Belfast's Answer to Mardi Gras: St. Patrick's Day Like You've Never Seen!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 3 ต.ค. 2024
- Filmed in Belfast’s infamous student area known as ‘the Holylands’, this observational documentary follows students as they celebrate St. Patrick’s day. Meanwhile, the area’s long-term residents try and adapt to living in the middle of this huge street party, which has been dubbed ‘Belfast’s answer to Mardi Gras’.
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That old lady with the dogs in green is a legend.. what a great attitude to life
Get your hover on at 3am!! It's grand
"not coz they're catholics" 😂😂😂
that old lady is a saggy dustbag, dont know why she’s complaining she been dead within the next week. #YEET
- xQuizy - I know that woman personally, I'll refer to her as kurens as that's what most people in the area call her. She's been living around her for close to 20 years and along the way has helped in the Victorian hospital, child youth and many other organisations. She lost her husband to the troubles and has had to deal with that loss for nearly 30 years. What you said is frankly so disrespectful. She has had to deal with cancer of the liver in 2013 and she fought if for nearly two years. It came back in May this year and whilst the chance of her dying is low, it's disgraceful you'd say that. I run her to the local Sainsbury's from time to time and she is truly a wonderful woman. For 69 years she's been helping this Earth, you disgust me.
fishboymanshark okie dokie wee son
That Ladies positive outlook is inspiring. She's also friggin hilarious!
The lady with the dogs has such a great attitude towards all this
The elderly lady is so beautiful in her passport photo! Things must have been so different in the 50s.
Things were much younger, on average.
@@7EEVEE what?
I thought she was so beautiful, too!
I would prefer the documentary focuses on Brigit's story than a bunch of drunken youngsters that often have no affiliation with Queen's
I’m beautiful
6:40 he shat himself when he ran into your man in the jacket hahaha
Sam Lawless guy in the jacket seemed a bit of an arsehole tbf
@@jamietotten239 one looked like an arsehole the other sounded like one
Rewind for context and you'll see that Flagon kid was stalking dog lady @06:35 because she had a video crew
LMAO
Sam Lawless he was about to start swingin digs
The way old Danish lady says 'niiice' in a Belfast accent. 😂
Noticed that 😂
Wee ould doll with her dogs in the pushchair is lovely. You can't help but like her. Students need to wise up and catch themselves on. Respect the elderly, women and children in the area and celebrate sensibly. ☘️
as a past resident and past party goer in the holylands i can relate to both sides of this story. the wee old lady with the dogs is a legend talk to her a few times in the past. my only problem then and now is the lack of cleaning up after ones self. when i partied i used council bins and residence bins to throw my cans and bottles away i didnt smash them in the street because knowing my dumb luck i'd trip over blocked and cut my self on the bottle i broke lol
English student?
"you're not quite sure if it's an animal making that noise or someone in distress"... lol, i lost it here.
If the council actually planned it sensibly they could line it with bins/recycling bins and toilets. Students would use them. Blame the landlords too for making bank off cramming so many students into one area and then absolving themselves of all responsibility.
But why should the council. And who pays for it
Yea they are not going to use the bins maybe the toilets but not the bins
“I’ve came from England,I’m from Brighton, I came from LURGAN EYAAAAAAAA”
Idk Really Lmao
Same bieee
@Evan Scollan havent been to the g road then were immaculate up here
huh, I thought she said Virginia
Love the lady with the chihuahuas 😊 she has a great attitude to life!
I bet that elderly lady has seen a lot of crazy stuff go on around there if she has been there since the 50's 🤔
thats my great granny, shes had the shop beside her house bombed many a window smashed and all the other student crap. she lived through the occupation of denmark during ww2 so shes seen worse.
Is she Scandinavian?
She came from Denmark, it says so in the documentary!
Jeff's wife kristie , I see you commenting on top 5s videos all the time lol !
Your great granny is one patient lady. I think the constant noise level would drive me nuts especially if the little dogs decided to join in. When you're young you don't think of these things
Do not blame the students alone. Blame must be put on others also.
