IRISH URBAN LEGENDS you heard

conorhal

Omackeral wrote: »

This one happened to my friend's cousin's friend's cousin's friend. He was on the bus into Dublin and it was fairly packed. This big African one went to get on with her kids, including one in a buggy. Having already had two buggies on board, the driver said ''Sorry love, you'll have to fold that buggy up if you're coming on cos I'm full up here.'' She took the young child out and got onto the bus, leaving the pram behind. A passenger asked her why she just left the buggy there, in disbelief. She replied ''It is ok, Social Welfare will give me another one.''

In 2012, the total figure of €867,000 spent on prams or buggies nationwide by the DSP, and the bang of entitlement off some of the social welfare classes most grasping clients is breathtaking to behold, so the story wouldn't surprise me, even if I doubt it's true.

Conall Cernach

George White wrote: »

And Richard Harris - which precluded his involvement in "The Eagle Has Landed" playing the 'Ra character, so instead we got Donald Sutherland, and the rest as they say is history...

Hmmm I always heard the opposite about Richard Harris i.e. that he vehemently opposed the Provisionals, perhaps he was a Sticky.

Axel Lamp

A certain Irish X-factor type judge and his love for the male backing singers/singers.

Probably just slander as opposed to an urban myth, but sure what's the difference really?

Saipanne

Irish Water.

Son Of A Vidic

whisky_galore wrote: »

If you say 'Mary Harney' 3 times in front of a mirror, she'll appear behind you...

You'll need a widescreen mirror though.

whiskeyman

Luas trams on the red line can't go on the green line and vice versa.
The tracks are the wrong size...

CantGetNoSleep

retalivity wrote: »

Some lad found a safe buried in the garden of his newly bought home that apparently had millions in it

The safe was my favourite AH thread ever

thecornflake

whisky_galore wrote: »

If you say 'Mary Harney' 3 times in front of a mirror, she'll appear behind you...

I don't know why but the first thing I thought of when I read that was, what if you did that in one of those small toilets on a plane ? They'd never get you out alive.

HalloweenJack

Remember hearing one from primary school about Ronan Keating, Brian Kennedy and Mrs. Keating interrupting something or other.

Anyone else hear this one?

fiachr_a

The shopping centre in the Midlands where a child went missing and they had to close all the front doors and do a search. They then find the kid in some changing room wearing new clothes and a non-national cutting its hair.

jimboblep

I was in thomond the day they beat the all blacks

For Forks Sake

jimboblep wrote: »

I was in thomond the day they beat the all blacks

Apparently the attendance that day was somewhere in the region of 1.6million people.

whisky_galore

jimboblep wrote: »

I was in thomond the day they beat the all blacks

Every Dub's grandad fought alongside Pearse in the GPO. Must have been crowded.

not yet

HalloweenJack wrote: »

Remember hearing one from primary school about Ronan Keating, Brian Kennedy and Mrs. Keating interrupting something or other.

Anyone else hear this one?

Yeah, Ronan's Mrs walked in while he was tearin the hoop out of Brian Kennedy..

Grays Sports Almanac

whisky_galore wrote: »

If you say 'Mary Harney' 3 times in front of a mirror, she'll appear behind you...

It's not often I LOL at posts on the internet! Take a bow.

Birneybau

jimboblep wrote: »

I was in thomond the day they beat the all blacks

whisky_galore wrote: »

Every Dub's grandad fought alongside Pearse in the GPO. Must have been crowded.

See also, I saw the Beatles in the Adelphi.

topper75

jimboblep wrote: »

I was in thomond the day they beat the all blacks

I wanted to go but I was only 3 at the time.

The ould lad wisely decided that a ground packed with 850,000 people was no place to bring a small child.

super_furry

The special school taking a trip to the zoo and one of the kids stealing a penguin.

topper75

Birneybau wrote: »

See also, I saw the Beatles in the Adelphi.

Were these the same seers and prophets who visited Old Trafford in Manchester on the day of a young Belfast lad getting his first game, declaring afterwards "I remember turning to my pal and saying 'watch that lad -he's going to be some player'".

brianblaze

HalloweenJack wrote: »

Anyone else hear this one?

Not an urban legend, not Brian Kennedy either...

Birneybau

topper75 wrote: »

Were these the same seers and prophets who visited Old Trafford in Manchester on the day of a young Belfast lad getting his first game, declaring afterwards "I remember turning to my pal and saying 'watch that lad -he's going to be some player'".

Nah, they were huge at the time. A very interesting read below:

http://www.beatlesireland.info/Irish%20Stories/thedaythebeatlescametodublin1.html

bruschi

donegaLroad wrote: »

the game of cards where the devil appeared.

the dance hall where the devil appeared with cloven hooves.

they sound like the same story that originated from Loftus Hall.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loftus_Hall

During a storm, a ship unexpectedly arrived at the Hook Peninsula, which was not far from the mansion. A young man was welcomed into the mansion. Anne and the young man became very close. One night, the family and mysterious man were in the Card room playing cards. In the game, each player received 3 cards apart from Anne who was only dealt 2 by the mystery man. A butler serving the Tottenham family at the table was just about to question the man when Anne bent down to pick another card from the floor which she must have dropped. It is said that when Anne bent over to pick up the card, she looked beneath the table to see that the mysterious man had a cloven foot.

