@ironbar100 I couldn't disagree with you more. This ad brings back very special memories for me, as an American studying at Maynooth in the early 90's. I come from New York, and experiencing Christmas in a monocultural society in which my ancestors came from was an altogether wonderful and enriching experience.
I'd take "depressing old Ireland" any day of the week over the God-less, multicultural, consumer-driven, E.U.-induced nightmare which it has become.
@usa goodbye i say hello When this add was first screened it was a time of mass unemployment emigration & poverty.Vile things were going on in state institutions, schools ,religious orders and they were allowed to go unchecked by the Irish rulers of the time.To speak of culture Irish culture is slowly but surely being diluted by the powers that be. We now have thousands of East Europeans and all kinds replacing the Irish that have to leave in search of employment and a decent life.
@ironbar100 I understand that. The Church in Ireland is about nothing but control and Ireland's nothing but a kleptocracy. The only difference between now and 20, 30 or 40 years ago and today is that those at the top finally crossed the line. Many of them have to be arrested, imprisoned or killed. It's sad that it's come to this, but their downfall will be of their own making. The media has much to answer for.
Stay strong. Have a Happy Christmas and all the best in 2012.
Im 28 and I love this video and I don't care it's class this song has a lot of meaning today as it did back then a young Irish lad being collected from the airport and going back to see his Mum and Dad and friends his Mum getting things ready for him and all excited about her son's return call me sentimental I don't give a damn
Ok yes Hughes is a fudge packer,its an old ESB add.any1 that watched evening television on RTE1 or Network2 in the late 8os early 90s will remember this add because it used to be aired 20 times a night between 6 and 12 pm.SO F**K the stupit coments silly jokes and nostalgic bull crap.I want to no 2things the 1st some1 please tell me the name of both the artist and and the song in the add? And also the name of the 2train stations yes there is 2 if u luk close enough they are 2diffrent stations?
The artist was Dusty Springfield, a British pop singer known as the White Queen of Soul (1939 - 1999). But like so many English people, she had Irish roots - her real name was Mary O'Brien. The song is called, "Goin' Back". There's a black and white video of it featuring Dusty on Youtube.
Love this ad, I remember it, even tho I was born in 1987 :) looks like Alan Hughes from tv3 as the son coming home. He's likely to be coming home for Christmas from abroad to make it more realistic. (1980's mass immigration in Ireland). Love the random telephone box in the middle of no where. Won't see them anymore. :(
ESB of the 80's fleeced us when we had no alternative. Only since competetion has arrived have prices become competetive. This ad shows a family of landed gentry who at the time of the ad would've been among the rich and certainly the upper class. Just shows who the ESBs target audience were. The sooner they are brought to heel and serve the actual needs of the country instead of themselves and their own vested interests the better.
@luap42 I love the ad and the nostalgia but I have to agree. Ireland seemed like a fine place to be at the time as a child but Ireland was such a horrible country. Semi-state monopoliess run for the benefit of the staff to the detriment to the average man who was kept on the outside.
Why was the ESB even advertising in the 80's and 90's? Was there an alternative source of electricity available to the masses in Ireland back then that the ESB was competing against or am I just missing something? Bord Gais and Airtricity have only been allowed into the domestic electricity market in the past 3 or 4 years I thought.
@supafuckinmingster lol, good point! maybe they wanted to infect our hearts and minds with future nostalgia knowing privatisation would happen eventually
give the man or woman or group of people who devised this ad an Oscar. Back when ads were full of innocence and worked more effectively than what we are now subjected to.
PassWorld: The comments are in good fun, and are directed at the man himself, not gays in general. Have you anything to say about the fact that a few people described the "mother" as an old hag, a bitch etc? Is that evidence of ageism or misogyny? Get over yourself.
The ammount of gay comments on this video is crazy. Still using "gay" as an insult in 2011 is equally as bad as being sexist or racist today. Most people come here to remind them of a warm childhood advert. Seriously grow up people
@roddyrodrodrod It's an advert. The technology is supposed to look great, and homely because it makes us feel warm and cosy. If the stuff looked bad, then the advert would not work.
