Just Saying

[@DevelopedPlum]

Have to come back to this in times of uncertainty

[@ronanoconnor3014]

almost 10 years old, still a gem and still very very relevant .... brilliant!

[@dairethomas2260]

I’m just saying, we’re 6 years on and it’s just as relevant now as it was then.

[@DublinEnemy]

Just Saying, after 7 Years in Dublin ( I am German !) I luv this city and appreciate the opportunity to have made this city my new home ! Thank you Dublin, Thank you Ireland !

[@Shotdown1027]

That moment where he stops, the music kicks in, and he says "No. You'se all fucked off." is just gut-wrenching.

[@anthonyflynn8924]

I felt that. It speaks for itself chasing friends that are all for themselves. Following the crowd. Bellowing thoughts that scream out loud. Now alone and looking around. Where am I now.

[@janetburke8327]

Everything about this is perfect, the writing,the performance, the city streets, the background music, the atmosphere. Perfection.

[@miseciara]

Still completely relevant... gorgeously written and well acted. So maith sibh.

[@seanfitzsimonscryptomedia]

I left for the UK in 1987. Watching this fills me with happy and sad memories of Dublin before I left. I now live in London and sometimes wonder how life would've panned out for me had stayed. Eight of us left, two went back.

[@jdunne04]

I've been living in the UK for the past few years. I come back to this video every now and again to take me back to Dublin. Reminds me where I'm from.

[@vinniel87]

Same as dude

[@danahlstrom1]

same from Paris

[@fearghalcronin4617]

Same from Sydney! Just had a big night and my head is banging and I thought I'd whip out the 'Just Saying' craic again! :D All in all, it's well done and strikes a chord each time. Love it.

[@deebee3424]

Same!

[@gavinmeehan2783]

Getting sentimental

[@BaileysMariner]

"Any craic?" "No. Yous all fucked off." :-( This.

[@CharlieLordTeacher]

Love it. I left Belfast 25 years ago, landed in America. The kid had a few great lines in there, very good stuff.

[@rhythmsaint73]

"Saw this long whole back. Found it again. Living now in the US and being from Ireland this struck a chord even more than when I first experienced it. A prolific piece beautifully orchestrated and acted. The back drop of Dublin in the early hours is so powerful. I'm proud of Ireland proud to be Irish and ashamed of the government. It's people are wonderful and this is proof that the art is still there. Thank you Dave for a stunning reflection on Eire as it is now"

[@Africpoems]

I'm not even from Dublin, but I get choked up every time I hear this - makes me love the place, the country, even more, and glad to be home again. You've more soul in your little finger, Dave, than most poets...

[@BM-yr1lc]

This is Emmet Kirwan

[@rorykelly5287]

@@BM-yr1lc its written by dave tynan

[@feramires]

I'm just saying that after living here for over 2 years I am now able to understand everything he is saying! lol

[@louisemathews]

Perfect! A voice of our generation!!! A question I debate with myself. With 10 good reasons to go and a thousand little reasons to stay!!! Perfect!!!

[@patrickfinnerty4693]

Was living in London when I saw this pop up on my newsfeed. Played a big part in me coming home.

[@jamesmartin2493]

Are you happy u came back?

[@eire2reg]

This'll be my first Xmas in Dublin, around a table with my family, in 6 years. Watching this last year, I cried. This year, I'm bawling! Fcuking love Dublin to death!

[@davetynan3599]

Hope you've a ball at home.

[@JG-es5dj]

Oh fuck off it's a kip

[@jay_frfx]

@@JG-es5dj bet ur from roscommon

[@annachiaravispi9145]

I have been living in Ireland for all but three months but it still brings me to tears when I see a raindrop in Ireland - classic Dublin 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@rickyc4535]

ITS EVERY YOUNG DUBLIN PERSON'S POEM IN THIS GENERATION

[@seanconneff1127]

Ricky C "any craic?" "no yous all fucked off"

[@nononsense23]

I was in Perth Airport Australia in December 2013 getting ready to fly home for Christmas when I first heard this 🇦🇺 🇮🇪

[@djguy100]

I left Ireland in 2001 for a year and again in 2004 and haven't been back to live. Get back a few times a year on holidays though. My work has brought me to over 40 countries and i have lived and met some amazing people. Now every time i go home i don't want to have to leave. despite everything that is wrong at home Ireland is still one of the very best countries in the whole world. And never let anyone tell you any otherwise.

[@celticjohn34]

I've lived in london for 8 years, now Australia for 17yrs, I've lived outa Ireland for longer than I've lived there. I will always be Irish and Ireland will always be home, even though I now have 2. This clip is class, so on the money and so well put together, but I reckon only the Irish will get it. I think it's because we are like one, we are unique.

