The Fastest Reel in the West, Ireland 1972 

@Billie Piper's Teeth 🤣🤣🤣 Billie Piper’s teeth - love it! 🤣🤣🤣

Aye, there ain't no paralysis there anymore begorrah! I imagine he can do his new wife a bonnie dance.

Luck of the Irish

Such a optimistic comb over.

You know he's dead by now right

@Leona Bastet And young ones at that!

this is the i have seven sisters and we all share the same bathroom dance

The world has deteriorated from these times

From the chin to the legs, every backbone broken. Bed- ridden 3 years recovering!

Doesn't excuse his hair though, does it?!

@@kathrynmcmorrow7170 unbelievable ❗️

@@rena388 I know! Gladly by age 63, he hadn't developed much degenerative disc disease that impaired his ability to kick up his heels!

@@kathrynmcmorrow7170 thank you 👍🏻

Smiles, yes, but the idiots have their faces covered with muzzles !

Why do we need smiles let me guess because of covid lmfao. There's millions of these stupid comments. Y'all acting like you don't smile or laugh anymore since covid. Go away stupid person.

You have a nice day 😊👍 and dont mind the hate comments.

Yes, long before the lefties took over Montrose and turned it into a communist propaganda network.

I would assume montrose is the tv network?? Yeah I’m amazed at how leftist Ireland is now... they living off the profits of Apple and google etc....wait until the day of reckoning comes when their corporate tax rate has to get in line with the rest of the WTO snd they get even more refugees to settle per EU mandate.... their little socialist house if cards will crumble faster than Hunter Biden can light a Craic pipe

There was sex alright...don’t be delusional

@@emu9520 not to the extent that it is now given the forefront and perversion

​@@brianog5267You said it Brian! Today is May 1st 2024 and Ireland has had over a million fakeugees dumped onto it by Judas Varadquar the double u ee eff man and Ireland is socialist no longer.

I thought my eyes deceived me when the woman inhaled a cigarette in the audience.

@@kathrynmcmorrow7170 💨Smoking was the norm everywhere and if you didn't like it as a non smoker and complained you were told where to go💨 !!.. Great dancing especially so for a man with previous back injuries...👏

It certainly has ,and not for the better. It’s rather alien...compared to the 60/s70s. Really miss thoses times.

@@mazcats66silver34 That's a fact. This was actually slightly before the era of "non-smoking area" introduction.

It’s heartbreaking but you’re correct my friend.

Great man lol why

God Blessings and I know he is dancing in heaven with angels!

Since God sent him a great nurse to get him back to health,it's for Gods' glory to bring him to Heaven where he will dance and be happy and peaceful in his presence forever Amen! To come around from such a serious injury,and being immobile for years!....

I wish you good health

@@M_SC Thank you, and to you also!

Timing is everything.

He was the father of Riverdance 😊

I thought ireland only puts shit acts through cos they cant afford to host Eurovision every year

A think it wad man heres a bugger me that wad deffo mak an arse of hisell , love the humour not unlike England the north east bin owa northern Ireland 4 the road racing 💘 love it place people the lot god willing wad try the Republic gettin on a bit had some great times with the Irish on hols ĺaughings like breathing thats why its love a lot like me arn folk***

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We've never had freedom, until now of course, because we can see clearer now.

@@weefyman That's a way of putting it, my friend. What I know for sure is that I was freer before these wretched 2020/21 years...

Yeh... that's why we call it history. To make sure it don't come back.

@@liammurphy2725 The current tirany is more powerful than never before, any time before was freer

@@pablomalaga4676 What is this thing called freedom and where can I get some?

Amen

Unfortunately Ireland is getting increasingly less religious and more woke. I suspect we’ll see them become a lot less friendly in the next few decades. Poor thing to happen to such a merry people

@@1lobster oh, no! Oh, I am so sad to hear this. Gutted.

Marrying an Irish man this coming January:) according to my ancestry, I’ll be the first.

@@AJanae. I married an Irish girl from county Kerry in 1976. We are still together. I am blessed. She had a wonderful family that accepted me like one of their own. The men were tough and would put a fist in your face as quick as look at you,if you upset them but never to me. But they would buy you a pint afterwards and it would all be forgiven and forgotten. Many now dead, may they rest in peace. Good luck to you on your marriage, may you have many years ahead of you together. Wishing you love and luck.

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Thats really made me giggle lol

That made me lol!!!😂

🤨🤫🤣🥸🥃 Slainte

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Brilliant comment 🤣

Amazing 🤩 comment laughed my bollocks off 😂😂😂😂. in the Irish pubs in Manchester years ago, it was only a matter of time before they would jump up at the sound of an accordion and go hell for leather.

I'm rolling about 🤣

The English have a stiff upper lip, the Irish the stiff upper body.

😂🤣💖💖🔥👞👞🎼🎶🎵☘

Respect ❣️🥀😉

In between mine clearing.

LMAO 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Yes I seen her ,different times 🚬,some things for the better some things not so 😏

That was a joint

@@noelowens9976 😏👍

I think people who weren’t really into smoking in those days or who didn’t like it at all, sometimes lit 🔥 up just to fit in with the majority who did smoke during social occasions. Passive smoking was a part of daily life for non smokers so they may as well have been smoking anyway. A cigarette in a persons hand was as normal looking as a mobile phone today. Let’s just hope that phones don’t have the same knock on effect on people’s health.....

