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The Construction News was regarded as Paddys Bible, it had all new contracts starting up, awarded, and all construction/allied trade contracts for tender, in '74 I tendered for the re painting of a Junior school in York andd won it, re painted it in 3 weeks of summer holidays, that's why Irish lads knew where work was.

My father was forced from home because of family feuds over land and property. I re.ember him telling me in 1950 at 18. sleeping on park benches in glasgow with £20.00 in his pocket. Trying to keep the money tight. Until he got work permits to go to Inveraray and work on the hydro dam scheme. He stuck it out for 2.5 years. Living in camps in nissan huts. Freezing in winter. Eaten by midget in summer. dangerous work in the tunnels and up on the dam pouring concrete. Or on the pipe lines. Carrying pipes up hills on old track brengun carriers adopted. Many men killed and badly injured. He then headed to london. Did not like london. His parents would message him to come home at harvest time to work for 18 shillings a week. He was getting £18.00 and some weeks £30.00 in london. Family loyalty came first. Met my mother at a dance in Ardee. Got it together had a couple of kids. But the pull of the money and a chance to make something of his life brought him back to england. We returned to ireland in 1969. But the restrictive times and politics on the border. And the small mindedness of fianna fail and the people forced my father back to the uk. My mother was a town woman. Rural monaghan was too tough for her. How the country has changed for the worse. I was working in monaghan in 2007. I had a fall out on a job over work methods. And told the foreman/donkey who never left ireland to shove the job. Before i got home 20 miles away. Everyone in the area knew i told the donkey to go fook himself. S.all town ireland

I've been looking for a good version of this song since watching the Kneecap movie and finally found it from non other than DJ Provaí ✊🇮🇪 🇵🇸

Irish worked the heaviest jobs, built roads, built houses, pavements, best trade people ever, and honest as anything, english couldn't match that, and lots of Irish went back to eire and rebuilt it with money earned here

It's a clear voice regardless of accent BUT as a deaf person I find MALE Irish Scottish & Asian accents difficult, even Spanish as it's often spoken so quickly. I would not ask someone not to speak due to accent or their roots though. I'd expect them to respect the fact I might miss a lot of the content though.

Hi, my name is Margaret Hanlon, and my parents are Irish, from Rosslare Harbour, Co. Wexford. 😊

Movement is Medicine!

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Great video,what a complete contrast to the conditions endured by the construction crews who may have been paid better,but it seems the conditions in the public services made it better in the long run.

Sending a message of love to our senior Irish friends from a friend in Kokomo, Indiana, U.S.A. Keep moving folks. Stay active and healthy. And stay positive.

Im a McMorrow from county leitrim living in ohio. Never been to my homeland but glad to know its the best!

Well done, keep making music !

Great video thank you for sharing. Puts a different perspective on mid century London

DELETE THEM RIGHT AWAY DISRUPTING GLOBAL FREEDOM

Piano player hands:-) Mr Andy, where are you? 😞😞 Please help me come back home and keep constituency bou de as they were ! 🤗🤗🤗🤗

Why can’t I post with my photo?!

How empty the P is… this is an excerpt. Oh, their website! Wait, I don’t have a website!🤦‍♀️

Phone number please

But But I thought all Irish emigrants went to America and became Police Chiefs City Governers and District Attorneys

A special man...❤

President trump😂

Anne Doyle look alike rte

voting time and why should i vote labour when its hard to tell the difference between the tory scum and labour think its time for independent but then that will put the tory bell ends back in

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Born n bred in London 70years ago, parents came here in 50's, my children always teased me, your English dad No I'd say a london irishman thats my blood😮

Stayed away with cooper 24th Jan Balls 2nd march. MK and Norwich seats colleagues..So he stayed with starmer somewhere when the football was on.. claims his son stopped off yet we didnt see a son at the football. We have someone lying 😂

interesting where Deputy Rayner sat further down and Starmer named everyone he didn't in other tributes..it was strange also a rushed by election which has led to Galloway which is a problem. Anti establishment politics will come back again and Starmer being more establishment won't help anyone..The north is turning on Labour it's assumed they will simply go back to Labour yet fewer in the north go to uni than the south..strange so many Tories spoke about him

I grew up in the Ireland of the 50’s and ended up homeless in London at the age of 16. With a lot of luck and even more hard work I managed to get through night school and secure professional qualifications so that I could return to Ireland and make a living. To this day when I hear descendants of those privileged “De Valera’s people” appropriate the history of the Irish who had to emigrate my blood boils. How dare they.

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I never tire of listening to this blithering idiot 😂

I don’t really like most politicians but I’m sure there’s many who are out there with good intentions for their fellow humans…

More welcome in Birmingham than the English would be in Ireland

Dont understand that comment .Ireland is a brilliant place to live and bring up children..🙏🙏🙏

St Patrick was kidnapped in Britain when he was sixteen, by Irish pirates, and brought to Ireland as a slave. So he wasn’t originally welcomed guest in Ireland. After six years, he escaped, became a cleric and returned to Ireland to spread Christianity.

HEY IT'S LORD/BARON BERBROOKE!!! HE'S MUCH MORE HANDSOME IN REAL LIFE

Love the Waterford twang.....lived there until I was 8 and tried so hard for years not to lose my accent

I was born in Liverpool and have Irish Ansestey. This is not unusually Re People from Liverpool .I am extremely proud of my Celtic roots. IE 33% Irish 35% Welsh

Something that I really like about Irish people is the gift of the gab, they are really good story tellers

Good riddance

Will this project ask older Irish people who don't use digital services about their experience of using @rté Long Wave 252, its place in their lives & the effect of its closure in 2023 please?

Absolute toilet of human

Great crowd she's got there.

RESIGN NOW MR BONNAR!!!!! YOU BROKE COVID RULES TO GO TO IRELAND WHILE ME AND MANY OTHERS COULDNT VISIT OUR LOVED ONES IN OUR ON COUNTRY !!!!!!!!!!!

Racist scum labour party

I love this song - what a wonderful performance - amazing!

Lovely to hear Ultan again, I have his wonderful book and the CD that was released thereafter.

I am from the USA and I love Ireland. I love the history and the culture. Unfortunately like most other countries, Ireland to has gone woke. It’s seconds me.

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There was no casual Clothing then, no sweatsuits, as they have today. No Adidas, Or Nike. That is the way it was. They had their own style, as the man just said, good suit for Sunday for Mass, older stuff was wore to work in. GOD BLESS all these men who left home, young, & worked hard for little pay. BUILT UP A COUNTRY , WHOSE GOVT TREATED THEM LIKE SECOND CLASS CITIZENS. WE ARE A TOUGH RACE, IT WOULD TAKE A LOT MORE THAN THE BRIT GOVT TO TAKE US DOWN, WE WERE FROM GOOD STOCK.GOOD LINEAGE WELL BRED💚💛