West Cavan man dismayed at proposed post office closure

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  • Опубликовано: 2 авг 2018
  • Jim Gilbride speaks to The Anglo-Celt's Sean McMahon outside of Swanlinbar Post Office.

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  • @Lupinn
    @Lupinn 3 года назад +932

    RUclips Algorithm - "He'll watch anything at this point"

  • @BaresEatBeats
    @BaresEatBeats 3 года назад +2057

    I’ve seen older-looking 30-year-olds, lol.

    • @AwRighttttt
      @AwRighttttt 3 года назад +33

      Globalist degenerates that's why..

    • @BaresEatBeats
      @BaresEatBeats 3 года назад +67

      @ShiftCtrl85 That sounds so good 😞 I miss the days of being able to go out and sit in a dark, dank pub... Even the piss-sodden toilets... It all sounds great.

    • @jshaw4757
      @jshaw4757 3 года назад +12

      id say late 50s

    • @AwRighttttt
      @AwRighttttt 3 года назад +20

      @ShiftCtrl85 Go away eh durt degenerate.. And remember we are your greatest Fear

    • @damianthebeholder6775
      @damianthebeholder6775 3 года назад +14

      @ShiftCtrl85 are you special ? Most people don’t even make it to his age.

  • @chiffchaff3355
    @chiffchaff3355 3 года назад +845

    I'm one of those "Blow In" Brits from England as I've been called in rural West of Ireland. I purchased a run down old cottage with no neighbours, nearest neighbour is a old fella like him in the video, when I first went past his cottage I thought it was derelict and empty. I moved here just before Covid, it's only been me checking on the old guy and getting his grocery shopping once a week to avoid covid. Loneliness I've found is a big problem in rural Ireland, very sad.

    • @VincentRE79
      @VincentRE79 3 года назад +13

      What made you move to Ireland?

    • @kidpresentable6004
      @kidpresentable6004 3 года назад +89

      I'd rather be lonely than be around a load of foreigners in the heartland of eire

    • @VincentRE79
      @VincentRE79 3 года назад +43

      @@kidpresentable6004 Ireland is changing, there will probably be a lot more foreigners heading to Ireland now that Brexit has gone through.

    • @kidpresentable6004
      @kidpresentable6004 3 года назад +53

      @@VincentRE79 I know ,its very depressing

    • @VincentRE79
      @VincentRE79 3 года назад +72

      @@kidpresentable6004 I have Irish heritage and try to go back every five years. I notice big changes every time I visit, it is becoming too much like the UK and losing all it's charm.

  • @JohnMcMahon.
    @JohnMcMahon. 3 года назад +1915

    Almost 80?
    Looks like a 40 year old Belfast man. 😉

    • @andrewdaley5375
      @andrewdaley5375 3 года назад +8

      😂🤣. Andy England 🇬🇧 👍

    • @brianmilligan1787
      @brianmilligan1787 3 года назад +13

      Hes just a whipper snapper im 60 & Look 95 looks like Amazon are affecting & Infecting all in the world

    • @JonJon-rj6xo
      @JonJon-rj6xo 3 года назад +10

      I want what he's on, good lad

    • @AwRighttttt
      @AwRighttttt 3 года назад +19

      He's a real man.. No globalist shyte junk bag rapper wannabe 🙄

    • @JonJon-rj6xo
      @JonJon-rj6xo 3 года назад +3

      @@AwRighttttt I wish he was my father, honestly

  • @seamusbracken3889
    @seamusbracken3889 3 года назад +532

    Loneliness is a huge problem in rural Ireland. I find this quite sad. Such a lovely man.

    • @AwRighttttt
      @AwRighttttt 3 года назад +40

      Loneliness 🙄Nahh! City's full of foreign people is a huge huge problem in the city's.. Rural Ireland is the heart of Ireland and always will be
      Anyone who don't like The smell of silage in the morning boii and beautiful Irish countryside sure they can move to Dublin or any big city I don't care

    • @brianmilligan1787
      @brianmilligan1787 3 года назад +6

      Loneliness is a problem but idd never hugg a Post Office

    • @kidpresentable6004
      @kidpresentable6004 3 года назад +9

      @@AwRighttttt well said

    • @ronj9448
      @ronj9448 3 года назад +1

      @@brianmilligan1787 Wonderful comment.

    • @sloughlin721
      @sloughlin721 3 года назад +22

      I live in Dublin and i can tell you that its gone downhill since they let all the foreigners in. Rural ireland is the real ireland

  • @patrickmcgovern4126
    @patrickmcgovern4126 3 года назад +523

    Lovely to see 'Big Jim' getting so many kind comments. Yes, he is still a big strong man - used to be the anchor man on local tug-o-war teams in his younger days. Last of the gentleman bachelors.