As for 'country types' having cookers...suppose it's much better than the poor city folk who didn't even have a pot to pee in, never mind a cooker.
@yellowcougar18 .. well yes, we do have a pot to piss in here up in the big schmoke. why do you think it's full of muck warriors looking for a "start"?
@roddyrodrodrod We all know the Irish youth have gone to Australia. Hence why the cities are falling apart. Mainly because they do not know how to grow anything other than weeds.
i can tell you exactly what is goin on in this advert,he has just been kicked out of America for working illegally.......and now he is back home to sign on the dole,"give him some slack,at least he tried the American Dream,which was really a load of shite,a load of cods walup.
HA! HA! That's a depressing Comercial. The creepy way the mother turns on the hot water (very Irish thing to do)!! and makes the bed is like something from a Stephen King novel. That looks like Mick Jagger in the poster over the bed or is it a young Bono from 1980? The mystery deepens. He is definately looking at the gay bar i'd say. He will get a taxi into town after dinner and mince with some Muscle Marys!
80s, 90s were alot better then as they are know, except for Aleksander the meerkat and DFS Just Can't get enough- The Saturdays Advert!!!! Like if Una Sent you here :)
I love the fact they have every light and every appliance on in the gaff. obviously before people were told to be energy aware and think of the environment and global warming etc. It is actually all that alan hughes and his family's fault that we are in the state we are today!
I would have been about 4 or 5 years old when this ad was on tv but for some reason even at that age I kinda associated it with coming home for christmas. still do
Stumbled upon this advert, and I have to say it was one of the most depressing things I've ever seen. The song was beautiful, but very sad, and the dreary weather just made me feel even worse. Despite your weather, you have a lovely people and culture. Love to our cousins in Ireland!!!!!!!!! Love from the USA.
IRISH FLOOD VICTIMS GET 70MILLION FOREIGN COUNTRIES GET 100MILLION FROM IRISH GOV.
Source:Irish Times 12/12/09.
We are sending 100million to foreign countries like Bangladesh for the climate change bill. Our own ppl get 70million. We also send millions on top of that in aid.
Bangladesh has a bigger military than the Irish army, Pakistan has a nuclear weapons programme and India is sending rockets to the moon. Meanwhile we pay for their poor.
This could so easily have turned into the next installment of that car safety ad in which the kid gets mangled to the strains of Louis Armstrong's 'What A Wonderful World"
Also, his Ma's taking the piss leaving all those lights on!
Having grown up in Ireland but left in 1997 and now living in Canada, this ad really does make nostalgic for Ireland. Home for first time in 4 years this coming Sept..
I remember when this add was on and I never for one second believed that the guy would have played hurling. Of course now I know that the only wood he is interested in dosen't come from an ash tree.
this advert is THEE most nostalgic thing from my childhood, remember comming home from school and my mum would always have RT1 on (cause Live At 3 was on) and this ad used to always be on, ahh good times :]
this is completly off subject bt does anyone remember the adverts about playing with powerlines, i think it was that, i think there was one with a wee girl playing with her kite and it getting stuck in a powerline and a wee boy helping her get it down, bt dies in the process?
Does anyone remember the other ESB ad that was out around the same time, the one with the father feeding a baby in the middle of the night or something?
10,000 IMMIGRANTS WORK IN IRELAND USING FALSE STUDENT VISAS
Bogus non-EU immigrants sign on as students then slip away to take up jobs. Others overstay their visas to allow them secure work by enrolling in fake courses every year to allow them continued access to Irish jobs.
Irish Independent 12/2/10
(If they are here long enough they can stay for good)
This does not include immigrants here on real student visas or on legal work permits or here working illegally. How many 10s of 1000s is that?
Class ad, brings back loads of memories, well just one really, the one of this ad. Just a thought, but why does she need oven mitts to put the pot on the hob??
