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00:01Two pounder chops, no for 50 pounds.
00:03It's a match, 10 for a euro.
00:05Deep in Dublin's north inner city lies Moor Street.
00:10Known widely for its history and its traders,
00:13all life is on the streets.
00:15I want to contribute to the society.
00:18Don't be worrying, just spend, spend, spend.
00:20This iconic street has become one of the most diverse places in Ireland,
00:25and while its future is uncertain...
00:27It's to not know where we're going to end up, that's the stressful part.
00:31There's no place quite like it.
00:33It's going to make you, or it's going to break you.
00:46Thanks, love.
00:47Can you put them in the back for me, please?
00:49Just bring them. Put them in your thing, you curt.
00:51Ah, here we go.
00:54Work for nothing.
00:55Here's the back, please.
00:56How long do I know you?
00:58Well, you've known me about 17 years.
01:01My God.
01:0117.
01:03You were mad about me when I was young.
01:04Yeah, I was, I was mad about you. Yeah, I was.
01:07It's the walk of you.
01:08I know, I have some walk.
01:10It's the walk of you.
01:11Now, me.
01:11Now, girls, thanks a lot.
01:12Bye-bye.
01:13Your runners are deadly.
01:15Your runners are the business.
01:16Business, you know me.
01:17Yeah.
01:18Well, if you were single, I would have dated myself.
01:20Oh, I knew that.
01:21I could tell by the way you looked at me.
01:33Dublin's Moor Street has long attracted photographers trying to capture its energy.
01:38Street photographer Arif spends a lot of time here.
01:42Moor Street can be a great place to shoot because your attention kind of just goes everywhere.
01:46There's so much things going on and there's so much stuff that you're kind of drawn to.
01:51I love the way when you go there, you're surrounded by different nationalities, different voices, different colors.
01:58When you spend a certain amount of time there, you actually forget that you're in Dublin.
02:02So that was one of the things that I really found very intriguing.
02:05Man, it's such a cool shop.
02:07Yeah, it's not bad.
02:08Where originally are you from?
02:11I'm from Afghanistan.
02:12Wow.
02:13Yeah.
02:13What is your name?
02:14Idris.
02:15Idris?
02:16Idris.
02:16My brother's name is Idris.
02:18Yeah, yeah, yeah.
02:19My name is Arif.
02:20Arif.
02:21Nice to meet you.
02:21Great to meet you.
02:23One of the things that photography has kind of taught me is being very open and communicative with people.
02:28But there is a lot I've learned about myself and Dublin and other people through photography.
02:35When I sit down and talk to someone, they tend to open up to me very easily.
02:39And I don't know why that is, but that can be a very powerful thing.
02:42Do you think that's the most, at the top of the list, that's the thing that Irish people are most
02:48uncertain with?
02:49It's who is being led into the country.
02:51Yeah.
02:52Well, would that be the same in South Africa? Would anyone just rock into South Africa?
02:55South Africa is really like that.
02:56South Africa has been really, there's been a lot of immigration from other countries.
03:00I was born in South Africa.
03:02I have roots in India.
03:04And my mother is from Kilketty.
03:06So it's a good mix of culture in my blood, you know.
03:10I immigrated here in 98.
03:12I was 11 with my mom, my dad and my two brothers.
03:16So my whole family is here.
03:18Went to school here, went to college here.
03:21So Ireland is my home.
03:22What soil would you be on?
03:24I would be on the side that, I'd be kind of in the middle with things.
03:27I understand, I understand how people can be frustrated.
03:31But then you also have to understand that there's so much going on outside the world,
03:37that people just can't stay in their own countries.
03:39Yeah.
03:40Go on, I need to take care.
03:41Do you mind if I grab a photo of you?
03:42No, no, no.
03:43Thank you so much.
03:44Thanks for talking to me.
03:45No, it's nice to meet you.
03:46Yeah, you're great.
03:47Come on, David.
03:47Yeah, yeah, sweet.
03:48There you go.
03:49So I was 29 years old and I was studying music in college.
03:53I started getting really bad headaches and I started kind of feeling a problem with my eye.
03:58I went to get a scan and they told me it was a tumor.
04:01It's actually attached to your optical nerve.
04:04So I had to go through brain surgery and like seven weeks of radiotherapy and stuff.
04:09So it was a very difficult time for me.
04:13You get like two or three MRI scans a year.
04:16And I do get regular blood tests as well.
04:18There is a small bit of the tumor still on my optical nerve.
04:22So they haven't been able to fully remove it.
04:25That's why I had to go for the radiotherapy.
04:27You look really cool.
04:28Okay, I'm going to take it from down here.
04:30Ah, that's kind of nice.
04:32There is some side effects that are a little bit difficult for me.
04:35I have kind of problems with my short-term memory, which can be kind of difficult as well.
04:39I mean, if you think about the process of taking photos, you're essentially capturing memories.
04:44So for someone who's struggling with memories, being able to capture memories is a very powerful process.
04:51Nice.
04:52I'm all shaky.
04:54You have a very beautiful smile.
04:56About two years ago, I was doing video work on Moore Street.
04:59Unfortunately, I was assaulted on Moore Street.
05:01I was punched where I had the surgery.
05:04My camera was picked up.
05:05My camera was broken.
05:06No problem.
05:07No problem.
05:08Sorry about that.
05:08With Moore Street, obviously, you have to be a little bit cautious with things.
05:11You have to be a little bit wary where you point your camera.
05:13You have to be very careful what you're taking a photo and who you're taking a photo of.
05:17It forces you to think.
05:19Sorry.
05:19Hey, would I be able to take a photo of you and your family with your mum?
05:23No.
