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Three Irish men shortlisted for 'best jobs in the world'

Rich Cullen is running around Australia in a green body suit as part of his campaign, while Allan Dixon is getting Irish politicians to do weird things with their hands.

THREE IRISH MEN have been shortlisted from hundreds of thousands of entries in Tourism Australia’s Best Jobs in the World campaign.

Wicklow native Rich Cullen is already living in Melbourne and is one of 25 people vying for the Lifestyle Photographer position. The winner will receive a six-month photography contract with Time Out magazine in the city, as well as a $100,000 salary.

See his latest campaign video here. Richard’s YouTube channel also includes this rather amusing human bicycle:

(YouTube: Richard Cullen)

Young Dublin man Heber Hanly is 1/24 of Cullen’s competition.

(YouTube: Heber Hanly)

At this stage in the competition, contestants are expected to get attention by garnering media coverage, creating viral videos or getting the attention of celebrities. Allan Dixon, who is up for the ‘Outback Adventurer’ job (yes, they call that a job!), has gone for the latter option.

(YouTube: Allan Dixon)

He also managed to get Minister Jimmy Deenihan and Senator David Norris to do this:

The winners will be announced on 21 June after a further assessment process. Good luck, lads!

See all the entries here>

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    May 4th 2013, 1:30 PM

    Dubliners with pretend English accents don’t do well outside The Pale.

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    May 4th 2013, 11:07 AM

    What about the women??? Sexist competition!

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    May 4th 2013, 11:15 AM

    Sure youse are too busy ironing

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    May 4th 2013, 11:39 AM

    ….and shopping……Christ….who’d collect the kids from school!!?

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    May 4th 2013, 12:51 PM

    Not Norris again popping up in photos again?
    One would have thought that David Norris got the message.
    Nobody likes him.

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    May 4th 2013, 11:41 AM

    So Salary is $100000 so for 6 months = $50000 = €40000 for the 6 months, meh not worth getting out of bed for

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    May 4th 2013, 11:58 AM

    Perhaps the worst mathematical logic ever seen there by Paul.

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    May 4th 2013, 3:20 PM

    And possibly the worse sense of humour seen by gerrard there…

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    May 4th 2013, 3:44 PM

    Haha what?! How’d ya work that out mate?

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    May 5th 2013, 12:19 PM

    Liked that Heber guy’s video.

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