1) Private Landlords. Bought these houses cheap and turned 3-4 bedroom houses into 6-8 bedroom hours. Cramming more and more students into dark, mouldy rooms. Turning the area into a student ghetto. The people who didn’t sell up and leave were victims. But Northern Ireland isn’t overly wealthy and many students don’t have an option to live in other student areas. The area is densely packed, and this creates a student ‘party’ area.
2) The City Council. The council has has over a decade since the first mass gatherings for Paddy’s. They haven’t responded to this, and created an alternative. Like a festival in the nearby Ormeau Park!
Clean up the Holylands. Create a festival. Make the private landlords create decent living spaces.
phippen100 couldn't agree more tho the people who originally lived there have every right to stay and not have to move and sell up
Cookie Cat thanks. I never said that the original residents should have to sell up however.
Listen Paddy , You just be grateful that us landlords provide such nice cheap rooms for you lot .
nice? the houses are third world. you're a slum landlord. no doubt affiliated with all sorts as are many
How many of you lot are acc from ni?
The lads sitting on the roof commenting on everything😂😂😂😂
Men of wisdom there 😂
Sages speaking verdades on the mountain
The vultures from the jungle book 😂
They're the law students.😂
Deffo psychology majors hahahaha 🤣🤣🤣
The woman with the dogs melted my heart
Little dog lady is a saint . What an absolute legend so positive . All the best to you lady diamond 🙏
The elderly people are the most tolerant u will ever find in any society. They have seen it all b4. It's a shame they have to put up with today's garbage. Our biggest shame here in the west is the way we all treat our elderly.
well, its the "garbage" as you call it that the elderly started/ carried over! do you think before you type LOL
@@badda_boom8017 Explain please. Don’t understand your response.
“Off their trollies” - that older lady is Awsome!
“Your ma sells Avon” 😂😂. Best thing I’ve heard in a while.
It's better when it's " your da sells Avon and your ma is a truck driver"
I prefer: your da does tic tocs
I wud say more CRINGE 🤦♂️
@@maddy_marinebiology7772 nah mate, pretty sure she's a brickie
09:13 guy singing "my lovely horse" from Fr. Ted. Cracked me up 😂
“This is the future of Northern Ireland and these are rocket cases” 😂😂😂lmfao
Yes more deevolution in the future
These are actually the sensible people haha
How the old lady says nice is hilarious 😂 😂. Brilliant
That was my wee grannie, she knew what was 'nice'. She was a legend ❤
@@jbobdot legend is right👍🏻😁
@@craigbratty5453 she passed away on 1st of December 2021 at 94 yrs old. Made of iron heart of gold 💛
@@jbobdot I’m so sorry to hear this. My condolences for your loss. With such a wonderful back story and personality, I’m sure she is very much missed. Watching her in this documentary must be lovely to see. RIP
@@sheenavaughan2717 I had never seen it until after she passed away, sat and bawled my eyes out watching it. She was a legend ❤
3:45 the fella saying one or two days out of the year it will get rowdy LOL. Its every single day Sunday night through Thursday night is pure mental in the holy lands! Cant wait to leave it myself!
"YEEEEEOOOOO-" "oh sorry"
Brigit from Denmark has such a lovely way of speaking
I just want to know how these students got into Queen’s
graham943 now days they accept anyone
It's actually the complete opposite, quite difficult to get into queens now especially if ur northern irish
@@Jack1dg Are you joking? anyone with 3 Bs can get into queens
2As, 1B minimum now
@@Huntee935 it's BBB for sure, AAB are the MENG integrated masters courses, its not hard to get into queen's if your doing things other then medicine dentistry and actuarial science
The lady with the dogs is an absolute treasure so wise
Chick is weird.
