Introducing Ireland's worst driver - Mr 'Driving License'

Prawo Jazdy, who was presumed to be one of the thousands of Polish who settled in Ireland during the boom times, was found by the Irish police to have clocked up nearly one hundred tickets for offense from speeding to parking fines.

Prawo Jazdy had also given the police hundreds of different addresses. It was thought that Prawo Jazdy was some sort of Scarlet Pimpernel of traffic violations until someone realized that Prawo Jazdy means driving license in Polish. The police had been taking the wrong information from police drivers licenses.

Videos of the ten Irish songs to avoid this Saint Patrick’s Day

She Moved Thro’ The Fair



Irish Ways And Irish Laws



A Nation Once Again



The Fields of Athenry



Molly Malone



The Fenian Record Player



Danny Boy



The Homes Of Donegal



The Mountains Of Mourne



The Flower Of Magherally

Videos of the top ten Irish songs for St. Patrick’s Day

There’s No One As Irish As Barack Obama



The Irish Rover



A Nation Once Again



The Boys of the Old Brigade



Arthur McBride



Come Out Ye Black and Tans



Some say the Devil is Dead



Molly Malone



Danny Boy



The Fields of Athenry

Former Anglo Irish Bank bosses repossessed car crushed for charity

A car which belonged to Sean Fitzpatrick, the former chief executive of Anglo Irish Bank, has been crushed to raise funds at a charity evening in Dublin.

The 3 series black BMW was purchased by National Recycling in Clondalkin for €1,234.56.

The company organized an online charity auction in which 30 people entered a bid to become the first person to crush the car. The winning bid was fetched over €3000.

Conor Hand, the sales manager for National Recycling said the event was about moving on from the mistakes of the past.

19,000 bottles of Irish whiskey stolen

Thieves have escaped with 19,000 bottles of Finnegan Irish Whiskey, worth $371,288, which was en route to France. The whiskey was stolen from a warehouse at the Cooley Distillery in County Louth.

The 19,000 of whiskey, a brand of which is not sold in Ireland, was in 3,000 brown cardboard cases with the words 'Uisce Beatha' (Irish for 'Water of Life', another name for whiskey) printed on the side.

Irish police at Carlingford are investigating the crime.

50 percent of the Irish population are Facebook users

New research shows that 50% of the Irish population over the age of 15 is now on Facebook, approximately 1.75 million users.

According to Ipsos-MRBI figures, which were posted on twitter, 90% of those aged 15-24 use the social media site. Two thirds of these use Facebook daily.

One in five 55 to 64-year-olds have a Facebook account.

The figures show that 7% of the population use Twitter. The research shows 30% of twitter users check their accounts daily, up from 18% six months ago. Ipsos-MRBI says Linkedin accounts have grown to 9%, that's up
over 50% in six months.

Irish film maker a winner in Royksopp music video contest - SEE VIDEO

An Irish filmmaker, who lives in Korea, Neil Dowling, won Genero.TV's Royksopp's music video completion. The video made by Dowling and CONTENTed Films was chosen as the official video for their track "Senior Living".

Genero.TV said "CONTENTed’s film was an obvious winner in this category for us. There was an idea of ‘Senior Living’ and not just a piece of music to sound-bed a narrative. It was well thought out and had a real sense of the off the wall humor that can often be seen in some of Royksopp’s projects. This piece has good characterization that you could really buy into and the narrative was enthralling from the start to the finish of the piece. It also used the city as a great set for this story to help create a style for the whole piece.”

The Irish have one of the sexiest accents in the world

READ MORE- The Irish brogue- Ireland's most popular accents

The Irish accent is one of the top sexiest languages in the world, according to a new survey by Lonely Planet.

The travel guide organization recently asked its Facebook users to pick the world’s sexiest accent and tallying over 700 responses and the Irish accent came in third.

The Spanish accent came out on top narrowly beating France.

The Irish accent bet off stiff competition from Scotland and Australia to be included in the top three.  The smooth-talking Italians came in sixth place, followed by the English.

READ MORE- The Irish brogue- Ireland's most popular accents

Ireland’s youngest businessman aged 14 and 10- SEE VIDEO

Two young schoolboys have started their own business handcrafting wooden pens.

