Rare vintage Irish-made American sports car, The Shamrock, goes on display in Dublin - PHOTO

The Shamrock - an Irish made American car

At next month’s RIAC National Classic Car Show at the RDS in Dublin, a running 17-foot Shamrock car will be on display. Only a handful of the now vintage cars were ever made.

Event manager Bob Montgomery said, "Originally it was planned to produce about 10,000 cars a year from their Irish manufacturing plant. Unfortunately, the project never got that far.”

The Shamrock car was originally designed for the American market by visiting American industrialist William Curtis who wanted to start a car manufacturing business in Ireland.

The Irish-made cars were only manufactured for a short time at a factory in Castleblaney in Co Monaghan. Before the project was shut down in the early 1960s for financial difficulties, the car model was lauded for its beauty, styling and elegance.

Quentin Tarantino amazed by ‘Pulp Fiction Kerry Shtyle’ dubbed skit by Irish students - VIDEO

Quentin Tarantino

While chatting with late night host Graham Norton, ‘Django Unchained’ director Quentin Tarantino got a taste of his classic flick ‘Pulp Fiction’ with an Irish slant.

Film students from Co Kerry dubbed over a scene from the film with thick Kerry accents, leaving director Tarantino quite impressed.

Check out the video below.

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Irish band Kodaline give sountrack to Google news official review of 2012 - VIDEO

Felix Baumgartner's world-record jump

The most Googled band in Ireland, Kodaline, lent their song to Google's annual Zeitgeist showing "how the world searched" in 2012. The music is an instrumental version of the song "All I Want."

The video shows a wide-range of events, people and conflicts that dominated the new this week.

Just some of the top searched topics were Felix Baumgartner's world-record jump, the protests in Syria and Greece, the 2012 Summer Olympics, the Mars Rover landing, Pussy Riot, the launch of SpaceX's Dragon capsule and the elections in the United States, Egypt and France.

Google reports that there were 1.2 trillion Google searches in 146 languages in 2012.

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The Rubberbandits promote Science Week 2012 with ‘guide to physics’ - VIDEO

Rubbertbandits guide to Physics

Have The Rubberbandits found their new calling in life? It would appear so, as the famous Limerick duo has released their second science-themed video aptly titled ‘Rubberbandits guide to physics.’

The video, published on Wednesday on YouTube, is the lads’ second promotional video for Ireland’s Science Week 2012. Their first was ‘Rubberbandits guide to chemistry featuring Louis Walsh’ which was uploaded at the end of last month.

The Rubberbandits shared their video with nearly 50,000 followers on Twitter by tweeting “Our new science video, this is our guide to Physics. You'll learn loads. RT if you like it,” with a link to the YouTube video.

The Science Week website says, “The aim of Science Week is to promote the relevance of science, technology, engineering and maths in our everyday lives and to demonstrate their importance to the future development of Irish society and to the economy.”

Surely, The Rubberbandits are the perfect promotional device for the upcoming event!

Check out the hilarious video here:

Irish music video reaches out to Irish immigrants the “Teaspora” around the globe

A still from Roisin O's video for "The Tea Song"

With now 70,000 Irish emigrating every year Roisin O’s video-makers decided to use this vast resource to a great affect. They reached out the #Teaspora, the tea drinking Irish immigrants around the globe, to contribute to their video for Roisin O’s “Tea Song”.

The footage gives a poignant snap shot of young Irish immigrants around the globe from New Zealand, Hong Kong, Australia, London, Italy, a family in Denmark, and more the video shows the tea drinking Irish shattered around the globe. The video also lists the number of days these immigrants have been away from home.

The constant in all of these clips is a cuppa cha. What’s better and more comforting when you’re away from home, as long as it’s Barry’s or Lyon’s of course.

For more information visit Roisin O’s website here.


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The Rubberbandits wonder if Christ haunts the Eucharist in new promo video for Science Week 2012 in Ireland - VIDEO

The Rubberbandits on Science

They’re at it again! Limerick’s pride, The Rubberbandits, are promoting Science Week 2012 in a new hilarious video in which they interview an immunologist from the Department of Biochemistry at Trinity College Dublin.