Feel so sorry for the people tryn to live there. Crazy
Good stuff .. the lady with the cupa said it all . Fairplay to her .all she said should be herd ..
yeoooooooooooooo wee womans a legend she knows the craic
No it's definitely craic
I love her! Dog lady is the real one! Wish I could have even a little bit of her wisdom. She will live forever with that attitude! True Gangsta!
That lady is a absolute legend. Her and her dogs for prime minister
"We're all tarred with the same brush!" - says student drinking on roof in a residential area.
My heart bleeds for you!
Conor he could do with a brush. And a bit of soap.
Thomas Mc Loughlin you give out about kids drinking cans on a roof while you are spouting anti Semitic views all credibility or sense of intelligence I might have gained from you was lost in a matter of seconds
the take over by skinny jeans .............
I think they're getting skinnier and skinner. Basically leggings now.
its a big awkward if you have a 9am appointment at the hospital, because you have been up all night hoovering because the students are off there trolleys!! hahahaa!
Fun fact: Students who live out the Sandy Row are much quieter when celebrating St. Patrick’s Day.
My heart goes out to the non-student population in that neighborhood.
I love that old 1 with the dogs
I live in Northern Ireland and I’ve never experienced any of this lol
All confined to 2 streets of Belfast lol. I'm a mile away from this and have never been near it
Just watched a documentary about South Korean kids studying 15 hours a day and the whole economy of private night school driving them on. Then there is this video.
which is why depression and anxiety rates for young people in those countries are through the roof.
Wow..that takes me back to the 90's.
My grandmother and her family left Belfast for America in 1919, I think. She was Protestant, as are my parents and brothers. All my cousins are Catholic, as are most of my nieces and nephews, and I converted Catholicism while in the military. I hope to visit that city one day. I have no animus towards anyone of either faith or culture, and I hope the situation is relatively peaceful there.
Welcome, Roman Catholic here!🤗🙏
There is a very simple answer: Purpose Built Student Accommodation.
There is purpose build student accom. It's ridiculously expensive and it's also only offered to people who live far away. Therefore people who live closer to Belfast, i.e myself being from Lisburn, have no chance of getting the accomodation, that's why most have resorted to living around Queens and in the holylands.
Aye and keep them locked in there !
At £140 a week? No thank you!
Literally double or triple the price
We could all take a leaf from the lady with the dogs' book. That is how you make the best out of any situation, what a wee lady
That lady is the best ❤️🤣
Not all young people behave like this. It is more common in countries where "my rights" are considered more important than the rights of the people around you.
it's a student area. Very few permanent residents. Most of the people there are on 12 months leases and they are actively involved in the drinking etc
The thing is you don't notice when the discrete people are partying. So it skews your perception to think that young people who drink cause a total riot because those are the ones you'll notice.
>implying that ‘rights’ mean anything to begin with
Everybody’s suddenly a John Locke enthusiast when it comes to behaving horribly
Let’s get it straight the students are the ones who have created all this balls simple bunch of rats with nobody to answer to and no responsibilities
@Thomas Mc Loughlin They're brought up good Roman, catholics...
Used to live in Belfast . And now I live in London, Belfast is my favourite place ever.
I’ve been up there for Halloween and st Patrick’s day because I live 15 mins away from the holy lands and now as a 27 year old I feel bad going mad when I was younger, you do forget there is actual residents living there because you generally think it’s houses for the students just
Good craic though all the same😂😂🥳
I love it❤ I keep hearing people say all these things we say in the South USA. Now I know where we got it from!!!
Lived there 15 years ago as a student, some of the best years of my life. Looking back it must have been awful for the residents and honestly sometimes you would forget there were residents living there for it really felt like a student haven. Don't remember st patricks day been just as wild then as it is now, i think a lot more people visit it for a few days and just cause a bit more trouble.
Most of the students i remember back in the day were decent enough people, but it was the first time living away from home and we were just having a good time and the streets would have singing and shouting in the early hours, It must have been hard to get sleep for residents.
philip duffy good man Phil. Hope you are not being kept up all night by neighbours so you are falling asleep at your call centre job.
