1972: Caught On Camera - IRA Hotel Bomb

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  • Опубликовано: 11 янв 2025

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  • @killerkitten7534
    @killerkitten7534 Год назад +4509

    Bombed 36 times and still open for business? Those hotel clerks are really dedicated lol

    • @mikehunt8968
      @mikehunt8968 Год назад +64

      Yup, I stayed there a few years ago....

    • @boxxytrolley
      @boxxytrolley Год назад +52

      I work here, great place!

    • @u_n_d_e_r_s_c_o_r_e
      @u_n_d_e_r_s_c_o_r_e Год назад +19

      Irish people 🥱

    • @kmg474
      @kmg474 Год назад

      ​@@u_n_d_e_r_s_c_o_r_eYou feeling sleepy old chap?

    • @RobertK1993
      @RobertK1993 Год назад +15

      Different staff obviously

  • @LethalD6
    @LethalD6 Год назад +3502

    Least violent day in Northern Ireland:

    • @Eoin_stuff
      @Eoin_stuff Год назад +29

      So true

    • @MrDannMann
      @MrDannMann Год назад +5

      No, thank you.

    • @variaxi935
      @variaxi935 Год назад +40

      tip: thanking people for likes will only reduce the number of likes you receive
      bonus tip: keeping an eye on the number of likes you receive can only have negative effects on you and never positive- the public opinion is almost always wrong, thus should not be considered of any value to you

    • @LethalD6
      @LethalD6 Год назад +12

      @@variaxi935 Thanks

    • @roachitane
      @roachitane Год назад

      @@variaxi935it’s also just embarrassing and reflects how your perception of self value derives from how people think about ur words. In conclusion, just cringe…

  •  2 года назад +2222

    Props to the cameraman. That guy has balls of steel.

    • @kyloren3693
      @kyloren3693 Год назад +37

      Before steady-cams were big. It was probably a mounted camera, and he was behind the frame.

    • @859hunter
      @859hunter Год назад +36

      ​@@kyloren3693 you can tell it's being held

    • @thedrifter9814
      @thedrifter9814 Год назад +16

      That’s because he’s Irish

    • @vonbeedle554
      @vonbeedle554 Год назад +10

      @@thedrifter9814 he's a brit

    • @mezzuna
      @mezzuna Год назад +17

      Camera man never dies

  • @cathedralImages
    @cathedralImages Год назад +622

    If your mate was selling his car and it was rough looking they would say " ffs its been hit more times than the europa hotel " lol

    • @ericbroussard7402
      @ericbroussard7402 5 месяцев назад +15

      Never buy a used car from an Irishman.

    • @thecommodoredecker
      @thecommodoredecker 4 месяца назад +9

      Im in the states and i said that to someone the other day looking at a work truck and he had no clue what i was talking about lol. I study history in my free time lol

    • @petercampbell3743
      @petercampbell3743 Месяц назад

      Big mouth people 🤷‍♂️

  • @MD-ty1kc
    @MD-ty1kc Год назад +1476

    When you ask for an 8am wake up call from the hotel we take is seriously in belfast 😂😂😂😂😂

  • @ATLmodK
    @ATLmodK Год назад +601

    Most bombed hotel in Europe still offering rooms at exorbitant rates.

    • @rambles2727
      @rambles2727 Год назад +33

      Definitely not getting that security deposit

    • @isaacschmitt4803
      @isaacschmitt4803 8 месяцев назад +9

      * Dresden has entered the chat

    • @fiachramaccana280
      @fiachramaccana280 6 месяцев назад +2

      free explosiives... where else could you get that thrown in

    • @Monkey_man956
      @Monkey_man956 5 месяцев назад +6

      ​@@isaacschmitt4803Dresden was a city that was bombed, not a Hotel. I am sure there was Hotels in Dresden, but they weren't the target of the bombing rather the Entire City was. 👍

    • @lewissmith350
      @lewissmith350 5 месяцев назад +4

      Mark steel joked there may be a hotel in sareavo kicking itself, that it's one behind.

  • @bigmanted9864
    @bigmanted9864 2 года назад +778

    Casually having my volume up to hear the interview AND THEN

  • @aidanafshar8744
    @aidanafshar8744 Год назад +433

    "Half the fookin armys out here Franky"

    • @christopherbrown6523
      @christopherbrown6523 Год назад +36

      The Devil's Own?

    • @aidanafshar8744
      @aidanafshar8744 Год назад +15

      @@christopherbrown6523 Yep!!!

    • @DTKCEKDRK
      @DTKCEKDRK Месяц назад +3

      for the people that don't get it:
      ruclips.net/video/5821rjs3o5Y/видео.html

  • @hugostiglitz6914
    @hugostiglitz6914 9 месяцев назад +53

    The cameraman barely flinched and the person being interviewed dived behind the cameraman!!😂😂

    • @longshotkdb
      @longshotkdb 6 месяцев назад +3

      unlikely. probably the camera was on a Dolly. he ducked but still kept one hand on it. still impressive. if you've been there. no fun. no fun at all...

    • @dougkratz5269
      @dougkratz5269 25 дней назад +2

      Safest place to be. Cameraman Never Dies

  • @Rushexe
    @Rushexe Год назад +334

    *knock knock*
    Who is it?
    Car service
    Car service? We're in a hotel, don't you mean room service?
    ... Ah yeah sure whatever, open the door please.

