Conversations with Irish Steeplejacks Paddy & Charlie Brown, Dublin City, Ireland 1968

Frank Hall is frightened by the aerial view of Dublin offered from a precarious work site.
A somewhat nervous Frank Hall introduces steeplejacks Paddy Brown and Charlie Brown by;
"I think that you are the two greatest men alive."
The interview takes place on the steeple of a Dublin church. The professionals are very relaxed with the dizzying heights but reporter Frank Hall clings to a gargoyle while asking them about their work. Having been in the business for twenty years, the men are not bothered by heights. They were introduced to the work of a steeplejack through a family member and have been climbing structures ever since.
Charlie Brown and Paddy Brown can appreciate the view of Dublin City from the top of the church. Frank Hall would prefers a worm's-eye view to a bird's-eye view.
We always think of Dublin as a small city but when you look around it from this height it looks very large.
This episode of 'Newsbeat' was broadcast on 7 March 1968. The presenter is Frank Hall.

[@pjnugent8198]

Dressed like they were going to a match. Huge respect to Frank Hall. That's not something he was doing every day. Brilliant stuff.

[@effdee826]

Those lovely old Dublin accents. My mother could tell the difference between 3 or 4 very local dialects in Dublin.

[@newtomthai3855]

great old dub accent long since gone now its awful and gruff

[@jamesbradshaw3389]

Heath & Safety ? I recall many years ago working from the top of a very large triple extension ladder about 60ft tall on the front of a building beside Bayswater tube station to carry out some small but very urgent works to remove loose falling stonework, scaffolding would have to expensive to erect for a small repair so we decided to park our truck on the edge of the road, erect a very heavy tall ladder on the edge of the road, span over the footpath, place a few had written warning signs and cones near the erected ladder and with 2 men at ground level guiding the people under the ladder. From the top of the ladder, I could see all around also down below and noticed that several people who had passed under the ladder, quickly turning around and running back under the ladder again then walking around the outside on the edge of the road, those people must have been suffering from superstition. I short time later I saw an old lade walking down the footpath with 2 little dogs on long leads. I was sure that the boys at ground level would handle this situation so I carried on with my work, a few minutes later I felt my ladder slide a little to one side, as I looked down I saw the old lady and my boys trying un unravel those mad dogs and their long leads from the bottom of the ladder, I got a heck of a shock, I got the shakes, I finished removing the loose stone work and got back down to ground level. It took me hours to finally stop shaking.

[@SethTheOrigin]

Brilliant !

[@jamesbradshaw3389]

@@SethTheOrigin Thanks, True story

[@liamkatt6434]

Terrific story and well told. Thank you.

[@richard-ij2fm]

Excellent video

[@nelldaly3274]

Sweaty palms and shooting pains to the feet just watching them! R.I.P. wonderful brave men.

[@jamesbradshaw3389]

I agree with all the way and yes R.I.P. wonderful brave men. and other men who worked on building sites in very harsh conditions in years past

[@beakyfree7023]

Bless the interviewer for facing his fears

[@lovelyhurlin6494]

This is brilliant! 😂

[@edwardclark4300]

RESPECT 🇮🇪🍀👌💯commentator was trembling 😂😂😂

[@jaws6869]

Earning his money that day 😂

[@martinwalsh3228]

Frank Hall great presenter I wish The Late Late Show with him were online.

[@Pfessor_Moriarty]

God i miss those auld Dublin accents

[@jamesbradshaw3389]

Yes it is indeed fading away, accents are fading all over the place in the next 50 years or so the younger peole will all be talking with a MidAtlantic accent which is a shocking thought

[@seanmacdhuibhne]

@@jamesbradshaw3389 With what's coming in to Ireland now, every city and town will have a different accent within a generation from now. The tradition London accent has now changed to a Londonistan accent.

[@ARyan-nf5my]

Real work meant real Irishmen

[@robertdoyle687]

Brings them closer to God than most of us 😎

[@mosseyw]

The interviewer was really bricking it big time 😂

[@eddieraffs5909]

Ah the days when the Big Smoke was actually smoky

[@Fireman9ify]

Frank Hall isnt too happy up there. Paddy and Charlie have a few boards tied together and are quiet happy, if they did that today they would probably get 10 years in Jail for Health and Safety Violations. One of those scaffold tubes has a nice wee bow in it, alle kept together with a few bits of rope.