It was then that Anne stood up and said to the man you have a cloven foot and the man went up through the roof, leaving behind a large hole in the ceiling.

some ghost series thing in America were there last year and did a show about the place, on next week actually.

draiochtanois

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ArnoldJRimmer

The Mulk wrote: »

An unknown person paying off someone's mortgage so they'd give up the date they had their wedding booked in Luttrelstown,the couple accept and it turns out the Beckham's get married on said date

There must have been around 10 different friends of friends who had their weddings booked for the same day as the Beckhams wanted the hotel, must have been an expensive payout for them. It was exactly the same with Paul McCartney's wedding to Heather Mills.

Also the gig where Bono says 'Every time I click my fingers, a child dies' and someone shouts up 'Stop doing it then.'

mloc123

brianblaze wrote: »

Not an urban legend, not Brian Kennedy either...

Hah, I heard the wife went around and smashed all the windows in the house.. near Celbridge/Ardclough

Omackeral

Omackeral wrote: »

This one happened to my friend's cousin's friend's cousin's friend. He was on the bus into Dublin and it was fairly packed. This big African one went to get on with her kids, including one in a buggy. Having already had two buggies on board, the driver said ''Sorry love, you'll have to fold that buggy up if you're coming on cos I'm full up here.'' She took the young child out and got onto the bus, leaving the pram behind. A passenger asked her why she just left the buggy there, in disbelief. She replied ''It is ok, Social Welfare will give me another one.''

This is such total BS, everyone knows she'd have been driving her free car and not getting the bus.

keano_afc

The old asking Bruce Springsteen to take a picture of you and Bono story.

Nino Brown

Somebody got an STD from a burger in Supermacs because a member of staff was, eh, raping burgers.

You'll catch a cold if you go outside with wet hair.

Antibiotics make you get drunk quicker.

Some kid ate pop rocks and drank coke and his stomach exploded.

fiachr_a

Anyone else heard the one about the JobBridge scheme leading onto full-time employment?

harry Bailey esq

The bloke on his stag whose mates stripped him and tied him to a fence, go to a chipper and return half an hour later and find their pal tearful and distraught. Apparently in their absence some rotter had rode the hole off the unfortunate fellow while he was naked,defencless and alone

Dramatik

Anyone hear the one about girl who is asked to house sit for her best friend. Anyway while her friend is away, the only thing her friend asked her to do is feed the dog and give it, it's medication as it's sick. So she gets to the gaff and walks in and her friend has left her a load of DVD's to watch and a load of different munch, crisps, bars ect. So she sticks on a DVD and sits down on the couch and starts to relax. She had a tough week in work that week and she had recently just split up with her boyfriend so she's thinking to herself "great this's exactly what I need, just some time to myself and nobody's around to bother me"

All of a sudden she wakes up, it's the next day now and it turns out that she had dosed off while watching the film. Yep you guessed it, she's forgotten to give the dog it's medication and it had died during the night. So she's freaking out pacing around the room thinking "what am I going to do?" She starts to panic as her friend will be home in only a couple of hours, so she decides that she's going to have to get the dead dog out of the house and that she'll leave it in her own gaff till she figures out what to tell her friend as if her friends see's her beloved dog dead, she'll never speak to her again.

So she's frantically searching around the house for some way of transporting the dead dog but the only thing she can find is a black sports bag, she thinks to herself this'll have to do as she doesn't live too far from her friends house and luckily there's a dart station near by. So she manages to haul the dog in the sports bag onto dart, by this stage she's already quite tired as the dog is much heavier than she thought. It seems to take forever to travel the three stops down the track to her stop but it eventually rolls into the station.

Just as she's getting off the dart a guy approaches her an says "you can't be carrying that all on your own, that looks auful heavy, let me help you with it" before she can do anything the man grabs the bag off her. "Jesus! that's heavy! have you got a dead dog in here or something?" The colour drains from her face as her mind scrambles to come up with some kind of excuse as to what is in the bag. Suddenly she thinks of her ex-boyfriend who was a band and blurts out to the man "oh it just some music equipment, I'm in a band!" The guy carries the bag over onto the other platform and they make their way towards the exit of the station. She turns to the man and is about to thank the man for helping her when out of nowhere the man just legs it off up the road with the bag. Turns out that he was just a common crook and when he heard there was music equipment in it he seized his opportunity thinking he could make a few bob for himself but unbeknownst to him it was just a dead dog in a bag!

fullstop

Me ma was in Shanahan's a few years ago and the waiter asked if she would mind moving table. Turned out it was Bono who wanted her table so she said she'd move if she could get a photo with him. Not a problem for Bono, he's a sound skin. When she asked for the bill she was told it was paid for already by Bono and Mr Springsteen. Turns out it was Bruce who took the photo and she hadn't recognised him.