@padraicpodge My God, you're right! Talk about Dorian Gray - I must say Alan is wearing his age very well, he doesn't look a day older than he did 20 years ago!
Does anybody happen to know what year this ad was first broadcasted?? Or even how I might go about finding out??
davidcross44 1 month ago
my fathers fave ad
DanielMatthewEffin 1 month ago
Who is that guy in the Add is he on Morning Ireland
josheaa10 1 month ago
@josheaa10
yeah he is its alan hughes.
SuperDS86 1 month ago
It's like a dose of depression lasting 1 minute 15 seconds!!
MultiGBuck 1 month ago
Mammy's boy returning home to depressing old Ireland .
Very disturbing to see this type of shit being screened again.
ironbar100 1 month ago
@ironbar100 I couldn't disagree with you more. This ad brings back very special memories for me, as an American studying at Maynooth in the early 90's. I come from New York, and experiencing Christmas in a monocultural society in which my ancestors came from was an altogether wonderful and enriching experience.
I'd take "depressing old Ireland" any day of the week over the God-less, multicultural, consumer-driven, E.U.-induced nightmare which it has become.
usagoodbyeisayhello 1 month ago
@usa goodbye i say hello When this add was first screened it was a time of mass unemployment emigration & poverty.Vile things were going on in state institutions, schools ,religious orders and they were allowed to go unchecked by the Irish rulers of the time.To speak of culture Irish culture is slowly but surely being diluted by the powers that be. We now have thousands of East Europeans and all kinds replacing the Irish that have to leave in search of employment and a decent life.
ironbar100 1 month ago
@ironbar100 I understand that. The Church in Ireland is about nothing but control and Ireland's nothing but a kleptocracy. The only difference between now and 20, 30 or 40 years ago and today is that those at the top finally crossed the line. Many of them have to be arrested, imprisoned or killed. It's sad that it's come to this, but their downfall will be of their own making. The media has much to answer for.
Stay strong. Have a Happy Christmas and all the best in 2012.
P.
usagoodbyeisayhello 1 month ago
@usagoodbyeisayhello jes merry xmas
islander658 3 weeks ago
Im 28 and I love this video and I don't care it's class this song has a lot of meaning today as it did back then a young Irish lad being collected from the airport and going back to see his Mum and Dad and friends his Mum getting things ready for him and all excited about her son's return call me sentimental I don't give a damn
MegaPotterboy 1 month ago 6
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eiredriving 1 month ago
Like if Ryan Tubridy on 2fm brought you here.
eugenegallagher 1 month ago
I just want to know who George is?
alslevie1986 1 month ago
@alslevie1986
Gay pub in Dublin!
countsmyth 1 month ago
The most depressing advert of all time.
scientific1982 1 month ago
@Kevo816
Behind the George? Who's George. Is that your're the name of the sheep you're shagging?
alslevie1986 1 month ago
reminds me of dark sunday nights when i had to do my homework and didnt want to go to school then glenroe came on depressing shit
kevo8t6 1 month ago 14
Ok yes Hughes is a fudge packer,its an old ESB add.any1 that watched evening television on RTE1 or Network2 in the late 8os early 90s will remember this add because it used to be aired 20 times a night between 6 and 12 pm.SO F**K the stupit coments silly jokes and nostalgic bull crap.I want to no 2things the 1st some1 please tell me the name of both the artist and and the song in the add? And also the name of the 2train stations yes there is 2 if u luk close enough they are 2diffrent stations?
swwiftyy 1 month ago
@swwiftyy
The artist was Dusty Springfield, a British pop singer known as the White Queen of Soul (1939 - 1999). But like so many English people, she had Irish roots - her real name was Mary O'Brien. The song is called, "Goin' Back". There's a black and white video of it featuring Dusty on Youtube.
theprophet20 1 month ago
You live and die by your decisions and it was his decision to become a shirt-lifter, as its every shirt-lifters choice to become a shirt-lifter.
alslevie1986 1 month ago
Depressing to see this shit back on our TV screens just to remind us Ireland is going backwards
Times are changing alright back to the despicable 1970s 80s Ireland.
ironbar100 1 month ago
@ironbar100
yea i agree i was thinking the same thing. times were just as hard back then as they are now. looks like we are going back to those days again.