05:24No?
05:24Oh, okay.
05:26Ah, cool.
05:29Could I take your photograph with your doggy?
05:31Ah, wow.
05:32Film them?
05:33Cool.
05:34Ah, wow, there's two of them.
05:36Ah, wow.
05:55I don't know why you put this thing here.
06:01It's so cold.
06:01I think it's to be a little bit to burn my hand.
06:04It's not to burn my hand.
06:05Man, as the girls take it, they don't feel.
06:07Ah, girls, what do you mean?
06:09Mão of boys, man.
06:11You have to understand what it's the next thing.
06:13Mulher.
06:13Why not for a girl?
06:15Mulher.
06:15Mulher.
06:15Mulher.
06:16Mulher's to feel like a girl.
06:17Mulher.
06:17Mulher.
06:19Mulher.
06:19Andrea lives with her husband, Rory,
06:21around the corner from Moore Street.
06:23She sells artisanal handmade jewelry
06:25from her stall here every weekend,
06:27but business is unpredictable.
06:31I'm Ecuadorian.
06:32My business in Moore Street is for selling
06:35your work from my country.
06:36A good day for me at the market is when I cover
06:40the fee off the table and have a little bit of profit.
06:43Our paths crossed when I was in a town in Ecuador,
06:47or baños, and we swiped right together on Tinder,
06:52so we had first contact was via Tinder.
06:56So the bio I wouldn't have been able to understand
06:58because it would have been in Spanish.
06:59So what I had swiped for was her looks.
07:01I thought she was very beautiful, still do.
07:04I'm definitely gonna get this, please.
07:06And it was 20, correct?
07:08Perfect.
07:08Thank you so much.
07:10When the day arrived and we got married,
07:14Mary, she did the bouquet for my wedding,
07:17so when we got married, we decided to walk down
07:20Moore Street to see them, because also they wanted
07:23to see my dress.
07:25Everybody was so happy to see me with my traditional clothes
07:28as well, walking down the street.
07:31How are you, sweetie?
07:33All good.
07:34There might be a comment of, is there a baby on the way?
07:36Is there plans for it?
07:37So, you know, it's normal to have up and down in your way.
07:40So when I put a little bit of weight, very immediately,
07:44it's something that I said, no, I just fought.
07:46It's not.
07:48There's nothing going on there.
07:50Let's get the one behind you.
07:51The boss, the boss.
07:54The women on the street are really amazing and strong.
07:58I mean, you have to be really strong.
08:01Because at the same point that there's no security in the
08:04street, and they have been there years and years, decades,
08:07and they have learned how to take care of each other.
08:09So now that I'm there, they also take care of me.
08:13Lorraine and Mary say to me sometimes they are my Irish
08:17mom.
08:29Hey, meninas, tudo bem?
08:31Vocês têm o pedido já?
08:32Ah, eu já tenho.
08:34É...
08:35Eu queria, por gentileza, um cuscuzandestino.
08:37Uhum.
08:38E você, amor?
08:39Eu quero o pimpien tiras.
08:41Tá.
08:41Você prefere com batata frita ou salada, o senhor?
08:45Salada faz mal pra saúde.
08:46É...
08:52Robbie has swept the cobblestones of Moor Street and the
08:55surrounding area for over 20 years, working for Dublin
08:58City Council.
08:59He loves the interactions that come with the job.
09:01It was very different, though, when he was a child.
09:04Any rubbish there?
09:06OK.
09:08Ángela, any rubbish there, love?
09:11Any rubbish?
09:41When I was young, I couldn't speak until seven.
09:42I couldn't talk about my own self.
09:44The way it is with me talking now, you can't stop me.
09:48How are you, pal?
09:49You're dusting again?
09:50You're dusting again, are you?
09:51It's a torso, a torso!
09:53I'm doing my job, and I'm happy with what I'm doing.
09:56I don't mind anybody else.
09:57I'm proud of me.
09:58I'm proud of myself for everything, every day I do.
10:02I just like doing my work.
10:04I keep the place clean.
10:05And the way it is with me, I talk to the people, and I'm happy.
10:11I'm happy pretending to work.
10:12Yeah, pretending to work.
10:13You said it.
10:16Where are you going?
10:17You going to Boogies again?
10:18The office.
10:19The office.
10:20The office.
10:20The office again.
10:22Sorry, how are you doing?
10:24All right.
10:24How are you doing?
10:24All right, all right.
10:25How are you?
10:26Yeah, yeah.
10:26See you later for the point.
10:30What?
10:32You wish.
10:33You wish.
10:34You wish.
10:35You wish.
10:36You wish.
10:37You wish.
10:38This man has Henry Street spotless clean.
10:40Only for this man.
10:42Look it.
10:43You beat your dinner off the floor, look.
10:45See you later, big man.
10:47You'll make loads of friends.
10:48Loads of friends.
10:49Loads of friends on this job.
10:51I like talented people.
10:53And nobody's going to stop me from talented people.
10:55It's the way it is with me.
10:57Robbie, you won't get a book done, is it?
11:00I will get it done.
11:01I will get it done.
11:03I'll get it done.
11:04No problem.
11:05I'm like the...
11:06Like a mother.
11:06Like a second mother to me.
11:08Yeah.
11:08She's like a second mother.
11:09Good stuff with the mother part.
11:13You're nearly as old as me.
11:16You wish.
11:17I'll tell you all...
11:19Double my age.
11:22I'm going and going.
11:23I told you.
11:25She could you.
11:27I hope I can do some work.
11:29Oh, they're all the best friends with these women.
11:32Women are first.
11:34The longest smile for them.
11:35The longest smile with them.
11:36No.
