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HORSE MEAT ON sale in Phibsboro, a UFO spotted in Tipperary, and the seventh son of a seventh son in Galway.
These are just some of the wacky and wonderful stories captured by RTÉ throughout the years since it first started broadcasting.
Some of the more stand out, offbeat reports from its various current affairs programmes over the past number of decades have been compiled in the RTÉ Archives.
A special curated selection of reports and clips detailing some of Ireland’s more eccentric goings on has been compiled in the archives to mark the UNESCO World Day for Audiovisual Heritage today.
The special Weird and Wonderful collection of 15 videos details various different events and happenings throughout Ireland during the 60s, 70s and 80s.
Among them, the reports include:
Liam Wylie, curator at RTÉ Archive, said the videos showed the importance of preserving audiovisual content for the future.
The RTÉ Archives has over 650,000 thousand hours of moving image and sound recordings as well as significant collections of photographs, manuscripts and administrative documents.
As much as 27% of weekly RTÉ News programming is made up of archive content.
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What is weird and wacky about horse meat?
Fancied horse meat burgers last night but they were off….
Horse meat is actually a better grade meat.
Makes a change from where priests nowadays would be balancing their nieces
Nah, still using their swords I’d imagine!!
Why don’t we eat horse meat?
What do u mean “in the past”
When that expression is used it means that the event occurred some time ago. This was 50 years ago. Just so you know, We also had a minor scandal involving horse meat a few years ago.
Cathay o Shannon was a hero. “Even the olives are bleeding”. Great doco.
Greyhounds love it.
If it’s good enough for IKEA meatballs it’s good enough for me!
I ate horse curry in France once at a metal festival.it was Yummy
excellent. thanks
Go away outta that ya fuppin eejit!
Fup off ..ya baxtard.
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