[@onlytelldatruth8331]

Proud to be from James St

[@MartinoLeary-c5n]

He said he was a "Dublinman" meaning he and all his people were from Dublin, and not "Dubliner", meaning not originally from the city. We always said "Dublinman" because it seemed to us that everybody was born and raised there,such was the tight knit nature of society in a much smaller city ."Dublinman" is not used so much nowadays...I suppose it reflects in a small way how much we've changed.

[@marilenaf6426]

Oh look, Dublin from the days when there was parking!!! 😂

[@FelixstoweFoamForge]

That interviewer is dropping kittens.....

[@PaulWalshp-wx4in]

HEALTH N SAFETY YA WHATT 😂UP ME BOLLIX 😂👊👌👌👌

[@thomasburke2683]

Can't believe Frank Hall had the courage to do this. Pity he couldn't be equally brave when censoring movies a few years later. Which church is this, anyway? Is it Saint Saviour's, Dominick Street, perhaps? And who is the fourth man behind Hall, indeed what was the cameraman standing on, the roof parapet?

[@mitchell16]

2:36 is that not Nelsons Pillar? Thought that was destroyed in 1966, but this is from 1968? Love seeing sights around the city in a different period. So many of the social housing blocks that were to be built not long after this video was aired in the video, you can see the empty plots.

[@bahoonies]

Yes it is. What a loss to the city it was when those idiots destroyed it. As a boy I desperately wanted to go up it but that senseless act removed a great city attraction.

[@connoroleary591]

​@@bahoonies I wanted to go up it too, one week before the Irish Taliban destroyed it, but my mother said "some other time".

[@bahoonies]

@@connoroleary591 I was only 13 when they blew it up.

[@connoroleary591]

@@bahoonies I was almost 6 years old when I wanted to go up and pestered poor mammy to spend a little of her pittance to take me up. "Some other time" she said. I wonder if I am the youngest person alive to remember the Pillar? Take care!

[@bahoonies]

@@connoroleary591 At least we saw the pillar and remember it. There are a few photos of it online. A pity I didn't know you. We could have gone up it together. Best wishes.

[@michaelstaunton1632]

👍👍

[@phillipnoone8044]

Where are the ropes? Obviously, the journalist is SCARED 🤣

[@thedarkhugheshughes2640]

When men were men

[@johnconnolly5425]

When Ireland was Irish ...

[@thedarkhugheshughes2640]

@@johnconnolly5425 what do you mean

[@johnconnolly5425]

Pre-mass immigration ...

[@TheToolnut]

​@@johnconnolly5425When we were an ethnically and religiously homogeneous nation, 💪💪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪

[@johnconnolly5425]

Moreso in 1968 than now. - by far!

[@hyland1984]

That's the church on Dominick Street.

[@Tomtoms-tomtoms]

Anyone know which church this is? It’s familiar but I can’t place it?.

[@kayveen5853]

St. Saviour’s Church, Dominick Street. The Luas passes right in front of it now.

[@Tomtoms-tomtoms]

@@kayveen5853 thanks a million.. i know it well and couldn’t place it. 🙏

[@kevrockism]

What church are the on there , can't work it out

[@seanmckillen9090]

Health and safety 🤔🤣🤣

[@TyroneMooselips]

Wouldn’t catch no loyalists up there lol

[@jamesbradshaw3389]

why not

[@bustabloodvessel5327]

​@@jamesbradshaw3389Because there's no marching up there.

[@jamesbradshaw3389]

@@bustabloodvessel5327 Ha Ha that is very funny , I can stop laughing Ha Ha

[@patob4868]

How sad listening to these true blue dubs what would they think of the state of ireland and dublin at the moment

[@monkeybudge]

Does your mind ever stray from immigration issues? Touch some grass

[@TheToolnut]

​@@monkeybudgeWake up! Our Country is being taken from us by a satanic communist cabal in Lenster House. If the Irish don't act soon our Country will be gone.

[@Fatfrogsrock]

One of the biggest and most rapid changes to a societies demographics in history ever is a pretty big issue in fairness​@@monkeybudge

[@SethTheOrigin]

Does anyone know which Church in Dublin this is?

[@Fatfrogsrock]

St saviours in Dominick Street