11:37The end of the day.
11:38They're the bastards.
11:40They're the bastards on this street.
11:41Is that everything you want?
11:43Years being on me.
11:45Years.
11:45Years.
11:46One thing.
11:47Me still have a banter.
11:48He was only a little boy.
11:49And he's had shorts on him.
11:52Say it.
11:52Tell her.
11:53Tell her.
11:53Tell her.
11:55Was he cute?
11:58Yeah.
11:58Oh, he's massive.
11:59Isn't he lovely and cute now?
12:01Yeah.
12:05What's the strangest thing you've ever found in a bin, do you think?
12:09Do you want me to answer that question?
12:10Yeah.
12:12Right.
12:14A pair of knickers are... knickers.
12:18Can you ask for that one?
12:22Anne.
12:25Anne a woman's skirt.
12:46Anne a woman heads in town.
12:53Anne she's proud of of
13:00It's good luck to do that before I go fast.
13:03I put it in vodka.
13:09Are you sure that's the right thing?
13:11Oh, definitely.
13:12Don't be giving her ideas.
13:14It's the only way to have it.
13:20Pavel came to Ireland from Poland 20 years ago.
13:23He runs a mixed martial arts gym on Moor Street.
13:26He and his fiancée Maggie have their hands full
13:29with their 11-year-old daughter Amelia's training schedule.
13:32Monday, I do kickboxing.
13:34Tuesday, I do BJJ.
13:36Wednesday, I do kickboxing.
13:38Thursday, I do BJJ.
13:40Friday, I do kickboxing.
13:43Saturday, I do horse riding,
13:44and then I just have one day off on Sunday.
13:47Usually when I'm there,
13:48my dad gives me lots of tips, lots of advice.
13:51Every time if you go back for competition,
13:53your opponent is training to try to kick your ass.
13:56You have to train harder to kick his ass.
13:58You know, that's the game.
14:00That's the fun, yeah?
14:01Yeah.
14:02Amelia, my daughter, she's very energetic, very funny.
14:06She can't sit on the one place.
14:08She's like, you know, she pushed me,
14:10pushed me to stay, you know, active with her,
14:13and that's what I love it.
14:14From next week, you're gonna need to focus a little bit
14:18about more kicking, because your boxing is pretty good.
14:22You have accuracy, you have fast hand,
14:24but same thing, you have to kick a lot.
14:27This is kickboxing.
14:28It's not just the boxing.
14:30When I was young, I used to always go to the gym with my dad.
14:33I would see kids, I saw them train,
14:36and I wanted to train with them,
14:37and that's where my journey started.
14:39So this is number one, okay?
14:41Yeah.
14:41Start kicking more.
14:42Point number two, start training systematically, okay?
14:46We don't gonna skip any training from now,
14:49until competition, okay?
14:50Start number three, we're gonna put the sweetness
14:54and all these things on the side,
14:56because you have to be on the weight limit, okay?
14:58So this weekend, last chill, and Monday,
15:02we start proper camp, yeah?
15:04Yeah.
15:04Okay, big.
15:07I don't really remember seeing my dad fight,
15:10but I have a few videos, actually, of my dad,
15:14and sometimes I just like to go watch over them,
15:16because when I was a little kid, I don't remember it.
15:19Whatever you're gonna fight, okay,
15:20you're gonna be one step forward from him,
15:23you're gonna train harder than them,
15:25and you come back with the victory this time, okay?
15:28We don't gonna losing anymore, okay?
15:30Okay.
15:30All right.
15:33When I came to Ireland in 2005, I was 19.
15:36I have 200 euros in my pocket.
15:38I know three words in English, yes, no, okay?
15:42So I was, you know, a big child.
15:44I start to work on the building side,
15:46but I knew that this is not the thing I want to do
15:49to end of my life, and one day,
15:52my friends invited me for Muay Thai training.
15:55That was my first contact with martial arts.
15:57Then I switched to boxing.
16:00After a few good years training of boxing,
16:03I was thinking that this is the time to try open my own club
16:09and work with this.
16:11One thing who always was, you know, pushed me to do it
16:14was my father, because my father was boxing.
16:17My grandfather was a boxer as well.
16:18So it's like that was in my blood, in my DNA.
16:23But then, six years ago, I was working also as a bouncer,
16:29as a security for my extra money for weekends.
16:31I have some accident on the night.
16:35The roof fell down on my head and make me some brain damage.
16:40kind of the loop on my brain, or some kind of cyst,
16:44or something like that.
16:45So that day, I stopped training myself.
16:48I stopped sparring with the guys.
16:50I have to take off the gloves.
16:51I just put the pads.
16:53I try coaching the guys more than training myself.
16:56That was a very difficult time, because I have to, you know,
17:00put away that's what I was most loved at that time.
17:04I have my son and my daughter starting train in the club.
17:08And, you know, that's making me really happy again,
17:10because I was just forget about me self, you know, dreams.
17:15That's making me the biggest replacement, you know.
17:17My daughter, my son, they train on my club.
17:20They help me with that, run the gym.
17:22And that's, I think, the best, because everything,
17:26what I have this passion and love to martial arts,
17:29I will say, like, I'm going to put that to my fighters,
17:31to my students.
17:33I'm going to work for them now.
17:34So if I can't make my completely gym control,
17:37I'm going to do them gym control, and that's, that's,
17:40that's make me happy.
17:51Oh, nice.
17:52It smells good.
17:54Have you been here before?
17:55No.
17:56It's the first time, but I like Brazilian food.
18:01Hello.
18:02Hello.
18:04Something that you will recommend us,
18:07it's our first time here.
18:08It's your first time, yeah.
