Terry Prone: I learned to shout properly during my trip on Dublin’s Viking Splash tour

Yes. I did clamber into a thing that looks like an overgrown skip on wheels to whiz around Dublin roaring at passers-by

Sore-throated from yelling, we all dispersed after our Viking Splash tour — the jet-lagged to go to hotel beds, the rest to buy coffee or ice-creams. File picture: Sasko Lazarov/RollingNews

Letting a sudden yell at law-abiding citizens and tourists, thereby causing them to drop their phones and spill their iced coffees, is not the behaviour expected of Irish Examiner columnists, but that’s what I was doing last Thursday afternoon. Repeatedly. The citizens and tourists took it remarkably well and the occasional passerby even smiled and saluted.

The Viking Splash is the bright yellow vehicle that looks like an overgrown skip on wheels which transports people wearing horned Viking helmets on a tour of Dublin, starting from the north end of Stephen’s Green. Not that you can just rock up to the Green and get on one of the vehicles.