The Estate - Episode 1

Ireland's North Coast a world heritage landscape five minutes away as the crow flies another world altogether shop Bali Sally estate on the edge of career the toughest er places to be in the teeth of an economic storm just a frakkin Frank more less it has twice the national average of people on unemployment benefit missile wouldn't pay you greatness some who want to work can't find a job because there's so much unemployment so many people in every job it's not just Ora has no step all those my steps of the CM those who do work can still feel blocked at every turn o adds up we just can't live on what they're saying you should be able to live on but despite the poverty the hardship and the valleys golly nicknamed this estate is far from broken I see we clear we followed the ups for the times they are a-changin placed inform you that you've been shortlisted Ferrari the Duns and people were bestial they there you go and the UPS all my pair of people in what could be the hardest year of their lives this is the story of a year on the estate hey get your cup coffee Oh single mom Louise is Bally Sally born and raised only has bit too I only LEM have a bit too didn't ya me are you putting on my milk thank you Oh three year old Ryan is the youngest of her five kids they're just up and if they're up fair enough if not I get them up get them the breakfast dressed no um big one up to school herself everyone except Jordan is at school Oh is my player current player help here cuz I like people pop some I like my stuff you know it's his 11th birthday today and he didn't fancy it Jordan he had head below his pillows and his bedroom and wouldn't go to so wouldn't get ready for school he wouldn't go but because of this birthday and I oh alright oh I tell them that you have to go to school to get your education did you get a good job and earned mama I don't at all you don't get nothing it's hard enough look at me trying to struggle on that all the five of them keeping them and feeding them and closing them and whatever as hard without you it'll be easy if you're to Wiens appeaser noel so I'm gonna be heard her you needed a education to get a job so I don't I don't know you can't stand that you can't go on the dole well then again there's no jobs out there for anybody really joints our pastor Paul Martin's a chronic alcoholic he drinks up the six litres of cider a day every day sometimes I forgot both gone away on a week older you know just for a couple of days no I mean from roughing my own bipolar for Asura he's just fine just to get away for a couple of days just to pass be you don't really see people light drinking in the gardens or they keep them sales to sales a wee bit more I think it's a lot to do probably pride in that and maybe they don't want the car might and just be no one but like n NAFC I suppose M as an alcohol support worker and she's on her way to see Martin I'm not just specifically looking to adjust their alcohol yes if we were just to help people that's good yes a week help with their eleven conditions that because you've so many options you can cover you know one it's about supporting people that have had that support before and I think that's a great thing and that's why it works because you don't feel they're doing everything on the road it's also got a friend up here thanks for me could do with some help so that potentially be a new client hey I'm a my nice to meet you Phillip Emma where are you getting that from there's a voices the movie doubles honoring me for you my says have a look at it first I guess is a hot hmm I'm not buying a person who's not us a boy with the mitten big cuz I mail my first a okay Martin's alcoholism makes him unfit for work he gets nearly 200 pounds a week benefits that includes his rent and a disability living allowance to help with his alcoholism oh I love it kidney fun alright later part show on its its Astaire colors yeah cherish is Bradley making music uh-huh y'all come I did playing all of it does she stay still wear that salty know you wouldn't go down Oliver know they need to make sure you dissolve in job in charge of a bicycle I haven't gotten done stream right legs I'll go take after their motion of major hopefully that bike they go I'll help him to Cana I'll take his mind off as a fiscal going up ini ill not they want them to drink yes why she knew l3 or see him get on the bike and go away instead of gone dying again you know I Drake know I want to get hot logs I'm not sure what I tell you about here the purpose well you got my heavy shipping on my case of it's all morning you see you don't it you know you're not an explorer to me you're twenty years older than me and you're doing if he sure look at you you know even organized if he's alive won't even here under our year community like him I'm here but just a condo in the middle of floor is a to the police station loop we're searching the fish station Oxshott up nearly three thousand people live on the instead but the amenities are poor to go with to community centers there's just one sharp and a cafe upstairs from the cafe Louise is learning