18:09You heard that the Italian is really good?
18:11Yes, this one here.
18:13We are in New Ireland, changing,
18:16and I think that Moody Street is the mirror of that,
18:20because you have all the multicultural background,
18:23trading there, and making their lives there,
18:25their business there.
18:26So, yeah, I think that Moody Street represents, you know,
18:30what is the future of Ireland,
18:33and also what is Ireland now.
18:36You know, like, being from Latin America,
18:37it's always good to know which places, you know,
18:40which restaurants, or territory you can find here.
18:46Oh, my gosh.
18:48Do you like it?
18:49Oh, it looks amazing, and it's a lot.
18:53I don't complain.
18:55You're going to be full after that, yeah?
18:56It's a great complaint.
18:57Oh, yeah.
18:57Not either after that.
18:59People like to use Moody Street as an example
19:01of how it's being run down.
19:03You know, how immigrants have run the street down.
19:05It's not true.
19:06You know, people get on in the street,
19:08they do business on the street.
19:09We've had people walk by last week, the week before,
19:13who are complaining that, like,
19:14where's the Irish in the street?
19:16Where's the Irish traders on the street?
19:18You know, there's nobody being pushed out of the street.
19:21It's people who want to be on the street.
19:22You know, these people are coming to the street
19:24to earn a living, to start their businesses.
19:27From the last year and a half, it just dropped a lot.
19:29There's less people coming around, and...
19:33I don't know if it's because, you know,
19:36all the things that happened in town in general,
19:40people feeling insecure, how to come.
19:42Yeah, after the riots, I think,
19:43also was, like, a change.
19:46I was working on my website,
19:48and everything was happening.
19:50So when I finished,
19:52I just remember going out to the living room
19:53and seeing Rory at the balcony
19:56and looking really, like, scared and mad.
19:59So I was like, what's going on?
20:00I wanted to go out and see.
20:02And he was like, no, you can't.
20:04Because he said there was downstairs people,
20:08you know, like, looking for immigrants
20:10and to hit them, and, you know,
20:12it was people going nuts.
20:20It was quite sad to see, you know?
20:22I was angry with it, but it was, you know,
20:23to look out to see the city being destroyed
20:25by people who said they love the city
20:27or they love the country, this is what they tell you.
20:29And it was hard to kind of take, you know,
20:31so there was a lot of anger.
20:32And at that stage, it was trying to...
20:34I was trying to protect Andrea from it,
20:36not to see it.
20:37It was a hard night.
20:39It was so sad to see all the city destroy it,
20:42all the shops, just...
20:44You can't protest for wild and fatalism
20:47and destroy shops.
20:49You know, you said that you love Ireland,
20:52you love your city,
20:52and then destroy your city
20:54and affect the business of the traders.
20:55Oh, that's so sad.
20:56It doesn't make any sense at all.
20:58I don't know.
21:01Sometimes I...
21:01I feel...
21:02I think...
21:03I need to be careful with myself,
21:06sometimes here, in the night,
21:08or...
21:08because you never know.
21:10It's hard to see somebody giving abuse to someone
21:12that they've done nothing, you know?
21:14The only thing that this person thinks is wrong with them
21:16is that they don't look like you.
21:18They shouldn't be here,
21:19which is, you know, what does that mean?
21:21You know, they're just like you,
21:23just trying to set up their life,
21:24they're trying to have a family,
21:25they're trying to work hard.
21:27And people are frustrated for their own reasons,
21:29you know?
21:29And that's understandable, too.
21:31You can pick on the immigrant,
21:34the person who's come in and blamed them,
21:36but actually these problems go way back.
21:42Aref is photographing an anti-immigration march today
21:44and also a counter-protest
21:46as it makes its way from the opposing side.
21:48He is hoping there won't be trouble.
21:51I think the main reason why we're here,
21:53it's a protest.
21:54Violence isn't necessarily going to get us anywhere.
21:56We're trying to protest and put forward a point,
21:58which is the main thing we should stay focused on,
22:00you know?
22:12Just yards from Moor Street,
22:14Aref is at the flashpoint of the march.
22:16The atmosphere is tense.
22:19Get them out!
22:19Get them out!
22:21Get them out!
22:23Get them out!
22:24Get them out!
22:25Get them out!
22:25Get them out!
22:26Get them out!
22:27Get them out!
22:27I think it's a very important thing
22:28to remind yourself
22:29that things could get a little bit messy
22:32because there's a counter-protest.
22:34There's people with completely contrasting views as you.
22:43It's very difficult when you've been living here in Ireland for 25 years.
22:48Your mother is Irish,
22:49you've dedicated so much time to this country,
22:51and it's so difficult when you come into town
22:54and you get this animosity and friction with things.
22:59Get them out!
23:00Get them out!
23:01Get them out!
23:02You think they're pedophiles?
23:03I think a lot of the way.
23:05Ah, right.
23:05It was difficult to be surrounded by,
23:09especially when people are opposing your presence in the country.
23:13Get them!
23:14Get them!
23:14You're making a video, buddy.
23:16You're making a video, buddy.
23:18You can't take my camera off me.
23:20You won't take my camera off me, buddy.
23:22Ah, yeah.
23:24Sure thing, buddy.
23:25Sure thing.
23:26So what?
23:27You're making a video?
23:28You're making a video, buddy.
23:30Am I in your video?
23:32Am I in your video?
23:34Why?
23:35We're all just making videos.
23:37I'm not going anywhere, buddy.
23:39I'm not going anywhere.
23:40I'm standing here.
23:42I was staying in Ireland for 25 years, buddy.
23:45My brother's a doctor and he helps Irish people.