SuperDS86 1 month ago
The Actor is Alan Hughes and he is on Ireland AM and he's a fudge-packer, he got married recently and his ''husband'' wore the wedding dress.
alslevie1986 1 month ago
@alslevie1986 Vile comments. Pathetically backward views in 2011 Ireland. Shame on you!
universetipping 1 month ago 2
@alslevie1986 lol and you know that from meeting him one night in a dark alley behind the george,who was the bitch then?
kevo8t6 1 month ago
@alslevie1986 Bit of a retarded comment. Who gives a fuck.
scientific1982 1 month ago
i could write a short story on this ad - but all I will say is that it is beautiful.
jess111179 1 month ago
It is highly unlikely that Alan Hughes played hurling as a young fella.
Paudie223 1 month ago
They have re-used this advert for Electric Ireland. Can anyone name the young actor. Hint: Presenter of Ireland AM.
daithi2004 1 month ago
Great to see this on the telly again has to be the best ad ever! goosebumps galore
rolwal68 1 month ago
Like if FYI sent you here!
FightingWolv 1 month ago
So great that this is back on our tellyboxes. Good work electricireland.
juleskeey 1 month ago
i seen this ad on tv yesterday for the first time since the 90s' i was like now nostalgia has kicked in.
TheOriginalMoc 1 month ago
My grandad had an Opel exactly like that back in the early 90's
spuriousparts 1 month ago
Love this ad, I remember it, even tho I was born in 1987 :) looks like Alan Hughes from tv3 as the son coming home. He's likely to be coming home for Christmas from abroad to make it more realistic. (1980's mass immigration in Ireland). Love the random telephone box in the middle of no where. Won't see them anymore. :(
Stelloe 1 month ago
@Stelloe It is Alan Hughes.
foxysham 1 month ago
ESB of the 80's fleeced us when we had no alternative. Only since competetion has arrived have prices become competetive. This ad shows a family of landed gentry who at the time of the ad would've been among the rich and certainly the upper class. Just shows who the ESBs target audience were. The sooner they are brought to heel and serve the actual needs of the country instead of themselves and their own vested interests the better.
luap42 2 months ago
@luap42 I love the ad and the nostalgia but I have to agree. Ireland seemed like a fine place to be at the time as a child but Ireland was such a horrible country. Semi-state monopoliess run for the benefit of the staff to the detriment to the average man who was kept on the outside.
buddygunz 2 months ago
Sammy sausages looking young there.
polpotsdog 2 months ago
Jaysus it's great being Irish isn't it...lovin the ad nostalgic!
MrRobynLover 2 months ago
thank you very much for this video and five stars for you
jet3529 2 months ago
can you find the old penneys christmas ad with the little boy look n out the window at the end . . i can not find it anywhere..
MrKevinthehulk 2 months ago
who sang it??
CC2ODD 2 months ago
@CC2ODD Dusty Springfield - Going Back
pinkyireland 2 months ago
Hit the like button if you visited this after having watched The Saturday Night Show.
ThePROTO1TYPE 2 months ago
god i remember that ad well. im starting to show my age now :P :D
SuperDS86 3 months ago
Why was the ESB even advertising in the 80's and 90's? Was there an alternative source of electricity available to the masses in Ireland back then that the ESB was competing against or am I just missing something? Bord Gais and Airtricity have only been allowed into the domestic electricity market in the past 3 or 4 years I thought.
supafuckinmingster 3 months ago 2
@supafuckinmingster lol, good point! maybe they wanted to infect our hearts and minds with future nostalgia knowing privatisation would happen eventually
FrankioloDiddlyDee 1 month ago
was that the blue oyster flashing
seafisherman80 3 months ago
give the man or woman or group of people who devised this ad an Oscar. Back when ads were full of innocence and worked more effectively than what we are now subjected to.
draoicht22 4 months ago
@draoicht22 Here here!!! I tink d'ESB ads o'dem times were very well filmed!!!!!