  • @frasermckevitt2417
    @frasermckevitt2417 Год назад +222

    Man the Irish are so nice to me despite being a Brit they even bought me a car

    • @B-Dubya1
      @B-Dubya1 6 месяцев назад +5

      I just got that. 🤔😲😁😆🤣

    • @itwontcomeout5678
      @itwontcomeout5678 6 месяцев назад +2

      Lul

    • @jamesbyrne295
      @jamesbyrne295 4 месяца назад +3

      They felt sorry for your confusion.

    • @B-Dubya1
      @B-Dubya1 4 месяца назад +3

      @@frasermckevitt2417 was it a Citreon... cos it's full of C4 😏

    • @themaestro3034
      @themaestro3034 Месяц назад

      They probably stole it 😂

  • @jimcazador6057
    @jimcazador6057 6 месяцев назад +19

    When we heard a bomb go of in the city we used to try and guess where it happened, it was so casual for us.

  • @Baha88
    @Baha88 9 месяцев назад +15

    If that was my alarm clock I'd still sleep in

  • @MP-po6fj
    @MP-po6fj 2 месяца назад +9

    madness to think how my parents and GPs lived through this daily 60s 70s to 90s.. Became hardened to it

  • @hush3956
    @hush3956 8 месяцев назад +103

    My great aunt was blown up by the IRA. Was a catholic too
    Story goes:
    An ira man stole her next door apartment neighbors ID, robbed a nearby store then dropped it to frame him
    In his apartment (they had already kidnapped and murdered the man) they rigged bombs that would go off upon opening the door
    My great aunt decided "I havent seen him in a while, im gonna go check on him" so she went with another neighbor, knocked on the door and didnt get a response
    Eventually she just tried entering, turned the handle and was immediately blown to bits, only my granny was allowed to see the body to identify it and said it was beyond words, and that there was so so little left of her yet it was so clear who it was

    • @england1413
      @england1413 7 месяцев назад +25

      That's so sad. 😢 peace brother.

    • @hush3956
      @hush3956 7 месяцев назад +4

      @@england1413 nah I never met her like

    • @johnperardua4596
      @johnperardua4596 7 месяцев назад

      Very sorry to hear that. The IRA killed over 400 Catholics.

    • @EdmundBlack-q2h
      @EdmundBlack-q2h 6 месяцев назад

      ​​@@hush3956 like your a asshole 😅😅😅😅

    • @alwayslaughing6826
      @alwayslaughing6826 5 месяцев назад +5

      Lies

  • @shaun6099
    @shaun6099 9 месяцев назад +16

    Jesus the Irish knew how to make bomb's, nearly dropped my phone with the fright i got,

  • @whyamisad5740
    @whyamisad5740 10 месяцев назад +74

    "Oh Ireland is a very funny place, sir,
    it's a strange and a troubeled land"

    • @sunuvliberty_III
      @sunuvliberty_III 9 месяцев назад +7

      The daily mail is still full of shite. Some things never change.

    • @socire72
      @socire72 7 месяцев назад +10

      'Oh the Irish are a very funny race sir -
      Every woman's in Cumann na mBan!'

    • @slavic_viking9638
      @slavic_viking9638 5 месяцев назад +5

      "The IRA just sent me a time bomb in the mail! And I am shaking in me shoes as I am typing the news, said the man from the daily mail"

    • @mikemcguinness1304
      @mikemcguinness1304 4 месяца назад +5

      Thanks to the fucking British

    • @jonsweeney3845
      @jonsweeney3845 2 месяца назад

      Try living there.

  • @AnonAnonAnon
    @AnonAnonAnon 9 месяцев назад +33

    I served in Belfast in the 90s and when off duty on a Sunday I used to go to the nightclub that was in the basement of this hotel. On one side of the night club was Loyalists, the other Republican. Never seen any fights. Great nights in there.

    • @RandomHuman1103
      @RandomHuman1103 9 месяцев назад +3

      Wow thats crazy

    • @MikeHunt-zy3cn
      @MikeHunt-zy3cn 8 месяцев назад +2

      That must've been tense.

    • @garethmccartan3636
      @garethmccartan3636 8 месяцев назад +5

      I'd say in my 50 years on this earth I've been on a night out in Belfast at least 100 times, I'm yet to see a fight break out.

    • @Luton-Mick
      @Luton-Mick 6 месяцев назад +5

      They must of had an unofficial gentleman's agreement.

    • @djh6970
      @djh6970 6 месяцев назад +5

      Paradise lost

  • @montyzumazoom1337
    @montyzumazoom1337 8 месяцев назад +34

    We stayed in this hotel. It was a present for my wife, a few days in Belfast. As we went to bed , I asked her what she thought of the Hotel. "Lovely" she said... I then told her it was the most bombed hotel during the troubles....

