This Week’s Headlines – Irish Travel & Irish-Interest

corey says…Here are this week’s headlines from our Twitter account…as well as a few jokes that came over the wire….such fun! Read these as they are “tweeted” by following  along at http://twitter.com/irishfireside.

• Ha, Irish word of the day email…mór means big. Now that is easy and there are not a lot of letters you don’t pronounce! (via@Clodagh831)
• Huh? Galway gets Latin Quarter to draw tourists. www.sbpost.ie/breakingnews/business/eykfkfmhausn
• Reading about Irishman @gavinbate tweeting from Everest www.techcrunch.com/2009/05/18/twitter-reaches-new-heights-as-climber-tweets-from-everest/(via @derryo)
• Hard to believe it’s been 4 months since this mighty session. www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxwJA1qI1ps
• Great story! Steps taken by Tokyo man made his ‘Riverdance’ dream come true www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/world/2009/0514/1224246462442.html (via @Diddlyi)
• Listening to Kila on liveireland…like this Celtic Fusion group a lot… www.my.liveireland.com (via @Clodagh831)
• Milwaukee Irish Fest Summer School brochure is online: www.irishfest.com/schools/summerschool.php music, dance, art classes! (via@jeffksiazek)
• Celtic guitar camp in Boston this summer. www.mattandshannonheaton.com/guitarcamp.html (via@matt_heaton)
• A dream come true in Ireland. www.irishfireside.wordpress.com/2009/05/15/a-dream-come-true-in-ireland
• Indian Tourists Eyeing Ireland www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/travel/2009/0516/1224246668105.html
• Here is an interesting link to a history of Irish dance: www.the-irish-path.com/history-of-irish-dance.html (via @liffeyrivers)
• Good for Ireland…5th happiest place to live…www.neatorama.com/2009/05/11/the-worlds-happiest-places (via @Clodagh831)
• Like a herded sheep at Dublin Airport. www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/opinion/2009/0515/1224246568561.html
• Dublin on the Cheap…not sure how Guinness Storehouse made the list. www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/fea/travel/thisweek/stories/DN-dublin_0315tra.State.Edition1.170300f.html
• Connemara in the springtime. http://web.me.com/patpreston/Site_13/Blog/Entries/2009/5/13_Connemara_Spring.html
• The World Bodhran championships www.independent.ie/national-news/hundreds-beat-a-path-to-kerry-for-bodhran-competition-1720669.html (via @IrishRootsCafe)
• Top Traditional Irish Pubs in Dublin www.whereivebeen.com/community/travel-news/382/Top_Traditional_Irish_Pubs_in_Dublin (via @whereivebeen @Diddlyi)
• Woo-hoo. Pat Preston is blogging from Ireland. Leave her a comment. http://web.me.com/patpreston/Site_15/Spring_Tour_Blog/Spring_Tour_Blog.html
• 20 great family days out for free www.independent.ie/travel/inside-ireland/20-great-family-days-out-for-free-1650482.html
• A closer look at Sligo. www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/destinations/europe/ireland/5118979/Sligo-My-Kind-of-Town.html
• Away from the crowds in County Cork. www.desmoinesregister.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2009903150303
• A walk in Killarney Nat’l Park. www.independent.ie/travel/inside-ireland/walk-of-the-week-muckross-lake-amp-torc-waterfall-killarney-national-park-1734086.html
• The Irish Shanti’s famous Gunder Burger! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y43iWUphSGY&feature=channel_page
• Only Irish coffee provides in a single glass all four essential food groups: alcohol, caffeine, sugar, and fat. (via @DudeKMA)
• The Irish gave the bagpipes to the Scotts as a joke, but the Scotts haven’t seen the joke yet. (via @DudeKMA)
• Q: Why did St. Patrick drive the snakes out of Ireland? A: He couldn’t afford plane fare. (via @riverfrontirish)
• What do you call an Irishman bouncing off the wall? Rick O’Shea! (via @Garret_Turley)
• Why do the Irish cook soup with just 239 beans? Because 1 more & it would be too farty (240). Hard to write vs say (via @AccessInspirati)
• Why do people wear shamrocks on St. Patrick’s Day? Real rocks are too heavy. (via @allthingsnoisy)
• A nice man told me a joke. What’s Irish and sits outside? … Paddy O’Furniture! (via @riverfrontirish)
• An Irishman’s heart is nothing but his imagination. ~George Bernard Shaw (via @mindieb)