Don't work in a call centre mystic mac.
If those were the best days of your life, then it’s been a sad life indeed. I highly doubt you have accomplished anything if heavy drinking is a highlight.
As a student myself, this is my idea of a nightmare. I moved to Manchester and avoided student areas here too. I think the majority of students do have a lack of respect and it upsets me that we are tarnished with the same brush. I literally don't even drink or club either but that's expected of me. It doesn't take much to be a decent human being who respects the people who live around them, wish more students had this mentality. The two old ladies are the cutest wee things!
The women with the baby was my old substitute teacher I’m shook😂😂
u would think this was in glasgow with all the buckfast going about lol
Even if I was attending college there, I could not stand living in that type of environment....dirty, loud, obnoxious surroundings....My heart goes out to these long term residents...Ugh!
There's not enough affordable houses for the students plus there are only certain areas in Belfast some people can live in depending on your religion and upbringing so the holyland is a very popular area and houses there have no problem getting let out! 🙄
Well you don’t attend college there or live there so get off your high horse. As a former student who resided in the holylands I can say Belfast unfortunately is largely lacking in terms of affordable student accommodation opposed to other UK cities and as such this is the product of its environment. Only now have Universities started to create additional accommodation to encourage students to live elsewhere however at a cost of £400-500 it begs the question as to what students can afford it.
So before you give your inattentive opinion on an issue you have no knowledge on take into account both sides of the story and not just this biased documentary filmed on Saint Patrick’s day.
£400-500 a what? Month/Week or what?
@@Defaultname0000 a month. People also dont realise that the student finance being given to the students is a lot less than the likes of english and welsh students where the prices for accomodation is around the same so a lot of the students dont actually have that money to spend
Mate, you get a grant and if you're stuck you can get a maintenance loan. That's enough for anyone in Belfast. And if you're still stuck, you get a job. Even a min wage job could sort you out for the 9 months whilst you're at Uni. On top of that, work a summer job and save.
I was only working 20 hours a week in Dublin, where it is far more expensive than Belfast. And was never once stuck for a pound. That was with me going out on the piss every weekend too.
this is what happens when university accomodation is a rip off.
its a terrible place to raise a family.
the Holylands has been like this for 20 years. this is not recent. so for about 20 years it has been a bit of a right of passage for alot of folks.
and all this crap about what would students know about the troubles etc. theyre just as likely to have first hand experiences themselves and affected by the experiences of their families.
calm down folks
Some of these 'students' can hardly string a few words together!
@Straight White British Protestant disgusting orange prod
Dudes on the windows later drop some yokes and be like “can’t believe the bullshit you told that camera ahhhhhhhhhh”
Awk that wee old lady's lovely, would love to have a drink with her in the holy lands!
If you don’t have kids who have schedules or a spouse who needs to sleep for work the lady hoovering at 0300 is a legend. Those students are so massively inconsiderate to be so loud and disrespectful….and it’s not all of them for sure, but it’s enough of them to be a problem. It’s not that they don’t want students there, it’s that they don’t have respect for people actually living there. If you can function like that old lady, GREAT (and it’s healthier to live that way), but not everyone is retired and has all the time in the world.
I live in NI and this is how I see st paddy’s
Teens + St Paddy’s = RUN , HIDE , STAY INDOORS AND LOCK YER WINDAES
Emma Koscielny I live in Australia and it’s fully grown alcoholic from Ireland that are out of control.
@@user-qr7eb1sf3l well we all know how bigoted the Aussies are don’t we, so I wouldn’t worry too much about that.
& don’t forget, ‘GET DOYYYNNNE’😂😂🤣
The elderly ladies are extremely tolerant of the anti-social behaviour and the Edel Quinn's comments as a young mother were moderate. Surely the producers of this doco could find people who were greatly disturbed by the conversion of their neighbourhood into a drunkards' ghetto. I felt sorry for man brushing up the broken bottles - he needs a few hundred students to help him clean up. Do these students not have a conscience when they see the mess they have created. Nothing traditional here - time for change.