    • @Anrirua
      @Anrirua 7 месяцев назад +4

      And did the floor and bed shake much ❤

    • @michaeldaly9984
      @michaeldaly9984 7 месяцев назад +4

      So you're divorced now? 🤪

    • @josephphelan646
      @josephphelan646 6 месяцев назад +1

      The earth moved

    • @BernieMcquillan
      @BernieMcquillan 2 месяца назад

      @@josephphelan646not for her…

  • @maryparis576
    @maryparis576 8 месяцев назад +13

    They told folks to leave the building first

  • @ninmachine109
    @ninmachine109 Год назад +131

    The IRA tried recruiting the stoic cameraman the next day

    • @RobertK1993
      @RobertK1993 Год назад +2

      He said I stick to filming the conflict until it's resolved it be High Definition

    • @cybertronian2005
      @cybertronian2005 10 месяцев назад +3

      I don't think 'stoic' and IRA go together

  • @LightingMouse
    @LightingMouse 2 года назад +325

    "Hey kids do you want to live forever?"

    • @GDNotMe
      @GDNotMe 2 года назад +11

      Reddit

    • @LightingMouse
      @LightingMouse 2 года назад +5

      @@GDNotMe yep

    • @drp5146
      @drp5146 2 года назад +1

      Same

    • @timkerkhoftoch
      @timkerkhoftoch 2 года назад +1

      No

    • @jefflinton
      @jefflinton Год назад +13

      I think you're getting your countries,religions and political allegiances confused pal

  • @sm0g-810
    @sm0g-810 2 месяца назад +13

    I had people trying to tell me that life was better in the 70s the other day. I seriously think they should reconsider that statement

    • @warrenpaine
      @warrenpaine 2 месяца назад +2

      Depends on where you were living. Things were fine in the USA.

    • @caringheart34
      @caringheart34 2 месяца назад +4

      ​@@warrenpaine
      Maybe, if you can get past the 1973 oil crisis and the multitude of serial killers in the era.

    • @iamarizonaball2642
      @iamarizonaball2642 11 дней назад +1

      @@caringheart34 really? i wouldnt mind the oil crisis if carter actually stayed for the first 4 years of the 80s. star raker and solar power and all. who cares about the oil crisis when renewables exist?

    • @pookiewookie7679
      @pookiewookie7679 4 дня назад

      Tell that to raqis, Syrians, Palestinians ...

  • @duckymakesvideos816
    @duckymakesvideos816 Год назад +17

    Meanwhile maggie thatcher is having dinner on ground floor

  • @pikemaster1972
    @pikemaster1972 Год назад +73

    Well built hotel …. They don’t build them like that anymore

    • @AppalachianMountaineer1863
      @AppalachianMountaineer1863 11 месяцев назад +5

      More likely it was targeting someone in the hotel not the hotel itself

    • @Kiefer1976
      @Kiefer1976 9 месяцев назад +2

      @@AppalachianMountaineer1863no they were targeting the hotel. Hence why it was bombed so many times.

    • @Linesjointspenaltypoints
      @Linesjointspenaltypoints 5 месяцев назад

      @@AppalachianMountaineer1863British hotel

    • @scobeyrowley5115
      @scobeyrowley5115 4 месяца назад

      ​@@AppalachianMountaineer1863not it was the hotel itself I think. All the British and international journalists stayed there so it got back headlines

    • @FoxOnFilm2209
      @FoxOnFilm2209 3 месяца назад

      Surprising for a building of that style to be well built

  • @humanreasonist988
    @humanreasonist988 4 месяца назад +6

    I ❤ Belfast.
    Only bad thing about Belfast is the expensive hotel costs....
    Tourists to Belfast need to be rich.

    • @BruceLee-fd7uw
      @BruceLee-fd7uw 13 дней назад

      Look for the more boutique hotels, you will get great bargains

    • @humanreasonist988
      @humanreasonist988 13 дней назад

      @BruceLee-fd7uw
      Thank you Bruce.
      Boutique Hotels ?
      Like what ?
      Greetings from Germany.
      J.

  • @Marion-uc2uq
    @Marion-uc2uq 7 месяцев назад +38

    Me and my mates were in the town centre when this hotel was blown up it was manic the ground moved under our feet we fell to the ground I was 17 at the time too close for comfort I left Ireland at 18 couldn't take it no more I go back to see family still love my beautiful Ireland and the people I'm proud to be irsh,

    • @InfiniteCookie3-jo2bb
      @InfiniteCookie3-jo2bb 7 месяцев назад +5

      That’s a shame 🥺 sorry that happened to you and you had to witness such destruction to your beautiful Ireland…. 😔

    • @IaintTheHerb
      @IaintTheHerb 6 месяцев назад

      ​@@InfiniteCookie3-jo2bb Google amd the rest of silicon valley are destroying it more than the Britsh Army ever could, permanently.

    • @Cola64
      @Cola64 4 месяца назад +4

      Heard the new immigrants are troublesome

    • @jazzhands7771
      @jazzhands7771 3 месяца назад

      I see you left your punctuation behind.

    • @jazzhands7771
      @jazzhands7771 3 месяца назад +4

      ​@@Cola64Yeah, there's too many of them and they think they own the place.

  • @RandyFrench-z4c
    @RandyFrench-z4c 8 месяцев назад +35

    Two things 1. Never anger the irish. 2. never think you can corner a scotsman.The crown really did not learn that through the years.

    • @petebondurant58
      @petebondurant58 7 месяцев назад +11

      Scotland has been a part of the Crown for over three hundred years.

