a group of travellers in Ireland has posted a video challenging another group of travellers currently in England to return to Ireland for a fight
helpful – though not entirely accurate at times – subtitles have been added to the video for those struggling to understand the accent
unlike the Scots, who love to toss a caber for sport and demonstration of strength and skill, Irish competitive tree hurling is a much more fun festive thing – http://tinyurl.com/yayvb288
St Stephen’s Day, the 26th December, is called Lá Fhéile Stiofáin or Lá an Dreoilín, meaning the Wren Day in Eire – People dress up in old clothes, wear straw hats and travel from door to door with fake wrens (previously real wrens were killed) and they dance, sing and play music – wikipedia
the hitherto little known outside of Ireland village of Ringaskiddy in county Cork – where women are always smiling, men walk with a limp, and dogs have rock hard erections – is going to attract a lot more visitors when this news leaks out – http://tinyurl.com/yar3f574
horny 18-year-old Anthony Breslin from Gortnaskea in Burnfoot, County Donegal has been fined £50 after police pulled him over for driving a tractor with no L plates through Derry looking for women – http://tinyurl.com/ybd58aea
of course, he’s not the first farmer to use the lure of agricultural machinery to try and woo a woman . . .
had a few too many sausages!
Native American Choctaw leaders have arrived in Ireland to unveil a sculpture celebrating the financial contribution made by the tribe to starving Irish people in 1847
full story – http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-40304645
this video is part of a series shown in the 1980s to inform girls attending Catholic schools in Ireland about sex
a 60 year old Kerry man found guilty of driving with too much drink in him faces a 3 -year driving ban
however, the judge has postponed imposition of the ban until Dec to give bachelor John O’Shea the opportunity to find himself a woman – [one with a full driving licence] – at the Lisdoonvarna matchmaking festival in Sep/Oct (http://tinyurl.com/gmjq349)
p.s. the Lisdoonvarna matchmaking festival is a real event – details here (http://www.matchmakerireland.com/) if anyone’s interested 😆