23:47You've got to treat people like this.
23:49I'm not selling anything.
23:50I'm contributing.
23:51So why are you giving me stress?
23:53Why are you giving me stress?
23:54Because it's an Irish country.
23:55So I immigrated here.
23:56My mum is Irish, brother.
23:57Oh, yeah.
23:58I immigrated here and I work here
23:59and my dad's a doctor and he helps Irish people.
24:01You're not Irish, though.
24:02I don't class myself as Irish mate.
24:04You're never going to be, son.
24:05I don't class myself as Irish.
24:08Wow.
24:11Send the pedophile cultures home!
24:13You want to show strength from your presence,
24:15but you are surrounded by people who are trying to oppose that.
24:19So it can be a test of will sometimes.
24:24She's made of layers!
24:27Don't put it in my face, then.
24:28Don't get out the way.
24:29I don't need to get out the way.
24:30I'm sitting here.
24:31No, no asshole.
24:32You want the paper or you're here?
24:34Sorry?
24:35You want the paper or you're here?
24:36I think he's had a very fragile time at the moment,
24:39especially for someone like me who's of ethnicity.
24:42But I think it's good when you can stand a little bit strong
24:45in this position, you know?
24:47Come on!
24:48To the national way!
24:50There's people who don't want you here in this country,
24:53but you are here and you have to kind of stand your ground at times.
24:57It was good to get some interaction from people,
24:59whether positive or negative.
25:00How come I get a ridicule like this when I'm a citizen here in Ireland?
25:05Next time they do that, culturally, I'll sort them out.
25:09It's very hard.
25:09You're not always going to be here, sir.
25:12It's not against you because you're one of the good people.
25:14Too many people coming in, you don't do anything.
25:17But it also has to be said that there's some people here
25:19with a different kind of mind frame.
25:21True.
25:21I'm not here to start anything.
25:23There always will be in any movement until I see people
25:25who push it too far.
25:26But now it's going the other way.
25:28I can definitely...
25:29There's too many people coming in.
25:30To me, if we don't do something about it,
25:32we will end up the minority.
25:34Yeah.
25:35Well, thank you for talking to me, sir.
25:36No problem.
25:36I really appreciate it.
25:37Thank you, huh?
25:39Who speak?
25:41Who speak?
25:42Who speak?
25:43Who speak?
25:44Who speak?
25:44Who speak?
25:45Who speak?
25:45Who speak?
25:45In the pocket!
25:48Traitors!
25:50Traitors!
25:51One thing that always confuses me is
25:55people who bring their children to the protests
25:57and their children, their kids,
25:59are surrounded by racial chants
26:01and people who are spreading a lot of hatred,
26:04you know, at the core of it.
26:05And that can be very difficult to see.
26:08They're providing an atmosphere
26:10that their kids are then growing up into.
26:12And then their kids are absorbing this kind of mentality
26:16and it can be very difficult.
26:18Sometimes I think that's how this stuff kind of starts, you know.
26:22integration at a young age can be very, very crucial.
26:48It's a long old day, isn't it?
26:53It is.
26:53How are you keeping?
26:54It's pretty grand.
26:55It's very tired and day,
26:56how do you stop bleeding and giving out?
26:58Shouldn't you bleeding 12 o'clock?
27:00giving out?
27:01Word in day
27:01Yeah, you're dead right.
27:02You're dead right.
27:03You're dead right.
27:03You're dead right.
27:04You're dead right.
27:04You're dead right.
27:04You're dead right.
27:04You know everything.
27:06We have to know everything in here.
27:08You know, the bleeding problems we hear coming in here?
27:12No.
27:13They're bleeding right!
27:14Yeah!
27:15He's got great missiles, I have to say, hats off, he's never molded me, I'll miss it.
27:22This will talk to you soon.
27:23See you later.
27:32People of all ages and abilities train at Phantom Gym on Warstreet.
27:37Pavel also manages over 30 MMA fighters who work at a competitive level.
27:41This is the advanced group, it's the most professional and high level amateur fighters on this session.
27:49Now for the next few weeks we are very busy with the fighting calendar.
27:54We have a lot of fight booking and signing contract.
27:56If somebody say MMA is like very violent, it's not.
28:00MMA is like pictures of the puzzle.
28:02You know, to be good striking, good takedowns, good ground control, good this.
28:07And hold the puzzle, hold the pictures, make you complete fighter.
28:10So I can't understand if somebody say, oh this is violent.
28:14It's not.
28:15It's the most top of beautiful of all martial arts.
28:19It's not for everyone, only strong survive.
28:23But that's why it's the most exciting and most beautiful on this sport.
28:28Because it's the art of everything.
28:31This one sentence over here, every day I wake up in one day closer to death.
28:37So what you're gonna do with that, the time you're gonna left.
28:40I think it's 11 years old, but this is so deep, you know.
28:44It's so smart.
28:46Up tips.
28:48Up.
28:49This is push.
28:51That's it.
28:52That's it.
28:53One.
28:53Juice this up, okay?
28:55All right.
28:56Beautiful.
28:58That's so tight.
28:58My daughter also, she's like my, you know, life battery, you know.
29:03Like, that's make me really exciting when I see, you know, she's getting better every time,
29:08you know.
29:08So, yeah.
29:10That's, that's make me really happy.
29:11Coach, I asked him when you're gonna put her for the competition.
29:15Is it three months time?
29:16She's gonna win it.
29:17Okay.
29:17Three months time, she can go again.
29:18I feel good.
29:20I feel really confident because now I have a really good coach.
29:25I just feel like all of the strength of kickboxing, it gave me like lots of self-confidence.
29:30Like, I just really feel good.