TheDorancd 3 months ago
fuck the ESB...... free teresa treacy
kayakwest61 4 months ago
and the one and only alan hughes ,great add only noticing now it s alan.congratulations to alan on getting married.well done
1968davidcassin 4 months ago
PassWorld: The comments are in good fun, and are directed at the man himself, not gays in general. Have you anything to say about the fact that a few people described the "mother" as an old hag, a bitch etc? Is that evidence of ageism or misogyny? Get over yourself.
jaymkay60 4 months ago
The ammount of gay comments on this video is crazy. Still using "gay" as an insult in 2011 is equally as bad as being sexist or racist today. Most people come here to remind them of a warm childhood advert. Seriously grow up people
PassWorId 4 months ago
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I love this advert!
michael1916 4 months ago
I love this advert!
michael1916 4 months ago
she uses a site of electricity in those few minutes
paolomoran 4 months ago
Probably one of the best adverts in the history of television. Brings back the fondest memories of being a kid.
Thanks for uploading it.
yellowcougar18 4 months ago
any 1 know where this ad was made? what town?
dukeofstradone 4 months ago
''Ma/Gran I'm gay'!!' - I had exactly the same thought, LOL.
timbearcub 4 months ago in playlist Ads
"..jayses, will ya thow on a fue more lights there, mammy?! .."
RedFootballJV 5 months ago
'Ma/Gran I'm gay'- that'd be one way to keep their ESB bills down!!
downmyneck 5 months ago
EIGHTIES I meant.
roddyrodrodrod 5 months ago
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That's a fierce modern looking cooker for the late eighties (especially for those country types).
roddyrodrodrod 5 months ago
That's a fierce modern looking cooker for the late nineties (especially for those country types).
roddyrodrodrod 5 months ago
@roddyrodrodrod It's an advert. The technology is supposed to look great, and homely because it makes us feel warm and cosy. If the stuff looked bad, then the advert would not work.
As for 'country types' having cookers...suppose it's much better than the poor city folk who didn't even have a pot to pee in, never mind a cooker.
yellowcougar18 4 months ago
@yellowcougar18 .. well yes, we do have a pot to piss in here up in the big schmoke. why do you think it's full of muck warriors looking for a "start"?
roddyrodrodrod 4 months ago
@roddyrodrodrod We all know the Irish youth have gone to Australia. Hence why the cities are falling apart. Mainly because they do not know how to grow anything other than weeds.
yellowcougar18 4 months ago
@yellowcougar18 ... Ok, how philosophical of you. We omly know how to grow weeds. Good man.
roddyrodrodrod 4 months ago
I bet he wishes that the neon lights were those of the George
downmyneck 6 months ago 17
@downmyneck Not funny or clever. Better luck next time.
universetipping 1 month ago
@downmyneck More like the Blue Oyester in Police Academy!!!!
padraicpodge 1 month ago
train station used is Rush, Co. Dublin
carolannsydney 6 months ago
Fm104 sent me here :D
stephenevra 7 months ago
The "BANDIT "of TV3
AMBASSODOR 7 months ago
we all remember it cos the scabby esb are still putting this shit onto the telly
chrisofdublin 7 months ago
i can tell you exactly what is goin on in this advert,he has just been kicked out of America for working illegally.......and now he is back home to sign on the dole,"give him some slack,at least he tried the American Dream,which was really a load of shite,a load of cods walup.
Elevationary 7 months ago 2
I always loved this advert. Now I want to watch Bosco and Zig and Zag! Those were the days!!!
jpmac2234 8 months ago
I wonder who paid that old hag lady's electricity bill after turning on so many fuckin' appliances? UK's National Welfare System?
TheEsotericDesi 8 months ago
That bitch's the main reason why we have Global Warming now... she had all the fuckin' power of world used up to light her home...