I feel for the real residents
I lived beside Brigit Kirkpatrick in 2019 for my final year of Uni. Never spoke to her but saw her out walking a lot. The noise/ awful music and bottle throwing/ window egging/ tv smashing/ fireworks kept us awake most nights. Particularly Sundays. She must have been a strong strong woman to have put up with all of it. Regret not stopping her for a chat.
I love the holy lands, crazy place but still warming place sometimes just 🙉
1 of the dogs being called ravers says it all 😂
Lived in the holylands for 2 years. 1st apartment wasn't awesome, but it was fun to hang with friends. St Paddy's day was pretty crazy though, but criminal neighbours weren't great, some threats and finding them wandering around your house sucked
God bless our people...the students are just having the craic for St Paddy's Day....Slainte folks.
Learning new things. Did not know this side of a story of a country where it is said that it started at. Something should be done so that both groups cud be respected.
When I was drunk in my youth, I used to roar YEOOOOO! too. It's an instinctive neoNeanderthal thing.
This was awesome . Holylands is pure madness on st paddies but everyone knows that and are use to it.
Clinton Kamara how would you feel if it was all national front or klu klux celebrating st.georges or 4th july?????
thomas skeffington are you honestly trying to compare young people drinking one day a year to chattel slavery which kidnapped human beings because of their skin colour, shipped them to the other side of the world and kept them as property and forced them to work in horrible conditions and keeping their children as property only to 'free' them but still oppress, subjugate and otherwise marginalise them for the next 150 years? Stop being a racist please.
whitetrouter I'd hardly compare a people who were historically oppressed to the kkk...
@@PhilHoy97 Aww historically oppressed wah wah wah. What's your excuse for not succeeding today?
fred fredburger I wasn’t aware that historical and generational injustice magically vanished overnight. Imagine two people, A and B. They have an egg each and access to a hen. A steals B’s egg. The next day A steals B’s egg and builds a fence preventing B access to the hen. This continues for a week and eventually A decides to take the fence down and stop stealing the eggs. B complains that he now only has one egg whilst A has 9. A replies “aw historically oppressed wahh wah wah. What’s to stop you from succeeding today” despite the fact that historical oppression still affects B’s present and future as well as his past.
Anyone with a bit of sense doesn't live in the holylands and alot of the issues with paddys day is the students how dont live there and come up for it
There has always been tension between town and gown but for once the town seems to be in the right. It's crazy how some of them were acting on video, let alone what they might be getting up to when the camera's aren't on them.
Krafty Kreator yeah theyd be bombing yokes off camera
Ha, try living there for near 4 years... Thank God I'm out of there now.
Ha try 6
Your no fun
i wish they could enjoy themselves while using bins, reusable tote bags and recycling.....!!! :)
Sorry, what exactly Is a ‘tote’ bag!?
@@Paul5520 Like a rectangular canvas bag. The ones all the indie girls carry
2002 I started at Queens. First few years, I lived in the Holy Lands. Had some good nights out while staying there. As I got older, I noticed that especially on Paddy's Day, there would be mates of students arriving up from all over the place, just to get wrecked. It was party central around that time. I moved out ASAP. I couldn't imagine living there on a permanent basis.
it's important to keep perspective. It's two days a year. I don't condone the behaviour at all but it is literally two nights a year and it's so so heavily policed. I won't get onto the mess and trouble of the twelfth night..
sesom202 1) Queen's is a Russell Group university and is one of the top universities in the UK for research and innovation (you could maybe do your research) as well as having state of the art facilities and schools. Having just graduated from there myself in July with a lucrative graduate job offer after scholarships and networking opportunities provided to me by Queen's, I'm afraid to say with my experience, I disagree entirely with your ill informed opinion.
2) Whilst the antics of these students may be immature, is it fair to demonize a particular group of students for fairly classic student behaviour such as drinking and socialising? Bearing in mind it is not illegal to drink alcohol in the confines and front gardens of these houses and when the students try to take the drink outside of this, the riot vans confiscate it, as you can clearly see stipulated on the riot van signs in the video.
