Tuesday, March 29, 2011

Irish fashion designer Orla Kiely makes her mark on the Citroen DS3 - VIDEO

Ordinarily associated with handbags, wallets  Orla Kiely the world famous fashion designer has branched out into designing cars.

Kiely's vintage DS3 Citroen include plenty of interior detail, including stem print rear window graphics, a colour contrasting dashboard, themed door handle inserts, embossed multi-coloured headrests on the leather seats and stem or acorn print carpet mats for the interior detail.

Only 500 will be made and $25,583 is the price.

Monday, March 28, 2011

The Corrigan Brothers film video for "Welcome Home President Barack Obama" in Moneygall

Irish group The Corrigan Brothers brought traffic to a standstill in Moneygall, County Offaly, as they filmed the video for their new singe "Welcome Home President Barack Obama".

The band first became widely known when they released their tune "There's No One as Irish as Barack Obama". The song have now received over seven million hits on YouTube.

The group even traveled the White House for Obama's inauguration along with the Presidents distant cousin Henry Healy. Mr Healy will also appear in the new video.



O'hAnleigh release new music video "The Mermaid's Tale" - VIDEO

Vermont Irish-American duo O'hAnleigh released their first animated music video The Mermaid's Tale, featuring their original song of the same name and the artistic talents of animator Emilie Rodgers.

O'hAnleigh's songs of Irish history, myth and legend play on Celtic and world folk music programs around the globe.

The Mermaid's Tale tells a classic story of a fin-tailed vixed who seduces a sailor to his doom with her irresistible siren song, then merrily sings after the next one who happens to sail by.

Here's the clip:

Thursday, March 24, 2011

Irish comics voice the nations annoyance with misleading budget airline flight prices

A group of Irish comics have put together a song which perfectly sums of the Irish public's annoyance with so-called 'budget airlines' in based in Ireland....not that they're talking about anyone in particular you understand. It's certainly not Ryanair!

Sure to put a smile on your face. Here's the video:

Wednesday, March 23, 2011

Brian O'Driscoll and Paul O'Connell star in revised version of the leaked British "Grand Slam Celebration" video

Just days after Ireland's victory over the English team denied them the Grand Slam, in the Rugby RBS Six Nations the RFU's "Grand Slam Celebration" video was embarrassingly leaked onto the internet.  

However in true Irish style someone called "GrandSlamMeArse" has changed the video up a bit and released it to YouTube. 

Although Ireland may not have done as well as expected in the RBS Six Nations I think this video makes the point. 

Here's the new revised video:

And the original England Grand Slam promo:

Thursday, March 17, 2011

St. Patrick's Day Irish dancing flash mob takes Sydney by surprise - SEE VIDEO

Over 100 Irish Dancers including members of "Riverdance" and school children took over the beautiful Central Station in Sydney, Australia, in the name of spreading St. Patrick's cheer.

St Patrick's Day - Guinness advert - Enjoy!