Reaction to The Budget in Cork & Galway, Ireland 1980 

Glass coke bottles! If we'd stuck with glass bottles, we wouldn't have plastic in our seas & filling landfills. Remember the cream at the top of the glass milk bottle? Those were the days

Keep em coming, lovely to watch

I loved the enormous barrel with the tap straight out of it in the middle of the bar! Original hipster cool!!! 😉

The only reason the soft drink duty came in is cos the Vintners Association had enough pull and wanted alcohol to seem better

If I was to win the lottery I would move to rural Ireland. The Irish people are so authentically human. God bless them!

Having enough dosh to have a drink once in awhile or enjoy community in a pub, seems a reasonable way to enjoy life's small pleasures. Rich business men ,still causing consternation on both sides the pond. Ironic, isn't it?

Down with this sort of thing!

I guess someone had to pay for Charley Haugheys extravagent chartvet shirts and who better than the taxpaying mugs of Ireland! Yes indeed I have grim memories of those dark days when they screwed ordinary workers like myself into paying nearly 60 pence in the pound income tax on a modest wage , I couldent afford a car until I was 24 years of age in 1986 and could only afford 3rd party insurance on a fiesta for 400 quid! ah yes the good old days!

As a fat guy, I noticed the only fat speaker in the 1980 clip was the soft drink lobbyist. (Just think what the body sizes would be if the clip was made today, over a half-century later.)

Another great upload CR, very interesting

Sure whats new? More taxes and a reduction in wages....surprise surpise

Also Limerick City is featured in the video, the White House Bar and Hanratty's at halfway through.

Saying that farmers should pay more seems a little crazy to me, even for back then.

Robin O'Sullivan there also at 01:30. He was later a TV presenter on Cork Multichannel and worked in PR but a the time of this video was working with Coca Cola.

3:22 fekin Luke Skywalker

Some things never change.

Top 3 things missing in this video: 1) I phones 2) Starbucks 3) Muslims

Cork Multichannel's Robin O'Sullivan is one of the talking heads in Cork.

Disappointed they didn't call the fizzy drinks: 'Minerals'😅 ...Was that just a Dublin thing?

Back when cork was cork

Gangster tax

Jaysus the price of drink back then

There''s a sup gone out of that pint.

Will I prefer this to this on the other hand this one is better than this one. Although it does depend because I also like this one as well. 😂

I thought The Budget was the name of a pub when I clicked

I remember Jim Fahy, western correspondent..

Well it's all well and good but what about Manila Junction it's not really on then is it

Cork looks nicer in 1980 than it does in 2023..... City center is after turning into a kip

Over forty years later and people are still moaning

Looked like Matt cooper right at the end

Sure it's all p anyways

What a head of hair.

Pity soft drink prices didn't go up 300% today. Help get rid of all of the fat arses and obesity in Ireland

a sally o brine and the way she might look at ya. we had nothing back then but is was a better Ireland. I’m told to move with the times but it’s not the same 😢 I blame RU-vid 😂