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.

Will Ferrell’s “Funny or Die” goes after Notre Dame’s Manti Te’o’s fake online relationship - VIDEO

Funny or Die's Manti Te'o sketch

Funny or Die have decided to weigh in on the Manti Te’o fiasco, in their own hilarious way and have been presenting videos of the Notre Dame linebacker. Beginning with an eHarmony ad and now a parody of the catfish trailer.

The Notre Dame linebacker hit the news earlier this week when it was revealed that his late girlfriend never existed, with Te’o claiming he was a victim of an elaborate hoax.

Now, Funny or Die has uploaded a video with Te'o (Eugene Cordero) gushing about his relationship with Lennay Kekua, reports Digital Spy.

“I hate fake people. They’re just so…it’s like they’re not there when you’re talking to them. But it’s different with Lennay,” says Eugene Cordero portraying Te’o, as the camera cuts to a two shot of him and an empty seat on the couch, according to EW.com.

You can watch the video below.

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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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Comedian posing as Irish dancer joins breakdancers on New York subway - VIDEO

Comedian Tyler Fischer doing an "Irish jig" on an NYC subway

Running into break dancers on a New York City subway is nothing for most native New Yorkers to bat an eye at. However, for the break dancers to be upstaged by a faux Irish dancer?
Comedian Tyler Fischer stole the spotlight from some break dancers on a subway recently when the music switched up to an Irish reel and Fleischer began to prance around the subway car.

“Look at him go! He’s a little leprechaun!” cheered on the break dancers who were presumably in on the stunt.

In our opinion the best part of this video isn’t Fischer’s fly Irish dance skills but rather how completely unphased the New Yorkers on the subway are about what’s taking place. Only in New York!

Check out the video below.

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Forget crisp sandwiches - they’ve finally invented a Tayto chocolate bar

Tayto chocolate (Photo: @WaffleWaitress)

We too were sucked in by the packaging but no this is not a crisp (chip) flavored chocolate bar but an invention brought forth by Mr Tayto to thrill the Irish around the globe who love to eat chocolate alongside their favorite cheese and onion treats.

The man himself spoke to TheJournal.ie and explained where this confusingly packed chocolate bar’s inception had sprung from. He said “I thought that as crisps and chocolate together is such an Irish tradition, why not bring out my own bar? It’s not crisp flavored! Just nice milk chocolate so you can eat it with crisps if that floats your boat.”

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Dublin peeks out from the clouds for photo-op from space

Dublin from space a la International Space Station

Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield took a stunning picture of Dublin from the International Space Station in the early hours of Sunday.

Hadfield wasn’t sure which Irish city he had photographed and shared it with his Twitter followers, who were quick to identify the port city as Ireland’s capital, Dublin.

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Donegal high school epic Teenage Kicks/Gangnam Style lip-dub goes viral- VIDEO

Scoil Mhuire, in Buncrana, Co. Donegal was the setting for the YouTube track in which students lip dub various tracks starting with The Undertones Teenage Kicks and finishing with PSY’s Gangnam Style. The lip-dub has already clocked up more than 50,000 views on YouTube.

Teacher Katrina McGonagle told the Donegal Democrat the entire school was thrilled by the response.

 “We never, ever expected a response like this… It really is exciting for us all - not just the students!”

“On Sunday, we were on the trending list on YouTube.”

“It really has been great for the school. Everyone here is floating on air today.”

Watch the video below:

A leggy Leprechaun puts Irish guys smiling at Victoria’s Secret bash in New York

Hilary Rhoda
as a sexy leprechaun. Photo: Kevin Mazur

The annual Victoria Secret’s lingerie catwalk show in New York had an Irish theme last week.

Two of world’s top models strutted their stuff in jaw-dropping Irish-themed outfits as part of 2012 Victoria's Secret Fashion Show.

Dressed in elbow length green gloves, American beauty Hilary Rhonda wore a sexy leprechaun outfit, with giant shamrock wings.

Aussie supermodel Miranda Kerr took to the catwalk in a Celtic princess outfit.