TheEsotericDesi 8 months ago
Father Dougal McGuire comes home at last. :)
tempelton 8 months ago
never got old esb ads .
is this ad encourage you to leave lights on?
barryburketv 9 months ago
@barryburketv It's to encourage u too keep all the lights on so ESB can profit from ya ;)
doesnotcompute81 6 months ago
I hope she didn't forget to turn off the immersion!! :O
CiaraghN 9 months ago 4
wheres ure carbon footprint now esb
finchieeee 9 months ago
I always hated the little rich fu@ker coming home from college...look at him in the photo with the shorts on! Flute.
MrPipboy77 9 months ago
I thought this was for The Empire Strikes Back.
bloodnoseThePirate 10 months ago
ah i remember this advert and that song that goes along with it!!!
conorsmitheire 10 months ago
HA! HA! That's a depressing Comercial. The creepy way the mother turns on the hot water (very Irish thing to do)!! and makes the bed is like something from a Stephen King novel. That looks like Mick Jagger in the poster over the bed or is it a young Bono from 1980? The mystery deepens. He is definately looking at the gay bar i'd say. He will get a taxi into town after dinner and mince with some Muscle Marys!
1969atam 11 months ago 4
Sorry to sound glum.
That is all.
NedsMissingTeeth 1 year ago
Just wondering why, when this ad was aired, there was no competition to the ESB, so why advertise?
Regardless, On an even more depressing note, looks like this will be a more common reality now. :(
gerry80 1 year ago
Jasus love do you have enough bloody lights on!!!?
Lousypenguin 1 year ago
I remember this ad like yesterday. 13 years living away from Ireland (living in Canada now) this ad really does make me sad.
ajhleix 1 year ago 2
@ajhleix I hear ya , im in Canada for 20 years now. These old ad's remind me of my childhood in Ireland.....Man I miss it!
vix121 11 months ago
ahh laaads way to make me pure homesick like , love this ad , love ireland <3
lrigydruh 1 year ago
80s, 90s were alot better then as they are know, except for Aleksander the meerkat and DFS Just Can't get enough- The Saturdays Advert!!!! Like if Una Sent you here :)
stayg86 1 year ago 2
Like If Una Sent you here ! :]
abidalesarah 1 year ago 18
kewt! =] hehe x
MizzCrazyKay 1 year ago
I love the fact they have every light and every appliance on in the gaff. obviously before people were told to be energy aware and think of the environment and global warming etc. It is actually all that alan hughes and his family's fault that we are in the state we are today!
lazzzyboy1 1 year ago 3
LOL! Bitch's wasting electricity like crazy in her home...
TheEsotericDesi 1 year ago 3
that house is a fucking fire hazard!
miche31 1 year ago 2
we really are going back to the eighties, economy and all
bunkerbuster1 1 year ago
sooooooo funny
bunkerbuster1 1 year ago
I would have been about 4 or 5 years old when this ad was on tv but for some reason even at that age I kinda associated it with coming home for christmas. still do
everyonelovesdee 1 year ago
decadent waste of energy there. no wonder we've run out of oil...
vdoctor81 1 year ago
Rush/Lusk train station in the beginning. ;)
rockeee 1 year ago
@rockeee Thanks for that info.... was just wondering what station was used......
PhluterGoode 1 year ago
Such a sad song but a classic! I live in America now and only get home around once a year so this ad has a special meaning for me..
MrDromahair 1 year ago 2
@MrDromahair Why did you leave beautiful UK for USA? :-\
TheEsotericDesi 1 year ago
i'm bawling crying now!
ni00ni 1 year ago 2
@ni00ni So am I. I don't even know why but I'm in bits watching this.
783655 1 year ago
@783655 :'-(
ni00ni 1 year ago
See the old phonebox at about 0:43? Not many of those around now...
fabioucc 1 year ago 2
@fabioucc I thought exactly the same thing.
