That’s Ireland

On the twelfth day of Christmas, my true love sent to me… a video of Fairytale of Drumcondra, Bertie Ahern and Digout Des Richardson’s version of Shane McGowan’s Fairytale of New York.

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To celebrate the run-up to Digout Day on December 7th, here is a video version of Fianna Fail’s Fifty Ways to Laugh at Voters, to the music of Paul Simon’s Fifty Ways to Leave Your Lover, with some extra material during the choruses.

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If you enjoyed the video, here is the post that it is based on:
Fianna Fail’s Fifty Ways to Laugh at Voters.

And don’t forget to check out the Digout Day site.

Here’s an unplugged version of one of Bono’s strangest hits - his sermon about finding God living with the poor in a cardboard box. Here’s what still puzzles me about this. No matter how often Bono delivers this sermon, he never seems to wonder about this obvious conundrum: if God exists, and is actually living with the poor, then why does God do nothing to help them?


This is my video tribute to John O’Donoghue’s entertaining temper tantrum on his first day as chairman of the new Dáil, and in its first week it was YouTube’s 15th most viewed video in Ireland. It’s going to be a fun five years!

So the Green Party have finally landed on Planet Bertie. Now I like John Gormley, and I know he is one of the good guys, but this short video shows him explaining why the Green Party really did it.

From seven years ago, before all of the twists and scandals, Anna Nolan is still my favourite Big Brother housemate. There will never be a better guitar-playing lesbian ex-nun on any tv show. Here’s a video tribute to Anna’s adventure.

In 1982 Fianna Fáil ran a pirate radio station, broadcasting illegally from their General Election HQ in Dublin. Check out the video below. They won the Election, then refused to legalise pirate radio. And when Taoiseach CJ Haughey was asked in the Dáil why his Ministers were regularly appearing on pirate radio, he replied simply: ‘I don’t know how it is possible to appear on radio’.

Thanks to FreeDigitalPhotos.net for some of the pics in the video.

Bono finds God living in a cardboard box. But what on earth is God doing there? Listen to Bono make an impassioned sermon that unintentionally makes a strong argument for atheism.


By coincidence, Ireland’s 2007 Eurovision entry - They Can’t Stop the Spring by John Waters - has nearly the same title and chorus as Can’t Stop the Spring by the Flaming Lips, which was recorded twenty years ago.