Eight news stories you will only find in Ireland
While we love to keep up with events and promote our local heroes, sometimes it gets a little … odd. Us Irish have a very unique news landscape. Right next to a serious story you might find something about the oldest cow in the country (no, really!).
Here are eight actual stories that have been published in Ireland.
STOP THE PRESSES! 85-year-old Mikey Lynch just bought a new tractor!
Two weeks ago the Farmer’s Journal highlighted Mikey’s newest purchase - a Massey Ferguson 6613, which he bought 63 years after buying his very first tractor.
“Meet Mikey Lynch. Two weeks ago, Mikey bought a new tractor for the 12th time. There’s nothing too exceptional about that, except for the fact that Mikey is 85 years old.
“Talk in his local town of Cootehill, Cavan has it that Mikey is the oldest man in Ireland to buy a brand new tractor.”
Stephen Rossley is the pride of Donegal after achieving “a magnificent 88.7 miles per gallon”.
The local hero took part in the Honda Challenge, and DonegalNow.com report that his frugal driving won him a shiny new iPad Mini.
We expect a victory parade through his hometown of Letterkenny any day now.
It’s unheard of.
“It is only the second week in February but already some Limerick farmers are cutting grass,” says an article in the Limerick Leader.
First the slurry was spread before last summer’s deadline, and now this.
“We said if we left the cows out on it now they were only going to walk it into the ground so we said we would cut it and give it in to them by night.”
It’s the question that haunts all women in the Kingdom - and some Cork women are starting to wonder the same thing.
“Do I have to marry a Healy Rae to get crash barriers here?”
The Southern Star reported on one mother’s concern about a dangerous road near her house. The lack of safety improvements made her envious of her Kerry neighbours’ roads.
“I should go down to Kerry, marry one of the Healy Raes and drag him back over the border here to Cork, and we’d get something done finally,” she said.
Things got a little heated in a council meeting in Wexford recently, and one councillor is unimpressed at their treatment by Irish Water.
“We are being rode bareback by Irish Water!” said Cllr Davy Hynes.
“There’s the front page!” another councillor shouted to a nearby Wexford Echo reporter.
The meeting descended into chaos and giggles.
“Someone else made a comment about ‘Fifty Shades of Grey’ and another councillor called: ‘Down with this sort of thing!’”
Scandalous!
There’s a good chance that a Sinn Fein councillor in Galway is in possession of the oldest cow in Ireland.
Cllr. Dermot Connolly’s 30-year-old Shorthorn Cross has also given birth to 25 calves.
He told the Connacht Tribune that “the elderly cow is currently having a relationship with a bull so there is a possibility of an amazing 26th calf later on this year.”
The cow “has become the subject of local discussion in the area.”
Someone should call the Guinness Book of Records.
This is a bit of an extreme comparison.
Some councillors in Tipperary are likening the potholes on their roads to a war zone, according to the Nationalist.
“It’s easier to avoid landmines in Cambodia than the potholes on this road,” said Cllr. Eddie O’Meara.
One pothole was so bad that “someone decided to put a bollard over one pothole to prevent motorists driving over it”.
A Limerick pensioner nursed an injured blue tit back to health after is crashed into his sunroom.
While this story is lovely, it’s being included for the amazing photo the LimerickLeader used of “the blue tit enjoying the view from the top of John Downes' head”.
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