[@dylankavanagh3512]

9 years on and I still love this video.

[@hazelhogan8560]

This still gives me shivers every time I listen to it. 🌟

[@occian10]

It captures the feelings I had when I left Dublin 30 odd years ago .... Nice work.

[@deeshancamiah7371]

Been years since we were since we were showed this in school and its still one of the best pieces of writing out there

[@ScaryEire]

Irelands greatest export will always be her youth. Fair play, once again Emmet has nailed it beautifully!

[@35GNeil]

Superb and as a guy who left a few years ago he gets the feelings of those gone, left and most importantly the ones thinking of leaving.

[@kieranredmond3905]

I left twenty-four years ago to Canada, came back four years ago, now I'm more homesick for Toronto than I was for Dublin. The Dublin we left is no longer, streets and attitudes have changed. Emmet is right,10 reasons to go, too many little excuses to stay. To anyone considering returning, don't waste your time, what you left is history, stay where you are, it can't be as bad as here. To anyone considering leaving, go for it! Great film, well done, deserves an Oscar.

[@tearitloosetearitloose4670]

How are you getting on now? Did you go back to Canada? Your right in what you say.. I left Dublin 10 years ago...I go back every couple of years to see friends and family... but only for a few days and I'm gone again...

[@tonymoore89]

Absolutely epic portrayal of a young person left in Ireland at the moment....... little here for them but still cant leave.

[@danielmurray3676]

I was shown this in transition year.. almost nine years later I still listen a couple of times a year. I’m not sure if there’s anything that quite captures the minutia of what it means to be Irish, the good and bad. Amazing

[@liffeystynx]

Anything with Emmet Kirwan is worth watching. This ... is poetry.

[@HavingTheCrack]

Think I'd moved from Ireland 1 year after this was made and I remember watching it in Spain feeling a million miles away, I've been back to visit but I'm still abroad and not in Spain anymore and I don't think I'll ever move back, I don't have a home but I'm good with it. I seen too many of my friends leave before I did so the place wasn't the same.

[@EGANYABAM]

ST Patrick's Day 2023 watching this as everyone I know lives abroad now including myself and realizing how relevant this still is

[@Faves52]

Left Ireland in '97 to travel. Had an opportunity to move back beginning of 2010 but the warning signs were there. Living in Canada for 7 years now. The amount of Irish here compared to when I first came is astonishing. Love being Irish but I've always felt more Irish abroad than at home.

[@hoohaa1]

Know the feeling. Great job Emmet and all involved. Really touching.

[@TheFatedDarkness]

Best Irish short film I've seen in I don't know how long. Awesome.

[@irishgrumpy]

"The answers aren't on Camden street, and they never were" Makes the hair on the back of my neck stand up.

[@dnhy7951]

Everybody knows the answers are on Aungier St! Always were. A for answers,A for Aungier, A for are and A for always. A'roight?

[@madestgal]

Its so strange to see so many comments about how this video made ppl home sick when this video just reminds me how much i want to leave.... long nites, cold weather, dark times, been ripped off, there is no craic left dont be fooled by your visit home if ya lived here it wouldnt be so great all the time so enjoy your visit its always great to see ya's... when i use to travel i would always missed home but i dont think there is anything left to miss but family.

[@deebee3424]

I agree it has changed a lot. Irish people are ripped off and just accept it most of the time

[@EatinAintCheatin1]

Get shivers down the spine listening to this having lived abroad myself, been there and tried it out. Such a moving video

[@MissRabbit83]

I have just moved home to Dublin again after three years in the UK. This film had me in tears, not because it made me feel better for moving home, but because it managed to capture every mixed emotion I'm going through in a few short minutes. Thanks to the makers.

[@AislingMolloy]

Dublin is a different but still a brilliant place. This video captures it all. When I was about to graduate last year, we all started to ask each other 'where are you going?', not 'are you going?', it seemed like there were very little options. A lot of us have stayed. And the craic is still mighty most of the time.

[@AbbyOliveGrove]

This is absolutely beautiful in all respects. Videography, spoken word, all of it. I've got a weight in my heart after listening 3 times, in a god way and a melancholic way at the same time. It's heartbreaking to think of everyone who has had to leave this place I adore. Even I myself am one foot in and out, at this point here only for the love of the place and people. Ah!

[@ConCon75]

When I first watched this I was in London this video was one of the reasons I decided to return home. 9 years later I'm back in the North West of England. Ireland has failed us.