    • @embo8896
      @embo8896 3 года назад +75

      Thats why he looks so good and strong,he never got married,its all making sense now!

    • @chiffchaff3355
      @chiffchaff3355 3 года назад +41

      No wonder still fit and strong, being a bachelor !
      Women don't just drain you financially !!!

    • @nogingerfool1
      @nogingerfool1 3 года назад +10

      Say hello from the internet when e see him again Patrick , thank you peace to all , n stay safe

    • @MrSandancer
      @MrSandancer 3 года назад +8

      If you bump into Jim. Give him my best wishes. Cheers Patrick.

    • @MrAlistar99
      @MrAlistar99 3 года назад +6

      I have a feeling 'big Jim' is loaded.

  • @neilmurray1771
    @neilmurray1771 3 года назад +60

    I'm English but work with Irish people all the time. Great people. God bless all of ya.
    🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿👍🇮🇪

  • @B_kinda
    @B_kinda 2 года назад +42

    Never in a million years would I have known he was 80! Wish him well.

  • @samderrida
    @samderrida 4 года назад +733

    Looks great for 80

    • @Kitiwake
      @Kitiwake 3 года назад +11

      He's great

    • @MsRichycon
      @MsRichycon 3 года назад +10

      I thought that

    • @jaycorby
      @jaycorby 3 года назад +5

      samderrida That Jemison'll pickle ya proper!

    • @johnmc3862
      @johnmc3862 3 года назад +7

      Nearly 80, 57.

    • @baileytaylor9798
      @baileytaylor9798 3 года назад +4

      I thought he was like 50

  • @barryoneill1703
    @barryoneill1703 3 года назад +203

    Leo doesn't give a shit about Jim and rural ireland, The Elitist in the government want them to just die away,
    It makes me very angry,
    Jim should be treasured and shown as a great example of what a man is.

    • @bighands69
      @bighands69 3 года назад +13

      It is not Leo that is pushing the change. It is the media that are the architects of the change as it is them to drive the political game.
      Any politician in the western world who tries to bring the issue up are automatically labelled as a racist by the media.

    • @AwRighttttt
      @AwRighttttt 3 года назад +6

      So your telling me they care about the city's? 🙄😳The absolute state of most city's in Ireland ish a joke

    • @rorysullivan-burke226
      @rorysullivan-burke226 3 года назад +17

      You think of the great men and women of Ireland who gave their lives for her to be free. Leo doesn't even deserve the passport. Odious little man. We need more fella's like Jim.

    • @seanocuinn1349
      @seanocuinn1349 3 года назад +12

      Join the National Party

    • @liamK1916
      @liamK1916 3 года назад +8

      Oh Barry... don’t you know men are now toxic? Unless Jim here was from a “minority” group. Well then Leo would have his best interests at heart indeed.

  • @deepfocus91
    @deepfocus91 3 года назад +266

    Youngest looking nearly 80 year old I've ever seen. He even sounds young.

  • @drychaf
    @drychaf 3 года назад +244

    A bunch of us drove around Ireland (from Wales) in the 80s. Got lost. A girl, with us, headed up a lane to a cottage for directions. After a little chat, she came back having been proposed to. They might be lonely there, but they don't pass up on a chance.

  • @hairymary5146
    @hairymary5146 3 года назад +149

    We are sitting back and letting precious things slip out of our hand. Never to get them back. And for what? Fools indeed we are.

    • @benlotus2703
      @benlotus2703 3 года назад +23

      He will be replaced by a black man in 20 yrs time.
      Adios Eire.
      Beautiful country.

    • @AwRighttttt
      @AwRighttttt 3 года назад +1

      @@benlotus2703 bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla That's all you say koward bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla

    • @AwRighttttt
      @AwRighttttt 3 года назад +3

      @@benlotus2703 No he will not be globalist coward degenerate go away!
      It's not even possible tho for one of does durt you speak of to replace a man like him 🙄Not possible

    • @AwRighttttt
      @AwRighttttt 3 года назад +2

      @@benlotus2703 bigger backbone in a frog than thus boy obviously

    • @Roger_Ramjet
      @Roger_Ramjet 3 года назад +1

      So what's your solution?.The church fucked the country forever along with the Brits.

  • @johnlawler5304
    @johnlawler5304 3 года назад +371

    Jim is as fresh as ever he only gave up football last year through injury he got a kick in the Bollocks playing for Cavan.

