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lol 😂 ,very witty comment fair play

Exactly the fae are our elders Need to tend to there garden

Genius!😂😂😂

They have been replaced by woke arseholes

Oh there were some cold winters in the early 1980s I remember lookin at the snow...

im german but i came to looove ireland not only for its nature, but for exactly that deep old culture. which i heard, is of course , getting forgotten. man do i love me some eddie lenihan storytelling!

@Christo Genea Plot twist...the journalist is a fairy!

Gay

@@davidoconnor3930 No Mike, Gay was the other guy. 😉

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It’s a good thing that jaw is on the man because that would make a very homely woman

Exactly, like tell telling a devout Catholic to burn in hell.

Yeah was really awkward

I can only have envisioned him picking up a thornbush limb and flogging him if he had of brought that tree down by pulling on those branches.

Yeah what a prick lol. Poor old man

I felt the same way, I was like noooo the fairies, don’t do that!

Maybe the death of the plane caused him to die somehow but it is a little far fetched.

Eerie enough for yer man to have a Redwood tree....

That is strange.

likely a coincidence, redwoods grow too fast for an urban environment. may not have have enough root space or if planted too deep(super common) the tree will grow roots that girdle the trunk and cut off food supply. still eerie.

@@mikethompson5966 They experts say the best hole to plant a tree in, is a square one. If you put a tree in a circle hole the roots spiral down and in-tangles themselves then tree dies. Square holes encourage the roots to get to the corners there they stretch outward and make a better foundation for the tree. Long live red woods. The best time to grow a tree was 30 years ago the better time is today. 🌴🌳🌲🌵

Oh?, you think they are only stories then??🧚🧚‍♂️

@Greg 7up

Lysergic Acid Diethylamide

Love it!

There's been family jokes that I was a changeling, especially given my strange birth, but I do wonder what my dad and his pals were feeling when they saw me walk half a mile into a absolutely massive old bog as a child. Obviously someone saw me leave the trees and go into the bog (I was maybe 5-7 years old), and they fetched my dad. Now obviously my dad didn't want to shout out to me in case I got a fright and fell in, so he tried clambering after me, tripping and getting soaked a few times, which made me turn, skip on over to him as easily as skipping down a street, and ask what he was doing. He thought if I panicked, I'd fall, so told me he came to fetch me because it was time to head back to get lunch. I asked why his legs were wet, and he said that it's because he kept stepping in the puddles, so I asked "Why don't you just walk on the path then?", not realising that for some reason, I could see a path through the bog that he couldn't, when it seemed really obvious to me, so I told him to follow me back and just walk where I did, and sure enough, it was a dry solid path 😂 And then on the walk back through the woods, I brought up a conversation about the spirits that live in the forest and the land like the creepy little child I was. I think that and my weird being able to make electronics flicker and lights turn on and off (my older sister remembers it more clearly that I do. Apparently when I was really little, I could just tell the light to turn on or off, and it would, though I can't remember this, but other family members have mentioned it to lol). I can still see paths through bogs and make electronics flicker and wifi to go out, especially when I'm angry (In Uni the IT department nicknamed me Carrie, because I would kill computers during essay season), but I'm just a very staticy person. I do wonder wtf my dad thought was wrong with me though as the bog incident happened twice. On the second time he was straight up "Stop going near the bog, because if you fall off your little path, you will die." There was also the old lady that lived with us until I was around 2 that would help take care of me (especially during my mother's neglect when my dad was at work), whom I didn't find out until I was around 25 apparently didn't exist. They never had an elderly family member living with them, but both parents said separately (divorced) that it "explained a few things", which hasn't ever been elaborated on other than "Well from the second you could talk, you talked clearly and just knew things you couldn't possibly know.". But they also both never elaborated on the 2 occasions I woke up temporarily able to speak dead languages (old norse was one, can't remember the other, but I know they did do a deep dive try and find out what languages they were both times) that I don't really remember any of now. So fuck knows what's been going on with me since childhood, but ghosts maybe. The waking up briefly with knowledge of a language has happened one time since childhood and it was some form of proto-celtic. So fuck knows what's been going on with me since childhood, but ghosts maybe 🤷‍♀ My mother revealed when I was around 20 that she'd always been scared of me, which made me surprised that being catholic, she never tried to have me exorcised or something 😂 If I could've been born and came out this weird since birth and it be experienced by every member of my family, I'm fairly confident others must experience unexplainable things in their lives too. There's over 8 billion people on the earth currently, and billions more that have already died since the dawn of humans, so it stands to reason that it's impossible for nobody to have experienced anything unexplainable.