29:32The things I have to kind of work on is being more fast in G2.
29:36And kickboxing, I need to use a lot more leg, try to practices of moving my hips, twisting my leg
29:42while I'm going for the kick.
29:43Amelia, get out.
29:45Yeah.
29:49In kickboxing, you can do against as well boys.
29:53And then in BJJ, while you're like just a smaller kid, you can do against boys as well.
30:05Some boys were like, oh, I'm gonna be her.
30:07And then, you know, it went the opposite way.
30:12She broke the hand, she broke the elbow.
30:14So it's, yeah, three over there, push the hand.
30:17But this time, she's not gonna turn to the armor, she's gonna turn to the triangle.
30:22Oh, her legs are short.
30:23Yeah.
30:25No, the legs are long enough.
30:27She needs just to turn the hips a little bit more.
30:29When I came here, I was 19.
30:31If I come back to this time, and somebody will tell me, pal, you will be here in 20 years.
30:38And next 20 years, you will be the big club owner, manager.
30:41You will have like 50, 40 fighters under you, you know.
30:45Training with the guys, sponsoring with the biggest name in Ireland, you know.
30:49If I go, I will never believe it.
30:52How better can my future go, you know.
30:54Some people go to the States for American dream.
30:58My American dream became here, so I have my Irish dream.
31:03Love it.
31:05Everything what I most want, that's what I'm doing now.
31:12More Streets feels like home to musician June.
31:15She started busking here when she was just a teenager.
31:19You have to be tough.
31:20You had to have some gall or some kind of substance to be able to stand there.
31:27You had to be cheeky and a bit brazen.
31:30Yeah, just bringing back memories, all right.
31:33Good memories, though.
31:35There's still a lot of familiar faces around.
31:37People didn't have a lot of money then.
31:40So if somebody gave you money, you would be very appreciated of it, you know.
31:44So if you got your bus fare home, you'd be happy.
31:46You ended up chatting to people more than you did kind of playing.
31:51In Dublin's fair city, where the girls are so pretty.
31:56As a child, we always went down to More Street.
31:59It wouldn't matter whether you were one of your aunties or your granny or your mother.
32:03More Street was the main street.
32:05I always remember More Street as being really, really busy.
32:09That you'd have to work your way through people.
32:13You know, you'd nearly have to fight your way up the street.
32:16And then you'd be queuing up at the stalls and there'd be murder if somebody got something before you did.
32:21I wanted that, you know, that kind of way.
32:24There's something very special about More Street.
32:27You can feel the ghosts when you walk down More Street.
32:31They're walking beside you.
32:33I can remember my family walking down there and there's times I walk down and it's like they're right on
32:38my shoulder.
32:39I know it's historic, but I do believe because the buildings look so bad, it's so run down now.
32:47It really needs to be cleaned up.
32:49But nobody wants to shove away the memories that we all have of More Street.
32:55It'll always be in our heart.
32:58More Street was always about belonging.
33:01It's part of you.
33:03You're part of Dublin and it's part of our history.
33:07And the heart of the row is Dicey Riley.
33:17The corporation are killing this end of the street gradually, you know.
33:20Even if you didn't want to move, you'd have to get out with the way it's going.
33:23Stallholders and members of the Dublin City Centre Business Association
33:26met with Dublin Corporation to discuss plans to give the street a face level.
33:31The latest plan for the so-called Carleton site would include a new pedestrian lane
33:36linking O'Connell Street with Moore Street and the demolition of most buildings on Moore Street as they post-date
33:431916.
33:45The redevelopment, no, it's different than every time.
33:48We're listening to that over 20 years, am I right?
33:53And it's not happening.
33:55Not in our lifetime it won't happen.
33:57I am hopeful it's going to happen.
33:59We don't want the five years down the line.
34:02We need it happening now.
34:0414 to 17 Moore Street is now in state ownership and is due to be renovated into a commemorative centre.
34:10There have been several plans over the years to develop the rest of the street.
34:14Developer Hammerson has been on the scene since 2016 and have hired London-based lead architect Friedrich
34:20to design a radical vision for an area that has become run down.
34:23The Irish have managed to neglect Moore Street quite consistently.
34:28I think the street has been on a slightly downward trajectory for a very significant amount of time.
34:33I would say kind of in the nine years we've been involved the street has got no better and no
34:38worse.
34:40Architecturally you wouldn't preserve any of it.
34:44Moore Street architecture beauty there is none.
34:45They were never built to be beautiful.
34:48They were built as the simplest possible houses that you would build for market traders with super low budgets.
34:53If you look at them as a really important point of national history,
34:58I think it is important to be able to not forget.
35:12You see, it gets a little bit smellier now.
35:16The amount of drugs taken here does increase significantly.
35:21Once things fall out of use, I think they attract the other parts of city centres,
35:29which are the slightly kind of less public ones.
35:32And I think this needs more people living here.
35:35It needs a bit more people working here.
35:36In the moment you could kind of do whatever you wanted in this back alley,
35:40probably undetected.
35:42And so the sense of a missing sense of oversight,
35:45I think is what is making this part of the fabric fail.
35:50But it's interesting.
35:51When you look carefully in this part of Dublin,
35:53all the traces of history can be found.
35:57People spoke about O'Brien's bottling stores.
36:00It used to be a two-storey building.
36:02There is green with a little bit of white in it.
36:05And when you spend way too long looking at that wall,
36:07you will actually start to see that it actually says O'Brien.
36:13We're putting a structure back that makes it look like a two-storey building again.
36:17It will have residential units in there,
36:19but the maturity will be slightly different.
36:29We're staying next to No. 10.