    • @hairyjute
      @hairyjute 3 года назад +14

      Holy fuck hahahaha

    • @Roger_Ramjet
      @Roger_Ramjet 3 года назад +10

      Hahahaha epic

    • @Shane-zx4ps
      @Shane-zx4ps 3 года назад +4

      Hilarious 😂, he’s a fit and young looking man. Up the dubs

    • @sherp2u1
      @sherp2u1 3 года назад +5

      Cavan have taken more than a few kicks in the bollocks down through the years...!

    • @Markgeoghegan100
      @Markgeoghegan100 3 года назад +4

      Good man John, telling it straight... Best laugh I've had in weeks. From a Monaghan man...!

  • @irvken
    @irvken 3 года назад +351

    blokes like this deserve free high speed broadband

    • @joseph1845
      @joseph1845 3 года назад +5

      Wired, not wireless. Go into the countryside away from the RFs and try sleeping a few nights and you will see how bad for you this radiation is.

    • @ihonestlydontcare1158
      @ihonestlydontcare1158 3 года назад +4

      @@joseph1845 i live in the countryside and it is the biggest shit of wifi I can barely search anything and having moved from Australia in the town and Australia has the slowest WiFi in the world well it’s nothing compared to rural Ireland

    • @angelogandolfo4174
      @angelogandolfo4174 3 года назад +3

      @@ihonestlydontcare1158
      Really?? Oz has the slowest WiFi in the world? That really surprises me. I mean, with such a small population, all spaced nicely in ‘hubs’ around the rim of the continent.... logistically, at least, one would think it would easy to cover with top-notch WiFi.........

    • @ihonestlydontcare1158
      @ihonestlydontcare1158 3 года назад

      @@angelogandolfo4174 well when the test the speeds they always go to Dublin or cork which are very populated areas with fast speeds but there is still so many parts of Ireland with no WiFi or very slow WiFi like my speeds drop to kilobytes and the highest is 2 mb so ya

    • @OffGridInvestor
      @OffGridInvestor 3 года назад

      He can't even work out the digital TV.... you don't know old rural people.

  • @francesreddy6928
    @francesreddy6928 3 года назад +24

    What a lovely man I think it's very sad that the government are not taking care of rural Ireland I'm from dublin but iv always loved the countryside my daughter lived in Mayo for a couple of years and Galway and I used to love driving down to mayo and Galway everything about both places were great the people the friendliness was so refreshing any shop you went into the people couldn't do enough for you ,we've lost that friendliness in Dublin now I'm sad to say ,So look after rural Ireland Please 🥰🥰

    • @bighands69
      @bighands69 3 года назад +4

      The best way for government to take care of rural Ireland is to for government to do nothing. It is all the government interference that is causing the issues in the first place.
      Ireland closed down several of its power generations facilities so that the government can claim it is is lowering carbon emissions.
      Next they are going to ban coal and turf for people in the countryside.

  • @Joe-gu6oe
    @Joe-gu6oe 3 года назад +26

    As I know about many of my fellow American acquaintances, Jim is, with no doubt, the salt of the earth sort of fellow! God Bless Ya Sir.

  • @gcfcos
    @gcfcos 3 года назад +23

    He reminds me so much of my grandad the way he talks. Hope he’s still going strong, doesn’t look 80

  • @Hinklish
    @Hinklish 5 лет назад +135

    Rural Ireland is getting fecked over.

    • @randomstuff4639
      @randomstuff4639 4 года назад +14

      Ya can say that again

    • @bencarter2334
      @bencarter2334 3 года назад +12

      Rural england is getting fecked over as well.

    • @bellerophonchallen8861
      @bellerophonchallen8861 3 года назад +7

      Rural England too. When I moved to the hills two miles out of the village 33 years ago, there was a butchers, post office/shop, hairdressers, garage and two pubs in the village. Now there's one pub and the nearest place to get a pint of milk is five miles away. Not the end of the Earth, but awkward for older country people, who's ranks I'm beginning to join!! They buy up the shops and pubs to make housing, accountants and small businesses buy up smaller shops (like the old hairdressers) so they can work in a rural environment, and they have more financial clout than a girl doing hair.

    • @buckodonnghaile4309
      @buckodonnghaile4309 3 года назад +7

      @@bellerophonchallen8861 sounds like life in rural Canada where I am.

