Pin ItemailprintIt’s long been threatened, and now it’s happened. The eurozone debt crisis took a drastic turn yesterday as Standard & Poor‘s downgraded France and Austria as well as seven other nations, including Italy and Spain. S&P gave 14 of 16 countries – including France, Italy, and Spain – a negative outlook, which it said [...]
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One hundred years ago, on Christmas Eve 1911, a brother and sister wrote a letter to Santa Claus that included gift requests and a good luck message in their home in Dublin, Ireland. They placed the letter in the chimney of the fireplace in the front bedroom so that Santa would see it as he [...]
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Credit rating agency Fitch Ratings has affirmed France’s top Triple-A rating but warned that it may downgrade six other eurozone countries due to the fact that they think a feasible solution to the debt crisis in that region is “technically and politically beyond reach.” Fitch said today that France’s credit grade is able to be [...]
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Good news, everyone. Jesus is back. He’s been spotted in the cliffs of Oreland. Tourist Sandra Clifford (an ironic name, don’t you think?), a pilot from San Francisco, spotted the Messiah recently while visiting the famous Cliffs of Moher in County Clare with her friend, Fiona Fay. The duo spotted what Clifford thought resembled the image [...]
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Police in Ireland have arrested a Muslim male on suspicion of making threats to kill President Barack Obama when he visits Ireland at the end of May. Khalid Kelly, a converted Muslim who subscribes to the principles of Al Qaeda, is now being held at Dublin’s Store Street Garda police station under the Offenses Against [...]
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Three guys from Ireland perform Rimsky-Korsakov’s “Flight of the Bumblebee” on 101 beer bottles. It’s not as good as the Bowen Beer Bottle Band, but it’s a close second given that there are only three of them here. Watch more Viral Videos here Related articles Bowen Beer Bottle Band: Angels We Have Heard on High [...]
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“Taxi? Taxi? Oh, never mind.” This Irish taxi driver takes out pretty much everything in his path as he tries to park his cab. “Like a GLOVE!” Watch more Viral Videos here Incoming search terms:like a glove gifcrash gifslike a glove gif accidentfunny accident gifsfunny irish crashes
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We’ve seen lots of amazing soccer goals served up here on Blippitt as of late, no doubt about it. This one, however, served up in the 92nd minute of a 0-0 match between Glentoran and Portadown in Northern Ireland’s IFA Premiership, may take the cake. Glentoran’s Matty Burrows managed to nail this backheel goal from [...]
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In 2009, high school student Corey Swearingen wrote a letter, put it in a bottle, sealed it, and dropped it into the Atlantic just off the Florida coast as an experiment for school. In that letter, he asked whomever found it to get ahold of him and tell him where it washed up. Someone did. [...]
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An Irish radio station has Lady GaGa fans in a furor after running an ad showing the popular singer dead with a sheet over her, apparently having been “speared” by Britney Spears. 104FM is one of the hottest radio stations in Dublin but its new ad has Lady Gaga fans seething. GaGa gets gruesomely killed [...]
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What do you do when of the biggest names in pro soccer cheats and costs your country a shot at the World Cup? You start a Facebook group of course. Last week, France was playing Ireland for a chance to go to the World Cup finals in South Africa. Ireland was winning. A ball was [...]
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Did Thierry Henry use a handball help France cheat its way into the World Cup in South Africa in 2010? It would be fun to say something profound, like “only time will tell,” or “on HE knows that answer to that question,” but the short answer is, yes, he cheated. He’s admitted it. The debate [...]
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