Kim Kardashian has nothing on these lads.
This morning, the people of the Internet woke up and wondered why everyone was going crazy about a dress.
Frankly we don’t really know why it was such a big deal (if you need an explanation, you can find one here) and we don’t want to know either.
What we do know is that it did, in modern parlance, ‘break the Internet’ and although we’re not huge fans of that particular phrase, we’ve been inspired to cast our minds back to occasions when something similar happened in a very Irish context.
In no particular order and completely off the top of our heads, here goes…
Michael D queuing to use an ATM machine on Baggot Street
A grown man queuing to use an ATM machine should not be a big deal, it really shouldn’t.
However, we make no apologies for admitting that we got a huge kick out of the photo below and we weren’t the only ones either. Why is it so great? It just is.
Michael D Higgins our president at the ATM pic.twitter.com/NeMMalbk2U
— Awnings of Ireland (@AwningsIreland) March 25, 2014
There’s no way you’d see Barack Obama queuing to get €50 out of the banklink without a load of cronies surrounding him, that’s for sure.
Michael D, a man of the people indeed.
Joe Brolly lashing Sean Cavanagh and saying he can forget about himself as ‘a man’
“Hold on!”
Joe Brolly went full Joe Brolly when going to town on Sean Cavanagh following his rugby tackle on Conor McManus in an All-Ireland quarter-final in 2013.
You couldn’t move for weeks without hearing it repeated and it played a huge part in the introduction of the black card last season.
Our favourite part? The reaction of Colm O’Rourke and Pat Spillane when Brolly furiously points the finger in their direction halfway through the rant.
Garth Brooks
You may have buried ‘Garthgate’ into the deepest recesses of your brain, but just remember, it got so bad that the Mexican ambassador to Ireland and the Taoiseach himself got involved.
And there was a protest. An actual protest. At the GPO of all places.
Garth Brooks protest at the GPO. It’s all gone a bit surreal pic.twitter.com/klxddtutFO
— Garreth MacNamee (@garmacnamee) July 12, 2014
Brian O’Driscoll getting dropped for the final Lions test
Collectively, as a nation, we can take almost anything outsiders can throw at us.
Slag us off about the shambolic Celtic Tiger period. Take us to task about our fraught relationship with alcohol.
Go to town on the Late Late show if you must.
But, do not, under any circumstances, do anything to golden boy Brian O’Driscoll that’s going to piss us off.
Warren Gatland learned that lesson in the summer of 2013 and he hasn’t been allowed forget about it since.
He was still wrong, mind.
Brian O’Driscoll’s farewell to the Aviva
It was almost as if we felt the need to make it up to Brian after that setback and so began the longest farewell in the history of professional sport.
It reached its peak in Brian’s last home game against Italy at the Aviva in March and we’re sure BOD himself was delighted his mate Fergus McFadden helped steal some of the limelight.
That standing ovation I got coming off the bench yesterday was amazing#Thanks
— Fergus McFadden (@fergmcfadden) March 9, 2014
Every single time we get good weather
Expect to see this all over your social networks when the clocks go forward next month…
And expect to see a few of these when we get a run of three days above 20 degrees in the summer…
… and every single time we get bad weather
No other country would make a star out of a man saying one throwaway line about the weather… even if his voice is amazing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZfIdz3ho4W0
The guy who slipped on the ice
Five years on and it still doesn’t fail to disappoint…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZvCK2o6Zbo
Kudos to Kevin McGahern and company for this superb follow-up skit.
Ice Bucket Challenge
Speaking of all things cold and frostbit, if you weren’t one of the thousands upon thousands of people who had a bucket of ice and cold water poured over you last summer then you’re one of the only ones.
It was for a great cause and those behind deserve huge credit for raising awareness of Motor Neurone Disease, but we can’t say we missed it when it stopped constantly clogging all of our Facebook feeds.
We’ll always have this…
Fizzy Orange
See also, Darren’s hoodie, Nidge’s runners, the Love/Hate cat and, ahem, a pool cue broken in half.
That’s right, Love/Hate became so huge in Ireland that the very props from the show nearly became more popular than the show itself.
And what a show it is. Come back soon lads.
Johnny Giles and Eamon Dunphy’s Cadbury’s ad
Oh they can boogie alright…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LE8TvsYMPkg
Ronan O’Gara and the horny Late/Late audience
Ronan O’Gara’s slip of the tongue would have generated a huge reaction from any Late Late audience, but an audience where there were more hormones flying around than Coppers on All-Ireland Final night?
It got a bit crazy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wFZdQkDfEk0
Roy Keane blasting the Ireland fans for singing when we were losing at the Euros
Roy ‘Marmite’ Keane splitting the nation once again.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhA48e0uC44
Roy Keane’s book launch
Three days before its launch, Roy Keane’s book accidentally (on purpose?) ended up on sale in a Tesco in Manchester and the Internet was full of leaked snippets for days afterwards.
The best bit? No contest…
Roy Keane’s beard
Keano seems to have a Love/Hate relationship with the beard at present, but at its best it’s a thing of beauty.
Roy Keane in general
The man is box office, of that there is no doubt.
“Can I take a photo please, Roy?” *SILENCE… pic.twitter.com/qKpONReO8F
— Stuart Fraser (@stu_fraser) February 26, 2014
The Rubberbandits delivering a radio masterclass on Joe Duffy
Willie O’Dea was under a bit of pressure defending his fellow Limerick men on Radio One, so Blind Boy Boat Club stepped into save the day.
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