Being 18 on UK's Rathlin Island

Being 18 on UK's Rathlin Island - BBC News

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Benedict Anslow moved to Rathlin Island with his mum when he was 13.
Originally from London, he talks about what life is like as one of the few young people on an island that is home to fewer than 200 people.
Video journalist: Jordan Kenny
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@miniena7774 5 жыл бұрын

But is there WiFi?

@AndreasHelberg 5 жыл бұрын

Best Greetings from Germany, Benedict. Shalom. 😊 You remind me of my youngest brother Matthias 😊

@gaycha6589 4 ай бұрын

A slower life has many qualities to offer the individual.

@daniellemagill7648 4 жыл бұрын

I went on a boat to Rathlin and I nearly threw up 🤣

@shafielayodath6254 5 жыл бұрын

Really amazing

@haroldinho9930 3 жыл бұрын

People don’t go to boarding schools in Northern Ireland don’t be daft.

@slvaltva1392 5 жыл бұрын

I wanna live there forever

@DonalLeader 4 жыл бұрын

Is there no secondary school in Ballycastle?

@JonesSmyth 4 жыл бұрын

Why go all the way to ballymoney when there is a choice secondary schools in ballycastle?

@waiyanum1 5 жыл бұрын

I wish I could visit there one day. 😍

@joan98610 5 жыл бұрын

he is cute, though

@haroldinho9930 3 жыл бұрын

Makes the world look so small when he looks at Northern ireland and scotland

@missymarmalade3675 5 жыл бұрын

Interesting

@ByddinRhyddidCymru 5 жыл бұрын

That’s Ireland’s island

@YouTubeSupportTeams 5 жыл бұрын

nope, the UK owns it, just like the north of ireland. about time you got used to it.. it's only been 218 years and guess what? still the United Kingdom.

@oisinmcshane 3 жыл бұрын

@@KZfaqSupportTeams Ireland unfree, will never be at peace. Get ready for change.

@user-on2ys9jr6t 3 жыл бұрын

@@KZfaqSupportTeams if they own it why is there now a border in the Irish sea..... Hahahaha. Long runs the fox.

@SRPC21 5 жыл бұрын

Fair play to him, I would say he has a good life

@rafigamma07 5 жыл бұрын

I would love to live here

@angelb3111 5 жыл бұрын

Hmm BBC not allowed comments on the young careers in Britain post.

@pauld5723 3 жыл бұрын

I guess I'm a bit surprised that his mother would pick that particular place when there are so many islands around the British Isles which still would have offered many of the same qualities but with a slightly bigger popuilation and at least one school etc. Why go to such extreme levels when your son is still a teenager? That being said, the son still seems happy overall and will cerainly be breathing better air than what he would be breahing in London. I might visit the island myself when things are back to normal again after lockdown.

@ekawidodo4309 5 жыл бұрын

wish i could live there 😊

@Gaudine 5 жыл бұрын

I thought this video was going to be about lack of young girls on the island.

@Noah-hx9oi 4 жыл бұрын

( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

@TOPOTWO 5 жыл бұрын

He’s so cute

@Dragoneer 5 жыл бұрын

I used to know this guy. Man, to see how much he has matured really puts my own life in perspective. He sounds like his mind is in the right place; would make such an awesome TV host! Gonna go so far in life...

@GarethMckittrick1980 2 жыл бұрын

Irelands Rathlin Island

@jennifercampbell8939 5 жыл бұрын

Any trees on the island? It looked pretty barren. It seems the story of being “18 On Rathlin” was all about getting off Rathlin ... for school, for friends, for fun, etc.

@jungkookieswifeu2386 5 жыл бұрын

I’m going tomorrow

@elliotkeil6063 5 жыл бұрын

So that’s where Orlando Bloom went

@friendlyfriend8030 5 жыл бұрын

Can I live there?

@ImaMonaKnight 5 жыл бұрын

I can't live without bono..

@veronicaroach3667 3 жыл бұрын

It's a lovely place, but for a young person, almost everything they want to do in life must be off the island somewhere else...so that will be a big problem for a kid going away & leaving his mum on her own - maybe the 'island' thing is just in our heads tho, as he says & once kids get to late teens/early 20's years they largely take off anyway - wherever you live !!

@miniena7774 5 жыл бұрын

What’s that? Never heard of it.

@tvdeth 5 жыл бұрын

now you have

@miniena7774 5 жыл бұрын

Nope. - didn’t feel like watching.

@kevinfitz8516 Жыл бұрын

ITS IRELANDS RATHIN ISLAND !!!!

