Classic Irish advertisements

omagh_gael · July 20, 2017, 09:01:15 PM

How has this not been mentioned?!

https://youtu.be/ZA8NU_CCapY

manfromdelmonte · July 20, 2017, 10:34:01 PM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-Nz9sBjs3o

Bord na Mona

Tony Baloney · July 20, 2017, 11:01:11 PM

None more Irish than the old ones with Joe Cooney dosing a calf.

Main Street · July 21, 2017, 04:56:12 PM

Quote from: Hardy on July 20, 2017, 06:40:30 PM
Quote from: Main Street on July 20, 2017, 11:54:01 AM
In the 1970s the Irish Army (the official one) had some corny ones which stood out. There was one for the "elite" rangers, where a fully uniformed troop were out running on a country track, singing a call response, "we are rangers" "jolly jolly rangers"

Here's one from the '70s for the regular troop.

https://www.liveleak.com/view?i=582_1498850405

It was corny, but it wasn't "jolly jolly rangers", it was "mighty mighty rangers".

Ok, I'll give you that one. Your memory is good.
Can you remember the name of the sportsperson, capped regularly at intl level, who led the troop?

Hardy · July 21, 2017, 09:36:59 PM

Didn't know that. Who?

Main Street · July 23, 2017, 09:29:47 AM

Quote from: Hardy on July 21, 2017, 09:36:59 PM
Didn't know that. Who?

I don't remember the name, he was a young sportsman and known to some extent, hardly would be a rugby player as any rugby toff would not be an army foot soldier, probably one of the top amateur boxers, a sport which had a popular profile then.

AZOffaly · July 23, 2017, 09:53:43 AM

It wasn't that lad Loftus was it ? I remember him as an Army man I think, and he had a high enough profile. Was on superstars etc.

stew · July 23, 2017, 01:24:05 PM

Guinness had some mighty ads back in the day, i am away to try and figure how to pidt them on here via youtube.

Main Street · July 23, 2017, 01:48:48 PM

Quote from: AZOffaly on July 23, 2017, 09:53:43 AM
It wasn't that lad Loftus was it ? I remember him as an Army man I think, and he had a high enough profile. Was on superstars etc.

He would have been too young at the time and not in the public eye. He was even an unknown (to most folk) when competing in the superstars in the early 1980s.

manfromdelmonte · July 23, 2017, 02:34:15 PM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T12sepCTJLU

Guinness - The Island

rosnarun · July 25, 2017, 03:01:08 PM

best GAA related ad i've seen
Aidan os Se -elverys
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yf02aaQjLRY

Franko · July 25, 2017, 04:25:13 PM

Not strictly an advertisement, but this piece on RTE around the time of the 2013 hurling championship was top class.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcGZ8_1ua0I