Ronan (14) and Conor (10), McGarvey are from West Donegal and spend their evenings and working in their parent's converted garden shed where they turn wood including bog oak, ash, yew, elm and beech into pens that they sell all over the world.

Their interest started when the brothers attended a trade-fair while on holidays and a talented wood-turner sparked their interest in the craft.

Possible Ireland’s youngest entrepreneurs, the brothers have sold over 600 pens since they started their business venture. Each pen can take up to an hour to make.

Last summer they earned enough revenue from the sale of their pens to allow them to upgrade their equipment. Since then their woodturning business has gone from strength to strength.

Check out their online store here http://www.donegalpens.com/

Watch this RTE Nationwide news report from last year.

Unexploded WWII bombs found in Northern Ireland quarry

A number of controlled explosions have been carried out on suspected unexploded World War Two shells found in a quarry in Newry, Co. Down.

The quarry, which is located beside Blue Lough was used as a firing practice range for artillery during the war.

Army bomb experts arrived at the site and removed one of the shells for further examination Tuesday afternoon.

Man jailed in Ireland for drug possession despite defense that he found the drugs under a tree

A Polish man living in Dublin has received an eight-year sentence having claimed he found $72,000 ( €54,000) worth of cannabis under a tree outside his house.

Tomasz Pryzjemski (25) told the police he did not intend on selling the drugs and he did not have a drug problem. The police also found smaller amounts of cannabis in his bedside locker. Pryzjemski said these were a gift.


Pryzjemski eventually pleaded guilty to possession of 4.5kilograms of canabis. He will deported after serving his eight-year sentence.

Clips and trailers from IrishCentral's top ten Irish mob movies

Read more: IrishCentral's top ten Irish mob movies - SEE VIDEOS

“The Boondock Saints” 1999




“The Boondock Saints II, All Saints Day” 2009




“Angels with Dirty Faces” 1938





“State of Grace” 1990




“Southie” 1998




“The Public Enemy” 1931




“The Friends of Eddie Coyle” 1973




“Gangs of New York” 2002




“The Departed” 2006




“The Town” 2010




Read more: IrishCentral's top ten Irish mob movies - SEE VIDEOS

Irish men don’t spend big bucks on Valentine’s Day

Irish men do not like shelling out a fortune on Valentine’s Day, a new survey has shown.

Males in Ireland ranked 10th out of 13th in a global study of men who were asked if they would pick up the check on a first date.

The survey, conducted by Parship.ie showed that 30 percent of Irish men spend not a single dime on their partner for Valentines Day.

An animated St Valentine’s Day card from Fine Gael - SEE PHOTO

Fine Gael have launched an online animated St. Valentine's Day on their 2011 election site.

Already the card has failed to charm Twitter commentators. One Twitter user asked whether Fine Gael were running a dirty tricks campaign against themselves. Ronan Lyons tweeted "One gets the impression the Transition year interns [16-year-olds] working on FG's social media strategy are way out of their depth".

Click here to see the St Valentine's Day card.

Irish dance sensation, Up & Over It, feature in McDonald’s ad - SEE VIDEO

The brilliant former "Riverdance" Irish dancers have featured in their own McDonald's TV advertisement.

Last year Up & Over It too the world by story with their "We No Speak Americano ft. Cleary & Harding" video on YouTube (see 2nd  video below). The brilliant video  now has over 6 million views. The dances have now appeared on CNN, "Good Morning America" and have celebrity fans such as Perez Hilton, Ellen DeGeneres and even Justin Beiber.

The duo are certainly stretching the concept of Irish Dance to its limit and have also been described as Irish Dancers for the post-pop generation.Whatever they are we like them.

Guinness ad celebrates the Irish rugby and its fans in time for the RBS Six Nations

Read more: Ireland luckily defeat Italy by 13-11 in rugby international

Guinness has launched their "This is Rugby Country" advert as rugby fever grips the Irish nation, with the beginning of the 2011 RBS Six Nations.

The ad features real Irish rugby fans filmed last fall in various locations around County Dublin and Wicklow. The fans included scientists, fishermen, firemen, office cleaners and local Dublin rugby players in the player’s tunnel at Aviva Stadium.