    • @brianmilligan1787
      @brianmilligan1787 3 года назад +3

      Your Fecking wright Fecking Disgrace talking Fecking Liberties Its Fecking True Feck

  • @malikialgeriankabyleswag4200
    @malikialgeriankabyleswag4200 3 года назад +110

    "That's how you know your neighbours are still alive.... You meet them at the post office" 😂😂

  • @sparkydarksider3165
    @sparkydarksider3165 3 года назад +51

    Thumbnail made me think he was gonna be a ranting raving angry man lol, such well mannered old gentlemen, also looking well for 80, them boys know how to eat right and live right, good luck Jim 👍😄

  • @kevinn5976
    @kevinn5976 3 года назад +54

    Jim Kilbride is a horse of a man. 👍

  • @burtonfootballer5408
    @burtonfootballer5408 3 года назад +15

    I only went once in 1998 after getting involved in Irish music and it was one of the most memorable experiences of my life. I drove from Dublin to Kilrush and then toured around for a week. A lovely country with lovely people and some fantastic exports especially the people that now live in the UK

  • @Discover-Ireland
    @Discover-Ireland 3 года назад +95

    I wouldn’t mind looking fresh like him if I reach 80

    • @Roger_Ramjet
      @Roger_Ramjet 3 года назад +3

      He says he's almost 80. He also forgot to mention he has no use for the internet other than porn. Not that there's anything wrong with that

  • @thepintman6166
    @thepintman6166 3 года назад +8

    As a Dublin Man its always nice to see the point of view from the very hard working Countryman

    • @sloughlin721
      @sloughlin721 2 года назад

      Here here. Our globalist, west Brit government have sold out those in rural Ireland

  • @mytoiletshitehouse
    @mytoiletshitehouse 3 года назад +39

    Big strong-looking fellow for 80, good clean living

  • @davidbrennan3613
    @davidbrennan3613 3 года назад +40

    God bless him he's a fresh 80

  • @jayroland7267
    @jayroland7267 3 года назад +33

    Lucky man that he's getting on in age.
    Who wants to live through this coming shitstorm?

    • @Vingul
      @Vingul 3 года назад

      I do.

  • @sevimpekin4283
    @sevimpekin4283 3 года назад +15

    Love the Irish and traditional people like this. It’s so heart warming and precious. Such a sad and inevitable fact that the passage of time and globalisation means we lose such people to the realms of history. God bless him and give him good health.

  • @SSTE4858
    @SSTE4858 3 года назад +73

    I've never thought "I wouldn't want to take a dig off him" when I saw an 80 year old before

    • @davidkerr797
      @davidkerr797 3 года назад

      Ah thought that as well man.

    • @brazenlilhussy5975
      @brazenlilhussy5975 3 года назад

      @@davidkerr797 I'll hide in here too lads! Looks strong as an ox! Seen a few of the comments saying he used to be anchorman on the tug-of-war team..looks every bit of it too.

  • @peznino1
    @peznino1 3 года назад +79

    80? Jaysus...he musta lied about his age to get the pension early back the years

  • @earthsgard
    @earthsgard 3 года назад +19

    Is it gone the post office, disgraceful.
    The government is just shafting rural Ireland and Ireland as a whole...

    • @thursoberwick1948
      @thursoberwick1948 3 года назад

      This is global. What do you think has happened over the past year. Social distancing has a double meaning. This isn't all disease control.

    • @earthsgard
      @earthsgard 3 года назад +2

      @@thursoberwick1948 post offices closing weekly 120 garda stations closed over the last few years,no ambulance service to rural areas,the list is endless ... seasonal flu kills more than this bullshit, people surely now see what's unfolding before there eyes has nothing to do with a disease.

    • @thursoberwick1948
      @thursoberwick1948 3 года назад

      @@earthsgard Aye, the slow drip abolition of cash over twenty or thirty years... The destruction of real communities, their replacement with interest groups... Everything going on line, but mostly onto a handful of websites with heavy censorship. They want us to sit staring at a machine, probably eventually some kind of matrix is simulation. If we're needed at all when they automate all the jobs.
      As for the disease a friend spent three weeks in hospital with Covid or something like it he caught in New York. There is something out there but I don't think its origins and fatality rate are quite what they claim.

  • @seamusblack5876
    @seamusblack5876 3 года назад +29

    1:12 'you'd never see a sinner' - that sounds like heaven to me

    • @barryfinlay9697
      @barryfinlay9697 3 года назад +2

      😂

    • @sl_721
      @sl_721 2 года назад

      Jokes aside it’s fairly sad. Rural Ireland is dying due to the government’s indifference and selfishness

  • @bennoben1653
    @bennoben1653 3 года назад +14

    Sad for the old folk !!!

  • @Daisy-ct3nh
    @Daisy-ct3nh 3 года назад +8

    Fresh and well you are looking Jim.
    80!
    People need their local post office. If that means a subsidy from the government, só be it. Save rural Ireland!!!

  • @timhancock6626
    @timhancock6626 3 года назад +9

    Any withdrawal of services is a threat to communities. The value of social contact is greatly under rated.

    • @thursoberwick1948
      @thursoberwick1948 3 года назад +2

      It's highly rated. That is why it is being destroyed worldwide. They just want you to stare at screens all day.

