I am from Houston, Texas, USA. I have never heard of Swords before but now it is my personal Mecca. I will travel there by foot and by swimming, stay in a nice bnb, smoke all the hash there is to be found, and ask passersby for directions to the JC.
@seanshatters
3 жыл бұрын
It's walking distance from the airport
@raybo64
2 жыл бұрын
Just come out of the airport and turn left. It's only a mile away.
@bonnie9855
2 жыл бұрын
The rose cottage is a nice b&b but it's in an unmarked road
@kpeyton3
Жыл бұрын
Bonnie. The rose cottage is the most beautiful place in the world. There's no smell of piss and weed at all.
@MrDaraghkinch
Жыл бұрын
"Nice B 'n' B", in Swords, good one!
@cranberryanonymous
3 жыл бұрын
They breached the Geneva Convention when they founded St Finians Community College in Swords. It's the only school in the world that is probably on Amnesty Internationals radar
@TieflingTav
3 жыл бұрын
can confirm. graduated from there 10 years ago, still haven't recovered
@DrowzeeVEVO
3 жыл бұрын
Can confirm, I am in my final year and the roof is perpetually crumbling on the students who attend
@cranberryanonymous
3 жыл бұрын
@@DrowzeeVEVO just out of curiosity, have they fixed the fucking heating yet? I graduated in 2017 and back then the school was freezing and they *refused* let us wear our jackets despite the heating being fixed. We had to make our parents write a letter of complaint to ms knightly and threaten to report the school the department of education, it was actually that bad. Even worse was the fucking mold in all the classrooms (which we took pictures of and emailed to the department of education, so the school literally just painted over it when it was checked on)
@catherineennis388
3 жыл бұрын
I am a parent of a kid who was made wear someone elses smelly black shoes or second choice was to opt for just socks. Just because his black shoes had a tiny dark grey stripe on the sole and other kids bouncing about in red air max. All the while gaslighting us at the parent teacher meeting telling me what a dream he is. PTSD.
@cranberryanonymous
3 жыл бұрын
@@catherineennis388 I had a friend who was a straight A student, very meek, loved by all the teachers, humiliated infront of everyone when our darling headmaster caught her wearing a black jacket with green ON THE INSIDE and decided to have a go at her about it
@noeloreilly5724
3 жыл бұрын
Swords express drivers are legends
@threadschanged4252
Жыл бұрын
they are n all yep
@Sean_kelly-we9mb
3 жыл бұрын
Pavilion's like an endless void you go in there 1 and come out at 10
@goiterlanternbase
Жыл бұрын
That strolling drunkard, on fucking fire, fucking killed me🤣🏆
@silverkitty2503
3 жыл бұрын
swords people don't feel close to their families because there is no way their families are going to drive all the way to swords to see them ...swords is even far away from itself....
@gamzer
3 жыл бұрын
The only people that go on more about being from Swords than Swordsonians are those from river valley...which is also in Swords but they seem to think it's a mystical zone all to it's own.
@raybo64
2 жыл бұрын
🤣🤣🤣 and a lot of the Rover Valleyans are from somewhere that isn't or aren't Swords ( who knows if Swords is singular or plural). I know people in River Valley that aren't even from one of the Swords. One is from Raheny, the other is from Harmo.
@johannestewinkel9710
Жыл бұрын
I am a German university student and have never heard anything about Irish geography or culture differences. But im glad, this popped up in my recommendations
@Re-bl5sr
3 жыл бұрын
Buddy you need to compile these into a book 😂
@fobster2000
3 жыл бұрын
That would be fucking epic! Get a gofundme page going, be sorted.
@dub4life26
3 жыл бұрын
It would be more a bible than a book.... of only this man had been around when i was at school id have aced all my exams and could be a hipster pox now paying over the odds to buy a kip of a house in stoneybatter
@exbcn
Жыл бұрын
this aged well
@jamesdoyle2866
Жыл бұрын
And so he did
@alicequayle4625
Жыл бұрын
There's a good uk book called Crap Towns.
@grungepants
3 жыл бұрын
Swords is actually named after the "sword", a bladed melee weapon intended for cutting or thrusting that is longer than a knife or dagger, consisting of a long blade attached to a hilt.
@mrkeogh
Жыл бұрын
I thought it was named after S-words, like sword, skanger, shifty-looking, Subaru.
