It isn’t every day that Trinity College students get the pleasure of seeing their professor endure a head to toe drenching but, then, Orla Hardiman is not your everyday academic.

The Irish Motor Neurone Disease Association is calling on the Taoiseach Enda Kenny to take part in the ice bucket challenge.

Irish actor Chris O'Dowd and wife Dawn O'Porter are expecting their first child.

Wait … we know that famous red head?

Man Of Steel Henry Cavill barely flinched as he became the latest star to take on the Ice Bucket challenge.

Irish donations from the ice bucket challenge are set to top €1m.

Football Association of Ireland boss John Delaney has submitted to the icy deluge of an #IceBucketChallenge - and dedicated it to Roy Keane.

The ice bucket challenge is not just benefiting charities - it is also boosting supermarket sales of ice cubes.

F#!%ing hell! We were not expecting that.

The President of CIT has accepted his UCC counterpart’s Ice Bucket Nomination.

Marty Morrissey was the impartial observer when Rachel Wyse did the ice bucket challenge at Croke Park yesterday.

Looking out of place in a 'Boole is Coole' t-shirt, President of UCC Michael Murphy today accepted his Ice Bucket Challenge.

A Donegal man has gone one further with perhaps the biggest ever Ice Bucket Challenge to date.

The ice bucket challenge just got sexy.

A lot more people have braved a bucket of cold water and ice to help raise awareness and funds for the Irish Motor Neurone Disease Association.

A charity stunt that has grown into a social media phenomenon went terribly wrong for four Kentucky firefighters when a fire truck’s ladder got too close to a power line after they dumped water on college students who were taking part in an "ice bucket challenge".

We literally could not love this man any harder.

Frankly, we're surprised that the ice didn't melt in sheer fear.

Around the world celebrities and members of the public are taking part in the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge, in an effort to raise money and awareness for Motor Neuron Disease.

One bucket wasn’t enough for Michael!

Just minutes after her typically ice-cool sign-off on the Six One News last night RTÉ’s Sharon Ní Bheoláin became the latest celeb to be doused in freezing water to raise funds for the Irish Motor Neurone Disease Association.

RTÉ journalist Sharon Ní Bheoláin became the latest celebrity to take on the Ice Bucket Challenge today.

A little too much, perhaps.

With bottled water. Only the best for Tubs.

David McClain has had ALS (Motor Neurone Disease) for the last 12 years and is paralysed from the shoulders down.

Everybody is doing the Ice Bucket Challenge. Some people have made a complete hames of it, and it's very, very funny.

And he nominated D'Arcy, Tubridy and Whelan. Oh it's on..