783655 1 year ago
Stumbled upon this advert, and I have to say it was one of the most depressing things I've ever seen. The song was beautiful, but very sad, and the dreary weather just made me feel even worse. Despite your weather, you have a lovely people and culture. Love to our cousins in Ireland!!!!!!!!! Love from the USA.
mdfan12 1 year ago 2
@mdfan12
And despite some of your people you have a lovely culture and weather!!!!
Love to our cousins in the USA!!!!!!!! Love from Ireland.
helenaZZZZirlandaise 1 year ago 2
this add reminds me of years ago so fuck all the faggots goin on about it only found it tonight gays i think its good thanks for the upload
eiregc09 1 year ago
@eiregc09 yeah fuck those fags. little know-all cunts who werent even born or about 3 years old when this was out.
bansheewhiskey 1 year ago
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IRISH FLOOD VICTIMS GET 70MILLION FOREIGN COUNTRIES GET 100MILLION FROM IRISH GOV.
Source:Irish Times 12/12/09.
We are sending 100million to foreign countries like Bangladesh for the climate change bill. Our own ppl get 70million. We also send millions on top of that in aid.
Bangladesh has a bigger military than the Irish army, Pakistan has a nuclear weapons programme and India is sending rockets to the moon. Meanwhile we pay for their poor.
Being taken for mugs.
waaeaa 1 year ago
It is that PRICK hughes , is it?
damienhugh 1 year ago 3
I must have seen this ad a thousand times. I totally forgot all about it. Hadn't a clue what was going on all those years ago but I get it now.
BoringBoringJohn 1 year ago
This makes me want to rob an old woman and make her make brown bread for me.
MEGADETHTHRETH 1 year ago 4
oh the memories but now wont be thinking of this add anymore as i didnt realise that it was alan hughes in the car haha!!!
scotthayes79 1 year ago
when i was younger i thought this song was sung by a dude
iddn 1 year ago
theres electrical equipment in this video that i only started to see being put into houses in the late 90s
dalyr32 1 year ago
This could so easily have turned into the next installment of that car safety ad in which the kid gets mangled to the strains of Louis Armstrong's 'What A Wonderful World"
Also, his Ma's taking the piss leaving all those lights on!
geasparjons 1 year ago
Made Ireland look like a modern country, when in fact it was a complete shite hole! What was he comin home for anyway?
Marceltubs 1 year ago 2
@Marceltubs
i agree man....a shithole beyond belief...
olliespike2 1 year ago
@olliespike2 - Don't ever come here then.
soeffingwhat 4 months ago
@olliespike2 - Well then move, I'm sure you and your poxy attitude won't be missed.
soeffingwhat 4 months ago
@Marceltubs and still is a shithole
MEGADETHTHRETH 1 year ago
@Marceltubs LOL! Nice comment...
TheEsotericDesi 1 year ago
@Marceltubs to come out of the closet to the folks in person?
supafuckinmingster 4 months ago
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@Marceltubs - Why then are you still here?
soeffingwhat 4 months ago
Ah i love it!!!
1norahs1 1 year ago
Having grown up in Ireland but left in 1997 and now living in Canada, this ad really does make nostalgic for Ireland. Home for first time in 4 years this coming Sept..
ajhleix 1 year ago 2
i thought this would be lil jon and the eastside boyz!!!!! lolol!
nicksuprabravesfan 1 year ago
He came home again, became a property developer and now is in debt to nama. But they can't get him because he took off to the south of France.
Kalgoorlie10 1 year ago 6
Every fecking light in the house on, if that was my father getting out of the car, he'd have moaned about the price of the ESB bill!
lovelytackles 1 year ago 5
really loved this ad when i was a kid!!! i think it was more for Dusty Springfield's voice more than anything!!!
shanemc25 1 year ago
I remember when this add was on and I never for one second believed that the guy would have played hurling. Of course now I know that the only wood he is interested in dosen't come from an ash tree.
jarsonist 1 year ago 14
@jarsonist LOL - who is the guy in the ad anyway?!
bacabu30 7 months ago
@jarsonist It's Alan Hughes, isn't it! LOL
bacabu30 7 months ago 2
This makes me wanna curl up and start sucking my thumb.