Performers on the night included Justin Bieber, Rihanna and Bruno Mars.

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.


Here’s the video:

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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Check out the video here:

FAIL! Is this the funniest video in years? -- The iceman cometh and falleth on his butt

The daredevil before his nasty fall

This poor German diver  got more than he bargained for when he decided to take a winter swim .

It sounds like he’s cursing in German so we won’t hold that against him given what happened!

Enjoy this weekend light moment!

'You're nearly three, you should toughen up': Gabriel and Delilah O'Donoghue become internet hit - VIDEO

Four-year-old Delilah O’Donoghue’s earnest lecture on
behavior to her two-year-old brother Gabriel

A funny exchange between two young siblings in the UK has gone viral.

After Lee O’Donoghue captured his four-year-old daughter chastising her two-year-old brother on his smartphone, he uploaded it to YouTube, thinking friends and family would find it amusing.

But Delilah’s lecture to her two-year-old brother Gabriel in which she tells him to ‘toughen up’ has become an internet sensation.

The 65-second clip shows Gabriel receive a scolding from his older sister for spitting on another child in the playground.

“I’ll keep remembering you being about two and I’ll tell my friends that too,” she tells Gabriel.

“You’re nearly three, you should toughen up a bit.”

She tells him: “When Mum and Dad said you don’t do that, you don’t do that... and you don’t spit.”

O'Donoghue, a company director from Balsall Common, West Midlands, said he was watching from a distance and thought it was comedy gold.

“I watched from afar until I realised he must be really getting it from her,’ Dad, Lee told the Daily Mail.

“In classic Delilah style she decides to give it to him straight.”

The clip was uploaded last Tuesday and has had over 1.4 million views in the past six days.

You need to toughen up bit. CLICK HERE TO WATCH THE YOU TUBE CLIP.

Irish spoof mocks Facebook’s earnest first-ever advertising campaign about chairs – VIDEO

Facebook ad gets punked Irish-style!

It’s no surprise that someone poked fun at Facebook’s first ever major advertising campaign and we must admit it’s even less of surprise that the culprits were Irish.

Facebook launched the advertising campaign to celebrate reaching one billion users, but it seems obvious to us that the Wieden + Kennedy created “Chairs are like Facebook” is pretty easy to mock.

Do you see?... You share chairs, well really big chairs.

You can see why Irish funny folks Dónal Mulligan, Cian Markey, and Richie Nolan felt they needed to put together this spoof.

In their blurb they simply state, “We saw Facebook's ad, celebrating a billion users, and felt it was missing something.

“You're welcome, Mark Zuckerberg!”

For full effect it’s best to look at Facebook’s own advert before checking out the very effective spoof. Here are both:

Here’s Facebook’s real advisement:


Here’s Irish spoof uploaded by Dónal Mulligan:

Would that be a Freudian slip? Irish politician says Enda Kenny was on the cover of Playboy – AUDIO

Mattie McGrath outside Irish
Government buildings

Sometimes it really does feel like “Father Ted” was a documentary, and this is especially true when comedy fumbles like this take place. The audio below could not have been better if it was written by Graham Linehan himself.

Speaking in the Dáil (Irish Parliament), independent government member Mattie McGrath got a little confused talking about Taoiseach Enda Kenny’s appearance on the front cover of Time magazine. The red-faced politician instead referred to the Irish leader’s photo on the “front page of Playboy magazine.”

He said, “To see our Taoiseach, on this front page of Playboy magazine, I wish him well, I voted him as Taoiseach, but I expected a lot different of him."

The Tipperary South/West Waterford TD soon corrected himself saying, “Sorry what magazine did I say? [Pause] Oh sorry. I meant to say … sorry, sorry … I'll correct that - I meant to say like a playboy on Time magazine.”

Poor McGrath had his slip used against him shortly after when Dun Laoghaire TD Mary Mitchell O'Connor commented on McGrath’s poorly prepared speech on the Fiscal Bill saying, “Maybe you should be getting your advice, your economic advice, from Time magazine rather than Playboy magazine.”

