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From The Score Going Viral This post contains videos

YouTube Top 10: because Paul McShane can’t be that bad, can he?

11 hours ago 834 Views 3 Comments

Plus, Katie Taylor wins the World Championship, Leinster fans dance embarrassingly and one Roy Keane’s most infamous interviews is revisited.

# youtube - Yesterday’s News

From The Score Forza Martin This post contains videos

VIDEO: Castrogiovanni tries out for Olympic volleyball

Yesterday, 11:21 AM 278 Views 1 Comment

It’s your fish out of water clip of the day.

# youtube - Tuesday 22 May, 2012

From The Score TV Gold This post contains videos

WATCH: Green is the Colour, Episode 1

Tue, 10:30 PM 343 Views No Comments

Here is the first part of a documentary exploring the history of Irish football.

# youtube - Friday 18 May, 2012

From The Score Potty Mouth This post contains videos

VIDEO: why you shouldn’t watch sports with your kid

Fri, 11:25 AM 351 Views No Comments

“What’s wrong, Daddy?… A travel! Oh no.”

# youtube - Tuesday 15 May, 2012

From The Score Controversy

Allardyce set to sue Kean over YouTube video – reports

15/05/12 510 Views No Comments

The West Ham manager has taken exception to remarks made about him in an internet clip that has recently surfaced.

From The Score Candid Camera This post contains videos

Blackburn boss Steve Kean in YouTube rant at Sam Allardyce

15/05/12 534 Views No Comments

The manager at the relegated Lancashire club meets the owners this week, and will have some explaining to do.

# youtube - Tuesday 8 May, 2012

From The Score Tribute This post contains videos

VIDEO: Brazilian player moonwalks while receiving yellow card

08/05/12 1,500 Views 3 Comments

Getting angry is so last season, the modern footballer should dance after every booking.

# youtube - Monday 7 May, 2012

From The Score Boozed Up This post contains videos

VIDEO: Drunk woman makes a show of herself at Lakers game

07/05/12 1,223 Views No Comments

How many times have you thought this was a good idea?

# youtube - Thursday 3 May, 2012

From The Score Going Viral This post contains videos

YouTube Top 10: because footballers can be trolls too

03/05/12 791 Views No Comments

Featuring a man dressed as a horse, the brutal side of lacrosse and one the most unsportsmanlike pieces of behaviour you’ll ever see.

# youtube - Thursday 19 April, 2012

From The Score Carra On Idol This post contains videos

VIDEO: Liverpool squad appear on American Idol

19/04/12 1,129 Views No Comments

Fresh from knocking Everton out of the FA Cup, the squad got suited and booted for the talent show.

# youtube - Wednesday 18 April, 2012

From The Daily Edge Work Can Wait This post contains videos

How to… get your owner out of bed in the morning

18/04/12 6,673 Views 30 Comments

Follow this cat’s example…

# youtube - Tuesday 17 April, 2012

From The Score Bright Future This post contains videos

VIDEO: Spectacular goal from u15 striker

17/04/12 741 Views 2 Comments

Who cares if he meant the first touch or not. The second is sensational.

# youtube - Thursday 12 April, 2012

From The Score Pick That Out This post contains videos

VIDEO: Ronaldo hat-trick stuns Atletico

12/04/12 813 Views No Comments

Two of the Portuguese star’s goals were absolute crackers, watch them here.

# youtube - Sunday 8 April, 2012

From The Daily Edge Guinness Friday This post contains videos

VIDEO: A 1970s guide to selling Guinness to the British

08/04/12 6,543 Views 20 Comments

Vintage TV ads show the stout wasn’t just aimed at an ex-pat audience in the UK…

# youtube - Thursday 5 April, 2012

From The Score Going Viral This post contains videos

YouTube Top 10: because professional footballers can look like pub players

05/04/12 922 Views No Comments

We have ten more videos for you this week, featuring an Irish wrestler and a hapless Man City footballer.

From The Score Early Doors This post contains videos

The Morning Score: Thursday

05/04/12 140 Views No Comments

Here’s everything you need to know apart from who to put that annual golf bet on.

# youtube - Tuesday 3 April, 2012

From The Daily Edge This Is Love This post contains videos

VIDEO: So floppy disk drives ARE not obsolete after all

03/04/12 3,414 Views 16 Comments

They can reproduce a cheesy 1990s dance hit. That’s alright then.

# youtube - Wednesday 21 March, 2012

From The Score Out Of Hand This post contains videos

WATCH: NHL fights becoming ridiculous

21/03/12 529 Views 1 Comment

The New York Rangers and New Jersey Devils didn’t let hockey get in the way of their organised fight this week.

# youtube - Thursday 15 March, 2012

From The Score Have A Break

The YouTube top 10: Because it’s never too young to start trials for Arsenal

15/03/12 823 Views No Comments

The progeny of Jack Wilshere and Rafael van der Vaart are taking this North London rivalry thing to a whole new level.

# youtube - Tuesday 13 March, 2012

From The Score Cheap Shot This post contains videos

WATCH: Keeper hit with 17-game ban for slapping Spanish coach

13/03/12 561 Views No Comments

You have to be mad to be a goalkeeper, they say. Well Diego Maradona’s stopper, Majed Nasser, was definitely mad at Quique Sanchez Flores.

# youtube - Thursday 8 March, 2012

Syria This post contains videos

Syria’s deputy minister for oil defects in YouTube video

08/03/12 921 Views 8 Comments

Abdo Hussameldin announced he was defecting in a YouTube video, making him the first high ranking official to abandon the Assad regime since the uprising began a year ago this month.

