Telecom Eireann 1985 Ad with Bob Geldof- IFI Player

This MTV inspired advert from 1985 starring Bob Geldof, reminding us that "phone wreckers are idiots". Watch it in full at ifiplayer.ie/telecom-eireann-a...
Back in the 1980s long before smart phones were dreamt of and when many houses didn’t have a landline, phone boxes containing payphones were a feature of the rural and urban landscape. In this public information film a youth is in the act of vandalizing a payphone before he is confronted by a gang of teenagers, who urge him to “leave that phone alone”.
Singing the vandal into submission to the tune of Pink Floyd’s Another Brick in the Wall, the ad ends with Sir Bob Geldof telling us “phone wreckers are idiots”. Made in the mid-1980s, it was shot in the style of an MTV music video designed to appeal to a teenage audience and featuring Geldof who was riding high on a crest of publicity following his work with Live Aid.
With kind permission from Paul Bradley, Eir.

[@edstones5469]

Johnny One from Fair City.

[@PaulChillage]

Hi Bob!

[@martinwalsh3228]

It was recycling the song from 1979 "Another Break in the Wall". Get more old adverts online soon during Easater.

[@Hellwyck]

Another Brick In The Wall (Part 2) to be precise.

[@cosdrag8807]

Well if Bob said so....

[@gabekyle260]

another brick in the wall?

[@gloomyvale3671]

Terrible, it’s so bad makes me want to go out and vandalise a telephone box, if there were any left. Geldof had so little credibility left at this point that increases in telephone boxes being wrecked went up 9000 %