Here’s the audio ripped from Breakingnews.ie:

Dublin US Embassy workers mock citizen who lost passport after big cocktail order

US Embassy workers show their sense of humor

United States Embassy passport office workers proved they had a sense of humor this week when they teased a US national who lost their passport in Ireland, shortly after making a rather large cocktail order at Bruxelles bar in Dublin’s city center. 

Although the embassy had to cancel the passport and return it to the state department the workers sent the passport owner a note along with their receipt for five Long Island iced teas from the Dublin boozer. Dublin rock radio station Phantom 105.2 tweeted the photo.

Sure isn’t that exactly what you want? To lose your passport on a night out during your holidays and then have your country’s embassy staff mock you for it! 

We commiserate US traveler.

Bill Clinton reunited with Ugandan namesake 15-years after presidential visit

Bill Clinton with his namesake Bill Clinton then and now in Uganda

Former president of the United States Bill Clinton was reunited with his namesake, teenager Bill Clinton, who he had met as a baby in 1998.

Now 14-year-old Master Bill Clinton Kaligani was delighted to meet Clinton again. The young man was named after Clinton as he was the first US president to visit Uganda just after he was born.

According to AllAfrican.com the teenager was flown to Entebbe to have lunch with the former president. Although he did miss an exam at school it was worth it to meet his American namesake.

Teenage Bill told the Ugandan newspaper, the Daily Monitor “I feel good. He told me he also wanted me to be a doctor, that I should work hard and pass in my studies.”

His mother, Betty Namugosa said, “(Clinton) was very happy to see the boy. He asked him what he wants and the boy informed him he wants to become a doctor.

“He promised to look after his “son” in every way.”

Since his visit to Uganda in 1998 the former president has supported various initiatives to better African children’s education and health.

Irish American car mechanics in Oklahoma keep cool this summer by wearing kilts – VIDEO

Rockin the man kilt

This may be the worst summer heat in the United States since 1964 but Irish American mechanics at O’Brien Automotive, in Tulsa, Oklahoma have come up with a solution. They wear kilts while they work.

The men wear them from May to October saying they’re “natural air conditioning”.

David O’Brien said he ditched pants during the summer 40 years ago, opting instead for a cooler kilt. Despite strange looks he might get he calls the kilt “the manliest man wear you can wear”.

Of course when the mechanics go under vehicles a certain amount of “kilt etiquette” is required.

Here’s the KVUE ABC report:

1,400 people dressed as nuns in Kerry break Guinness World Record -VIDEO

Supporting Nunday!

More than 1,400 revellers dressed as nuns flocked to a village in Kerry last weekend to smash a Guinness world record.

Men and women dressed as nuns descended on Listowel on Saturday for ‘Nunday’ to help raise funds for Pieta House, a charity aimed at preventing suicide and self-harm.

The crowd broke the previous record, which stood at 250 for the largest meeting of people dressed as nuns.

Organizer Cora O’Brien told TheJournal.ie how they ran out of habits for the participants.

“We’d initially expected a couple of hundred people to take part but the whole thing just took off over the past week and we actually ran out of nuns’ habits a few days ago,” said O’Brien, who lost her son to suicide in 2007.

“The excitement in the town was immense and everyone really got into the spirit of things,” said O’Brien.

Organizers provided all registered participants with a black habit, a white coif, and a black veil for the event. 

The official count took place at 6 o’clock in a football field in Listowel . Afterwards, the 1,436 nuns paraded through the town.

Irish police on the hunt for a man with ‘huge man boobs’

Irish police have described a man who robbed a cash in transit van in Dublin on Friday as having “huge man boobs”.

According to the Herald, Irish cops are looking for a man who was wearing a blue hoodie, jeans and a baseball cap and had rather large man boobs, or moobs as they are also known.

The Dublin based newspaper posted the following on Twitter: “Gardai hunting for Dundrum cash-in-transit robber have describing him as having “hug man boobs. #Herald”