@grungepants
Жыл бұрын
@@mrkeogh Yes well obviously that too.
@vladtepesh3761
Жыл бұрын
Sword - First recorded use of the word before 900AD; Middle English; Old English sweord; cognate with Dutch zwaard, German Schwert, Old Norse sverth
@DrowzeeVEVO
3 жыл бұрын
Let's not forget the psychiatric ward that resides in Swords, named "St Finians", it's said that those who go there, return as a shell of the person they once were.
@neolcaffrey9936
2 жыл бұрын
I can confirm this is true
@sitluxetluxfuit4481
Жыл бұрын
I was forced to attend st finians CC But I can assure you that it was one of the better ones , the Cristian brother's school had to send the students home on a cold day ( the building was constructed with fiberglass, no joke) and fingal CC in my time was for students that where dismissed from all the other second level colleges in swords
@raybo64
2 жыл бұрын
Everything in Swords is plural. And it's not the Pavilion shopping centre. It's the PAVILLIONS in Swords.
@mccosmicdj5066
Жыл бұрын
Whoa, The Martin thing caught me off guard... Wow, that guy's amazing... 🤔
@ruairimaguire220
3 жыл бұрын
You should do Cabra next
@Re-bl5sr
3 жыл бұрын
Agreed.
@ConnbineHarvester
3 жыл бұрын
My dear hometown! I love north Dublin so much, I left Swords as soon as I could and now live in the new north Dublin, east Meath.
@cidermanone
2 жыл бұрын
Ah, some of us are genetically imprinted on The Lord Mayors, still shed a tear passing by it's closed frontage, weeping for underage drinking long past
@jackalchasingmoonbeams8483
3 жыл бұрын
Why did Mala hide? Because Balbriggan came Rushing with Swords.
@meadhbhobrien905
3 жыл бұрын
Loved it Frankie!
@reesewhelan3936
2 жыл бұрын
SO GLAD YOU MENTIONED THE JC'S I WAS WAITING FOR IT
@MadLicha
Жыл бұрын
Fun fact: Bill Cullen actually did go around the country giving motivational speeches to school kids
@BoulderCreekSteve
Жыл бұрын
I am an old man, and from the U.S. to boot, so there’s lots I don’t get -about your channel, but also about the modern world. However, I recognize a fellow smart-arse when I see one, and heartily approve. Proceed.
@thevikingisback3435
3 жыл бұрын
I know someone from swor... this message has been deleted by the Kimmage association
@fobster2000
3 жыл бұрын
I can see it now on a sign "Welcome to Swords... The middle aisle of county Dublin" 😄
@SNEEDANDBREED
Жыл бұрын
Ive never been to Ireland, I'll never go to Ireland but I feel like I've been to swords.
@meditationsfortheanxiousmind
Жыл бұрын
We all have
@simonh6371
Жыл бұрын
When I lived there in 2000 the favourite pub in town was The Slaughtered Lamb. Also I lived 5 mins walk across a green from JCs which weirdly had a separate Dunnes inside which was a bit like Marks and Spencers.
@potatomahonman5008
3 жыл бұрын
I love how we have like 4 secondary schools and they’re all shit
@kpeyton3
3 жыл бұрын
Lol they're so bad that I had to go to Portmarnock... That's saying alot, cause Portmarnock is bad too...
@bonnie9855
2 жыл бұрын
5
@milis758
Жыл бұрын
JC's the majority share holder of food thats been expired by 3 weeks
@earthcat
3 жыл бұрын
Right? I lived in Swords for a year and came back to my native USA. I've been yakking about living in Swords for 20 years 💀
@simonh6371
Жыл бұрын
Same I lived there in 2000 just for a year. Remember the Slaughtered Lamb pub?
@earthcat
Жыл бұрын
@@simonh6371 I must have missed that one but I think I hit all the others lol...The Pound was my favourite.
@bonnie9855
2 жыл бұрын
I still find it crazy that 40 thousand people live here. It seems so small. Where do they go. Who are they. Where are they
@niallyshere
Жыл бұрын
"a road bound teleportation device" i lold
@kellyjbrian
3 жыл бұрын
Nice One from a Swords native Pal!
@CrossBonez2980
2 жыл бұрын
I felt like I went on a nostalgia train like the kids train that used to be in the swords pavilion on the first floor If any of ye remember that train fair play to ya
@mikeyk212
3 жыл бұрын
I'd like to see Frankie's take on culchi land.