Stamps9311 1 year ago 3
looks like an astra estate!!
TheJOHNDEERE7810 1 year ago
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helenaZZZZirlandaise 1 year ago 4
love this ad.. but why did esb need to advertise. not like there was any other options in the 80's
cryanamanda 1 year ago 2
I wonder how she took it when he told her he is gay : P
Irishfreecitizen 1 year ago
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helenaZZZZirlandaise 1 year ago
great add. Brings back good memories
Burncourtable 1 year ago
shes gona get some shaggin bill..
fairhillnorrie 1 year ago 3
this advert is THEE most nostalgic thing from my childhood, remember comming home from school and my mum would always have RT1 on (cause Live At 3 was on) and this ad used to always be on, ahh good times :]
this is completly off subject bt does anyone remember the adverts about playing with powerlines, i think it was that, i think there was one with a wee girl playing with her kite and it getting stuck in a powerline and a wee boy helping her get it down, bt dies in the process?
maddearth 1 year ago 6
Does anyone remember the other ESB ad that was out around the same time, the one with the father feeding a baby in the middle of the night or something?
kazimann 1 year ago
@kazimann Yeah its out on youtube now. Just type in only you and esb ad. Another nostalgic one
tommyaquinas 1 year ago
@tommyaquinas Great stuff mate.
kazimann 1 year ago
I remember when this ad was on TV back in the day!
Man, I'm getting old!
kazimann 1 year ago
This has been flagged as spam show
10,000 IMMIGRANTS WORK IN IRELAND USING FALSE STUDENT VISAS
Bogus non-EU immigrants sign on as students then slip away to take up jobs. Others overstay their visas to allow them secure work by enrolling in fake courses every year to allow them continued access to Irish jobs.
Irish Independent 12/2/10
(If they are here long enough they can stay for good)
This does not include immigrants here on real student visas or on legal work permits or here working illegally. How many 10s of 1000s is that?
waaeaa 1 year ago
Loved this ad... Aww.
kittee83 1 year ago
Really takes me back. Always moved me for some reason, even when I was very young.
Big fucking house they have there, though!
LewisQ 2 years ago
alan hughes goes back home after the last episode of talkabout..
Chortleclips 2 years ago
OMG>>>Alan Hughes from TV3
eodoherty47 2 years ago
i loved this add
Burncourtable 2 years ago
Great ad. Makes me wish i was home this Christmas.
pisstaker247 2 years ago
CARBON FOOTPRINT WOMAN!!!!
munkifisht 2 years ago 4
cant believe after all these years i realise its alan hughes
Mcsnookerstik 2 years ago
Is it the way there was no electricity when he left home?? His granny looks like she's the one who invented it. Funny ad man.
nlm1980 2 years ago
Rathdrum Co Wicklow!
seustaceRotterdam 2 years ago
@seustaceRotterdam is it ? i was searchin for a comment about rathdrum 2 see if it was it
xxlisakinchxx 1 year ago
By the way, thank you whoever posted this, you have done the world a great service!
pMaEdLdTy 2 years ago 4
Class ad, brings back loads of memories, well just one really, the one of this ad. Just a thought, but why does she need oven mitts to put the pot on the hob??
pMaEdLdTy 2 years ago 4
In case she gets a shock of a badly earthed electric cooker!
markdub2000 2 years ago
i wonder did she remember to the immersion off?
breanbrog 2 years ago 6
We used to have fights in my house as to whether these were his parents or grandparents - the debate still continues - they are his PARENTS!
lindajcliff 2 years ago 2
Grandparents ha ha!
nlm1980 2 years ago
Anyone else think Alan Hughes is looking at the Blue Oyster gay bar on his way home?? (the one with the blue flashing light??) :)
padraicpodge 2 years ago 36
@padraicpodge My God, you're right! Talk about Dorian Gray - I must say Alan is wearing his age very well, he doesn't look a day older than he did 20 years ago!
theprophet20 1 year ago
love it!
Murnip 2 years ago