Irish Attempt to Reach Jupiter
Find out also how the Irish survived the catastrophe that caused the extinction of the dinosaurs.
"The latest series about the (Irish) diaspora was an impressive testimonial to the people who are only marginally less Irish than the Irish themselves. It was full of mind-boggling facts. Did you know, for instance, that every Belgian is really Irish?.......Dan Mulcahy, head of Irish studies at the University of Melbourne, made the point that if one was to gather together everyone on the planet of Irish descent and get them to stand on each others shoulders, the resulting human pyramid would reach Jupiter.
"Yes, said interviewer Ultan Quigley, but surely such a stunt would be highly dangerous? Mulcahy argued that it would be dangerous, but not impossible. He said that within five years, the technology would be there to make the project feasible, and that the man currently developing the technology was himself Irish: Prof Liam Cahill of the University of Auckland. Also, he objected to the enterprise being called a stunt - it was more accurate to call it a hare-brained scheme......
Quigley then visited an Irish community who lived thousands of miles underground near the Earth's core. These people's ancestors had survived the catastrophic meteor explosion...that destroyed the dinosaurs. The Irish were a hardier lot.....(they) had seen the meteor on the horizon hurtling towards earth....(and) they just started digging. For thousands of years they lived on little more than leaves and fossils in an environment without any light, but kept their culture alive through music, folklore and games.........".
By Arthur Mathews, co-writer of the TV comedy "Father Ted".
Printed in the Irish Times .
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