Couldn’t agree more ,, 👍

Well said and so true Sean our beautiful country and culture has changed so much sadly 😥

@@jamesgreene4811 Like all things, cultures are constantly evolving. Witnessing this change so clearly can be so very disheartening but it's important not to sway to the path of despair. While it's terribly sad to see the great aspects of our cherished culture diminish over time, you can always take solace in the fact that our developing culture has some positive changes as well. Our stories, our sport, our language, our music and dance are alive and well, and spreading rapidly around the world. In this modern Ireland most of our people don't have the same grasp on the legends and myths of the land as our grandparents and great grandparents did, but the people of our tiny nation are admired and their effect on the new World has been enormous. There is a traditional Irish bar 3,000 feet high in the mountains of Nepal, a thriving gaeltacht in Toronto, and competitive GAA clubs on every habitable continent. Our culture is changing and being sad about that is grand, but all we can do is keep the important aspects of it alive. Is fearr Gaeilge briste, ná Béarla cliste

What does that have to do with being a good story teller

It's coming again.

Did the tree fall, or how did he died, do you know?

Amy idea where exactly the tree is/was John? I'm not far from there myself.

@@jakenconor Hello Jake. Next time I speak to my dad I will find out for you .

@@johngill7776 thanks John, I'd really appreciate that. 😃

@@johngill7776 “ apparently” him and the tree are still alive???

True

Like my knob

They were great.

That was one of their earliest "electronic" hits. I saw them when Enya toured as part of the band in 1981/82

They still are ☺️

@@d23bw I used to call her Enema 🤔😂😆🤣

Agree with you🤣🤗💕

Did you ever read the Bible !😁👍👌soundl like it's just up your alley.where imagination ,myth and reality collide

@@christdiedforoursins8985 a man and his symbol's

@@christdiedforoursins8985 Well, clearly you haven't, I love my neighbors, how about you?🤣🤣😃😃

@@carollucey111 I'm glad you have read some of it ,that's great now let's put it into practice 💕👍😁

_Clannad's_ the band.

@@DoctorInk20 Enya’s sis

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The tree still hasn’t died and your man is 137 thinks he’s Benjamin button

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Well said Pat I remember seeing this video years ago it's sad to see how much our beautiful country and culture has changed 👍

Them chins are common up in Longford.

@@tri0tran He done well so , Many a seed did this man lay in Longford, PS i was just having a bit banter, and i love listing to old video clips of my Irish people from years ago.

Agus chuile faoi bhláth álainn bolasmhar na sceice ghile um an dtaca seo.

Mike Murphy isn’t a jerk.

@@irishelk3 Might not be a jerk in person but messing with a tree and giving a old man almost a heart attack so viewers can take the piss out of him and his tradition's and belief in the fairies' that is a dick move to me.

@@JaythePandaren Ah no, i don't agree, you're just projecting your own life onto him, he didn't nearly have a heart attack and Mike wasn't taking the piss out of him, he was perfectly nice to the man for the entire interview, and was just having a bit of fun at the end, he's a comedian, and he's a great man, worthy of respect. There's worse people out there.

@@irishelk3 I guess you're right. It is Mike murphy after all. I mean he was on winning streak and all that so still a legend as always

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I'd like to stay in it if I may...

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It's a respectful milking of the moment, no condescension or malice in it.

Who is this person? Hopefully not still doing "interviews."

@@saintessa Mike Murphy. Bit of a smug gowl. He's retired from working in TV now.

And sounds like him too

Very typical attitude to people living beyond the pale by those smug eejits. People like that old fella are what gives Ireland its character and soul.

He died in 1989 at age 84. The tree's whereabouts are unknown

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But if he's dead, the bush feels no obligation to keel over. 😉

@@genghisthegreat2034 🤣

He hasn't seen a bush since birth that boy...

Feck off

The reporter is a pound store Terry Wogan 🤔

I believe he thinks he's a normal person who's isn't stupid and the tree thing is him just having a laugh seems to have offended more people in this comment section than it did the old man

The tree still stands as does he!

It’s good to know all’s standing.

@@Tony97G dont be ridiculous poor crature long gone

@@Tony97G seriously?.. I love to believe that’s true.. He’s just great.

I live in Ardagh and yes the tree still stands

It was a “set up” for the camera.

The date is wrong, but in the opposite direction. The show, The Live Mike, aired from 1979 to 1982 so the description is at least a year off. The song from Enya was probably edited in later.

The Celtic song is called "Theme from Harry's Game" and was released by Clannad in 1982.

It's a group called Clannad..not sure of the song title though.

It's Clannad, Harry's game 🙂

@@nedthestaffieegan3452 Thanks

Whitethorn.....an sceach geal ! ....all beautifully in heavy bloom maddening bees as I write

@@genghisthegreat2034 Many Thanks ! I did not know it could reach out twisting in this form, and now I read about the Whitethorn and Blackthorn with their haw and sloe berries - and hear "an sceach geal" to understand the place names that record the woods and groves which did flourish healthily, and wait patiently to return.

@@adymode you're welcome ! For some reason, the lone one's in the middle of fields are particularly garlanded in bloom, and no one here would risk moving one. If you enjoy the folklore of them, I recommend Eddie Lenihan on KZfaq " The Fairy Bush". Eddie looks like Moses' grandad, you can't miss him 😁

Theme of Harry’s game- Clannad

He branched out into other areas and twigged he might have misjudged this...