IRISH URBAN LEGENDS you heard

mapaco

conorhal wrote: »

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.

I witnessed this actually happening in 2004! Couldn't believe my eyes and ears at the time. Not so much urban legend as common practice at one stage I'd say!

eamonnq

Some celebrity's neighbour is having a party and invites said celebrity to it, and then receives an invoice for an 'appearance fee'.

Used to be Gay Byrne a lot of the time.

shamrock55

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

This is true, it happened to a lad in cork city a few years back, needless to say the wedding was called off

For Forks Sake

mapaco wrote: »

I witnessed this actually happening in 2004! Couldn't believe my eyes and ears at the time. Not so much urban legend as common practice at one stage I'd say!

shamrock55 wrote: »

This is true, it happened to a lad in cork city a few years back, needless to say the wedding was called off

Riiiiight.

Digital Solitude

The one where 7 ambulances were called to the local underage disco, and two lads were in critical in hospital after a scrap

Samsgirl

For Forks Sake wrote: »

Riiiiight.

http://www.thefreelibrary.com/GROOM+%27RAPED%27+ON+HIS+STAG+NIGHT.-a061072724

shamrock55

For Forks Sake wrote: »

Riiiiight.

It actually did, about 8 or 9 years ago id say, i remember it being on the news and in the papers at the time

emeldc

retalivity wrote: »

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

While renovating his house, my brother found Ir£7k in a biscuit tin up the chimney. Seriously.

Dubwat

When you visit the Guinness Storehouse/Museum in Dublin, you get 2 drinks vouchers for when you get to the bar at the top. Since most of the visitors are American, they never use their second drinks voucher. Urban legand is that the local alcoholics pay in and use those second vouchers to drink all day, every day...

When Ikea first opened in Ballymun, the cafe got a reputation for really nice food. The cafe had a deal where the parents paid for their meals but the children ate for free. The locals would round up the local children and send them in with 'two parents' and get lots and lots of free food.

pajor

fiachr_a wrote: »

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.

Heard myself that was in Blanch Shopping Centre.

MonkieSocks

shamrock55 wrote: »

This is true, it happened to a lad in cork city a few years back, needless to say the wedding was called off

Seen a movie from 1977 called "The Choirboys" very funny movie.

Not the actual scene but a clip from the film

More info here

http://www.thebacklot.com/scraping-the-barrel-eight-of-the-worst-gay-depictions-in-film/08/2008/

myshirt

Just to let you know, there was a time where you could drink on after the Guinness tour, until people absolutely starting taking the piss. That's why they cut it back. It boils my blood to this day.

Anyway, back on thread.

Duffy the Vampire Slayer

thelad95 wrote: »

Thought that was Sligo IT...?

The beauty of the jam making course, is that it moves to whatever IT is far away from you where you don't know anyone. I'm from Connacht, so I heard it was in Carlow. My friends from Leinster heard Sligo.

mikemac1

I was on Bus Eireann going from Limerick to Galway. As we got to Bunratty two Yanks on the bus said weren't the Irish so clever building the castle next to the freeway

A Trinity student was doing exams and demanded a staff member bring him cake and beer. It was an old rule going back to when students were sons of noble families and staff were servants.
The lad got his cake & beer but then got fined for not having a sword, another rule.

Timothy Bryce

Best mate's cousin's friend broke up with her boyfriend of 5 years, he's moved out of the house. She devastated. Her friends drag her out on the lash to cheer her up, she gets sloshed and pulls a fella. Wakes up the next morning, barely able to remember a thing. She rings her friend to say all she can remember is the amazing sex she had with the lad she pulled. They were doing it everywhere, kitchen table, on the stairs. Everywhere. Her mate tells her it's just what she needed.

She gets out of bed, goes downstairs, little Down syndrome fella asleep on the couch...

shamrock55

mikemac1 wrote: »

I was on Bus Eireann going from Limerick to Galway. As we got to Bunratty two Yanks on the bus said weren't the Irish so clever building the castle next to the freeway

A Trinity student was doing exams and demanded a staff member bring him cake and beer. It was an old rule going back to when students were sons of noble families and staff were servants.
The lad got his cake & beer but then got fined for not having a sword, another rule.

Do you know what urban legend means?

FluffyAngel

byrneg28 wrote: »

They give Guinness to women who've just given birth for their iron levels

that one was true ,or the vartion of it in my house was every night to keep the blood levels up

mind you there was so much drank that it was a mircale there was any blood left ...

FluffyAngel

She gets out of bed, goes downstairs, little Down syndrome fella asleep on the couch

this thread is not looking good for those that have Down syndrome...

mikemac1

shamrock55 wrote: »

Do you know what urban legend means?

Those are friend of a friend stories. Heard them a few times and read them here too, all by people who swore they were there

Nowt wrong with my stories

HalloweenJack

What about not swimming for an hour after eating?

Me ma used to swear by it but when I told people from other countries, I just got laughed at.

Rubberlegs

A man is approaching a red traffic light too fast, and hits the car in front of him. He waits for whoever is in the car to get out,but nothing happens. The lights turn green, and still nothing happens. He gets out of his car and goes to the drivers door. A man is unconscious in the front of the car, with his finger jammed up his nose. He'd been having a good root when he had been hit, and knocked himself out:)

Stavro Mueller

This is one I heard years ago, in the days before webcams, smartphones, broadband etc. Story goes that this girl who's going to Trinity College or UCD goes onto an online dating site. She meets a man on there and they start sending messages to each other. Lots of messages. They become close without having even spoken to each other, let alone met. He's telling her about how awful his marriage is, how his wife doesn't understand him. The usual craic. She's confiding in him about her life. Things get a bit heated on the sexeeee front and they going on about their sexual preferences etc etc.