3) I take it you are a scholar of Bath University? Do all Bath students sit around drinking shandy, smoking cigars and discussing politics? Get over yourself. I also feel sorry for you if you are a graduate, as all pupils who went there were absolutely fleeced by your witch of a vice-chancellor and her 468k salary which you all funded with your fees. Adios x
*Drops mic* Good Will Hunting, Harvard Bar-esque haha
equinox I live on the edge of this and if it was limited to one or two days a year the residents wouldn't mind but it's drunken madness 4 or 5 nights a week from September to June. The constant policing, cleaning up and dealing with it costs a fortune and residents lives are made a misery.
@@SoundsDopeCom how'd you like them apples🤔🍎
It's not only 2 nights a year, it's nearly the whole year.
A good step has been made with the parking around queens and college avenue. Shows how practical steps can be made. Landlords need held to account for the state of the houses and cramming more people into the small area. Also good steps being made to increase student accomodation across the city.
That was hard to watch. Can anyone handle a few pints anymore?
Students are not seasoned drinkers let’s be honest. This seems like normal student binge drinking to me.
The lads on the window sill are the Greek Chorus of the Holylands
"Your ma sells avon" lmao
crazy a Danish lady chose to live in Befast during the troubles
PAHAHA the two boys running into each other, thought there would be a scrap. Typical Belfast lel
I know it's irrelevance but I really dislike people who stroke dogs without asking first. Both her and her dogs are so tolerant 🥰
St Paddys is for all Irish protestants and catholics.Northern irish and southern irish
I'm protestant and i think it'd be nice. but it's just seen as a catholics 12th and to fly the tricolour
@@David-mb7zw the tri colour represents both protestants and Catholics but the 12th is a purely protestant day
I think a lot of protestants just don't feel welcome. Same as catholics on the twelfth
gaz the tricolours doesn’t represent both
@@timothydavidson1772 As an outsider I don't really understand this; the orange stands for this part of the community in Ireland, right?
Why no love for asia supermarket at the bottom of the street. Always stayed open and kept her lit
“I’m from Lurgan yeooooo”😂
the lady with the baby was right the noise is coming from animals. the lady doing the hoovering is wise and has a great sense of humour.
This is the real life bad neighbours
That wee woman is the most nice understanding woman ever
SAd to see this i remember twenty years ago how peaceful this place was the shouldnt allow this to happen year after year
Lived there one year myself 😂😂 sure was holy
I'm from Dunedin, New Zealand. This could easily have been filmed here
bukster1 except you Kiwis don't have a divisive nature to the partying.
All u Australians make yourself out to be so fun but yous are not
Please Help New Zealand not Australia
Hyde St wat wat
@@pleasehelp5160 Learn some geography bro. NZ is as far away from Australia as London is from Moscow.
10:36 warning alcohol may be confiscated haha
Without youth the world would be no funny at all. Irish and Scots are the funniest people to party with.
NORTHERN Irish.
noghd and Ulster Scots
Caustix Soda I live in Northern Ireland and I have an Irish passport so not really Northern Irish
@@caustixsoda8125 Irish ya dirty hun
I lived there for two years in the early 1990's...It wasn't like this back then. It was an oasis of calm amongst a sea of troubles. There were a few dives for sure, but it was pretty quiet, close to the Botanic Gardens and Ormeagh Road and the museum. Loved my time there. Everywhere goes a bit mad on Saint Patrick's day back home, not always in a good way.
Lived there for 4 years totally never cared much for the party but what bothered me was the mess they were creating. Literally destroying stuff like peoples cars, property and littering like crazy. If that would not happen there i think it would be cool student area and place to be during UNI.
The music playing around 17:20 honestly made me whity
I'm sure there aren't many prods there lol.
100% Irish not everyone our religious freaks
Really good Documentary 🎬