Ray D’Arcy in the land of giants from Friday’s Metro.

Could they not have given the chap a box to stand on? le craic’s spies inform me that Walliams is exceptionally tall and so it goes that D’Arcy was always going to look like Denis Waterman.

Spies also told me women were queuing up to get their photo taken with him in some pub or other and they were all knock kneed walking away, such was his animal magnetism. 9 out of 10 wanted to marry him on the spot.

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Above photo was taken on August 10th by a visitor to the Killarney National Park.

How much would it cost to get something like that fixed? A lot less than the estimated €7500 for 1 junket in 2005 for a bunch of Kerry councillors that’s for sure.

I’ll bet the sign has been like that since 2005 too.

Photo owned by pieterjanviaene and used under the terms of a CC license.

Ha ha. From today’s Daily Mail.

Oh.my.God. Like this is soo bad for BMW. One of their off road vehicles can’t handle the soft Irish summer in Doon Lair eh?

Look at the Toyota go though, it’s breaking through the surf like it was born to swim

Delighted to see the true gent, John Creedon win RTE’s Failte Towers.

The charity he raised funds for was Our Lady’s Hospital Crumlin. His daughter Katie wrote in the Daily Mail on Friday about why this was his chosen charity.

Katie lost her daughter, Lucie, after a battle for life lasting 8 short weeks. In the article she says that John rarely opens up about Lucie, his first granddaughter.

She says :

“Having Lucie was the hardest experience of my life, but it was also the best. She comes up in almost every conversation I have with my Dad. He was just bowled over by her – a totally obsessed Grandad. But he finds it difficult to discuss her in public, which is why most people hadn’t heard the story before now. “

“So when I see dad on telly doing the cleaning, standing up for himself against Derry Clarke or ever leaping to the defence of Michelle Heaton, I feel so proud of him I could burst.

He may not often articulate in public how much he loved Lucie, but he shows us all each and every night. That makes him the best dad, and grandad, any girl could ever wish for…”

John spoke of “Lucie in the sky with diamonds” when he won tonight and many people might have wondered what he was talking about. Now you know.

Congratulations John, you did Lucie, your family and your charity proud.

Twenty Major’s second book is coming in February 2009. Called ‘Absinthe makes the heart grow fonder’, the only details Ireland’s #1 most unrepentant smoker will give is that it’s set in Dublin and Barcelona and involves a stag weekend.

The cover was revealed on Scamp.ie previously and it’s a fine piece of artwork which I’ve desecrated with my terribly risque faux title. Look at the pubes on him though – does he or does he not need them trimmed?

Although this here blog had a negative review of the first book (possibly the only such review in the Irish blog world) it won’t stop me giving this a go when it’s published.

If le craic is still about in February 2009, I’m sure I’ll have some sort of competition to win some signed copies of the book. I’ll probably fake the signature – it’s only a burn mark from a cigarette being stubbed out anyway - easy to replicate.