@olaf7854
2 жыл бұрын
Rip Martin
@Mark-jr6ld
Жыл бұрын
I bet this place would be cooler if it was just called Sword.
@TheTimestampsGuy
3 жыл бұрын
Swords, where commuter go to die...I mean live!
@stormin300
3 жыл бұрын
Crumlin next?
@AlbertoHernandez-vj3vv
7 ай бұрын
Guys, any possible recommendation? I'm working in the weekdays in Swords, specifically in appletown area, I have to commute 1hour and 30 minutes by bus (41) from abbey street (D01) every morning, is any other way to go easir and cheap to Swords? Thank's I'm really new on this 🙏
@yellowlightingbolt
3 жыл бұрын
Hold on a second! JCs and the Wrights Venue are gone?🤯🤯🤯 Please tell me the original one is still there 🙏🏼
@bonnie9855
2 жыл бұрын
JC's was bought by Dunnes and Wrights was renamed
@Jacksirrom
Жыл бұрын
Also from Texas. Was expecting real swords (now legal to open-carry in Texas).
@bam1742
Жыл бұрын
Swords has been yuppified and you can feel the encroachment of Mulerhide displaced denizens filling its streets with D4 accents and their parents deposits for a mortgage
@bam1742
Жыл бұрын
Fingal was invented to confine all the taxes earned from the airport to line the pockets of Fianna Fail councillers
@LoonZoomBoo
2 жыл бұрын
Could we have a Drimnagh one please?
@philsophkenny
3 жыл бұрын
Fingal Massive
@bass3966
Жыл бұрын
Australia
@raclark2730
Жыл бұрын
Nah its in Ireland mate.
@sitluxetluxfuit4481
Жыл бұрын
I have fought in the jacko on the swords side , I'm not from swords I had to go school there though , swords has/had more pub's then takeaway food stores , you could start drinking one pint on one side of the main street and stumble down the start of the other side and you would be crawling by the time you got to the last, 🤪🤮 that's if you could drink your way to the last pub , sadly the pubs that are left now seem to cater for a certain kind of clientele and most certainly not the pub crawler types . It was good craic while it lasted
@gerarddeegan1164
2 жыл бұрын
Fingal county me arse its dublin
@Tongue_Twister24
2 жыл бұрын
I just realised, is this the mooju ad guy 🤣
@McMgarc
3 жыл бұрын
Namaste 🙏
@Tongue_Twister24
2 жыл бұрын
Lol that is my main shopping place 🤣
@kwyatt261
Жыл бұрын
So it's a rich white suburb of Dublin?
@Warriorx269
8 ай бұрын
It's not rich by any means at all. It's shit just like the rest of this miserable nation.
@teddyburton2719
Жыл бұрын
Great place for hash...about 30 yr 😂😂ahh them was the days
@simonh6371
Жыл бұрын
I lived there in a shared house in 2000. A lad from Selbridge used to order our hash for us as he had ''connections'' from a guy called Skinny. One day I asked him to call Skinny but he was on holiday. So Alan calls another number and says ''Hoi is dat Piggy?''. We drove to JC's car park and a rosy cheeked chubby lad sorted us out.
@tommyconaghan32
2 жыл бұрын
3:18 that’s Manchester🤣
@thescissorfights
Жыл бұрын
thought this was gonna be about swinging some long ass blades and now im moving to a shithole in ireland
@beplanking
Жыл бұрын
As an American this made about as much sense as those "what English sounds like to non-English speakers" videos
@Warriorx269
8 ай бұрын
Please get me out of Ireland.
@jackiiboy366
3 жыл бұрын
There is something I dont like about Swords to be honest lol
@bryangooden4298
Жыл бұрын
Not a single sword, not even a cheap ass katana
@jum6740
3 жыл бұрын
First
@Daithinho
2 жыл бұрын
Sexiest girl in Swords sent me here
@treqrs
Жыл бұрын
Don't speak about your sister like that
@Warriorx269
8 ай бұрын
That isn't a high bar
@renaminginprogress6903
Жыл бұрын
Well the jokes on you! I didn't forget my phone I dropped my amber leaf and I'm fucked for cash right now
@jadedwitness9840
Жыл бұрын
You think swords is something you should see Milton Keynes
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