  • @LaughingMan44
    @LaughingMan44 3 года назад +22

    So fucking sad and rage inducing at the same time. The people who ignore this shit, vote it in or make excuses for it are just as responsible as the powers that be. Never forget that.

    • @Kevin-rw4yw
      @Kevin-rw4yw 8 месяцев назад

      'The men with the nice smiles and the three piece suits.'

  • @ciaran6309
    @ciaran6309 3 года назад +3

    Very sad. No post offices, no banks, no pubs in rural Ireland . Well done politicians. And the people let it happen. Good luck to u Jim

  • @raibeartthehairypict4696
    @raibeartthehairypict4696 3 года назад +15

    They're doing the same all over Scotland. The PO has always been an integral part of our rural communities. This isn't fair for the older citizens.

    • @thursoberwick1948
      @thursoberwick1948 3 года назад +3

      What do you think the past year has been about? They don't want offices, shops, physical banks etc, they just want the peasants to stare at screens all day so Gates, Bezos and co make more money. Most national governments have used this year to accelerate t.

    • @raibeartthehairypict4696
      @raibeartthehairypict4696 3 года назад +3

      @@thursoberwick1948 It's a bitter pill to swallow. Gates is buying up an awful lot of land just now. I wouldn't trust him as far as I could throw him.

    • @thursoberwick1948
      @thursoberwick1948 3 года назад +5

      @@raibeartthehairypict4696 The man makes my skin crawl. I used to think he was just a nerd but he now combines that with a messiah complex.
      It saddens me that the SNP is pursuing so much of this globalist drivel. It's like the billionaires have bought out all the major parties.

    • @raibeartthehairypict4696
      @raibeartthehairypict4696 3 года назад

      @@thursoberwick1948 Totally agree with that. Voted for them for thirty years. They've lost me now. I've been saying for a while now. Maybe it's time for a new political party in Scotland.

    • @thursoberwick1948
      @thursoberwick1948 3 года назад +3

      @@raibeartthehairypict4696 I've always been 100% pro-independence, but I can't be doing with the woke keich. The Greens pushed out Andy Wightman with this crap and he was one of the few decent folk they had.
      If anyone thinks I'm automatically evil for being white or male, they don't get my vote. I spoilt my ballot last time because we had a couple of candidates like that. These folk also tend to be anti-working class, ageist and bigoted about folk's religion.
      I honestly think we haven't moved any nearer to independence since 2014 despite Brexit. It's all policies like raising the price of alcohol and taking control of children from their parents.

  • @GAAShorts
    @GAAShorts 3 года назад +57

    Fair play to him Looks only 60

  • @goodo5691
    @goodo5691 3 года назад +4

    my god i nearly fell off my chair when he said he was nearly 80..ive defiantly seen 45 yr olds that look older...good onya Jim, you're doing something right

  • @christopherjones6197
    @christopherjones6197 3 года назад +33

    He doesn't want to say those dorty words " The Internet ".

    • @AoifeNic_an_t-Saoir
      @AoifeNic_an_t-Saoir 3 года назад +2

      🤣🤣

    • @Roger_Ramjet
      @Roger_Ramjet 3 года назад

      Yeah, perv

    • @dannyboy8257
      @dannyboy8257 3 года назад +3

      WiFi is the ruination of family's nonody talks to anyone anymore they just type RUclips comments and stuff

    • @PyroNinja713
      @PyroNinja713 3 года назад

      @@dannyboy8257 way to be different

  • @ceesmith
    @ceesmith 3 года назад +5

    Jim Gilbride is one fine example of a man.

  • @footballbabybaby
    @footballbabybaby 3 года назад +28

    There are druggy teens look exactly like this guy

  • @TheAmericanDane
    @TheAmericanDane 3 года назад +27

    80!? Looks fit for that age, I wouldn’t wanna tussle with him!

    • @ihonestlydontcare1158
      @ihonestlydontcare1158 3 года назад +4

      I heard he was a part time farmer and was really good tug of war player so I’m pretty sure he’s one of them strong old ones

    • @rb26nate
      @rb26nate 3 года назад +1

      @Vertubenflugen that was a joke comment. Do you really think there'd be 70 something year olds playing for their county?

    • @rb26nate
      @rb26nate 3 года назад

      @Vertubenflugen I said county not country. It's a gaa term as this is Ireland not the UK. You know... Gaelic football not soccer.

    • @rb26nate
      @rb26nate 3 года назад

      Look up Gaelic football and you'll see that that's no sport for an old man.

  • @dw9769
    @dw9769 3 года назад +7

    Always loved listening to the old guys.....quality....

