WATCH: Waiting for Sheeran as video star Joe celebrates in style

He’s still waiting for his birthday card from Ed Sheeran to arrive, but sheep farmer-turned-internet sensation Joe Kelly did not let that stop the party as he marked his 80th in style with a community celebration.

Joe found international fame as one of three men captured on video by Irish Examiner photographer Dan Linehan as they celebrated the reopening of their local pub the Top of Coom, between Kilgarvan and Cúil Aodha, following its destruction in a 2012 fire.

Nearly 700,000 people have watched the YouTube video of Joe in the bar feeding a lamb from a bottle as he, Dan Kelleher, and Johnny McCarthy raised a glass to the end of a two-year drought without a pub in the mountainous area on the Cork-Kerry border.