Great Ad to be fair. More like a short film than an Ad.
Is it an Ad for BT pay phones?
Yep as a young fella in the 80s this ad was harder than the movies I was allowed to watch! Brilliant ad tho
The auld sectarian hate does wonders for aging though.
Man, this brings back memories……
Couldn’t even hear the song without remembering the ad for years.
This was around the same time Gerry Adams could only appear on TV as a silhouette, and even his voice had to be overdubbed with an actors voice….. rev Ian Paisley never seemed to have to be censored though.
I was on my way out to join the Ra when this ad popped on the TV. Instead I went drunk driving down to the quarry for a swim and then on to fly my kite around some powerlines.
Great production values on that Ad in fairness great tune as well👍
Was there another ad with the actor who plays Billy Mitchell? Or do I have the Mandela effect
One of the most powerful PIFs ever made. The whole confidential telephone ad series is quite good.
Scared the bollix out of me, couldn’t sleep for weeks worrying about me da 😭
He wasn’t even in the RA!
It was a good ad. It was on TV in the early 90s shortly before the ceasefires. Seems crazy the the paramilitaries in the North were still doing their crazy thing as recently as the 1990s.
It ruined that song for me!
Jesus Kerry gold ads are dark
I was very young and in general wouldn’t have the best memory for that long ago but I remember this well. It was scary that I even understood it to the extent that I did.
That’s what you get for counter feiting jeans lads. It’s just not worth it.
Aye, remember it well. I was only a kid myself when I first seen it. I remember telling a bunch of English work colleagues about these adverts and anti-drink driving ones (“it was the one without the seatbelt that did all the damage….”) – they looked at me like I had five heads.
We were clearly exposed to graphic stuff nobody else was 😅
I’m almost 40, lived in Ireland all my life and this is the first time I’ve seen this… What is it even for? Some sort of Crime stoppers campaign?
Is it ant wonder we’re all so anxious? Gives the rsa a run for its money.
I didn’t know the paramilitaries advertised on TV like this.
Not sure they’ve entirely sold the lifestyle choice for me though.
Jesus. Any wonder we’re all basketcases.
I remember bawling my eyes out at this anytime it came on and being afraid to go anywhere with my da incase he got shot… I was 5 lol.
This ad is pretty awesome tbh
From this masterpiece to ads of Aviva dancing doctors and the lotto with it’s weird slide obsession…where did it go wrong lads?
To this day, any time I hear that song all I see is leather gloves on a coffin! Effective advertising or what!
This is an ad to pay your tv licence right? When did the inspectors move away from carrying Uzi’s
That’s a brilliant ad, and they’re dead right. Violence perpetuates violence.
Love the song too. My brother used to listen to the cover version by Ugly Kid Joe
really well made… and horrifying
I remember being horrified as a kid, I remember it made me cry
I loved the song but never really got what was happening
I could hear the part of the song “cats and the cradle” as soon as I clicked the link. Scared the beejaysus out of me. Not least because any time my father or anyone else’s did anything I thought they’d get blasted with a machine gun. Fun times. How was this on the tv?!
They could have just had him spray the chap and end the scene there but they go the full hog with him running up for the double tap and all beside the kid.
Looked this up on YouTube a few times now. Wish I could one day see a better quality copy of it.
The hyprocrisy of the NI State spending thousands putting these ad’s out while at the same time paying death squads thousands of pounds to murder and terrorise.
We should have an old ads thread for us old people.
Fly Fishing, by J.R. Hartley
I remember it very well, would have been on a video recording we had of some kids movie. Between that and Jim McDonald off Coronation Street, Northern accents would give me a bit of a fright
My main memory of that ad is asking my ma how the man died at the end. And her saying the IRA got him.
And watching it back it’s very clear she was right. The family in this are all clearly loyalists
I was only listening to this song on Sunday, singing it to my baby. Ugly kid joes version always reminds me of this advert ( even though it’s not the same version) and amazed it was on TV when we were growing up! Absolutely wild!!!
Back when Mi5 didn’t hide their involvement in the media.
Glad I’m not alone. This and that one advert with all the body’s on the road cover in black blankets were the two I never forgot.
This ad is 100% responsible for my irrational fear of being randomly murdered. Seriously. It terrified me then, and still haunts me today.
Mad thing to be growing up with something like that isn’t it. Long may peace continue.
I just made a post on another subreddit about the horrifying Road traffic accident prevention adverts on Irish TV and linked this advert as an example
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Great Ad to be fair. More like a short film than an Ad.