The ad's aim is to unite supporters in their pride for the nation's rugby team. We think it certainly succeeds.

What do you think?

Video clips from the top ten movies banned in Ireland

1. Clockwork Orange (Stanley Kubrick, 1971)



2. From Dusk Till Dawn (Robert Rodriguez, 1996)



3. Meet the Feebles (Peter Jackson, 1989)



4. Monkey Business (Norman Z. McLeod, 1931)



5. Monty Python's Life of Brian (Terry Jones, 1979)



6. Monty Python's The Meaning of Life (Terry Jones / Terry Gilliam, 1983)



7. Natural Born Killers (Oliver Stone, 1994)



8. Rocky Road to Dublin (Peter Lennon, 1968)



9. The Great Dictator (Charles Chaplin, 1940)



10. Ulysses (Joseph Strick, 1967)

Irish YouTube hit mockumentary shortlisted for RTE award - SEE VIDEO

A mockumentary “The Outlaw Concy Ryan” has landed a place on RTE’s (Ireland’s national broadcaster) Storyland competition. Previously other comic groups such as the Rubberbandits and the Hardy Bucks were given a boost by entering this competition.

The series is one of eight shortlisted out of 100 entries. The story focuses on Concy Ryan, who is already a YouTube hit.

Earlier this year the Limerick Leader newspaper spoke to the lead actor Francis Ryan. He said “My character introducing himself in his homeland of Moyhill. He doesn’t like regeneration, he thinks that everything is perfect the way it is and that nothing should change. He has hijacked the camera crew and taken them through his life and forced them to do things his way.”

Here’s a promo for the series:

95 percent of emails in Ireland are spam

More than 95 percent of emails targeted at Irish email account users contained spam, according to experts. The majority of spam messages were advertising bogus medications.

Email specialists IE performed the research which found that the U.S. was the primary source of spam emails.

“For every five clean emails that are delivered to users’ inboxes, we are dumping 95 Spam emails,” IE CEO Phelim O’Connell said.

 “The sheer volume of spammers now selling fake medicine indicates that spammers believe people will buy these products.

“We believe it follows a real trend where the numbers of people purchasing online pharmaceuticals is increasing at a rapid rate,” added Mr O’Connell.

Enda Kenny- gone to the dogs?

The man who looks set to become Ireland’s new leader, Enda Kenny got up, close and personal with a four-legged friend on the campaign trail recently.

The photo shows the Fine Gael leader shaking the giant guide dogs paw as he offers him an engaging smile.

The Irish Times have asked their readers to come up with suitable captions for the photo.
Here are just some of the best:

FF send the attack dogs after Enda, as usual they couldn’t even get that right! Comment by Paul Kane

“The dogs on the street know Fine Gael can get them back on their feet”. Comment by Mark
Kenny unveils running mate. Comment by David

Most Impressive Candidate for Taoiseach enjoys chance meeting with Enda Kenny. Comment by festinog

Will Strictly Come Dancing nerer end!!! Comment by Tom

“And you are our Councillor where exactly?” Comment by Highway61

FG leader freed from captivity by sniffer dogs. Comment by Paolo

What is your choice caption? Tell us below

Ireland’s top ten comedians

Tommy Tiernan



Dylan Moran



Des Bishop



Dara O'Briain



Jason Byrne



Ardal O'Hanlon



Neil Delamere



PJ Gallagher



David O'Doherty



Kevin McAleer

Photographer captures Ireland’s timeless beauty – SEE PHOTOS

Enda Cavanagh, over the years, has won numerous awards for his images of Ireland but his photographs have now been gathered in a new book called “Exploring the Irish Landscape”.

Speaking to the Irish Independent he said “I wanted to produce a book that showed a side of Ireland that you don't see in most Irish landscape photography books…Many of them often contain just factual photos of places rather than something which really captures the heart and soul of our country.”

Most of the images are taken during winter. In the book, the 70 featured images range from a ruined old car submerged beneath Lough Easkey, County Sligo to “Man and Dog at Forty Foot” (see above) in Sandycove, Dublin.

Visit www.endacavanagh.com for more details.