We all know Fungi in Dingle is a friendly dolphin who loves being with people. Dusty is the anti-Fungi who attacks people. Dusty is a resident of the waters between Clare and Galway and is snatching headlines once again after video footage emerged of her recently attacking an unsuspecting swimmer. Last year, a clip of…
The Pogues are working with West Cork Distillers to release a new whiskey. While we assume they didn’t actually have anything to do with the design of it I guess these people have plenty of experience of whiskeys and can approve a good one. The Pogues Irish Whiskey is targeted towards 25 to 35-year-old drinkers…
Irish are the third highest consumers of chocolate in the world. Surprising but true. Only two nationalities eat more. We each eat 7.4kg or 16.3lbs each year. That’s a lot of chocolate but only 82% of what the Swiss eat. Then again the Toblerones are probably cheaper there. The Germans are the 2nd biggest consumers….
This is Harvey. He can sniff out large amounts of cash – and let you know where it is! Harvey is one of the Revenue’s Cash Detector Dogs. These wonderful animals are specifically trained to sniff out cash. Harvey latest successful operation was at Ringaskiddy in Cork where he discovered €12,000 cash in the suitcase…
It’s not the British themselves this time but their colonial offspring the Australians. We know how the British like to claim all Irish successes as their own; Conor McGregor, Paul Dunne all the way back to Stephen Roche. But even they would never see the need to claim inanimate objects. Instead the Australians are doing…
Ruairi Connolly was taking the bus. He did not expect to end up with a free ice-cream. Only in Ireland would this happen! Ruari was simply taking the bus. There was one other passenger and it was uneventful. The bus driver needed to do the lotto and he told the two of them he’d just…
We recently Tweeted a link to this incredible picture. Unfortunately we forgot Phil Coulter and just have to put it right! Here’s our original tweet… Jim McCann, Billy Connolly, Christy Moore, Paul Brady, Ralp McTell, Ronnie Drew, Shay Healy #legends #music #folk pic.twitter.com/i86JDnzqEF — irelandcalling (@irelandcalling1) July 12, 2015 The error is obvious in hindsight…
90,000 puppies are born in Ireland every year. This charity helped save 481 of them last year. Dogs Trust runs an animal shelter that helps abandoned dogs, many of them puppies or pregnant. Many of the puppies were born in the shelter to those abandoned mothers. Many of the dogs are nervous around people as…
Here’s a sight you don’t see every day. Aer Lingus joined in on an acrobatic flying display by the Swiss Air Force. The performance was part of the recent Bray Air Display. Patrouille Suisse are the acrobatic display unit within the Swiss Air Force and do displays all around the world. This is the first…
Tea bags seem to be the simplest thing. But for some people it turns out the concept is hard to grasp. A surprising number of people have reported on Twitter that they spent years using them incorrectly. Putting them in a cup and pouring water over them was just too confusing an idea. So what…
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