John Ó'Ríordáns Blog

Can you the believe the guy actually survived this! Lucky!

The man reportedly was speeding at more than 100 mph when he hit a guardrail, went airborne and slammed into an overpass. The car broke into three pieces and threw him from the wreckage. The dashboard-mounted camera in a police cruiser caught the spectacular crash.

I was in Dublin Castle today and they had some cool sand structures in the courtyard. Here are some photos with the odd pic of the castle.

Went to the zoo today to try and take my mind off of the hurling yesterday. I was there once when I was younger and was bitten by a goat I managed to make it out unscathed today Here are some pictures.

According to Met Éireann it rains 5 days out of every week on average in Ireland. Well 255 out of 365 in the West of Ireland. Which works out as 5 days a week. Other parts of the country work out a little better. So basically you can expect it to rain nearly every day.

The image to the right will show you how wet it is where you live.

As seen on The Examiner.

Lunatics

A few minutes before the end of the Cork v Waterford Munster Final yesterday the ball was sent wide by Waterford’s Dan Shanahan. For some unknown reason the umpire gives a 65. It goes over and now (after a Ben point at the other end) there is just a goal between the teams. Waterford attack once more with only seconds left and the ball goes wide. Me and all of the other Cork Supporters go crazy. That has to be it.

However at this stage the ref looks around at the poor attendance and probably realises the Munster Council haven’t made the money they would have expected to on this match. So he decides to give Waterford a free in. Seconds later the ball is in the back of the net. And the game is over. Replay! A joke!

Looking at the analysis after the match in the Sunday game in the Greyhound Track Bar across from Semple even the RTÉ analysts can’t figure out what the free was for. But I can. It’s widely believedthat statistically there are far more plays in GAA inter-county games than there should be for a game with such varied and high scores. Referee’s must be given incentives to play for replays in big matches.

In fairness to the Munster Council the game will be on next Saturday night which is a great time for a Final to be on. It should be some craic in Thurles that night. But I won’t be there. For the first time in year’s I’m not going to the Munster Hurling Final. Maybe the first time ever as far as I can remember. I don’t appreciate being taken for a fool. And I won’t be fooled twice.

Jump to 4 minutes and 20 seconds for the info on the UFC’s return to Ireland.

I was pretty irritated with the Google Search in Firefox constantly directing me to Google.com as opposed to Google.ie. When I search with Google.ie the results are better targeted to Irish people are therefore more useful to me. So as a result I wrote my own Google.ie Firefox search.

If you want to use it click here to install.