    • @Roger_Ramjet
      @Roger_Ramjet 3 года назад

      Imagine how much better it would have been if he was sober?

  • @VelcroKittie
    @VelcroKittie 3 года назад +5

    It's the country air and manure. It keeps you young and healthy. I feel terrible for him though. Cavan is a very forgotten place at the best of times and the older citizens really suffer as a result. I work in the medical field and the hospital coverage in Cavan is atrocious. If anybody wants to get an MRI or a CT-Scan for life threatening illness for example, they have to travel a fair distance to have it done. The alternative is to go on the public waiting list in Cavan General, but you might be dead by the time it happens. Desperately sad.

  • @ofaoilleachain
    @ofaoilleachain Год назад +1

    Looks well for his age! What a gent, proud to see another Cavan man on me recommended page

  • @seandelap6268
    @seandelap6268 3 года назад +15

    He's either lying about his age or he looks fantastic for an 80 year old.

    • @OffGridInvestor
      @OffGridInvestor 3 года назад +2

      He's 80. People in the comments know him as a local personally.

  • @mduffy5453
    @mduffy5453 3 года назад +5

    My dad was from Cavan. Arva.
    Great place great people.
    Ain't been back since 93.

    • @brendadrumm9708
      @brendadrumm9708 3 года назад +1

      Dad from ballyconnel yrs ago he'd be well over hundered plus wonder if it's same. P o

    • @Roger_Ramjet
      @Roger_Ramjet 3 года назад

      Miserable tight wads with a dreadful accent. Worst place on earth.

    • @brendadrumm9708
      @brendadrumm9708 3 года назад

      @@Roger_Ramjet why did you live there my dad was from c I find this an insult I think Dublin people have a horrible accent lots of love x

  • @writereducator
    @writereducator 2 года назад +1

    This is where my mother came from. So I had not problem understand this old fellow. God bless.

  • @jambutty2218
    @jambutty2218 3 года назад +4

    He looks well for a man of his age . I hope he can get to the nearest post office these days .

  • @franwilby1254
    @franwilby1254 3 года назад +8

    God bless this lovely man! 🤩🙏💕❤💚

  • @dechannigan2980
    @dechannigan2980 3 года назад +15

    I knew a Jim McBride in London back in the late 1980s he was know as 'Big Jim' he was from Swanlinbar as well..

    • @thomaskelly5349
      @thomaskelly5349 3 года назад +1

      No different man he's gilbride away an clean ur ears out

  • @liamconverse8950
    @liamconverse8950 3 года назад +2

    My grandfather was from Cavan. His older brother inherited the farm and he went off to be a carpenter in England and New Jersey

  • @hapijen4828
    @hapijen4828 3 года назад +10

    Further isolation.

  • @jamessky9155
    @jamessky9155 3 года назад +4

    Awe, what a wonderful lovely character. Reminds me of my youth in rural North Cornwall.

  • @shughy1
    @shughy1 3 года назад +6

    Those type of great characters are becoming a rarity these days, bless him

  • @ErokLobotomist
    @ErokLobotomist 3 года назад +2

    Not sure how I stumbled on this. But I hope they didn't close this post office. Cheers from Western Canada!

  • @aimeerose2833
    @aimeerose2833 3 года назад +3

    They're planning to close the post office in Birkenhead over here in England, my nan and her friends are so angry because it's the only post office they can get to since they don't drive, and some of them still pay bills at the post office because they don't use computers, my nan doesn't even have wifi in her house

  • @MichaeldeSousaCruz
    @MichaeldeSousaCruz 3 года назад +6

    No need to close any post office. The government creates the money and pay for anything it wishes. The government’s not saving money by closing post offices, it’s actually preventing people from acquiring the currency to do business and pay off their tax liabilities 🤷‍♂️ Government spends first, tax payments and bond purchases are done after, if at all

  • @king-dd4hp
    @king-dd4hp 3 года назад +13

    He'd pass for less than 60.

    • @brendadrumm9708
      @brendadrumm9708 3 года назад +1

      In what country

    • @Roger_Ramjet
      @Roger_Ramjet 3 года назад

      He is well known locally for having faked his age to claim a pension. He's no more 80 than I am 150.

  • @Bertnahhaha
    @Bertnahhaha 3 года назад +1

    I expect that the algorithm wanted me to not understand him, but as a Newf, I understood every single word lol. LLLLLoves it!