@@edwardogrady6587 It would serve the idiots right. Give the phones a rest people.

If you had a teenage son who danced like that, wouldn't you be seriously concerned about him?

@@harpharpharpharp1971 LOL You got me there.

really!!! not even winded..... amazing

He’s certainly got a fine farewell on him.

LOL, literally. They were under his armpits, Edit: Gay Byrne was a master of his trade, though I never remember him before colour TV.

He must share a Tailors with Simon Cowell. They might be the latest Back support Trousers.

They look great.

Ask your mum!

what accident?

@@JustFiddler He said in the interview how he broke his back falling 40 feet when he was younger.

@@davidhuff5676 i see.... god bless him

He had a few near misses but I didn’t see any accident. Was there an accident?🤔

@Christo Genea yes, I did actually hear that, I was just looking at it from an angle that might have added some banter to an otherwise very unfortunate situation, bless him. In this case I can see that it clearly didn’t work

Dammit, u beat me to that! See mine above...

@@whyyoulidl after I made It noticed someone had a similar idea, the reply to gargamels haircut comment down the bottom lol, all we need now is someone to sync the vid with firestarter, give it a little loop like when Keith's getting ready to dance lol

@@rutgersplague4595 Yep, that HAS to be done; I can see that vid sync in my head now! LOL

@@whyyoulidl maybe someone can digitally do one side of the hair green and the other purple lol

@@whyyoulidl he's only gone and done it lol

And better off for it

That remark tickled me funny bone

I'm an American who grew up watching Soul Train and loved it. This guy however, is amazing. It goes to show there are great dance forms and amazing dancers in all the cultures. This guy from Ireland went from paralysis to making moves that rearrange the molecules in your brain! Thank you sir, and God bless.

Anne Herbert - that a BIG LIE!

@@trishameenaghan8009 Having "soul" or being absent from the drink!?

And unlike so many cameramen of this current era, they actually focus on the right thing! It’s so annoying when cameramen filming Irish dancers film the top half of the body. We’re missing the most important part, their feet!

@@SilverSoundAlchemy I dunno... There were a lot of focusing and framing blunders during the Harknell era of Doctor Who.* I think it really depends on the studio, production (live air has all its warts, with no editing), and operator. There are a lot of variables to consider. A wide shot is easier to frame and focus, even with a moving subject, black & white looks sharper than early colour, different types of film were used in studio vs location, and so on (which explains quality differences in Monty Python sketches). At this point, I can't remember the frame-by-frame, but consider also, that film degradation over time kind of flattens the focus differential (per se), so it's harder for us to tell what mistakes might have been made in something that hasn't been reformatted/cleaned up for a digital medium. The equipment used now is a lot better, reliable, and portable. Live to air will always have an element of "reinventing the wheel," and it's easy to choose the few best bits after the fact, so we shouldn't judge the other 70% against those gems. 🤗 * Which has been restored, reformatted from film to DVD, etc., for modern playback.

@@maggpiprime954 ok so I’m literally talking about when people film Irish dancers for a show or on the news and they film the top half of their body. In Irish dancing, what’s the point? The top half isn’t doing anything! You’re missing “the money shot”, which is the footwork. When filming Irish dancing, I want to see their feet and legs, not their chest and arms which should be upright, straight and not moving. This cameraman got the money shot- they got the dancer moving and dancing and showing what’s important *in Irish dancing* - the movement of the legs and feet. This isn’t ballet or some other form of dance where the top half of the body is moving and expressing, this is Irish dancing, where the movement is only in the legs and feet. My whole point is that the cameraman did very well capturing Irish dancing. Many don’t. I don’t want to see an Irish dancer’s head and not their feet, it’s pointless.

@@SilverSoundAlchemy Ah, I see. Good point. Sorry.

And Planxty's major influencer, The Chieftains are also there ☺️

@@CrossCuntryFranco and the man himself, Seamus Ennis, is there with his pipes. I wish the entire footage of that night’s show was posted on RU-vid.

my dad told that joke in 1975

@@JohnMullee Well now I've retold it in 2021. You're lucky to have known two men in life who possess comedy genius. I'm envious as I only know the one.

@@5p3ckyf0ur3y3d833k well, I gave me a good laugh, so I'm included to agree with you there

That really tickled me lol. Brilliant

@D R Absolument, oui.

these days its either twerking, or stupid tick tock dances

I'd say most if not all of them in that clip have passed on

Your doin well if you watched that live and can now use youtube proficiently

@@neilarmstrong6843 well some could be in their 80s, 90s today

No one will ever come close to Gay !

He doesn't look any different then as he did when I last saw him. Sad to hear he has passed away. He is one of the first Irish persons I was aware of.

Some of us don't admire Jackson, so didn't watch him when he was alive, and sure as the world won't give him any attention now!

Michael Jackson actually learned the moonwalk from Marcelle Marceau, the French mime who taught him many of his moves.

Ireland has lost one of its greatest characters Gay Byrne RIP. He had charm, wit, personality in Abundance and always had The Craic with his contestants

So true the real skill is lacking, not easy to dance and not move your body

Looks messy though very erratic I seen better dancers.

@@glennoc8585 I think the point is that he was paralyzed and could not move for I think he said, 3 years. So absolutely amazing that he can even do that.

@@paulaneary7877 yeah that impressed me.

At the start ye can see the legendary piper Seamus Ennis, in the 1st row of the audience - with his pipes on his lap. A quality line-up