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”

Galway man proposes to fiancée with amazing Snoop Dog video

Snoop Dog

A man from Connemara, Galway, proposed to his girlfriend Joanie, in Canada this week and the video below is how he and Joanie’s family celebrated at their lake-side cottage, by making this Snoop Dog music video to “Ain’t Nothing but a G Thang.”

What brilliant result! There's nothing like parents, aunts, uncles and cousins being gangster.

Along with the YouTube video Joanie posted “henjo just got engaged!!!! Henry proposed this past Thursday just before a trip up to the cottage...and yes, I cried like a baby! Even after 6 ½ years together, he managed to find a way to surprise me! The weekend was spent celebrating with family, and of course...filming a video!”

“We wanted to share our special engagement weekend with you in the best way we know how -- it's not your typical video though! You will have to watch it to see what we mean! Enjoy!”

Here’s the video:

Giant crab caught off Mayo coast dies

Skipper Micheal O’Toole (right) and crewman Darren O’Toole holding the Giant Box Crab  (Credit: The Mayo News)

A rare giant crab has died in the National Aquarium in Galway just days after it caught off the coast of Mayo.

The large box crab, which measured 43 inches from claw to claw, was hauled by fisherman Michael O’Toole last week in 70 meters of water a mile off the coast of Innisboffin, reports the Mayo News.

The crab was then taken to the National Aquarium in Salthill in Galway where it later died.

Kevin O’Hara, Manager of the National Aquarium said that the stress of being removed form its natural habitat may have killed the sea creature.

“The first 24 hours are critical to whether it will survive or not,” Kevin explained. “We have no idea why it died, but stress may have been the main factor. We were hopeful it would have survived, but unfortunately it did not. It was a very unusual crab, very rare, and it was a big catch.”

O’Toole, the fisherman who made the catch, was disappointed to hear about the crabs death.

“I have been fishing for over 40 years and I never seen anything like it before in my life,” he told The Mayo News.

“We were fishing for cray fish when he got caught in our nets and when we hauled him in, I knew we had caught something special. When we brought him ashore there was great excitement with the young people wanting to have a look at it. People living off the island were looking forward to seeing it and we were terribly disappointed when we got the call from Galway that it died.”

World Champion diver jumps from helicopter over Lough Corrib - VIDEO

(Photo: Red Bull)

Colombian, nine-time diving world champion Orlando Duque jumped from a helicopter, 23 meters above Ashford Castle, Cong, County Mayo, in preparation for the Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series.

The possibly insane competition includes a cliff dive on Inis Mor, one of the Aran Islands, off County Galway.

The 11 qualifying entrants, started their diving this month. They will complete seven dives in Europe and North American, before the final dive in Oman, in September.

These dives, according to TheJournal.ie last just three seconds as the diver hurtles toward the water at 85kph.

Here’s video, thanks to Red Bull, of Duque talking about the experience:

Traps Army get international suppport - adorable Thai children sing "Rocky Road to Poland" - VIDEO

I dont' want to put anymore pressure on Giovanni Trapattoni and the boys but you better not disappoint this adorable kids.

Posted on YouTube the clip entitle "Thai Tims-Rocky Road to Poland" shows a group of about 40 kinds belting out the Green Army's official anthem for the UEFA Euro 2012.

The video, which has gone viral on Facebook among Irish fans, was posted by the Good Child Foundation, an organization in Thailand that works with down syndrome children. According to their site they "use songs sung in the English language to improve our students understanding of the language and also their literacy skills."

Recently a group of Thai Tims visited Celtic Park in Glasgow....which explains the jerseys. 

 Here's the clip, I defy you not to smile:

Starbucks Ireland asks customers to describe "what it means to be British" #Fail

Woops! Starbucks Ireland asked their Emerald Isle customers, via Twitter, to let them know "what makes you proud to be British" this morning.


The international coffee company was reaching out to its Irish customers as part of a frozen coffee promotion.

So far the response to this silly gaffe has  not been good.

Just an hour after the mistake went live "Starbucks" was trending with Irish twitter users.

Here's a sample of the reaction:

‏@soundmigration tweeted "@StarbucksIE Hey guys, Dont get to concerned> Give it a few weeks and ask how German we will feel #MyFrappuccino".

@Elaine_Mc tweeted "What an absolute FAIL @StarbucksIE. Of all things to call us!! #Insult #ProudToBeIRISH #MyFrappuccino http://bit.ly/JlXOcu".

@TheWholeyTruth tweeted "@StarbucksIE wants you to tweet what makes you proud to be British. Starbucks IRELAND. Well, herp derp to you too. #MyFrappuccino #fail".

The natives do not seems impressed.

It is little wonder that the Seattle coffee company has never taken off Ireland. Far from the US, where there is a Starbucks on every second corner, there are only 17 Starbucks cafes in the whole country.

The Irish Times reports that in 2010 the company made a loss of €3.3 million in Ireland. However in the year to October 2011 they managed to make a profit of €490,000.

We'll see how they do if they continue to make marketing mistakes such as these.