What Do You Do On A Saturday Night in Ballina, Co. Mayo? Ireland 1972
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- What do locals in Ballina County Mayo get up to on a Saturday night?
Ballina’s streets are busy when the ‘Hall’s Pictorial Weekly’ crew are in town, but residents find time to talk to reporter Frank Hall.
A farmer who is interviewed says that he never has time off on a Saturday evening,
Our days aren’t long enough at all.
Others who are fortunate to have time on their hands like to paint pictures or go to the pub for a pint or two. Reading is also a popular pastime, with one lady telling Hall that
"I do not like television at all, it is a complete waste of time."
A visitor from the United States is slightly more reticent when asked about his Saturday night activities,
"You wouldn’t want to hear it really."
This episode of ‘Hall’s Pictorial Weekly’ was broadcast on 30 September 1972. The reporter is Frank Hall.
Frank Hall’s amusing and satirical series began on 29 September 1971 with the full title “Hall’s Pictorial Weekly Incorporating the Provincial Vindicator” which became known as “Hall’s Pictorial Weekly”. The series allowed Frank Hall to follow his own interest in the lives of viewers throughout the country. Regarded as RTE’s flagship comedy show, it featured satirical sketches on current news stories and popular culture, as well as parody songs, comedy sketches, re-edited videos, cartoons and spoof television formats. The show ran for 9 series until 1980.
In the RTE Guide on the week of its first transmission, Frank Hall wrote “”the form and content of Hall’s Pictorial Weekly should be impossible to forecast until the last moment. It should be as varied and absorbing as life itself”. He further commented “”I have an inexhaustible interest in the lives and times of the people who live in our country towns and villages; no event is too small to capture my attention, no community too out of the way...This programme is intended to be about you, your town, your friends, your local interests.” (RTE Guide, September 24, 1971, Vol.8, No.9, p.2)
The women who said that tv is a waste of time, she's not wrong there lol!
And that was long before it became a propaganda machine.
Wheel there was only two Channels back then
@@mikebarratt6767when the programing began.
@@mikebarratt6767 There was only one! Started around 6pm and finished about 11pm
The wit of the Irish is second to none. 🤣
I love them ! ❤
From Scotland 🏴
Yes me too
Wonderful characters back in 1972 ❤
In 1972, on October the 23rd at 4pm, I took the pledge in Bandon Town and I haven't taken a drop since. Great times in 1972.
Is that Frank Hall from Hall's Pictorial Weekly mia? Then, Ireland may have been poor in money-wealth, but it was rich in beauty, culture, and modesty. The most beautiful thing; the people of Ireland. I left there 40 years ago, but part of my heart and soul is there.
Ballina remember some of these people when I was a child
Names please. I'm from Ballina
Some good old characters
The one and only Frank Hall...
Halls pictorial weekly
All giving the answer their parish priest wants to hear 😂
Let's be honest, some of them where genuine
“Some” ?
These questions would be as entertaining now as they are back then
real answer = "boozin, bloody well boozin!" - as the jimmy Crowley song says
Is it my computer or is the sound really low? I've got my volume on max an I'm struggling to hear them.
It is very quiet, think that's because of the tech used at the time coupled with the tech getting it on here.
@@mrdupreez9061 Thanks
Happy people
Dude at the beginning kinda looks like Norm Macdonald
Haaah
Whoever Norm McDonald is
@@michaelwalsh9145 look him up, he was a comic. My favorite
@@biohazard8295 thanks will do
Cagey with the answer too.... probably seeing his mistress. Cute whure
.26 she said she has a good wash 🤣
Everybody knows that you're allowed to turn on the immersion on Saturday night.
@@markearley9200 🤣🤣🤣 before glenroe
@@hoodlumpriest8955 glenroe was a Sunday night 🤷♂️. It was the “oh no me homework “ time
@markearley9200 what immersion a big tin bath 😂
Where do you think I have been all the day? Boozing, bloody well boozing. Where do you think I've been spending my pay? Boozing, bloody well boozing.
Oh...50yrs ago....
Brilliant mate 😂
0:31 This lady is spot on..
Watching this makes me think I am looking at a different world. The people interviewed on here look like they had no idea what a television camera was or even what television was, and this is 1972. The woman at 0:31 who said television was "a complete waste of time" was correct, as Ballina in Mayo could only receive RTE Television, and the crap aired on that one channel in 1972 was appalling. They couldn't receive multi-channel BBC/ITV.
I was born in June 72
TV on Saturday night is a complete waste of time - I didn't know SNL was on in Ireland back then?
Late late show
Great video, but without subtitles, it's kind of hard to understand some of their accent 😅
I have to say, I understood perfectly clearly. It's an acquired hearing, some Irish accents are difficult to understand, but I truly enjoy all Irish accents. The richness of the accent is profound, the little mannerisms too. God bless them ☘
@@finolaomurchu8217 I do believe you. It's because english is not my mother language 🇧🇷
The treble is missing, it makes it harder to catch some words for sure.
Honestly the accents were fine, it's the audio quality that made some of them tougher to make out for me.
@@finolaomurchu8217 what a question though to be asked in the street
I wonder when the guy at 0:57 was born
The yank at 0:56 🤣
Where's this ? Midlands somewhere?
Ballina ,Mayo
0:31 smart woman. Although it hasn't been a waste of time for the jewish powers controlling what's put on it. I'd love to hear these people's view of the regressive Ireland now.
I wouldn't call ending the power of the Catholic church to rape and dump kids in septic tanks and enslaving young women regressive to be fair
Smithy is back!
only 2 channels anyway
@@conorharford5117 one channel if you were living in the west or south west of Ireland.
Us Connor's need to form a club.
"Shaggin' yer ma"
Oh wow an attempt at comedy by a child . How cute and utterly cringe all at once
@@Beanbag777 Bean bags are full of gas