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22nd Dec 2016

Reeling in 2016 – JOE’s biggest stories in March

Paul Moore

Remember these?

So much has happened in Irish society during 2016 that it’s easy to forget some of the biggest events and stories from the past 12 months.

Here are some of the biggest stories on JOE during March.

10) Nate Diaz beats Conor McGregor

Two brilliant fights. The first one went to the Stockton native. McGregor bounced back though.

9) The Irish guy that ended up in Amsterdam after taking a €1,000 bet in Cork at 2am

David O’Keeffe was out enjoying himself in Midleton in Cork (March 17) when his friend bet him €1,000 that he couldn’t wake up in a different country. Why? Not a clue.

David’s Snapchat story tells the whole tale though.

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David’s mam wasn’t too impressed though.

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8) These Irish guys’ Adele mashup went ridiculously viral and deservedly so.

Adele even performed with them during her gig at the 3Arena. 11 million views.

7) The Gardai having some 1916-inspired craic.

Get outta that garden!

6) These two girls used Snapchat to create a hilarious boob-face-swap.

33,000 retweets and it still makes us laugh.

5) Dublin woman posts photos of her husband on a Guinness hunt after she hid all his cans

Not the type of thing that you want to see on Good Friday.

Aisling

4) This Meath pub has a precariously hanging mannequin that’s fooling loads of people

Nothing beats the craic in a pub.

Meath pub

3) The brilliant text chat between eFlow and a guy who emigrated to Canada without returning his tags.

It all started with a tweet.

Things escalated.

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Flow 2

Flow 3

2) The smoothest guest on the Late Late Show

Wink, wink.

1) The best footage of that hero in the Kerry pub singing Mr. Brightside

This is the best part of Irish pub culture.

Kerry man Brian O’Sullivan singing The Killers huge hit Mr. Brightside in a pub in Killorglin was shared thousands of time. Brandon Flowers and co. even reached out to them.

Ger Farmer Foley from Tim Clifford on Vimeo.

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