Honest.

George White

That reminds me of

1950-something - A family are travelling from Dublin to Holyhead - parents, kids and granny. As they are driving through Snowdonia on their Welsh holiday, they decide to stop and have a picnic. The gran has a funny turn and dies. They decided to keep the body of the gran in the gran so they can claim she died in Ireland, and so on, and also because the father views the British police with suspicion. They drive back, but as they get off the car and into the boat, the car is stolen, granny inside...

Badly Drunk Boy

When I was in 5th class in primary school, for a short while there was a story of The Green Man skulking around the school, waiting to kidnap...eh...kids. It got to the stage that some of the girls in my class were bawling hysterically, one in particular, I remember.

IamtheWalrus

Duffy the Vampire Slayer wrote: »

Also, the jam-making course in Carlow that requires 15 CAO points.

Actual lol.

C.K Dexter Haven

Trinity Philosophy end of year exam- a few friends are completing it:
Friend 1 writes 12 pages in 3 hours on the question Why? - gets 50%

Friend 2 writes 15 pages in 3 hours on the same question- gets 55%

Friend 3 writes- Why not? - Gets 100% :P

NormalBob Ubiquitypants

C.K Dexter Haven wrote: »

Trinity Philosophy end of year exam- a few friends are completing it:
Friend 1 writes 12 pages in 3 hours on the question Why? - gets 50%

Friend 2 writes 15 pages in 3 hours on the same question- gets 55%

Friend 3 writes- Why not? - Gets 100% :P

TCD students are meant to be allowed ask for a glass of port as well. The place is also riddled with underground tunnels, as is UCD.

On a side note I wouldn't be surprised about that happening in the Arts Dept. They have a course there called "Martians, Detectives and Ghosts: Late-Victorian and Edwardian Genre Fiction".

j80ezgvc3p92xu

harry Bailey esq wrote: »

The bloke on his stag whose mates stripped him and tied him to a fence, go to a chipper and return half an hour later and find their pal tearful and distraught. Apparently in their absence some rotter had rode the hole off the unfortunate fellow while he was naked,defencless and alone

What are the chances of one of the only passers by being an opportunistic homosexual rapist...

2cool4school

Myah Millions Bankroll wrote: »

What are the chances of one of the only passers by being an opportunistic homosexual rapist...

inbetweeners

bruschi

fullstop wrote: »

Me ma was in Shanahan's a few years ago and the waiter asked if she would mind moving table. Turned out it was Bono who wanted her table so she said she'd move if she could get a photo with him. Not a problem for Bono, he's a sound skin. When she asked for the bill she was told it was paid for already by Bono and Mr Springsteen. Turns out it was Bruce who took the photo and she hadn't recognised him.

Honest.

Someone on here claimed that story as theirs and swore it happened to them on a similar thread to this. If I was any use I'd search for it and link it, but alas...

bjork

I knew a man once,
He died

harry Bailey esq

Myah Millions Bankroll wrote: »

What are the chances of one of the only passers by being an opportunistic homosexual rapist...

in some versions of the story all of the passers by were as you put it "opportunistic homosexual rapists" :eek:

anewme

A woman in x estate, ( it is always one nearby) washed her Alsatian dog in the bath. Later on she took a bath herself. nine months later she had 3 pups! scared the bejaysus out of us as kids!!!

kingchess

The stag party in Cork where the groom to be and the best man passed out from drink,their mates put both of them naked in the same bed,and sprayed Deep Heat around the nether regions of the Best man.when he woke up with a sore h..e he turned around and broke the jaw of the Groom-to -be

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THEY HAD TO POSTPONE THE WEDDING!!!!

FREDNISMO

That if you said bad words, the priest would put horns on you

For Forks Sake

FREDNISMO wrote: »

That if you said bad words, the priest would put horns on you

You're nearly right......

Duckworth_Luas

Sócrates, the Brazilian soccer player,

• played for UCD in the GAA Sigerson Cup
• played for Shelbourne in the League of Ireland
• failed to make the UCD soccer team

pipelaser

There was once a house in Terrenure that in plan was the shape of a swastica, built by a man who "emigrated" from Germany in the 40s!

Tragamin2k2

what about the irish one who went on a girly trip to amsterdam/barcelona/berlin/london/carlow and shifted a fella in a club, developed sores on her face, went to doctor, got stopped in airport by the policia coz it turned out THE SORES ON HER FACE ONLY COME FROM DEAD BODYS AND YER MAN WAS A NECROPHILIAC SERIAL KILLER

For Forks Sake

pipelaser wrote: »

There was once a house in Terrenure that in plan was the shape of a swastica, built by a man who "emigrated" from Germany in the 40s!

*off to Google Maps for the evening I go...*