[@whitephoenixweddingfilms]

Very few things have touched my heart like this before

[@johnfintanfingleton9650]

For someone who has been through the whole process of immigrating abroad on a few occasions and is now back living in Ireland, This is a very moving piece, sums it all up ,

[@romoovideos]

Super actor. Well done. Video makes me proud and sad at the same time. Really well done to all involved.

[@composer369]

All homes are like that; they tug at our souls with memories that make us repelled as much as in love. We want to be there as quick as leave and never return. You have said this well...and I am of English ancestry now over 350 years in America.

[@PatCarroll_1]

Brilliantly captures the complexity of staying in or leaving Ireland. Class video. Respect.

[@keithoyoung34]

i like this,i moved away 11 years ago,and miss dublin.but i got a boy here in the states and wherever he goes i go.iv been back a handful of times,parents passing and so on,but dublin has not changed for me,its a mish mash of brilliant bullshit,and please god il die there.im very very proud to be irish,theres no one like us on the planet,and the humour is second to none.

[@buster931000]

you speak what all young people think but we forget... your a genius ,man

[@bradeog]

Superbly written ,filmed and acting......captures the views of young dubs perfectly ...poetry in motion!

[@darylmccann4911]

"Magnificent Bastards in the Lost City of Dutch Gold" hahaha

[@mrshane7770]

i think this captured how every 20 to 30 yr old is feeling in this country it screams your not alone.

[@Romance-outsourced]

How has this escaped my attention until now? Powerful stuff; great script, great acting, great production!

[@sjswords]

Still love this!

[@jasondoyle4761]

One of the best videos on this anyone that knows somebody that traveled the world will understand

[@MrJ2hig]

Very moving with an incredible script. I love the urban rawness of the imagery the speaker portrays and the element of reality he brings across. Well done.

[@madzyadzy07]

This makes me crave tonight like nothing else! Happy New Year Everyone!!

[@karendeans3347]

A very poignant expression of life in your 20's. Beautifully written and shot. Emigrated in 1977 to America with my family when I was 7. Back since 1999, raising my own family.Totally understand Dave's film. Keep it up!

[@articraider]

Been out of Ireland 35 years and miss the damm place, I,m a bogman from the whest coast but love Dublin. I've learnt other languages and travelled and met amazing people . The republic is almost a failed project with a low quality political class, get out if you can and open your eyes. It's tough but waiting for change is tougher. By leaving you create change and above all you can see what Ireland could have become had not the gombeen class kidnapped it.

[@stringer123ful]

So much truth spoken with honesty.

[@TheRonanGallagherBand]

This is pure poetry. A thing of great beauty, yet so simple in its execution. Beautifully written, acted and directed. Makes me proud to be an Irish film maker. RonanG Iron Mountain Movies

[@Clisare]

fantastic. the million tiny reasons are the reasons ill be coming home. Great vid!

[@Gallery1111]

This is a superb piece of work! Love Dublin

[@luluhubbardmcg]

Here cos met Emmet Kirwin today and now unashamedly stalking him any way I can. He’s a beautiful soul❤️

[@DJCHARCCY]

Honestly can't stop watching this emmet is a legend I know him from school

[@foodwallet1223]

2024 lads. Still love this.

[@letsgehachicken]

Can't stop watching this, it's so good!

[@TheBearKelly]

Great video.The words spoken were well chosen and it captures what everyone hears being said every week up and down this land of ours.

[@TygerproductionsUK]

Congratulations everyone involved in the making of this piece of Art. Brilliant job everyone. Get ready for the awards to come flooding in.

[@heardashot]

The honestly is terrifyingly truthful in this work....wow! So powerful its beyond any words i can string together..........Thank you!!!!

[@WaterfordWhispersNewsLtd]

This is quite simply beautiful.

[@VictoriaMaryClarkeAngels]

Absolutely brilliant. I think that even though it is about Ireland, it could also be about anywhere, just about the way that life is. Never as beautiful or romantic or sexy as you imagine it could be, but still, if you think about it you can always find something amazing in it......

[@cfmorrow1]

This is beautiful. Really, really beautiful. I don't want to have to leave Ireland after I finish college but so far things are looking this way. I'll miss it, and I know we say that we can always come home. It won't be home anymore. I've lost at least ten of my mates to emigration and they aren't coming back. They've moved on and got new lives.

[@ainhogan]

Brings it home, everyone can relate to this clip somehow

[@michaelbarry7410]

Simply brilliant. Well done to all involved.

