Keeping record of the weird and wonderful

IRELAND may be the proud holder on the largest gathering of people dressed as Wally, but we are positively normal when it comes to some record-breakers in the latest Guinness Book of Records.

Keeping record of the weird and  wonderful

In fact, Irish people don’t seem to have as much of an obsession for breaking bizarre records as some other countries.

The USA, as always, looms large among the weird and wonderful record-breaking feats. It has even managed to take the prize for the largest Irish dance, when in the city of Dublin, Ohio, 10,036 people danced to their hearts’ content at the Dublin Irish Festival in 2007.

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