https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZ1j2XdftfA&feature=youtu.be
Istanbul , Turkey
Water bottle fridge spillage misunderstanding leads to multi thwack mayhem captured on cctv and screened on Turkish telly.
Featuring ferocious, Ali-shuffling ‘Irlanda turist’.
KAVGA!
Via Ishaan Tharoor
Thanks Robert
The memorial left for victims of the Library Gardens apartment balcony collapse
We’re Irish. We stick together, when we encounter each other far from home. Back in Ireland, we might have all sorts of issues with each other, as any family does, from time to time. Abroad, it’s different. Abroad, we’re a family. The affinities are clearer. They’re low-key important.
Joseph O’Connor, Lament For Berkeley, Sunday Independent
Alternatively…
Francis J writes:
I really hope it has changed but In my experience no one treats the Irish worse abroad than the Irish….
Pic: Jeff Chiu
A yes army.
Near the Andes.
Joey Kavanagh writes:
My pal Jo Halpin, currently travelling around South America, sent me this nice clip of a group of Irish people at Salar de Uyuni, (the world’s largest salt flat)Bolivia sending home their support for the upcoming referendum. Nice to see a yes vote on the horizon….
Patrick Lyttle (above with friend) has been discharged from an Australian hospital, a month after he was left critically ill when allegedly punched by his brother.
The Antrim-man, 31, fell and hit his head in Sydney on 3 January.
He was on life support at St Vincent’s Hospital for almost a week before regaining consciousness.
His 33-year-old brother Barry is charged with assault causing grievous bodily harm. He has been released on bail.
First snap of Patrick Lyttle out of hospital (The irish Echo)
Thanks Mark Geary
Last Night In New York.
A party at the Irish Consulate for young Irish living and working in New York City hosted by the Consul Barbara Jones and attended by Taoiseach Enda Kenny.
Top: Enda chats with Susan O’Brien of Smigin plus (Left to right): Oran Bambrick (Fantam); Brian Purcell (Global Shares); Breiffni O’Domhnaill (Propylon) and Joe Shinkwin (Enterprise Ireland).
They then trashed the place.
(James Higgins/Photocall Ireland)
The Snug bar, Melbourne last night.
Marcus Byrne writes:
“I am Irish and have been living in Australia for about 10 years. Last night, on a wet and windy evening [it’s Winter] on the busy Sydney Road in Brunswick, Melbourne, we were having a few pints in a tiny Irish bar, The Snug. The guys from ‘Legend Of Luke Kelly’ and Paddy Casey popped in and treat the punters to some classic songs from their repertoire. In old Irish tradition, chairs were arranged in a circle and were treated to many hours of Irish trad classics. Paddy belted out ‘Saints and Sinners’ and at request, ‘Sweet Suburban Sky’. Chris Kavanagh, as Luke Kelly finished off the evening with Scorn Not His Simplicity. Micheal and Kim, who opened The Snug only a few years ago were the perfect hosts. Evenings like this are few and far between and I just wanted to share it with you. Also singer songwriter Roesy [in denim jacket] is in the middle of a crowd funding campaign for his new album Wolf Counsel. It would be great to let the Irish Population know about this if possible….’
We’ve all been there.
In fairness.
“A Drunk Irishman who punched a police horse twice while wearing only his underwear and one sock has been placed on a good behaviour bond with no conviction recorded.
…Today in sentencing submissions, [Colm] Keogh’s lawyer, Con O’Neill, said he had been at a Christmas party earlier in the evening at the Hilton Hotel — but “not the posh Hilton”, his lawyer said, the one on South Rd.
Mr O’Neill said his client remembered getting in a taxi then finding himself on Hindley St in his underwear and wearing one sock, “sleeping it off”
It’s worth repeating.
Why do all the good ones go?
WHY?
Man only wearing underwear and one sock when he attacked a police horse in Hindley St, court hears (CourierMail))
Thanks Garthicus
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIXP5XH_LZc
Doing us proud.
Australian Crimestoppers has broadcast a fresh appeal to find two men with Irish accents – one wearing a Dublin football GAA shirt – involved in a brutal melee in March on Princes Bridge Southbank, Melbourne, Victoria.
Do you know them?
Thanks Mark Geary
(Finland’s Patrick O’Shaughnessy, on knees, being sent off last night during a England Vs Finland Under 21s Euro qualifier in Milton Keynes)
David Powell writes:
Browsing the sports news this morning before doing literally anything else, as you do, and noticed that England U-21s beat Finland U-21s in a European qualifier in Milton Keynes (exciting!). Quick look at the report and this catches my eye: “Finland were then reduced to 10 men when Patrick O’Shaughnessy saw red.”
According to Wikipedia, our Patrick is “the son of an Irish painter” and he has a brother who plays for Metz in France. So there.
UPDATE: Still technically eligible to play for Ireland (see comments).
England U21 3- Finland U21 0 (BBC Sport)
Pic PA