36:30No. 10 is one of the few buildings that really has remained pretty much as it was.
36:34So we're going to clean up this facade.
36:36We're going to remove some of those openings
36:38to make it look a little bit more as it used to be
36:40because all of these kind of cables and so on obviously were not historic.
36:45We also want it to be a place that has a community of its own.
36:50And the community of its own is market traders,
36:53it's people living here and it's people working here.
36:56We would like people to feel like this is actually their home
36:59and there's a community here.
37:01We're looking to pretty much keep 2021 as it is,
37:04but make it a residential building again with retail units on the ground floor.
37:08The reason why it's an arch is that it is big enough
37:11to really say I'm a significant urban connection,
37:13but also it's small enough to kind of say I'm an opening in a terrace,
37:17but the terrace still remains as a block of terraces.
37:20We kind of felt if you want to be genuine
37:23about building a piece of North Dublin that kind of has streets and squares,
37:27there's nothing that wrong with the streets we have.
37:30What we've tried to do is to do exactly what most we used to have,
37:34which was small retail units with people living above.
37:40There's only 14 to 17 is protected,
37:43but the laneways aren't protected.
37:45There's a lot of other historic sites on the area.
37:48There is a couple of plans for the area.
37:51Obviously there's the developers plan,
37:52but there's also descendants of the 1916 leaders.
37:56They have put a plan together
37:57and it was to see the area being restored as a cultural quarter,
38:01and I would be more supportive of that plan.
38:04The Moore Street Preservation Trust, set up 25 years ago,
38:08is taking judicial review over the Hammerson plans
38:11and has its own vision for the streets.
38:13This group is led by descendants of 1916,
38:16including Jim Connolly Heron,
38:18a great grandson of Irish Republican James Connolly.
38:21So the volunteers fleeing the burning GPO,
38:24they entered the laneways at Henry Place
38:26and made their way up here.
38:28They broke their way into Number 10
38:30because they couldn't go out onto Moore Street
38:31because there was a machine gun post
38:33at the far end of Moore Street.
38:35So it became a sniper's alley as such.
38:38So they occupied Number 10.
38:39Number 10, the leader stayed at Number 10
38:41and spent longer at Number 10 than in any other house along the terrace.
38:45And our argument is that the entire terrace became the last headquarters
38:50of the provisional government,
38:51not one house or four houses, the entire terrace.
38:55And what we require now is state intervention.
38:58The street could be purchased tomorrow if there was a will to do it.
39:00For me, I'm only involved in this really, you know, since 2020 maybe.
39:05And it was all really to save our family business
39:09that has been trading for four generations on Moore Street.
39:12It's incomprehensible that the government haven't stepped in.
39:15So we would envisage this area becoming an historic cultural quarter,
39:19a 1916 quarter as such, linked naturally to the GPO.
39:24So the quarter would consist of cultural centres
39:28and not forgetting the accommodation,
39:30there'd be a residential element and a trading element still on the street.
39:34But it obviously means a lot to me because of my family connection to James Connolly,
39:39who spent his last hours of freedom here before he was taken away and brutally executed.
39:46So it's the story of the occupation and mercy is particularly relevant to our family history,
39:53but it's relevant to, of course, to the nation's history as well,
39:57referred to as the birthplace of the nation.
40:04In Dublin City Council's waste management depot off Moore Street,
40:08Robbie has finished his shift and is getting ready for a big day.
40:11A passionate Dublin Gaelic football fan, they're playing Cork in the All-Ireland qualifiers.
40:17I started following the G.A. when I was young.
40:19The school used to bring me in the eighties.
40:23The tickets were only five in those days.
40:26Hold on, Robbie!
40:29This year, what do I tell you I'll get, buddy?
40:35I bought my suit down in Balbolegan.
40:38I said, I want a suit, mate.
40:40The manager said, what kind of suit?
40:42Dark room, black room.
40:43Are you missing?
40:43I said, no.
40:44He said, I can't do it.
40:46I said, I'll match you nicely.
40:48I said, what do you want to cost me?
40:49I said, eh, if you want a tailor-made one, it's going to cost you $500.
40:55I said, okay.
40:57I gave them the $500.
40:58I said, there's your $500.
40:59They're not messing with me, are you?
41:00I said, no.
41:02He's made me a dicky bow.
41:04Didn't match it.
41:05And he said, what do you think of that?
41:06Fair noise.
41:08Up the doors!
41:09My shoes, I bought them in pennies.
41:12The cream.
41:13When I got them sprayed, dark and bright blue.
41:16I'm just going to do slightly bigger than they did last time.
41:21Yeah.
41:22Are you excited about today?
41:23Yeah.
41:25I said we win by, you know, six points.
41:28I watch sometimes.
41:30Yeah, I watch because, like, my boyfriend watches.
41:34So, he tries to explain, and it is fun.
41:37I like it.
41:39It's a lot of rules.
41:40I try to understand.
41:41I'm getting better.
41:42I'm getting better.
41:43I'm understanding.
41:43Yeah.
41:45Women, how did you do it?
41:46I don't know.
41:47How did you stand out in the mirror all day and doing the makeup?
41:49Hours and hours.
41:50Like, we just go and get a bit of a shave and fucking geode on us.
41:54And I close them and we're gone.
41:56We're gone out the door.
41:57Yeah.
41:58We are done.
42:00Rob, hold this one.
42:03Yep.
42:03See if you can.
42:04Can't you see it?
42:05Can you see?
42:06No.
42:07Yeah, I can see it, yeah.
42:08It's very fun.
42:08It looks very cool.
42:09Yeah.
42:10Definitely everybody's going to ask.
42:12Yeah.
42:13Very nice.
