81-year-old Irish woman bungee swings for free in New Zealand – VIDEO

Learning to fly - back on solid ground

An 81-year-old Irish lady, Ailsa, took part in a bungee swing in New Zealand.

The video shows a relaxed lady who shouts “Yes I do want the video, cause they will not believe me at home”.

She goes on to say that she’s not scared now and waves “bye bye”.

When her landing on the platform doesn’t quite go to plan she can be heard threatening the technician saying she’ll send her husband after him.

Upon hitting down on solid ground, after being airborne for about four minutes, her companions ask if she feels okay. She says “I’m okay” and waves enthusiastically at the camera.

Broadsheet posted the video on Tuesday. They said the footage came from Lisa Sheppard who wrote:

“This is my 81-year-old-grand Aunt Maureen from Gibbstown in County Meath doing the Nevis bungee swing in New Zealand! She did it because they had a sign saying “free for anyone over 75″.

They had said at the Nevis swing they haven’t had anybody older than her doing it! She said it was very relaxing and would highly recommend it!”

Here's the footage: 



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UFO mystery - footage shot over Dublin alien or Chinese lantern – VIDEO

Spot the UFO?

A video uploaded to YouTube by  leonamiga claims to be footage of a UFO over Dublin. The video seems to be taken from a still camera, to a building. It shows a small bouncing light moving across Dublin’s skyline.

Broadsheet.ie posted the footage asking “UFO Over Dublin Or Chinese Lantern?”

It seems that many of the site’s readers are skeptics. One commenter, Jimbo, posted “Someone tell Jim Corr, only he can save us!!” Corr, from the hit band The Corrs has often made his beliefs on conspiracy cover-ups publicly known.

Dash Rickwood commented that the UFO “moves just like one of those mysterious Garda helicopters” and another questioned that the footage was actually of Dublin.

One commenter on the YouTube clip seemed to disagree with the non-believers. The user, junkification, wrote “Same thing over my house, same night. Portland, Oregon, New Years Eve 2012!! I reported the sighting to mufon(dot)com (sic)”.

What do you think?

Here’s the footage:


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Lazy Irish postman leaves 2,500 letters in car

Oliver Ennis

An Irish court has heard how a postman failed to deliver thousands of letters out of “pure laziness”.

Oliver Ennis (27) was given a suspended sentence at Dublin Criminal Court, for stashing undelivered letters in his trunk, so he could clock off from his shift early, the Evening Herald reports.

The Dubliner pleaded not guilty  to "detaining and delaying" more than 2,500 items of post at the Shelbourne Road Sorting Office between December 1, 2008, and July 8, 2010.
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Judge Nolan said: "It would never have struck me that this was a criminal offence until it was brought to my attention.

"And thanks be to God it doesn't apply to barristers when they're supposed to send letters," he said.

He sentenced him to 18-months for which he suspended two years.

According to police at the trial, Ennis told them that if a letter was difficult to deliver, he would just keep it in his car. He said his only excuse was "pure laziness".

'Driving in Dublin in 1974' YouTube video goes viral

Driving down Dame Street

A beautiful video posted on YouTube by "willmcq" is spreading like wildfire on Twitter and Facebook.

He describes the video as "My dad and his friend filmed themselves driving around Dublin city centre in 1974. They drove down Grafton Street and up by Dame Street by the central bank (still being built) then down past Trinity College and up to the top of O'Connell street. Check out the flares and 1970s cars."

Whether his father had the foresight to add the soundtrack or the addition of "Canned Heat's "On the Road Again" or it was willmcq's doing the music fits in perfectly with this incredible footage.

Here's the video:

Amazing trailer for Sony’s Playstation Move game “Sorcery” based on Irish mythology – VIDEO

Sorcery will be out next spring

Sony has released a new trailer for the Playstation Move game, “Sorcery”, which will be released in spring 2012.


The new game’s site invites players to “experience a world of magic and wonder steeped in Irish folklore tradition.”

Gamers will play the role of a young apprentice who must get to grips with the arcane arts to save his homeland from the Nightmare Queen. The game includes 12 upgradable spells and hundreds of potions to tinker with.

Here’s the new trailer for the game:

'Jimmy Kimmel Live' punks kids for Christmas - "I Gave My Kids a Terrible Present" - VIDEO

FYI: Children do no react well to bad presents

Jimmy Kimmel pulled a Christmas prank on the children of American this week. He told parents across the country to give their kids a "terrible presents".

Surprisingly a  number of the children "reacted poorly to this".

The children's reactions are really hilarious. However as Jimmy points out if Santa is still working off the naughty and nice list some of this little darlings are in trouble.

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Rare footage of Amy Winehouse singing ‘Tears Dry on their Own’ on RTE show ‘Other Voices’ released

Amy Winehouse

Since Amy Winehouse tragically passed away in her Camden, London, aparment this summer the good folks at her Vevo channel have been uploading some rare footage from the last few months of her life.

Here's the footage from RTE's show "Other Voices" filmed in Dingle, County Kerry.

In this video the troubled songstress sings "Tear Dry on their Own" with backing from just two guitars.

"Lioness: Hidden Treasures" an album which was been released posthumously is just out.

Here's the clip:




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