@cianobrien6316 5 жыл бұрын

Ireland’s rathlin island 🇮🇪

@andyb1929 5 жыл бұрын

Uks rathlin island is a beautiful place yes

@quartzking3997 5 жыл бұрын

Cian O'Brien but it’s owned by the UK 🤔🤔💁🏿

@cianobrien6316 5 жыл бұрын

No Northern Ireland really belongs to Ireland it’s just the English robbed it like everything else

@ciarandevaney385 5 жыл бұрын

@@cianobrien6316 rathlin island is part of Great Britain , not part of the untrustworthy Ireland

@mikeoxsmal8022 2 жыл бұрын

@@ciarandevaney385 am it is part of the island of ireland not the island of great Britain

@BG-oj6zt 5 жыл бұрын

Ireland's 🇮🇪 Rathlin Island!!!!

@JonathanDavidJ 5 жыл бұрын

Northern Ireland/UK*(thanks for correcting me), if the people want to be part of Ireland sure, not sure they want to be though.

@icturner23 5 жыл бұрын

JonathanDavid J Northern Ireland is in the U.K. but not Great Britain. I’d personally like to see Ireland reunited and I think that’ll probably happen, but it’s not out of the question that there’ll be an independent Northern Ireland one day. So long as it’s out of the U.K., I don’t really mind.

@icturner23 5 жыл бұрын

Albert Pike No, it wasn’t.

@cianobrien6316 5 жыл бұрын

icturner23 the Republic of Ireland is the republic you fool not Uk

@icturner23 5 жыл бұрын

Cian O'Brien That doesn’t contradict or in any way relate to anything I said.

@gemsonanthonysiloy5713 5 жыл бұрын

Ms. Peregrines Island Home for peculiar Children.

@Another534 5 жыл бұрын

omg i want to date him

@roronzoro9795 5 жыл бұрын

A Nother your gay?

@user-yu8en2gy3m 5 жыл бұрын

More like Rathian Island

@sharnistevens1428 5 жыл бұрын

Nah I know people who live on other UK islands who depend on ferries. The costs of the ferries are prohibitive for any young kid who wants to see their friends on the mainland. There are terrible job opportunities if your child has to live in a place like this. Please don't make your children miserable by moving them here!! Wait until you retire!

@ciaranmccurdy8998 5 жыл бұрын

Just out of curiosity, what would make the children miserable by moving/living here

@fourthright 5 жыл бұрын

A straight white male on bbc. Is it real or am i hallucinating.

@nicoladavies3391 5 жыл бұрын

🙄

@angelinthedocks3732 5 жыл бұрын

It sits in line with the white flight narrative so that is why I expect it has got a showing.

@DrJams 5 жыл бұрын

The BBC have anti white male hiring quotas.

@christoguichard4311 3 жыл бұрын

Looks idyllic.

@dylanmur40 4 жыл бұрын

Ireland*

@pauld5723 3 жыл бұрын

I don't get the reasoning behind comments like this. Most people are aware that nationalists/republicans have a certain view and unionists have another. Then there are people without a strong view at all, especially people in mixed marriages with a less partisan outlook. Ian Paisley Sr (who I am not a particular fan of) apparenly visited the island and helped modernise it, despite the small population being from a mostly catholic background.

@rossevans2261 2 жыл бұрын

It would be interesting to know what it was like to be 18 on the island rather than the token English guy who spends all his time trying to get off it 😂😂

@ImaMonaKnight 5 жыл бұрын

bono where bono??

@maanilol4197 5 жыл бұрын

Do y’all get benefits

@2darker 5 жыл бұрын

If they were lazy and weak they would, so no.

@gethcreator751 5 жыл бұрын

@@2darker how would you know why people are on benefits? Do you even pay tax?

@monkeyton5 5 жыл бұрын

Not enough mosques

@truthinspector6390 5 жыл бұрын

Keeps the beheadings down

@blazedandconfused477 5 жыл бұрын

Clearly needs moaaaaaar mosques!

@truthinspector6390 5 жыл бұрын

But go figure there's no mass shootings on the island

@pulsechainarmy1274 2 жыл бұрын

island of peace

@clanpiper74 5 жыл бұрын

What a great mum. She must have seen londinistan coming.....

@icturner23 5 жыл бұрын

Craig Wood From his intelligent, educated, calm and polite demeanour, I think it’s highly unlikely that his mum is a raving, racist Quitling loon, so I very much doubt that’s why she wanted to leave.

@clanpiper74 5 жыл бұрын

@@icturner23 oh. You very much doubt. Lol.

@icturner23 5 жыл бұрын

Craig Wood Yes, I do.

@YASHPRATAP007 5 жыл бұрын

@@icturner23 yuppeee... Mother of an intelligent, educated, calm and polite bloke would rather like her kids to be groomed, raped, stabbed and defaced by Acid attack than being called raving, racist Quitling loon ..... 😅 (by the way..what does "Quitling" mean?)

@icturner23 5 жыл бұрын

Damon Salvatore A treacherous Leave voter.