  • @shegally
    @shegally 3 года назад +1

    Ahhh. Bless 🥰. Change can be tough esp for the elders. May we help them ❤

  • @jrw3349
    @jrw3349 3 года назад +10

    How did I read the title as “Welsh caveman”

  • @glynroberts1682
    @glynroberts1682 3 года назад +4

    Same here in Wales closing everything 👎🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

    • @stockholmsyndrome411
      @stockholmsyndrome411 3 года назад

      Agenda 21. Make rural life nearly impossible to force everybody into the cities

  • @truthseeker9945
    @truthseeker9945 3 года назад +7

    He looks like both a grandad and his young grandson at the same time

  • @ruffian2952
    @ruffian2952 3 года назад +11

    There is an establishment in Hyde Park, Massachusetts named the Cavan House. A decent place to have a drop.

    • @seanfarrell5341
      @seanfarrell5341 3 года назад +1

      Huh?

    • @Roger_Ramjet
      @Roger_Ramjet 3 года назад +1

      Is it open these days?

    • @ruffian2952
      @ruffian2952 3 года назад +1

      @@Roger_Ramjet I'm not certain but it was a good place to be left alone to enjoy myself.

    • @ruffian2952
      @ruffian2952 3 года назад +1

      @@Roger_Ramjet I'm glad to report that despite the virus Cavan House remains open. Alcohol has antiseptic qualities!

  • @kinocchio
    @kinocchio 3 года назад +3

    I’d love to live somewhere like that place where you don’t see nobody but the postman once a week.

  • @Irishyoutubers
    @Irishyoutubers 3 года назад +3

    Good man Jim 💚
    Love from the Irish potato family.
    Good strong Irish man right there.

  • @Christian-zo8zq
    @Christian-zo8zq 3 года назад

    Good luck Jim and best wishes from England!

  • @dontatellalie9847
    @dontatellalie9847 3 года назад

    Good man! Jim.
    Pleasant interview!

  • @ManCave1972
    @ManCave1972 3 года назад +10

    The most laid back dismayed man ever. Hope I look that good at 80

  • @WallKenshiro
    @WallKenshiro 3 года назад +4

    Almost 80! Must be all that fresh air, fresh fish, and locally grown greens, and Guinness.

  • @drmontague6475
    @drmontague6475 3 года назад +1

    When they interview people they should ask them who they voted for.

    • @michaeljohn5999
      @michaeljohn5999 3 года назад

      That’s a Fianna Fáil man if I ever seen one

  • @acb7074
    @acb7074 3 года назад +6

    Wait until the corporate takeover of rural farms starts,push the small farmers off the land.

    • @aaroburns14
      @aaroburns14 3 года назад

      Started a long time ago

    • @kpankh07
      @kpankh07 3 года назад

      Wait until this happens and people then start to blame the “foreigners”. Nothing makes the capitalists happier than when we blame someone else...

  • @lazycarper7925
    @lazycarper7925 3 года назад +12

    80 are you joking he looks 40

    • @Roger_Ramjet
      @Roger_Ramjet 3 года назад

      So I assume you are believing him?

  • @ldaly4621
    @ldaly4621 3 года назад +13

    80 ...what's the secret to looking this young??

    • @tomfennings8384
      @tomfennings8384 3 года назад +6

      Smoking and lots off whiskey

    • @upsidedownworldexposed6735
      @upsidedownworldexposed6735 3 года назад +5

      Fresh air and no people

    • @AwRighttttt
      @AwRighttttt 3 года назад +5

      Don't live like a globalist degenerate.

    • @Roger_Ramjet
      @Roger_Ramjet 3 года назад

      So you believe him? Okay then

    • @droge192
      @droge192 3 года назад +2

      @@Roger_Ramjet - Why would he be bothered to lie? For what purpose? People of his age don't try to impress.

  • @fritzlzkidz
    @fritzlzkidz 3 года назад +3

    Such a shame for craggy Island

  • @2msvalkyrie529
    @2msvalkyrie529 3 года назад +3

    The border counties : Cavan and Fermanagh are two of the most beautiful
    places in Ireland. In Europe even. I spent an eventful afternoon in Blacklion
    a while back .!

    • @ArchangelAva
      @ArchangelAva 3 года назад

      Oh me too! Some village…. Not fond of the queen…..

  • @zydecobill
    @zydecobill 3 года назад +9

    A nice man

  • @singlesinceforever1964
    @singlesinceforever1964 4 года назад +7

    3 weeks! That's nearly a month!

  • @Dziugenonas
    @Dziugenonas 3 года назад +1

    In my country a post office van comes to smaller villages once every few days and people can get their pensions, send and receive packages and so on.

  • @Quickrex
    @Quickrex 3 года назад +1

    They don’t make them no more.

  • @joecanning9551
    @joecanning9551 3 года назад +7

    I know where Swanlinbar is but the reporter doesn’t, he thinks he’s in Swadlinbar, wherever that is.

