Reaction to The Euro Currency, Ireland, 2002
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- The reaction among people in Dublin to the introduction of the Euro currency.
A RTÉ News report on reactions to the Euro currency which was introduced in Ireland on 2 January 2002.
While most had a positive experience of the change over, there was some confusion.
A Dublin cafe owner, a public phone user, a busker and a taxi driver talk about the currency changeover. Phillip Hamell of the Euro Changeover Board also discusses the EURO and notes that patience is required during the transition period.
Despite the “best efforts” to prevent price gouging, there was plenty of “rounding up”’going on
This was the beginning of the end for Eire...
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Who calls it Eire these days? 😂
When the IMF came in and gave us money to take over everything that we had, that was the beginning of the end for a once Lovely Nation
Only a limey would say that. Did you mean "this was the beginning of the end for Brexit England" bubba?
@@tc6070 You have me in tears, tears of laughter. Did the IMF not offer you a loan bubba?
@@dermotlondon west brit you
I like the optimistic nature of the busker. He really thought that people would stop throwing in €1 coins in place of £1 coins after a couple of weeks. People who normally threw a pound coin were never going to throw a 2 euro coin
When they really started to fleece us. Been relentless ever since!
the day we lost part of our history and identity, joing the Euro
With the punt? Literally the Irish equivalent of pound. So much of our culture is based on British culture. But you hate them too. Maybe we need to go back to our Druidic roots?
@@daithiocinnsealach1982 Ireland should start trading in head of cattle again. Niall of the Nine Hostages would simply laugh at a hand full of coins or a stack of worthless paper. Back to our roots
But we didn't.
And we didn't join the Euro, we adopted it.
@@connorsharpless3997 Yes! What say you to that Eamon Ryan? You wouldn't cull our herd if it was our currency would you!?
@@daithiocinnsealach1982 no hate for the Brits as I lived in UK along time, if Ireland where to leave the EU think of the disaster it would cause looking for a new currency revert back to the punt?, many EU countries never adopted it, they had foresight in case the big boys club of the EU comes to an end some day maybe not in our life time, but Europe will divide and more countrys will leave.
Insert obligatory angry comment about the "good aul days" that I wasn't alive to remember.
You don't understand what it was like man, we had a deer, a noble stag, on our Punt coin, and we killed it. We fcking killed it. Ahh those were the days. I say we bring back the punt, not the whole currency, just the pound coin with the stag, it can be our €1.
You sound like a smug redditor from r/Ireland all over this comment section, big mawwwwn.
@@cigh7445 I remember. I used to rob my da's old predecimal coins in the mid 90s because one of them was about the same size as a 1 pound coin. I'd go down to the pub in the village and buy condoms with them. 1 pound for a pack. Those were the days. Before the evil EU came in and now they cost €6. In those days we were all millionaires before Brussels came in and stole our wonderful Catholic culture with abusive priests, alcoholic parents, bad roads, no jobs. Yes, yes, yes. Now all the foreigners stole it all and I want it back!
@@cigh7445 I think quite a few countries have different reverse faces for their coins, we could coneivably throw the deer on the back of one of em. Have to keep the harp though, that's a mighty fine harp.
You look like the sort who would love taking orders from some foreigner in Brussels.
But hey. It makes you intelligent and trendy right 😂
Cuck
Bring back the Punt😠
Remember been over to see granny on the day it came in, heads were rolling in port loaise penny's 🤣👍🏾
The first day it came in didn't feel right, didn't last in your pocket and others noticed that too. The euro has been a disaster for Ireland, the ecb flooded irish economy with printed money adding fuel to the building boom and making house prices completely unaffordable ever since.
Yes, bring back the glorious 80s!
eu is a commy trap
@@daithiocinnsealach1982 we were doing quite well in the 90s
@@daithiocinnsealach1982 actually both my aunts bought really nice houses in Dublin during the 1980s, one a nurse the other telecom eireann worker. Both on single income. Couldn't do that now.
Ah yes, the evil ecb bankers forced the poor Irish to take out loans they could not afford at gunpoint.
Trying to a use a phone in Bewley's Hotel. 😂
He didnt get through, didnt ye hear? Oh the humanity
The beginning of the end
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Jimmy Taylor
"Not really. I'm not a stupid man, y'know?" lol
That guy is definitely dead now...
Subtitles: I'm not a Cuban man
Aul fella felt the sting of being a poor north sider. I feel him.
@@noelodwyer thought the same myself. Poor fella.
@@Monaghan ya. Looks like he enjoyed himself...
It's January 1 2002
A sad day indeed.
I'm unsubbing. Comment section is just full of angry frustrated Irish people who sound more and more like right wing conservative Americans and British. Going on and on about how their sacred and inviolable culture is being undermied by some evil foreign entity
You can make any comment you like, or better yet, just don't read the comments. They are usually rubbish anyway. Not sure how unsubbing will help, but best to you.
The comments section is a trainwreck.
"Do you remember the days when we were all white, and the roads were shite, but you were happy and poor and the priest had the power to fuck your child and get away with it and then Europe came along and ruined it. Bastards"
I enjoy the videos, but I don't miss "the good old days"
Cultural enrichment is destroying Ireland prove me wrong.
Don't let the door hit ya where the good LORD split ya!
Maybe just watch the videos?
Worst day of my life and I was only 3
This sums up the ignorant rage that splatters the comment section of these videos.
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One of the biggest mistakes we ever made.
LOL "Irish Independence"
Ireland has tremendous soft political power in the EU for a country of it's size. It otherwise would not have. I also think you need to educate yourself a small bit on the EU political processes. All MEP's are voted for by the voter.
The EU has done wonders for the Irish economy. For many years Ireland was a net recipient from the EU. Where do you think all those road building schemes came from the sky?
The day Ireland and Irish culture was lost.
Bit of an overreaction no? The previous 800 years were all good yeah?
@@imjasonennis3624
I'm talking about the mass immigration that followed
@@paulie-Gualtieri. that begin in 1609.. But you only have a problem with it in 2002 😂 You're talking shite you miserable man. Irish culture hasn't been lost you're just a xenophobic asshole with nothing good going on in your life so you project your insecurities into immigrants.
After a brief period of some kind of sovereignty we just swapped one ruler for another but this one was packaged nicer
@@richiem7716 Do you really feel oppressed Richie?
Yep got the pound out...then took another foreign currency..joke
Irish pound is basically same thing as British pound just new design but it still pegged to another foreign currency which is British pound like I said
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What an achievement. Print it and hang it on the wall. Inform the aul parents and throw a party.
@@daithiocinnsealach1982 thanks mean’s a lot