Monthly Archives: February 2011

A SOFT drink made from a secret recipe that has been enjoyed for over 50 years by a select few is about to be launched nationwide.

Outside of north Donegal, few people have even heard of McDaid’s Football Special, a cola-style frothy drink which is synonymous with Ramelton, the small heritage town where it is made.

But owner Edward McDaid plans to take Football Special into the soft drinks premiership.

“It is a strange product in many senses. Whatever it is about it, it seems to hit a memory button and conjure up pleasant memories of childhood, even with people who haven’t tasted it before,” he explained.

“The fruit syrup flavours that are used are all fairly common and shouldn’t belong together but they do,” he said.

Yum.

If it’s anything like our childhood it should taste like blood, dry bread and salty tears..

Note: Also available in banana flavour.

Family Soft Drink To Create Fizz Nationwide (Irish Independent)

TOP radio host Ray D’Arcy will leave the country if Enda Kenny becomes Taoiseach.

The presenter has launched another personal attack on the Fine Gael leader, whom he previously described as being like a four-day-old floury potato.

“There is a huge mismatch between us as a society and our politicians. If you look at Enda Kenny, oh my God look at Enda Kenny,” said D’Arcy in a tone of disbelief.

“I actually said it to her (his partner) and I shouldn’t be saying it on live television but if he becomes Taoiseach I’m leaving the country.

“It’s true if he becomes Taoiseach I’m leaving the country,” he said on RTE’s The Saturday Night Show.

D’Arcy: I’d Emigrate If Kenny Became Taoiseach (Evening Herald,  February 15, 2010)

Gawker reports that the New York Times and NBC News have been truffling through Wikileaks records for cables relating to the world’s favourite outgoing leader, Muammar Gaddafi/al-Qadhdhāfī/Gadafy/El Kadhafi.

Turn Ons: sharing his ‘theories’ on global affairs; his Ukranian nurse Galyna, flamenco dancing.

Turn Offs: travelling over water; staying in the upper floors of hotels, eye-contact.

Turns out: he’s as mad as a balloon. Who’d have guessed it?

The Best of Wikileaks’ Qaddafi Dirt (Gawker)

WikiLeaks Cables Detail Qaddafi Family’s Exploits (New York Times)

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