how to decorate it's a rare break from the kids laughs I guess come on hear me now no no have no ass just louise has never had a job she had the first of her five kids when she was 17 and has lived on benefits ever since you just get some support for yourself and then you get 10 tax credit for the reasons I'm sure benefit for the kids so that's 300 a week but it does hey me get you bro she's is over on a plane for a fee and then trying to close them and just struggle Louise feels she's stuck in the benefits trap for me to work semia tear for daycare wants to get you keep the rims and all for either's where's that I stand up back home Louise's seventeen-year-old daughter Sarah is holding the fort Brandy's your mama Louise mm-hmm and do you mind am i you brother you sister yeah brotherbrother 15 year old sister Kellyanne is showing off her first tattoo I wonder one for ages and then just thought I'll just go better I was going to get on my face but it means that if you get on your face you have to be I Hank two weeks this Hartley you have to be at two weeks until it like hey so you can wear my copy Ansel I don't think you give me get Tatiana this yeah I'll torture my head I need this I need to make em just she will look it up under school and Lauren's it's just humming up man just don't like it like it sorry whenever I'm there but it's just getting up in the mornings and then like the time I got really and stuff Julia first kellyanne's constant refusal to go to school has brought an ultimatum from the education authorities if she doesn't go her mom could go to jail just a breaking point more nuts for close the window six feet under or in deal with a later I was just something your Vietnam McKee burger this is this type started I have never done it I can balance our Amazon our way to meet Martin to help him sort out his benefits I'm the only professional workers that they're involved but you have to kind of deal with all those other social issues before you can even get to alcohol it's a bit like peeling back an onion you know really like the alcohol extras are in the center of that and it's an addiction but then there's so many other issues surrounding it that are affecting that me initiate Martin's just had a back payment of 260 pounds and isn't sure how to manage it Noah fish he received a payment today just to double-check kind of when you'll next be getting paid listen I can pay my thing I've easy right so I'm going to spank rank 25th at screw you see em I'm on a ball okay that's gone thanks very much bye how much should be gone at the minute totally work website 200 what about sex tape owner thing that leaves us two hundred pound rate you pay take alright and then that leaves 160 thanks okay play sexy for my shoes it does so on 2012 there's a sex thing that's for the face we get we amble over the door you want to pay a fiver for the dog to our tan or something here I'll tell you about our monitor I want to give you 20 compare right - you're very thoughtful but you know I know can I take that off you go unless you're safe goosh my girly stuff that'll get you most things paid off - have a good weekend and I'll see you Monday then okay it's just patient that's one thing you need miss just a lot of patience you really do it can be quite taxing I'll always give some of their chumps and you know not because you never know if you're not an association you can never say I will overdo it like this so I wouldn't do that because you really don't on tell you are an accentuate and you can never let condemn somebody or talk about the way somebody else is dealing with something because you don't know what you would do it or not this is not like that it's not going on all that you one final time the estate is mostly made up of counselors Jimmy and Denise are among the minority who own their own home sometimes it says amazing faces in a hurry the chance of a good fairy coming to make his lunch sometimes I make it but most times in X M self only worries don't you know why I'm how you learn to do it Michelle pepper for mom used to always do they both work full-time Deniz is a classroom assistant Jimmy works nights in a warehouse so they don't see much of each other I probably works through the day money and stay at home at night because I must be lonely some would rather you had a day job girl is always went to work at night he's always went to work at 8:06 p.m. tender there it gets me my lady Dana Morrigan up further in the host by the way L Street channels from a day job would mean Jimmy could spend more time with his family I suppose there are times we'd like to have some quality time our own person what's was just buy his bag aren't there she's okay I'm not luring us yeah you know their nine-year-old daughter Lauren has spina bifida so family life revolves around her needs both Lauren and younger brother Dylan miss her dad when he's out at night tom okay but hopefully after looks I have water so hopefully only ISIL all right right yeah my back Hulk pop will be a kiss yeah for the boys to shake hands I can t back for kisses oh you got me ah right just okay okay all right I'll