    • @RandyFrench-z4c
      @RandyFrench-z4c 7 месяцев назад +4

      @@petebondurant58 agreed but they have always retained their identity.

    • @petebondurant58
      @petebondurant58 7 месяцев назад

      @@RandyFrench-z4cTheir outgoing First Minister is a Pakistani who hates Scottish people. 🤣

    • @ForrFore
      @ForrFore 7 месяцев назад

      These so called Irish were deluded.
      They were in Northern Ireland not Ireland the cowardly bastards.
      The IRA killed more catholics than anyone and most of them white British agents

    • @Niveuspluma1
      @Niveuspluma1 6 месяцев назад +2

      There'll be no Scotsmen in any corners in Germany after yesterday... 😂⚽

  • @grahamunderwood9353
    @grahamunderwood9353 7 месяцев назад +12

    sad times for everyone and belfast is a changed place ,too many innocents on both sides got killed

    • @tesmith47
      @tesmith47 5 месяцев назад

      NO ONE IS INNOCENT WHEN SOMEONE IS INVADING YOU......AGAIN!!!!

  • @lifeisgood420365
    @lifeisgood420365 7 месяцев назад +12

    Its funny how he literally looks like the photo every nothern irish person has of their uncle/grandad, they all looked like that 🤣

    • @rumbleofdrums527
      @rumbleofdrums527 4 месяца назад +4

      There was only one Irishman in the 70s. We had to pass him around a bit. You might have seen him playing for Manchester United in the 70s as well. It was the same in Wales.

    • @SlieveLeague1
      @SlieveLeague1 4 дня назад

      ​​@@rumbleofdrums527 Yup, he also sang in a show band, was a farmer, a school caretaker and played the tin whistle in the Dubliners.

  • @vudu2822
    @vudu2822 Год назад +23

    The boys didn't mess about back in the day Jesus

    • @JesseWRIGHT-th8mw
      @JesseWRIGHT-th8mw 4 месяца назад

      Would you say the same about Al-Qaeda, Hamas, and ISIS?

    • @vudu2822
      @vudu2822 4 месяца назад +2

      Have to be Irish to understand mate

    • @G_v._Losinj2_ImportantPlaylist
      @G_v._Losinj2_ImportantPlaylist 3 месяца назад

      @@JesseWRIGHT-th8mwthose groups were inorganic/pr0pped since their beginnings.

  • @thepub245
    @thepub245 13 дней назад

    Lived about 10 miles from Belfast in the 70's, as a kid. I remember hearing the bombs going off.

  • @telx4u
    @telx4u Год назад +7

    I was there a year earlier before it opened as a contract Electrician (for Rotary Electrical) & the on site Shop Steward when it was being built, the angle of the building was a few degrees out of line, so our multi-way ceiling Trunking was out of line too, terrible winter conditions as I remember it, but I was young then.

    • @TheSubpremeState
      @TheSubpremeState Год назад +1

      I bet the wages were better back then. Adjusted for inflation

  • @conairelynch2523
    @conairelynch2523 3 месяца назад +2

    Our beautiful country has been through so much 😢

  • @garydavid1788
    @garydavid1788 Год назад +37

    'Most bombed hotel in Europe ' is a phrase I've heard countless times, as if hotels in Europe were constantly being blown up !

    • @ciaran3629
      @ciaran3629 23 дня назад +1

      Regardless it's still the most bombed hotel in Europe to this day

  • @keeperlit.leterrip7722
    @keeperlit.leterrip7722 Месяц назад +1

    I was in Belfast on bloody friday 1972 when about 21 bombs went off. I was only 4 yo, but i remember it like it was yesterday.

  • @Lovielie
    @Lovielie 9 месяцев назад +4

    What were these people like?
    Were they masked?
    Anoraks with there hoods up🙄
    They had there hoods up?
    They had there hoods..... EXPLOSION!!!
    Had me rolling on the ground 😂🤣🤣

  • @seltaeb9691
    @seltaeb9691 2 месяца назад +2

    No insurance cover could be bought, so the Govt picked up the tab each time. There was nowhere else to stay in Belfast safe enough.

  • @ChargemanBaré
    @ChargemanBaré 3 месяца назад +3

    "Europe is calm and peaceful"
    Meanwhile in Europe:

    • @jonsweeney3845
      @jonsweeney3845 2 месяца назад +1

      That was the UK
      Such a peaceful country.

    • @Rehunauris
      @Rehunauris Месяц назад

      @@jonsweeney3845 Europe did see many terror attacks by various criminal and political groups in the past. Especially between 1960s and 1980s.

  • @belfastbhoy5679
    @belfastbhoy5679 11 месяцев назад +4

    Every english person that has been to belfast, and hears that im from there, proudly tells me that they stayed in the europa, and that it was the most bombed hotel in western europe
    And each and every time i have to put on my best surprised face and act like i didnt know

  • @hanginbangin
    @hanginbangin 3 месяца назад

    Having been around a few explosions that size, the guy being interviewed has a relatable reaction 😂

  • @The-Top-Gorilla
    @The-Top-Gorilla 2 года назад +75

    Brings a tear to my eye

    • @marke4576
      @marke4576 2 года назад

      So those straving and murdering a whole nation of people.