The lads - Blind Boy Boat Club and Mr Chrome - sat down with Dr. Luke O’Neill in order to get to the bottom of the age-old question - does Christ himself haunt the Eucharist served at Mass?

“Do you think that one day science can prove that Communion wafers are haunted with the ghost of Christ?” the lads asked the amused doctor.

In the video posted on their YouTube channel, the lads introduce the video writing, “We made this video for science week. The economy is in a terrible state, a good solution to this is for you to become a scientist and get pure innovative. So watch our guide to Chemistry, listen, learn and then go to your nearest scientist recruitment center.”

See if they find out their answer about the Eucharist and Christ, and learn a little more about science, in the video below!

Two young Irish boys perform a spectacular cover of Rihanna’s ‘We Found Love,’ goes viral on YouTube - VIDEO

Shyand and Rob singing "We Found
Love" by Rihanna

Two boys from Kildare, Shyand aged 16 on guitar, and Rob aged 11 on vocals, have been making waves on the Internet this week after posting a stunning rendition of pop-star Rihanna’s massive hit ‘We Found Love.’

In the video, one boy strums on the guitar while the other sings. The two added their own touch to the song by inserting a bit of a rap into it.

This is the second time that Rihanna’s ‘We Found Love’ has been making news in Ireland - just over a year ago, the Barbadian pop-star filmed the video for the song in Northern Ireland.

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‘Taken’ star Liam Neeson delivers dramatic reading of Justin Bieber’s ‘Boyfriend’ -VIDEO

Liam Neeson & Justin Bieber

“Taken” star Liam Neeson performed a dramatic reading of pop star Justin Bieber’s “Boyfriend” song.

Neeson appeared on the U.K. show The Jonathan Ross show, where he was asked to do a dramatic reading of the single from Bieber’s newest album. Although the episode aired last September, Neeson’s video is now going viral over the internet and twitter.

Bieber, who was also a guest on the chat show, seemed to like the Irish actor’s rendition of his hit song.

Neeson joined the late night chat show with Bieber himself, sports presenter Clare Balding, and The Killers, who gave a live performance. Bieber tried to avoid talking about his relationship with Selena Gomez and confessed that he could play Christian Grey in the upcoming film of “50 Shades of Grey.” He told the host, “They actually want me to be in the movie.”

Neeson was last seen on the big screen in “Taken 2” which was released at the beginning of the month.

Watch Neeson’s dramatic reading of “Boyfriend” below:

Check out U2 performing on “The Late Late Show” in 1980 - VIDEO

The amazing hair of 1980s U2

Ten months before the album “Boy” hit the stores, U2 appeared on “The Late Late Show” performing “Stories for Boys”.

The Rolling Stones rooted out this little gem of a clip which shows Bono, the Edge and the boys performing just after the release of the three-song EP, “Three”.

John McKenna couldn’t have put it better with his introduction when he said, “What can I say about these titans among rock and rollers?...The band for the future – the Eighties or Nineties, who knows? U2!"

Here's the clip:

Christy Moore live at the Galway Arts Festival - VIDEO

Christy Moore

Christy Moore recently wowed audiences at the annual Galway Arts Festival.

An acclaimed Irish folk singer, songwriter and guitarist. Moore was one of the founding members of the Irish traditional group Planxty.

Galway Arts Festival is Ireland's largest international arts festival. Founded in 1978 it has grown into an event with a significant reputation where, in 2011, there were 162,000 attendances at 176 performances, talks and exhibitions in 27 venues over 14 days. The Festival showcases a wide variety of international artists alongside the best of Irish talent and includes music (popular, contemporary, jazz, world, classical and traditional), theatre (indoor and outdoor), visual arts, dance, talks, discussions, family events and comedy in its programme. The festival is currently running from July 16 to 29.

Watch more videos from the GAF here.