# youtube - Thursday 1 March, 2012

From The Score Going Viral This post contains videos

The YouTube top 10: because you never call baby, when you say you will

01/03/12 1,163 Views No Comments

But I love you still, Shane Duffy. I love you still.

# youtube - Wednesday 29 February, 2012

From Business ETC Privacy

How to delete your Google browsing history ahead of new privacy policy

29/02/12 22,138 Views 58 Comments

Tomorrow Google will launch a new privacy policy which could allow services like YouTube to access your browsing history – but there’s still time to opt out.

# youtube - Thursday 23 February, 2012

From The Score Work Can Wait This post contains videos

The YouTube top 10: Because everybody loves throwing snowballs

23/02/12 967 Views No Comments

…but nobody likes getting kicked in the face.

From The Score Early Doors This post contains videos

The Morning Score: Thursday

23/02/12 138 Views No Comments

Here’s everything you need to know before that first break in your Lenten pledge.

# youtube - Thursday 9 February, 2012

From The Daily Edge Viral Video This post contains videos

No prosecutions in case where ‘Big Man’ threw alleged fare dodger off train

09/02/12 4,855 Views 29 Comments

The video of the incident became a viral sensation with over two million hits on YouTube.

# youtube - Thursday 2 February, 2012

From The Score Early Doors This post contains videos

The Morning Score: Thursday

02/02/12 327 Views No Comments

Here’s everything you need to know before that first cup of coffee.

# youtube - Wednesday 1 February, 2012

From The Daily Edge Yowza This post contains videos

YouTube gets 4 billion views every day

01/02/12 1,259 Views 6 Comments

The company says it has experienced a massive 25 per cent surge in views in the past eight months.

# youtube - Tuesday 31 January, 2012

From The Score Super Bowl XLVI This post contains videos

WATCH: US Ambassador launches YouTube guide to American football

31/01/12 1,296 Views 10 Comments

Dan Rooney has released a Super Bowl preview guide to get Ireland in the mood for Sunday’s American football spectacular.

# youtube - Monday 30 January, 2012

From The Daily Edge Recruitment

VIDEO: Twitter’s viral ‘best worst recruitment ad’ ever

30/01/12 772 Views No Comments

“Do we have any positions open?” “Does a Tweet have 140 characters?” [awkward pause] “Yes!”

# youtube - Sunday 29 January, 2012

From The Daily Edge Amazing This post contains videos

WATCH: Is this the best reason to have children ever?

29/01/12 11,338 Views 27 Comments

How to keep your son and daughter busy during the holidays? Form a cover band, of course.

From Business ETC Net Worth

Here’s what we all did on the internet last year

29/01/12 6,676 Views 13 Comments

We gawked at 100 billion photos on Facebook, 1 trillion video playbacks on Youtube and got a LOT of email spam in 2011…

# youtube - Tuesday 24 January, 2012

Sopa Ireland

Everything you need to know about Ireland’s SOPA

24/01/12 31,442 Views 50 Comments

Solicitor and chairman of Digital Rights Ireland TJ McIntyre explains exactly what we know about proposed legislation to block website accused of infringing copyright – and what we don’t know.

# youtube - Thursday 19 January, 2012

From The Score Going Viral This post contains videos

The YouTube top 10: because you’re the best around, no-one’s ever gonna keep you down

19/01/12 1,163 Views No Comments

It’s not that time of the week already is it?

Opinion

Column: Will Ireland block the internet to save CDs?

19/01/12 10,473 Views 65 Comments

Paul Quigley, co-founder of a site which tracks the sharing of news stories through social media, warns that changes in Irish legislation could shut down any site that ‘interacts’ with the internet.

# youtube - Friday 13 January, 2012

From The Daily Edge Olden Days This post contains videos

WATCH: Incredible videos of Irish life in 1962

13/01/12 3,469 Views 9 Comments

Wonder what it was like flying Aer Lingus in 1962? Or taking a donkey and cart to Mass? Check out these video clips from Cork…

# youtube - Thursday 12 January, 2012

From The Score Work Can Wait This post contains videos

YouTube Chart: because Messi isn’t the only footballer who was good as a 10-year-old

12/01/12 2,601 Views 1 Comment

Wazza was alright, too.

# youtube - Monday 9 January, 2012

From The Score Different Class This post contains videos

Off the record: the biggest sports stories you might have missed this weekend

09/01/12 945 Views No Comments

Nigel Owens lays down the law, Big Ben shows off his new wardrobe and Aindreas Doyle contemplates a career change.

From The Score Howzat? This post contains videos

WATCH: Is this the best cricket catch ever?

09/01/12 957 Views No Comments

Teamwork works, as cricketers Bevan Small and Michael Mason showed in style last week.

# youtube - Saturday 7 January, 2012

From Business ETC Opinion

Column: We have the tech entrepreneurs – now we need to keep them here

07/01/12 3,566 Views 23 Comments

Fine Gael TD Eoghan Murphy wants to press his own government to support Irish tech start-ups – without attaching too many strings.

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Poll: Are you satisfied with your quality of life?

A NEW REPORT from the OECD has suggested people living in Ireland have some of the best lives in the world, with Ireland among the top countries in its Better Life Index.

The index finds that life expectancy, low pollution, positive experiences and a healthy work-life balance are among the factors that contribute to happy lives in Ireland.

It did note, however, that the gap between the rich and poor is wider in Ireland than elsewhere, while the gender gap in educational performance is also larger than average.

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