    • @chazwalker7156
      @chazwalker7156 Год назад +24

      ​@david gallagher Conjunctivitis

    • @JaredAnderson422
      @JaredAnderson422 Год назад +7

      Loyalist

    • @averagejoe8358
      @averagejoe8358 Год назад

      ​@@Captain_hadley_49Waa waa waa famine that happened centuries ago, cry me a fucking river,

    • @the_nowak2931
      @the_nowak2931 Год назад

      Brings a tear to my eye that Ireland fought like hell with the British only to allow Africans to invade Ireland.

  • @mattskustomkreations
    @mattskustomkreations 3 дня назад

    “Sorry sir, all full, no vac- er, hang on…sir, we’ve just had some rooms open up.”

  • @hharlington7156
    @hharlington7156 Год назад +3

    I'm just curious what the previous most bombed hotel in the world was

  • @busteractual1133
    @busteractual1133 6 месяцев назад +2

    Wife: "Remind me why we keep coming back here?"
    Husband: "They give 10% off next stay after every bombing"

  • @dumbo21
    @dumbo21 11 месяцев назад +3

    "am I a good demoman, well if I weren't i wouldn't be sitting here talking to ya now would"

  • @LoganHutchinson-p1w
    @LoganHutchinson-p1w 2 месяца назад

    Camera man never dies

  • @xtraspecialmango
    @xtraspecialmango Год назад +16

    Anorak with Hoods Up was the go word! Doh!

  • @legohistorytube.3148
    @legohistorytube.3148 6 месяцев назад +1

    My Dad is Northern Irish, and he was 3 when this happened.

  • @Zorn76
    @Zorn76 7 месяцев назад +4

    You're gonna need a bigger hotel.

  • @jefflane1209
    @jefflane1209 4 дня назад

    Even cameramen is those days knew they would survive.

  • @Stargreened
    @Stargreened Год назад +14

    “Hello and welcome to the Europa hotel. Here is your room key. You’ll find your room on the third floor with a ticking noise coming from under the bath.
    That’s just normal sir.
    Will you be wanting breakfast?”

  • @jk-76
    @jk-76 4 месяца назад +2

    Terrorism does't have a race or nationality.

    • @Chop2016
      @Chop2016 3 месяца назад

      The British our terrorists

    • @Chop2016
      @Chop2016 3 месяца назад

      The British our terrorists

    • @Britishislesoldier001
      @Britishislesoldier001 Месяц назад

      @@Chop2016I don’t see them blowing things up or causing problems so no there’s no terrorists there

    • @Chop2016
      @Chop2016 Месяц назад

      @Thelastsoldier001 who

  • @btlcreativemedia3038
    @btlcreativemedia3038 7 месяцев назад +8

    Lucky the whole building didn’t completely collapse in on its own footprint like a controlled demolition type of thing hey! 🤔🤔

    • @socire72
      @socire72 7 месяцев назад +1

      It was designed to stop blasts. And it was using improvised weapons - I believe at this point Gaddafi's socialist Libya had not sent their weapons to support the IRA yet (like Semtex). Only the USSR did, and it was only small weapons, not explosives. (and it was not to the provisional IRA i think.)

    • @ryann3487
      @ryann3487 6 месяцев назад

      another mouthbreather who doesn't understand that steel doesn't have to melt to lose its structural integrity

    • @numbnutz7832
      @numbnutz7832 5 месяцев назад

      @@ryann3487seeing an aluminium plane, cut through steel like a hot knife through butter on TV though plays with your brain. If you’ve got one, blame the teletubbies. It’s easier to dismiss, the eyes tell NO lies. Oxygen thief😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

    • @ryann3487
      @ryann3487 5 месяцев назад +1

      @@numbnutz7832 Yeah that's what happens when you accelerate 200,000 lbs to 500mph and point it at a building dumbass. It's ok though, not everyone has a knack for high school physics. If you even made it to high school that is.

    • @musashidanmcgrath
      @musashidanmcgrath 4 месяца назад

      ​@@ryann3487Building 7.

  • @Tacoman1967
    @Tacoman1967 3 месяца назад +1

    "What were these people like?" "Well mate they were sorta of Irish looking ya know, they had some red hair and freckles!" 😂

  • @maryleachmanbeautyconsultant
    @maryleachmanbeautyconsultant Год назад +3

    That building literally shook.

  • @northernpatriotmanchester675
    @northernpatriotmanchester675 6 месяцев назад

    Was there last year and it’s still going strong

  • @Cupid_AJ
    @Cupid_AJ Год назад +23

    irish people such pure heart and nice people, im very sad that they faced alot of heartbreaking eras 🥺

    • @Irish-Gael-sg4lv
      @Irish-Gael-sg4lv Год назад

      No surprise that centuries of war and violence ended when the Brits were kicked out

    • @Andy7907
      @Andy7907 Год назад +3

      Northern Irish**

    • @Irish-Gael-sg4lv
      @Irish-Gael-sg4lv Год назад +5

      @@Andy7907 thus was happening in the North and South during this eara and for generations before. Hence Irish people

    • @liketheroman
      @liketheroman Год назад +4

      Eras?! I blame Taylor Swift for the casual stupidity on the internet.

