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phantomOr ice slipping guy? Or Dancing Garda? Or indeed Awesome Saturday Night Audience Guy.

Our nation turns it’s lonely eyes to you.

Coming soon: The Irish Internet Legends Tour.

Joe and Keith of Phantom 1052 explain:

We’re gathering together the following people:
· The taxi driver who danced along to Get Lucky in a Dublin street
· The ‘ah here leave it out’ lady
· The man who famously slipped on ice during an RTE news report
· The man who wiped his brow with a 50 euro note, also during a news report, at the Galway Races
· The Garda who danced on stage at the Indiependence music festival
· The ‘audience legend guy’ from the Saturday Night Show
· The Cork pothole swimmer
We’d like to people to help us track them down, especially the ‘man who slipped on ice’ as he seems quite reluctant to be found, and bring them to a live stage show setting.
We’re going to interview them about their experiences, get an insight into what motivates them, and of course have them recreate their famous acts We’d like people to get in touch with us to suggest any figures that deserve to be added to the list. We’ve already successfully contacted some of these but it’s time to cast the net out and seek assistance from the public! People can email joeandkeith@phantom.ie or follow us on twitter @joeandkeith

 

Joe and Keith (Phantom 1052) 

577904_10200624101705597_1396725329_nGrand Theft Auto V map overlayed on to a map of Dublin city.

Why the hell not.

James Butterly writes:

So being a bit of a gamer (understatement) and an even bigger nerd, I spent the best part of the morning designing a comparison map of GTA 5 and Dublin city.
GTA 5’s new map (Los Santos) is approx. 11km in height (North to South, as the crow flies) and is approx. 6km in width (East to West, as the crow flies).
So with this in mind, I went to google maps and searched the same distance in Kilometres and assessed that GTA 5’s map would fit into an area as North as the Airport, as East as the Docklands, as South as UCD and Terenure, and as west as Phoenix park. The result = BOOM!

 

James Butterly (Facebook)

Thanks Sean Smyth

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A collection of Giovanni Trapattoni’s struggles to be understood at Ireland interviews compiled by Darren Cleary..

Thanks Conor Walsh

(Laura Hutton/Photocall Ireland)