Iceberg visible off Aranmore!

UpDonegal

Report From Highland Radio

An iceberg has emerged nearly one kilometre northwest of Arranmore Lighthouse. The iceberg is clearly visible and poses no danger for ships.
The last iceberg to be recorded on the Northwest coast of Donegal dates back at least 40 years.
The island has been capitalising on this latest development, with many visitors over the weekend, and special sightseeing tours being organised.
Meanwhile, it’s reported the pubs on the island are offering a special iceberg cocktail containing ice cubes taken from it.

Now that show's how cold it's been!! :eek:

irish1967

Yeah just read that on RTE Live News update ! Hmmmm Global warming

We have an earthquake and an ice berg in the one week:D

2manyconditions

irish1967 wrote: »

Yeah just read that on RTE Live News update ! Hmmmm Global warming

We have an earthquake and an ice berg in the one week:D

An Earthquake? where?

Local-womanizer

2manyconditions wrote: »

An Earthquake? where?

Fanad!

dolliemix

Thats mad Ted!

UpDonegal

Yes a small earthquake waz reported on thursday evening, it measured 1.6 on the Richter Scale, only a tremor was felt in places such as Fanad, Inishowen, portsalon, termon, kerrykeel, rathmullen in Donegal!

According to Thomas Blake of the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, the epicentre of the event was in Bridgend.

Snow, Earthquake, Iceberg - What next? :rolleyes:

North_West_Art

alien visitors by the looks of it

UpDonegal

North_West_Art wrote: »

alien visitors by the looks of it

haha that would be just scary lol :eek:

pebbles21

:cool:

boredofblackroc

How big is this iceberg? How long would it have taken to get down to there?

Ferguso

That picture was taken off the coast of the Antartica. Surprised RTE ran it as true before checking if it actually was. The joker behind the ruse is Wolfgang Steckhan, a German living lcally in Arranmore. He sent it out to the media in a bid to drum up tourism in the area.

Madam

I thought there was a bit of a leg pull going on here but I checked with Highland Radio, seems the pubs are doing well!

Iceberg visible off Aranmore
Posted: 10/Jan 13:36
Last Updated: 10/Jan 13:36
An iceberg has emerged nearly one kilometre northwest of Arranmore Lighthouse. The iceberg is clearly visible and poses no danger for ships.

The last iceberg to be recorded on the Northwest coast of Donegal dates back at least 40 years.

The island has been capitalising on this latest development, with many visitors over the weekend, and special sightseeing tours being organised.

Meanwhile, it’s reported the pubs on the island are offering a special iceberg cocktail containing ice cubes taken from it.

Ferguso

Highland radio must be accused of some laziness here, because that report is word for word what Wolfgang sent to the media. Yes, even the ice-berg cocktails!

Madam

Lol You'd think they'd have phoned down to somebody to tell them the truth;)

Madam

Oh it's been pulled from their website - how embarrassing:)

Ferguso

Can't find it on RTE anymore either..tut tut:rolleyes:

UpDonegal

Such a sham to pull that :rolleyes:

2manyconditions

Madam wrote: »

Oh it's been pulled from their website - how embarrassing:)

Does that mean the earthquake story is just a pile a s***e too?

Ferguso

Apparently not...

AN EARTHQUAKE measuring 1.6 on the Richter scale struck Donegal on Thursday night.
The minor tremor struck at 7.30pm, with the epicentre located at Bridgend in the south of the Inishowen peninsula, the School of Cosmic Physics at the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies confirmed yesterday.
The tremor was felt in Bridgend and Buncrana in Inishowen and westwards across Lough Swilly in the Fanad peninsula.
A number of people fled their homes in the village of Kerrykeel, fearing the worst before they realised the threat had passed.
Shop assistant Teresa Gillespie (26) was with her parents at their home in Desertegney, 9km from Buncrana, when they were disturbed by what sounded like “a really loud rattle of thunder”.
“It was a big rattle and it lasted a couple of minutes. It started in one place and seemed to roll along Lough Swilly,” Ms Gillespie said. She said they knew it couldn’t be thunder because there was no lightning and the night was clear.
Dr Thomas Blake of the School of Cosmic Physics said a number of people in Donegal had already filled in an online questionnaire on the institute’s website outlining details of the incident.
He said Donegal was one of the counties most at risk of earthquakes in Ireland due to several fault-lines extending from Scotland to north Donegal. Thursday evening’s tremor was picked up by all the seismic recording stations in Northern Ireland and Scotland.
“North Donegal and from Wexford across the Irish Sea are the areas most likely to be associated with earthquakes in Ireland,” Dr Blake added.
Anyone who experienced this week’s tremor is invited to fill in the questionnaire on the institute’s website www.dias.ie.

UpDonegal

The story about the iceberg has been pulled off from highand radio also, so it was just a lie to get more tourism for the area! :rolleyes:

guybague

Are you sure that just wasn't a photograph of Jim McDaid's Gin and Tonic?

inode

they are probably telling everyone its the same iceberg that took down the titanic too :rolleyes:

muffler

Might move this thread to the Conspiracy Theories forum

Xabs

http://sege.blogspot.com/2005/03/slowly-slowly.html

Here's where the pic was lifted from

Harps

Xabs wrote: »

http://sege.blogspot.com/2005/03/slowly-slowly.html

Here's where the pic was lifted from

Haha nicely done

Found it hard to believe when I heard it earlier, shows how lazy the media are when even the national news reports it!

ToniTuddle

Ferguso wrote: »

Donegal was one of the counties most at risk of earthquakes in Ireland due to several fault-lines extending from Scotland to north Donegal.

Oooooh. Interesting!

Pity that iceberg story wasn't true!
Feicin liars.

muffler

The iceberg story is probably the biggest hoax since someone said that Daniel O'Donnell could sing. :eek:

FedEx

any photos ?

Daniel O Donnel

muffler wrote: »

The iceberg story is probably the biggest hoax since someone said that Daniel O'Donnell could sing. :eek:

:mad:

Harps

FedEx wrote: »

any photos ?

See the link in the post I quoted above..

donegalboy

April fools day should be good craic this year if this is anything to go buy:D