    • @OffGridInvestor
      @OffGridInvestor 11 месяцев назад

      And the Irish not in the north ARE NOW. And they're ALSO taking matters into their own hands

  • @peterbennpan7288
    @peterbennpan7288 2 месяца назад

    Camera man never dies!

  • @johnrider5701
    @johnrider5701 9 месяцев назад +3

    I remember seeing this news report I can't believe it's over fifty years ago now.

  • @HerzogVonMartian
    @HerzogVonMartian Год назад +2

    the translation of a bomb blast "applause"

  • @CycIic
    @CycIic Год назад +22

    Im learning about IRA history, and this, this is scary.

    • @belfastorbust
      @belfastorbust 6 месяцев назад

      IRA history in a nutshell, Target civilians including children with bombs and guns, even a school bus full of children in Fermanagh was fair game for IRA cowards.

  • @NxDoyle
    @NxDoyle Год назад +3

    Cameraman hardly moved.

  • @JustNam66
    @JustNam66 3 месяца назад +1

    Is this the Europa hotel near the old Europa bus station?

    • @sunnyspring5105
      @sunnyspring5105 2 месяца назад +1

      Yes. Opposite the Crown and Robinsons

  • @M.A-k6u
    @M.A-k6u Год назад +172

    In the 70s, a terrorist was portayed a pale white man with an Irish accent and ginger hair.
    In the 2000s, a terrorist was a tanned man with an Arab accent and black hair.
    I wonder what the next terrorist staple will be.
    Edit:
    It seems most of you have completely missed my point.
    My point that I was trying to make is the stereotype on TV and in Movies. Not what they actually are.
    Again. Stereotype. Not Reality.
    Jesus Christ, I can't believe I had to come back and explain this to many of you.

    • @TheSubpremeState
      @TheSubpremeState Год назад +12

      Ginger hair has nothing to do with Irish people ffs. Theres ginger knuts in Russia

    • @WestDublin
      @WestDublin Год назад +24

      has everything to do with Ireland and Scotland@@TheSubpremeState

    • @daisybelle1025
      @daisybelle1025 Год назад +15

      Wow, yet all my Irish family are Jet black haired ..what a generalisation to make

    • @M.A-k6u
      @M.A-k6u Год назад +31

      @@daisybelle1025 yes... daisy. That is precisely the point I am making. People stereotyping what a terrorist looks like.

    • @motorcitycobra2009
      @motorcitycobra2009 Год назад +3

      It’ll be white women

  • @welsh_person
    @welsh_person 9 месяцев назад +2

    "We were unlucky today but remember we only have to be lucky once you have to lucky everytime"

  • @IceyTheIcecube667
    @IceyTheIcecube667 5 месяцев назад +1

    “Hey where’d my windows go?”
    -Chap in Northern Ireland

  • @amyytyler9040
    @amyytyler9040 2 года назад +136

    Ireland unfree will never be at peace

    • @hhyzigy
      @hhyzigy 2 года назад +34

      ireland united also wont be peaceful would it now, loyalists would "reverse IRA" it.

    • @kallumcoekin3401
      @kallumcoekin3401 Год назад +5

      @@hhyzigy 🤦🏻‍♂️

    • @kallumcoekin3401
      @kallumcoekin3401 Год назад +24

      @chill boi the Republic of Ireland are the ones making a scene, NI wants to stay as part of the U.K. and they can’t accept that.

    • @user-my8zo8uh3n
      @user-my8zo8uh3n Год назад +3

      Erin go bragh

    • @SunTzu561
      @SunTzu561 Год назад

      @@kallumcoekin3401 shut up! Dirty Brit’s holding your tail between your legs! -Sun Tzu

  • @gearoftones8585
    @gearoftones8585 Год назад +1

    I stayed in a hotel just up the road from that recently.

  • @lightningmonky7674
    @lightningmonky7674 2 года назад +6

    I really need to do research on this topic to make sense of any of this, I have no idea what's going on

    • @romanverdugo7468
      @romanverdugo7468 2 года назад +7

      Same all I understand is some Irish didn’t want to be part of UK since forever and so they resort to violence?

    • @lightningmonky7674
      @lightningmonky7674 2 года назад +14

      @@romanverdugo7468 oh that part is understandable, screw imperialism, it's when they get religion in the mix I feel they are misguided

    • @nomore7285
      @nomore7285 2 года назад +4

      @@romanverdugo7468 not some all

    • @nomore7285
      @nomore7285 2 года назад +15

      @@lightningmonky7674 the religion aspect stems from the protestant english kings trying to purge the irish from ireland due to them being catholic and not english protestant, since this could never fully be done england mass immigrated pro england english and scottish to destabilize as much of the north as they could. This is what resulted in the civil was directly after the revolution and the more modern civil war dubed the “troubles”

    • @davidsoulsby1102
      @davidsoulsby1102 2 года назад +11

      @@nomore7285 So why did the referendum return a 90% vote for staying with the UK?

  • @Herbie1978
    @Herbie1978 8 месяцев назад +1

    Seems like the cameraman was expecting it.

    • @ianest
      @ianest 3 месяца назад

      The hotel had been evacuated because the men with hoods up had walked in and left the bomb so everyone was expecting it

  • @Ricardo-yt7fg
    @Ricardo-yt7fg 2 года назад +93

    reddit got me here.

