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YOU MIGHT REMEMBER earlier this year Dubliner Niamh Geaney found a woman who looked very like her.
Uncanny, right? But now Niamh has found a second doppelganger.
Niamh helped to set up the Twin Strangers project which tries to find doppelgangers for members of the public who upload their photographs to the site.
The site is based on the idea that every person has up to seven people who are not related to them but who look just like them somewhere in the world.
While her first doppelganger was also Irish, Niamh had to fly to Italy to meet Luisa, her second match.
In the video below, she describes her feelings ahead of meeting Luisa in Genoa, and even meets up with Luisa’s mother and friend beforehand.
“You’d think I would have been prepared from the first [twin stranger]. I just got really really nervous before meeting her cos what does she think of me as well? Would I live up to her expectations?” she says.
The two did a photoshoot wearing similar makeup to see just how alike they could look.
“I really do think though that we look more alike in person than we do in photographs,” said Niamh.
See what you think from the video :
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Her dad has a lot of explaining to do.
would ye be bothered! unless of coarse its an identical hand twin
This hand is my hand, no wait it’s your hand…
The likeness in the first picture is uncanny, especially for people who are not related!
Being v serious; your pic looks very like that of the author of this article! :-)
Naw I don’t see it
Yvonne Smith, your the image of this articles author Christine Bohan. Are you related?
Ha yeah actually i do see the similarity, not sure it’s a strong enough likeness to qualify as twin strangers but maybe sister strangers :D
Her Dad definitely sowed some wild oats ha!
What a childish comment to make!
It’s called fun Thomas – just like her dad had!
@Thomas – is Bishop your surname or your job title ?
What a childish comment to make Thomas!
Rte did a programme recently that featured people who looked very similar from different backgrounds. damo and ivor I think was the name
It would be a good story line for a book. One “twin” gets seen in one area while the other does a bank job or does someone in, they go back to their own areas and no one is the wiser. Cops look for a biological twin but there is none so they would never suspect or look for anyone else!
probably a load of divorced men saying “sh.t don’t tell me there’s another one”, then there’s the mother in law
It wasn’t me it was my doppelganger that did it. I’m inocentt I tell you!
Most girls I see today all look the same any ways , due to the way they apply the same style of make up.
I agree ladude. A lot of them style and colour their hair the same and wear the same clothes.
Orphan Black
Now if only we can find project castor!
I actually came down to the comments to say this! Please god tell me there are no Castors running around tho.. Those guys are scary.
That’s amazing.
And proof that Dolly the Sheep wasn’t the first.
You might need to read up on cloning there, Piotrek.
This reminds me of the Friends episode with Joey and his hand twin – Cue Music “this hand is my hand, this hand is your hand oh no it’s my hand”
Close down this site, this is a conspiracy!
The government, in conjunction with the RAND corporation, at the instruction of The Saucer People, is identifying Irish doppelgängers so they can sell their organs to foreigners!
The first one is quite like her but the second just done her make up the same. Different nose and mouth altogether.
Did.
She could learn Italian and get her friend to sit her exams. A first in Italian would look good on her CV.
Someone once came over to me in a pub and asked me could he take a selfie with me because I look identical to his friend and he wanted to send it to him the pic.
A copious supply
It would remind you of Joan Burton and Mary Lou McDonald.
Plain Jane look about her, nothing that unique
Life is strange, it would be funny if there were 50 of them when she is finished lol.
I saw a doppelganger of me once about 20 something years ago on the front cover of the Newry Reporter, makes you wonder if recessive genes play a part and are carried down generations for physical appearances???
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