worse

    • @irgendeinname9256
      @irgendeinname9256 Рік тому

      @@PC.NickRowan a female human being

  • @alllovingcowherdboy4475
    @alllovingcowherdboy4475 Рік тому +18

    I found that jumping into a bunch of nettles was the best birth control method of all

  • @sebastianconstantin5176
    @sebastianconstantin5176 Рік тому +11

    i was 15 in 2000. i didntr think it was such a debate 10 years before, who could buy condoms.

  • @Ajia_No_Envy
    @Ajia_No_Envy Рік тому

    Wow, this feels so weird seeing the quality of the footage but since I need glasses if I take them off and put my screen a distance away from my face, it looks HD as my brain fills in the rest of the info

  • @laurakojobeecham4872
    @laurakojobeecham4872 Рік тому +4

    I love that nun running away - kills me.