    • @TheLonelyX
      @TheLonelyX 2 года назад +33

      I thought i was the only one, i assume you read the one post of the BHS elevator incident?

    • @tggatsby3501
      @tggatsby3501 2 года назад +1

      @@TheLonelyX word

    • @marysartr
      @marysartr 2 года назад +1

      @@TheLonelyX yep

    • @EduardXssX
      @EduardXssX 2 года назад +2

      @@TheLonelyX i did, this is what u found

    • @EduardXssX
      @EduardXssX 2 года назад +1

      @@TheLonelyX i couldn't find

  • @musashidanmcgrath
    @musashidanmcgrath 4 месяца назад

    This hotel became a tourist attraction later on, so people could say they stayed in the most bombed hotel in the world.

  • @NiSiochainGanSaoirse
    @NiSiochainGanSaoirse 8 месяцев назад +9

    This was just how we grew up.
    None of us realised how savage it was til we left
    Thankfully today we have peace at home, albeit still tainted with historical differences, but as a u ited Ireland grows closer, I fear more trouble in future as the orange men will resist a united Ireland til death.
    Sadly, our politicians are erasing our culture, and the enemy is now the hostile invaders

    • @petebondurant58
      @petebondurant58 7 месяцев назад

      You won't have to worry about Orangemen, when Ireland is filled with Africans and Middle Easterners.

    • @buy_large_mansions
      @buy_large_mansions 6 месяцев назад +2

      Irish people have a lot more to be worried about than Orangemen these days.

    • @Wulfyr
      @Wulfyr 6 месяцев назад +1

      That's an issue that both Ireland and the UK share now. I have no problem with a united Ireland but I do have a problem with Northwest European islands having their unique cultures slowly erased.

    • @petebondurant58
      @petebondurant58 6 месяцев назад

      @@Wulfyr Slowly erased? They're being erased rather quickly.

    • @alastairward2774
      @alastairward2774 6 месяцев назад +1

      Lol, what nonsense is this, pivoting from The Troubles to right wing nonsense imported from America.

  • @KawaiiKasai
    @KawaiiKasai Год назад +1

    The guy they were interviewing had seen this play before
    Dude was out of there

  • @WanKin581
    @WanKin581 Год назад +4

    Amazing

  • @TheTitanIslandMilitary
    @TheTitanIslandMilitary 11 месяцев назад +6

    I may not be Irish, but I all of a sudden feel very patriotic for mother Ireland

  • @TTVJustin_NI
    @TTVJustin_NI 24 дня назад

    I walk by this hotel everyday going home

  • @ShaneTheCrazyArtist
    @ShaneTheCrazyArtist 2 года назад +17

    “Hey kids do you want to live forever?” Ya’ll know why you’re here

    • @connorcraig1598
      @connorcraig1598 Год назад

      Where is that quote from ?

    • @redactedagentdataexpunged9431
      @redactedagentdataexpunged9431 Год назад +2

      ​@@connorcraig1598a guy and his gran went into a elevator at BHS (British Home Stores), what followed next was the entire store being blown up by a Fenian bomb
      Note to rememebr he was in Belfast when it happened

    • @burnttree08
      @burnttree08 Год назад

      ​@@redactedagentdataexpunged9431fenian 😭

  • @janicewebber5584
    @janicewebber5584 12 дней назад

    Who the hell would stay there?😮

  • @NothingSubversive
    @NothingSubversive Год назад +3

    Belfast will be free

    • @Markosbourne24
      @Markosbourne24 9 месяцев назад +1

      Already is clown

    • @NothingSubversive
      @NothingSubversive 7 месяцев назад

      @@Markosbourne24 Touched a nerve, did I?

    • @Markosbourne24
      @Markosbourne24 7 месяцев назад

      @@NothingSubversive no I live in livady it’s fine here as it is don’t want to be with Irish

  • @bigbig23949
    @bigbig23949 3 месяца назад

    "Weighhhhhh yeah! We'll pay paddy Doyle for his boots! To me, weighhhhhh yeah! We'll all drink whiskey and gin!" Ass moment

  • @MilosTodorovicc
    @MilosTodorovicc 9 месяцев назад +8

    Long live free Ireland. Long live the Irish people. Freedom! United Ireland. Greetings from Serbia.

    • @keithrose6931
      @keithrose6931 8 месяцев назад

      Free from Irish men blowing up Irish women and children .

    • @Britishislesoldier001
      @Britishislesoldier001 Месяц назад

      Ireland is free, Long live Kosovo

  • @barrymurphyrfc
    @barrymurphyrfc 7 месяцев назад

    Stayed in that hotel when I worked on the circuit of Ireland rally and actually saw Barry mcguigan when he was in the news , sitting in the lounge . One thing I noticed was the size of his hands.

  • @foodfordudes
    @foodfordudes Год назад +2

    Camera Man didn’t flinch ❤

    • @Crystal-mm8sb
      @Crystal-mm8sb Год назад

      Was his da blew it up he was on countdown

  • @Saradoesfootball17
    @Saradoesfootball17 Год назад +4

    I am from Northern Ireland

  • @phillipwallace7211
    @phillipwallace7211 Месяц назад

    'That guy's a bit of an anorak' meant something very different back then.

  • @mci6830
    @mci6830 5 месяцев назад +3

    And now Ireland has removed its borders to the rest of the world , as instructed by the EU. Strange times.