So he books a hotel in Galway for a weekend away and they decide that this hotel is where they will meet for the first time. She gets to the hotel after him and goes on up to the room where he has already settled in. When she gets to the door of the room, he answers it in the nip. It's her dad!!!

philstar

HalloweenJack wrote: »

What about not swimming for an hour after eating?

Me ma used to swear by it but when I told people from other countries, I just got laughed at.

wasn't that in some public safety promo on rte back in the day??

harry Bailey esq

when slim fast shakes first came out it was said they contained maggots that literally ate the fat from your body.

fiachr_a

The American tourists in TCD who walk past that brass globe sculpture and one says to the other "gee, that must be the Trinity ball"!

bjork

harry Bailey esq wrote: »

when slim fast shakes first came out it was said they contained maggots that literally ate the fat from your body.

My friend made one up and left it overnight> next morning the whole kitchen was crawling with maggots

Red Kev

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!

More or less true. Good thread on it here. House was for sale a few years ago and some paper had an excellent write up on it.

More info here.......
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2054860989

Custardpi

HalloweenJack wrote: »

What about not swimming for an hour after eating?

Me ma used to swear by it but when I told people from other countries, I just got laughed at.

Wouldn't that be common sense though? Maybe not after any food intake but if you engage in any strenuous physical activity directly after a heavy meal you risk getting indigestion, which probably isn't the best if you're a hundred metres from the shore.

shamrock55

mikemac1 wrote: »

Those are friend of a friend stories. Heard them a few times and read them here too, all by people who swore they were there

Nowt wrong with my stories

Nice stories yes , urban legends no.

Annasopra

Stavro Mueller wrote: »

This is one I heard years ago, in the days before webcams, smartphones, broadband etc. Story goes that this girl who's going to Trinity College or UCD goes onto an online dating site. She meets a man on there and they start sending messages to each other. Lots of messages. They become close without having even spoken to each other, let alone met. He's telling her about how awful his marriage is, how his wife doesn't understand him. The usual craic. She's confiding in him about her life. Things get a bit heated on the sexeeee front and they going on about their sexual preferences etc etc.

So he books a hotel in Galway for a weekend away and they decide that this hotel is where they will meet for the first time. She gets to the hotel after him and goes on up to the room where he has already settled in. When she gets to the door of the room, he answers it in the nip. It's her dad!!!

Or the one where the 20 year old meets his Dad in the Boilerhouse

Conall Cernach

fiachr_a wrote: »

The American tourists in TCD who walk past that brass globe sculpture and one says to the other "gee, that must be the Trinity ball"!

Or the one about the American tourists asking the "athletes" hanging round the O'Connell statue for directions.

Duffy the Vampire Slayer

Apparently American's are easily convinced that there are no Tuesdays in Ireland.

FueledbyCoffee

? Sorry can you explain that for me, I don't get it ?

amdublin

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

Apparently there is some truth in this one....

http://www.snopes.com/risque/homosex/batman.asp

its halfway down the page.

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.

It was Chapter One apparently and there is some fella here on boards who SWORE that this it was his girlfriend it happened to. She even has the photographs apparently.

amdublin

bruschi wrote: »

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...

Here you go

Bono & Springsteen story from the horse's mouth. Well the boyfriend of the horse's mouth

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=68452763

Aidric

The Pheasant2 wrote: »

Lad takes acid and kidnaps a Down's syndrome child thinking they were a leprechaun

lol..haven't heard that one. Sounds plausible.

thickhead

Fibromyalgia

FueledbyCoffee

thickhead wrote: »

Fibromyalgia

Very apt username

Pinch Flat

HalloweenJack wrote: »

What about not swimming for an hour after eating?

Me ma used to swear by it but when I told people from other countries, I just got laughed at.

Hah yeah I used to be terrified by this one. Swimming around after 40 minutes in tramore, convinced I could drown any minute

eisenberg1

thickhead wrote: »

Fibromyalgia

One word, and you had to edit it?

I take it you don't know anything about the disease.

George White

Skill is an African bum disease.

thickhead

eisenberg1 wrote:

One word, and you had to edit it?

eisenberg1 wrote:

I take it you don't know anything about the disease.

It's not a disease.

LDN_Irish

thickhead wrote: »

Fibromyalgia is for moaning little bitches.

I'm sorry that you're experiencing that. Sounds tough.

Mister Vain

The man out in Carbury who brought an electric kettle to the bog to make tea for his fellow workers.

cloud493

HalloweenJack wrote: »

What about not swimming for an hour after eating?

Me ma used to swear by it but when I told people from other countries, I just got laughed at.

Sure is this one not true?

Santa Cruz

Birneybau wrote: »

See also, I saw the Beatles in the Adelphi.

I went a warm up round with Ali before he fought Al blue Lewis in Croke Park. Ali cant confirm it though because of his Parkinsons disease

Santa Cruz

Mister Vain wrote: »

The man out in Carbury who brought an electric kettle to the bog to make tea for his fellow workers.

Is that the same lad who learned a flask can
keep hot food hot and cold food cold. Then he used the same flask to bring oxtail soup and a Choc ice

Markcheese

super_furry wrote: »

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

Didn't a couple of dopes do that in Dublin zoo a couple years back -? Legged it in a taxi - seriously -

The J Stands for Jay

whiskeyman wrote: »

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

Tracks are the same size, but the green line has a bigger gap between each track.

The J Stands for Jay

mikemac1 wrote: »

I was on Bus Eireann going from Limerick to Galway. As we got to Bunratty two Yanks on the bus said weren't the Irish so clever building the castle next to the freeway

e.

Hard to believe, but this is actually an example of American sarcasm.