    • @Dreyno
      @Dreyno 3 года назад

      The nickname for Swanlinbar is “Swad”. No idea why. But it confuses people and they end up pronouncing Swanlinbar as Swadlinbar. It’s something I’ve heard people doing before.

    • @tomgreene2282
      @tomgreene2282 3 года назад

      @@Dreyno It was known as Swadlumbar in some places ...shortened by others to Swad.

  • @joenavanodo3780
    @joenavanodo3780 3 года назад +3

    If I was near there , I would go visit him. God bless you anyway Jim, Good luck!

  • @mickeyt1371
    @mickeyt1371 3 года назад +3

    The old man is correct...he goes to the village to engage with other people. Life is nothing without other people around you.

  • @fredbraid322
    @fredbraid322 3 года назад +45

    Fucking A, Jim you are top banana for 80 mate ;) all the best from Scotland ;)

    • @joetownsend-
      @joetownsend- 3 года назад +1

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    • @jaiicee5270
      @jaiicee5270 3 года назад

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  • @gavinjones861
    @gavinjones861 3 года назад +3

    Nice to see an irish interview which wasnt a mocking childish pisstake of the accent or something.

  • @judicebastard3524
    @judicebastard3524 3 года назад +10

    Fresh air though. This man looks like most 30year olds in Leicester

  • @paddy3762
    @paddy3762 3 года назад

    hope your doing well Jim happy days to ya.

  • @petrokemikal
    @petrokemikal 3 года назад +1

    My local village in Tipperary is shocking.. when I was growing up there were about 3 thousand people around the place and a bustling main Street... Fast forward to today !! 2 pubs gone, post office closed, chippers closed, marine and fishing shop closed, and both shops on the main Street closed !! The only shop in the village open is the hair salon.. well it's closed now due to covid obv but remains to be seen if that will disappear now too... Last rumor I heard.. less than 800 people left in the village... All my old friends are gone.. not one of them around... What happened ?? it's genuinely a ghost town... If u don't believe me it's called Littleton.. on the way to Cashel on the old main road...

    • @markmolloy8647
      @markmolloy8647 3 года назад +1

      I believe you - I see it when I drive around Ireland. I think it has to do with young people moving out of villages and towns, first for further education and then for jobs. The town just dries up without young people. However - there are signs that this trend may be reversed, due to Work From Home trend. The WFH will continue long after COVID, because its much cheaper for a company NOT to have a HQ in a pricey part of the capital city. The big losers will be the developers, landlords (and banks that lent billions for inner city high end corporate offices - more bailouts on the way). Once people realise that they don't need to pay 600,000 euros for crappy flat in dublin so that the office (who wants to sit in a crap apparment staring at your laptop) they will be able to move out to the towns and villages and buy a proper house with large garden, fresh air etc for half that. When they do come - make sure they are welcome. Don't fall into that trap of thinking - they're not from round here, they're pushing out our young people etc. Your towns are dead now, they will bring life. Cafe's, pubs and shops will reopen.

  • @camacaze199
    @camacaze199 3 года назад +5

    Fair play, doesn’t look a day over 50!

  • @krusher181
    @krusher181 3 года назад +3

    This accent is so interesting. I’m Canadian and it’s so damn similar to rural people here. Ontario btw. But the cadence is so damn similar.

    • @thisguy976
      @thisguy976 3 года назад

      About 10 kilometres south of where he lives the accent is different again.

  • @maxflight777
    @maxflight777 3 года назад +2

    Looks strong at 80. What an admirable man.

  • @G1806
    @G1806 3 года назад

    What a strong looking man for 80 and a gentleman to boot must be living in the good fresh air and working hard preserved him a privilege to hear his perspective and opinions.

  • @stevendouglas3860
    @stevendouglas3860 3 года назад +13

    Nice fella

  • @TheRobertino2001
    @TheRobertino2001 3 года назад +9

    The amount of people who can’t pronounce Swanlinbar properly 🤷‍♂️

    • @shawnrahoon6789
      @shawnrahoon6789 3 года назад +2

      I'd say most of them are from Keaaavan😂😂

    • @martinlanigan9202
      @martinlanigan9202 3 года назад

      Probly no one going into post office put shop in post office might help it from closing people need groceries

    • @Roger_Ramjet
      @Roger_Ramjet 3 года назад

      @@martinlanigan9202 amazon prime got you covered

    • @Roger_Ramjet
      @Roger_Ramjet 3 года назад +1

      Its pronounced shitsville

  • @onlyhereforddebob8978
    @onlyhereforddebob8978 3 года назад +1

    He actually said he’s nearly 18 not 80 guys

  • @rhianrivers
    @rhianrivers 2 года назад +1

    Jim Gilbride you legend !