  • @charlesjohnparker9890
    @charlesjohnparker9890 5 месяцев назад +1

    Sounds like lego bricks

  • @kidfox3971
    @kidfox3971 Год назад +9

    How to make sure people dont support your cause.

  • @PhotoDump-wv6zj
    @PhotoDump-wv6zj 5 месяцев назад +1

    The Irish was always glad to exchange British tea for an Irish bomb.

    • @TH3CAPN
      @TH3CAPN 3 месяца назад

      Aye and the English always replied with exchanging British brass for Irish blood

  • @cavanbond6359
    @cavanbond6359 Год назад +14

    *come out ye Black and Tans intensifies*

  • @rogermellie8068
    @rogermellie8068 8 месяцев назад +1

    You'd think after it was bombed once people might be tempted not to stay there again 🤔

  • @Freebird409
    @Freebird409 Год назад +30

    The result of an empire that was too selfish to give up a whole island and just had to keep a tiny bit.

    • @RobertK1993
      @RobertK1993 Год назад +2

      Ulster Scots were crying in 1912 threatening terrorist violence including killing Roman Catholics Irish Republicans should play the Rains of Castamere at Ulster Unionists

    • @wingnut71
      @wingnut71 8 месяцев назад

      The result of selfish assholes who signed a peace treaty in 1921 that gave them 4 fifths of the island, but they continued to break said peace treaty killing thousands so they could get the last 6 counties that wanted to stay British. The Palestinians would be more than happy to have just half of the Irish got.

    • @chimpana
      @chimpana 8 месяцев назад +3

      It's quite a bit more complicated than that funnily enough.

    • @robert6106
      @robert6106 8 месяцев назад

      Yet when they held a referendum on the issue republicans force a boycott under threat of death as they knew they had no chance of winning. Even today that fact remains

    • @VelGer-hq7ms
      @VelGer-hq7ms 7 месяцев назад

      @@NPC_28621 Ha ha - the United States didn't 'win' Texas - the Texans did, setting up their own sovereign country soon after that. If Mexico wants it back, just let them try and take it back.

  • @GhostSquad666
    @GhostSquad666 6 месяцев назад +1

    My phone speaker near fell out

  • @richfelandrea7028
    @richfelandrea7028 10 месяцев назад +9

    FREEDOM FOR IRELAND!

  • @Cowboysnake991
    @Cowboysnake991 6 месяцев назад +1

    calmest day during the troubles:

  • @Farfromhere001
    @Farfromhere001 Год назад +4

    Erin go Bragh! Never attack innocent civilians!

    • @richardpotts7902
      @richardpotts7902 Год назад +1

      This is literally a video of the IRA bombing a civilian target. How clever are you😂😂😂😂

    • @skeletalwreck
      @skeletalwreck Год назад

      @@richardpotts7902 Not really. In civilian warzones with foreign military occupation, there are few military targets - it's a case of people rebelling for their freedom. The Europa was once the most bombed hotel in the world, yet there was not a single fatality. That's because the bombs were always pre-warned, evacuations were allowed beforehand, and key buildings targeted to ensure a big statement was made.

    • @richardpotts7902
      @richardpotts7902 Год назад +1

      @@skeletalwreck the Europa wasn't even the most bombed hotel in Europe never mind the world. In northern Ireland there were plenty of military targets for terrorists to choose from. But as these would have had a security presence, it was easier to choose a soft target. Over 10.000 bombs were detonated in the war over here. Most of these were used against civilian rather than military targets.

    • @skeletalwreck
      @skeletalwreck Год назад

      @@richardpotts7902 I really don't care about how many times the place was bombed or what title it claims to hold in many publication. I am sure there were other hotels bombed more. Feel free to crown them the champion. The Loyalist paramilitary modus operandi was to go into actual civilian catholic homes, masked, and murder directly. That was an intentional strategy that was specifically confirmed as a strategy by Billy Wright and Johnny Adair during the height of the troubles. Especially when targetting the West Tyrone brigade of republican's. At the time, I lived just next door to Kathleen O'Hagan. In the middle of the night while her husband was not at home, the UVF broke in and murdered in her in front of her children. She was pregnant. Her 4 sons aged from 4 to 8 held her bullet riddled dead body for hours until their father returned. This was part of a long list of similar home invasion murders carried out by loyalists - who were also in collusion with the official authorities in the country at the time. There is evil on both sides of any war, but the loyalist tactics far outweighed republican freedom fighters in their savagery against civilians. Growing up surrounded by this environment, bombings of an evacuated hotel really barely raised an eyebrow - so I really couldn't care less if it ever held any titles for being the most bombed or not. ✌

    • @Zoehalcott
      @Zoehalcott 8 месяцев назад

      The Brits did and didn’t care at all

  • @jeffreyking279
    @jeffreyking279 15 дней назад

    Who stayed there?

  • @j2msu341
    @j2msu341 2 года назад +12

    They've just planted a bomb inside the hotel so let's stand out it and do an interview

    • @Ard.cfc90
      @Ard.cfc90 Год назад +3

      @@daddysfatsausageinyourbumb4419 are you serious?

    • @johnners911
      @johnners911 Год назад +2

      Normal day back then