'Father Ted' has nothing on reality - Irishman donates bucket as memorial for Pope’s visit

John Joe McCarthy with his bucket  (Photo: Denis Boyle)

Did you ever see the episode about the guy who keeps a bucket for 30 years and creates a memorial to the Pope? Oh no, wait this is reality.

The South Star reported that John Joe McCarthy, a Limerick pensioner, has mounted a plastic 12-inch high bucket on marble, and plans to present it to his former school as a memorial to Pope John Paul II’s visit to Ireland 30 years ago.

McCarthy told the paper “I used the bucket to carry my provisions for the day – my lunch, my camera and my binoculars.” He also used the bucket as a step to steal some choice shots of the Pope passing by.

He now plans to make a presentation of the bucket, along with a note, to the Ahiohill National School.

“I originally wanted to have an inscription put on the bucket, but because it is made of plastic this could not be done. Instead I have written out the background to the story and laminated it. I also have a marble slab on which to display the bucket.”

Terrifying footage - Irish fishing trawler defies storm weather warnings – VIDEO

John B (Credit: El Paso Restaurant)

The John B fishing trawler defied Met Eireann ( Irish meteorological services ) warnings this week by venturing out to see at Howth, north Dublin.

The bad weather in Ireland is expected to lift soon but Met Eireann were right when they warned that up to 50 millimeters of rain would fall over 30 hours. Also gale force warning were in affect from Valentia to Malin Head and on the Irish Sea.

The John B’s owner told the Irish Examiner that in this economy the fishermen cannot lose a day at sea and just decided to “go for it”.

The footage taken by stormytom:

Twitter users show ignorance - didn’t realize the Titanic was real

Appalled and shocked…we don’t blame you.

This screen shot of Twitter users conversing over the Titanic has gone viral, and it’s no wonder. The shocking images shows a list of Twitter users who had not realized that James Cameron’s movie starring Leonardo DiCaprio was actually based on real historic event.

As Journal.ie commented “You couldn’t make it up”.

What’s even more worrying is that this isn’t an isolated event. The Huffington Post noticed this before (see image below). And here one lost soul turns to Yahoo Answers to figure out what the truth is.

A worrying indictment of the lack of historic knowledge in the younger generations? No…I’m sure it’ll be fine.

Back to tweeting about One Direction and Niall Horan it is!

James Cameron documentary shows new animation of how the Titanic sunk – VIDEO

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Just in time for the centenary, the final moments of the Titanic have been reconstructed for a new documentary. James Cameron, director of the Titanic movie and a keen deep-sea diver produced a new CGI video detailing exactly what happened after the liner hit an iceberg on April 14, 1912.

The National Geographic Channel production included a team of engineers and other specialists.

Take a look at Titanic: The Final Word with James Cameron below:

 

Ireland officially on four days Easter holidays but how many will go to Church - VIDEO

pics on Sodahead Ireland is officially on a four days weekend for Easter including Holy Thursday, Good Friday and the Easter long weekend but how many Irish will actually be going to Church.

Although information on from the Census released this year shows that 86 percent of the Irish people consider themselves Catholic a vox pop taken last year by RealCatholicTV.com showed that only 1 out of the 24 people said the attend mass regularly.

RealCatholicTV say "The decline of the Church is perhaps felt nowhere more acutely than in Ireland. Once a model of holiness and apostolic zeal, its downfall is a serious wakeup call for The Church in America and other countries."

Here's the footage take outside Trinity College on College Green in Dublin:

And we thought elephants were a problem - Horse attacks police officer at Smithfield Market- VIDEO

Image credit: Mark Henderson

A frisky horse attacked a police officer at a Dublin horse fair on Monday. The spirited horse reacted badly when the officer stepped into check the horse’s electronic tag at the Smithfield Horse Fair.

Images on Broadsheet.ie captured by Mark Henderson show the officer being thrown to the ground by the large well endowed stallion.

As another police officer stepped into help his colleague, the first officer was knocked to the ground and hit over the head with the horse’s baby maker.

Watch the video below.

Eat your greens - festival St. Patrick’s Day sausage sell like hot cakes – PHOTO

Proudly showing off the Mallon green sausages for St Patrick's Day are -                      
from left - Robin Hunniford, Paul Martin and David Kelly

When staff at the Charlie Mallon’s butchers in Portadown decided to produce St Patrick’s Day themed sausages, they never thought the recipe would prove to be so popular.

“It was a bit of a gimmick,” butcher Robin Hunniford told the Portadown Times.

Shoppers snapped up several pounds of the emerald bangers when they added some green food coloring to their home made sausages. “The feed-back from the customers is that they really enjoyed them.

“They sold like hot dogs!” he added.
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