42:14Very nice.
42:15Dublin's playing a bit bad at the moment.
42:17One thing.
42:17I don't think we're going to do the Old Island this year.
42:20Because we're only trying out new players.
42:24When Dublin wins a match, I have a bad stomach.
42:26And I mean a bad, bad one for at least a half an hour or an hour.
42:29That's great.
42:30Yeah.
42:31Yeah.
42:31It's huge.
42:32Everybody's going to see that.
42:33This one they'll see you.
42:35Yeah.
42:35Everybody's going to see you.
42:37Thank you very much.
42:37You're welcome.
42:38Anytime.
42:39Until next year.
42:40Next year.
42:40Yeah.
42:42Take care all.
42:42Yeah.
42:43Bye bye.
42:46Fresh.
42:46Fresh as a daisy.
42:49I didn't see that before, would you?
42:51Just got a dumbbell for five minutes ago.
42:53All right.
42:54Fair you go.
42:55You're always the business.
42:57I always have to.
42:58You have to be, yeah.
43:00Why did you do that?
43:02Hold on.
43:02I have to send that to Rory.
43:05Don't move it.
43:09When did you do that?
43:11Just now.
43:11Really?
43:12You were.
43:13I learned it.
43:14I learned it.
43:15Yeah.
43:15It looks deadly.
43:28Gym owner Pavel trains his daughter Emilia in mixed martial arts and he has big plans for
43:33her in sports.
43:34But he also has concerns as she faces into secondary school.
43:38Do you know what I'm worried?
43:40I'm worried when you go there, maybe the sports not gonna be anymore in the first place for you.
43:48I don't really care about other things.
43:51I really like my sports that I do and I think I'm gonna keep them and always do them.
43:55Now she's going to secondary school.
43:57So one more year she's going to secondary school.
43:59And this is the moment what I'm worried.
44:01New school, new friends who gonna be there.
44:05How she gonna be switched to these new friends.
44:08If there's gonna be some, you know, bad kids around to try, you know, propose some wrong things.
44:16You know, new place, new friends.
44:18You're not gonna do distraction you from that's what you're doing.
44:22And you know, new girls, makeup, snails, you know, grow up girls.
44:27Makeup isn't my thing.
44:28I think you, if you don't wear makeup, you're just, you're just expressing yourself.
44:32I feel like people should be more confident in their natural self.
44:35They are beautiful with their natural self.
44:38No makeup.
44:39I see many parents with many kids.
44:41The kids when they're young, they love to come in for training.
44:45When they, you know, starting to be the teenager, they're starting to be the problems.
44:51So them, sometimes you need parents who just, you know, maybe motivate them.
44:57Maybe not push, but motivate them.
45:01Today, Emilia has her first practice fights since spending the summer in Poland,
45:05where she took a break from training.
45:07Pavel wants to see how her standard is, particularly when fighting against a boy.
45:13With boys, it's a little harder.
45:16With girls, it's like they're the same as you.
45:19I like sparring with boys.
45:21It challenges me.
45:23I like to be challenged.
45:25How do you expect this to come?
45:28Fun, nice, tough.
45:32We're gonna actually see what level is Emilia after come back from summer holiday,
45:38because she have a break.
45:39We're gonna see today, that's give us answer actually,
45:42what else we need to do for future competition.
45:45So today, we have a, like, little test for her.
45:49But like I see, like you see, the Colin is like nearly the same age, but a much bigger guy.
45:55And, you know, so she's not scared to training and fighting with the bigger, even boys with her.
46:02Start.
46:03Start.
46:04Start.
46:06Start.
46:07Start.
46:08Start.
46:09Start.
46:10She have this heart.
46:11I, I can see that now.
46:13She have a heart and she have potential to be a fighter.
46:17I hope when she's starting BT in Ajo, that's not gonna be changed,
46:22I gonna probably work for this very heart.
46:25So I see that, I feel that.
46:27And I hope that's gonna happen, that she becomes a fighter.
46:34It's tough sport, you know, it's contact sport, but it's more danger and physical risk to let your kids walking
46:42around the parks with this world what we're living now, then come to the martial arts club under the control
46:49of the coach and let them train.
47:03I think this is the best protection you can do it because if even something one day happen and your
47:10daughter is good team boxing skills, she can protect herself or she can protect somebody. So that's not danger. That's
47:18actually kind of the best self-defense.
47:22We had a nice fight. It was brilliant and well done. I don't care if I lose you win. It's
47:31mostly it is for challenging yourself and it is as well for fun.
47:46How was that going?
47:47Yeah, that was lots of emotion, you know, don't see my daughter on the ring long time, so that was
47:52really emotional moment, but yeah, she looks pretty good.
47:56I'm happy and Colin is pretty big guy, strong, he's a footballer, so his kick is very heavy.
48:01You can't pick up the winner, you know, we are one team, teammates, we are one family, so we don't
48:08put the...
48:10Okay, how do you feel?
48:12I'm good.
48:12Good?
48:13Was tough?
48:14He kicking strong?
48:15Yeah.
48:16Ah, heavy legs.
48:17You have a pain a little bit?
48:18No.
48:19Ah!
48:20We'll be okay.
48:21Okay.
48:21Okay.
48:55I don't know if it's brave. I think it's insane. It's really scary though, because I can't mess it up.
49:00Many people feel alone here. We try to help these people.
49:04My life was very difficult, but in Ireland I am so happy.
49:09Some of the African people, they are believing it's voodoo. They should stop telling bullshit.
49:14Sheets.
49:14Sheets.
49:15Sheets.
49:17Sheets.
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49:42Sheets.
49:45Sheets.
49:48Sheets.
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