[@Andinov02]

It is the very nature of being human that makes us give value to places to which we are familiar because evolutionarily these have been the places that we have associated with safety and warmth. For 10,000 years, 'moving on, trying new things with there lives' were grave decisions for human beings... Also making something like this is not easy. What ever about the script, the cinematography, music and performance are all superb.

[@figure77790]

This always struck a chord with me. watching my pals leave these shores to far flung places like my ancestors in search of a better life. They may indeed find it. There are 70 million people on this planet who identify as irish. There is 5 million who inhabit this small island still. We are a nation of famine refugees... war refugees... AND economic refugees. I am thankful that the world now embraces us as the beautiful, inteligent and dynamic people we are. I wish it wasn't the case, but still every few months I attend a "going away party" of a friend I love and may never see again in the flesh. The southern hemisphere calls with oportinity on banana farms a plenty. things are getting better here. But are they ever gonna be so good that we can trust our elected officials to do what's best for our citizens. I'm stuck here now till I can manufacture an oportinity to get my daughter out of this corrupt hell hole. I want her to grow up in a place where her 1 single vote actually counts and we're not governed by a disgusting corrupt regime that the irish people have been stuck with the last 5 years. Our people deserve more. better. We want our people home. We need to stop sending our best and brightest to other countries. We need them here. With our educated workforce we could build a super economy... providing we have the correct leader ship. anyway onto my major point. We irish are a travelling people. We are educated and skilled. We also needed help over the past 150 years. We need to help these refugees from that war torn area of Syria and Iraq. an irish person who cannot identify with the plight of these people needs to seriously look at our history and see what we have accomplished when WE were given a chance. within 100 years of the great famine (an gorta mor) we had an irish man in the white house...

[@haveafunlife2696]

What...

[@d.murp.4574]

Old OddJobs you are very naive

[@JiwiJuice]

I always find myself coming back to this. Amazing.

[@crashingdown6924]

I've left dublin, il prob never go back but if I had to re-live my life id coose dublin, but I'd make a 1000 different choices.

[@tjgilligan6250]

Very well done! Really makes you think is it all worth it in the end!

[@ellenssalmon7419]

Well done, what a fabulous piece of work.

[@jmclerkin]

I love every beat of this.

[@RedmondsVideos]

Brilliant, absolutely brilliant.

[@robertthorne5497]

This is absolutely amazing.

[@7april61]

Joycean brilliance......well done, pure poetry.

[@bobbyfunluv]

Excellent. Modern Poetry of a generation suffering for mistakes they didn't make.

[@philbobagbox1177]

Gets me every time. "London and Sydney swallow up your mates" and they have. great poem an Emmett does it justice. thanks

[@nycirl3474]

Haunting indictment on immigration and those left behind. I left Ireland 20 years ago - this strikes a cord. Bravo Mr. Tynan, excellent piece.

[@Ronronzo]

Think it's beautiful and simple and genius all at the same time.

[@MaryKellyFootball]

2 months later and I'm still watching this almost daily. It gives me goosebumps every time.

[@MaryKellyFootball]

Delighted to have seen this on RTE. Still one of my favourite clips on youtube this year.

[@BrightsideBloke]

This is such a great video, Just saying what we all feel at time's. I left Ireland back in the late 80's not for work or the grass was greener on the other side. i left but continued working for an Irish company. I feel sorry for those that have been kicked in the gut's by the irish government. But regardless guys & gal's keep your chin up and be proud, they can't take your Irishness away from you.. Slante

[@OriginalSpaceCowboy]

This is quality! As someone who left Dublin for a long time and has now been home for over 3 years i find myself thinking at times "Yeah this city is a bit shit, and yeah maybe some parts of it are a dump" but so what its our city and at the end of the day i love it!

[@nmart03]

powerful video makes ya miss home, but ensures you remember the reasons why you look forward to getting back,, whenever that may be

[@maracecilio]

I really love this video!!! Amazing performance and great speech. I'm learning a lot about irish and Ireland when i watch this videos. Thanks a lot. Awesome work.

[@silverroof56]

watched this a few times, the sound track is top,..great atmospheric music

[@HidingSleeper]

I see your point. I'm a home bird myself and can't ever imagine leaving Ireland for good, for all it's flaws I still love it. Just because there's tough times I can't bring myself to leave. Love the country too much. We've left this country in droves over the last couple of centuries, possibly even further back, but we have to try and fix things eventually, they don't fix themselves. We have the potential to be great, we just don't seem to believe in ourselves and constantly seek validation.

[@MyPetGargoyle_]

Brilliant, a beautiful piece of art and written extremely well. I think they picked the right actor too :)