see you there I know right it's not padding a little dear either I make sleep I'm here early I'm eight see that goes away public comes hello see I thought I did my intentions both of them want to be homeless all my life you know and I'm working fast no you getting all right but no no that's not angry oh gosh ah Martin slept off on the streets for nine years and became an alcoholic in the process this flat is a fresh start for him that's so easy isn't it but no I mean get up there son yeah father father got a that's your seat does your seat well I worked hard to get those because I was getting sick of getting sick on the street and trying to set up a we realize to Ammerman everyone's good it's all great you know because I'm on DLNA yes the money doesn't matter it's just the principle of them I don't have to set down the street and make me go in my cell anymore that Disability Living Allowance and a roof over his head I've made Martin determined to give up the drink I'm going to get rid of the poison if I kept doing the way I'm dragging a very hard to peel though that's why I'm getting ready I'm getting everything I need to keep myself buzzer before it - you need something to take your mind off him just corny Billy cover please be a person I hope I've got plenty of him my life - sorry Ellen Louise is back home movie posture and her boys are in fighting fun really does like I don't not the shape roar at but it doesn't work they really hurt it didn't listen to me quite reading back didn't Kellyanne is still refusing to go to school this is just what I do all day long I just some tags you're letting the whole city apart from godiscover I thought my face she knows her truancy could land her mum and Jill but it's not enough to make her go right I saw meeting the waiter mmm oh if I didn't have him I don't know he was a person you know he's could I come on and he doesn't talk about huh after sometime bracing himself martin has given up the drink oh boy don't let them know pave-set sir I'm very observant I just like marathan I just sat meditating see no boy up there washing the car yesterday and he was washing her for about an hour I thought he was going to take the paint off him then these boys here they parked the cars exactly seeing police everyday and then people over there they never pulled the curtains they just keep them nobody on and then they're stuck her stuck to the bobbin wonder when Nelson I'm they're paranoid when I've run coming over I would worry a lot but everything look I would even worry about when's the right time to come off the trunk because there's always appointments and it takes about three or four days you know for your okay normally don't get me wrong but the temptation sir TV all right I've been cold on there than 800 husband a spoon butter on there than eight Jimmy can clock up to 12 hours a night at the frozen food factory he earns just over the minimum wage aftertaste I approve it to to 262 something out you know just for an Arnie whatare a week you know I'll spare off having the job off you know physical amount there's snuff mate there you know so okay we asked the Bluebird at 10 years my late form at all you know remember Alan my king for a day Brooke for a fortnight was real good I made me more come up and she got my cake up the backseat took me I'm going to be a Western at all I wasn't anymore that could have been stole maybe laying on that all really safe do not feel that way mom don't don't bad like Jimmy guitar paddy in the morning Oh naughty you are you're gonna be really for it right mrs. o ND go you know he really does hate going out at like he loves being home they're here in the evenings and it's nice for them too they love having a home in the evenings I miss him and evenings I really do he's been doing this night work knife must be four years five years I still don't like her I don't like him not being here at night yeah sorry what ah what could we do he's got a job so he's lucky in that respect luckier than a lot but it has a job that we've both got jobs it is hog fingers in shake and Ches burned hard my life your homework right I sure he's a real diamond really as he works hard he's so considerate he says you need your sleep you work so he lies on the sofa every night I put on a pillow on the duvet and I'm so wrong here it is three dollars yup me 34 vote earlier that you're mulling my life 34 US government just have to keep doing this until something else comes up you know next time on the estate I want an advice today she Sounders there's nothing at all however two wheels are gone you feel it as a your whole lives or should appoint me gone to school get an education go to Creighton have none poppin tag is over it like this when you get drunk today about foolish right down life on the estate continues next week at the same time 10:35 if you've been affected by issues similar to those raised in tonight's program go online to bbc.co.uk/topgear

Channel: John Dinnen

Views: 571,719

Keywords: The, Estate, Ballysally, Coleraine, Northern, Ireland

Id: FQXWLkpP0VI

Length: 28min 51sec (1731 seconds)

Published: Tue Jan 24 2012