Is it an Ad for BT pay phones?
Yep as a young fella in the 80s this ad was harder than the movies I was allowed to watch! Brilliant ad tho
The auld sectarian hate does wonders for aging though.
Man, this brings back memories……
Couldn’t even hear the song without remembering the ad for years.
This was around the same time Gerry Adams could only appear on TV as a silhouette, and even his voice had to be overdubbed with an actors voice….. rev Ian Paisley never seemed to have to be censored though.
I was on my way out to join the Ra when this ad popped on the TV. Instead I went drunk driving down to the quarry for a swim and then on to fly my kite around some powerlines.
Great production values on that Ad in fairness great tune as well👍
Was there another ad with the actor who plays Billy Mitchell? Or do I have the Mandela effect
One of the most powerful PIFs ever made. The whole confidential telephone ad series is quite good.
Scared the bollix out of me, couldn’t sleep for weeks worrying about me da 😭
He wasn’t even in the RA!
It was a good ad. It was on TV in the early 90s shortly before the ceasefires. Seems crazy the the paramilitaries in the North were still doing their crazy thing as recently as the 1990s.
It ruined that song for me!
Jesus Kerry gold ads are dark
I was very young and in general wouldn’t have the best memory for that long ago but I remember this well. It was scary that I even understood it to the extent that I did.
That’s what you get for counter feiting jeans lads. It’s just not worth it.
Aye, remember it well. I was only a kid myself when I first seen it. I remember telling a bunch of English work colleagues about these adverts and anti-drink driving ones (“it was the one without the seatbelt that did all the damage….”) – they looked at me like I had five heads.
We were clearly exposed to graphic stuff nobody else was 😅
I’m almost 40, lived in Ireland all my life and this is the first time I’ve seen this… What is it even for? Some sort of Crime stoppers campaign?
Is it ant wonder we’re all so anxious? Gives the rsa a run for its money.
I didn’t know the paramilitaries advertised on TV like this.
Not sure they’ve entirely sold the lifestyle choice for me though.
Jesus. Any wonder we’re all basketcases.
I remember bawling my eyes out at this anytime it came on and being afraid to go anywhere with my da incase he got shot… I was 5 lol.
This ad is pretty awesome tbh
From this masterpiece to ads of Aviva dancing doctors and the lotto with it’s weird slide obsession…where did it go wrong lads?
To this day, any time I hear that song all I see is leather gloves on a coffin! Effective advertising or what!
This is an ad to pay your tv licence right? When did the inspectors move away from carrying Uzi’s
That’s a brilliant ad, and they’re dead right. Violence perpetuates violence.
Love the song too. My brother used to listen to the cover version by Ugly Kid Joe
really well made… and horrifying
I remember being horrified as a kid, I remember it made me cry
I loved the song but never really got what was happening
I could hear the part of the song “cats and the cradle” as soon as I clicked the link. Scared the beejaysus out of me. Not least because any time my father or anyone else’s did anything I thought they’d get blasted with a machine gun. Fun times. How was this on the tv?!
They could have just had him spray the chap and end the scene there but they go the full hog with him running up for the double tap and all beside the kid.
Looked this up on YouTube a few times now. Wish I could one day see a better quality copy of it.
The hyprocrisy of the NI State spending thousands putting these ad’s out while at the same time paying death squads thousands of pounds to murder and terrorise.
We should have an old ads thread for us old people.
Fly Fishing, by J.R. Hartley
I remember it very well, would have been on a video recording we had of some kids movie. Between that and Jim McDonald off Coronation Street, Northern accents would give me a bit of a fright
My main memory of that ad is asking my ma how the man died at the end. And her saying the IRA got him.
And watching it back it’s very clear she was right. The family in this are all clearly loyalists
I was only listening to this song on Sunday, singing it to my baby. Ugly kid joes version always reminds me of this advert ( even though it’s not the same version) and amazed it was on TV when we were growing up! Absolutely wild!!!
Back when Mi5 didn’t hide their involvement in the media.
Glad I’m not alone. This and that one advert with all the body’s on the road cover in black blankets were the two I never forgot.
This ad is 100% responsible for my irrational fear of being randomly murdered. Seriously. It terrified me then, and still haunts me today.
Mad thing to be growing up with something like that isn’t it. Long may peace continue.
I just made a post on another subreddit about the horrifying Road traffic accident prevention adverts on Irish TV and linked this advert as an example
https://youtu.be/Wv1rKHGeMRk
next post I saw was this one. What on earth is wrong with us!?!