Santa Sony Drops Presents on Dublin

Kovacs 45 Comments

Spare a thought for the insolvent Irish. Not knowing what to do with the copious amounts of money that poured into the country when the likes of Facebook, Amazon and Google set up shop in the fabled green land of awesome Guinness, saints and scholars, the fools that we are went and blew it all on underground tunnels no one can now afford to use and make-up for our fearless leader. (True story)

Sony to the rescue of the Dublin mendicants, with news today that Sony Ireland (yep, there’s a Sony Ireland, their offices are actually quite nice) have hidden twelve PlayStation bundles around the capital. From the press release:

From early this morning through to Friday afternoon, people are advised to keep their eyes peeled as PlayStation Christmas gift boxes will be dropped at twelve random locations around Dublin city centre.

It’s what’s inside that counts though, as those lucky enough to claim one of the boxes will win the entire contents. Prizes include PlayStation 3 consoles, PlayStation Move Starter Packs, PSPs and a selection of fantastic PlayStation games.

What better way to get into the spirit of Christmas than with a new PlayStation console to show off to family and friends!

PlayStation is remaining tight lipped as to the exact location of this gift drop. However, you can log onto the PlayStation Ireland Facebook page, www.facebook.com/SonyPlayStationIreland, where clues to the twelve locations will be shared. After that it’s up to you to figure out where the next PlayStation gift will be dropped and make sure you’re there to try and claim your prize.

Thanks Sony! Anything you can do about €85 billion we now owe the ECB and IMF? I’d like my kids to not have to work in a bog down in Tipperary for fifteen hours a day in order to pay it off, if at all possible.

Editor’s note: This post was written by an Irish person. If you can’t laugh at yourself, you have no right laughing at anyone else.

Source: Press release

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45 Comments

  1. Crazy! They have to hide them good or else they are gone in 15 minutes.

    Sony has been a good Santa to me also, I won the GT5 Signature Edition from Playstation Denmark a few days ago \o/

  2. They have Playstation wrapping paper. I WANT Playstation wrapping paper.

    • They’re Sony. They have PlayStation everything. Yes, even loo roll. Don’t ask.

      • *Asks*

      • I had to use the little boys’ room. Happy now?

      • Yes.

      • I want to wipe my bum with green triangles! *notes tub of Quality Streets for Christmas* Hellllooooooo!!

      • OMG!!! – I want Sony branded toilet paper.

  3. Dammit, I was there just the other week!

    • And you didn’t call in for some tea?
      *modifies Christmas list*

      • I would have felt a bit rude as I did not have any biscuits to bring with me

      • Oh, well then. You had a narrow escape!
        :D

      • I was there earlyer today and i never noticed any boxes :(
        and sorry kovac’s, if i knew there was tea on offer i would have called in for a cup

  4. You do realise that that comment is quite insulting to Irish people, right?

    • Not really. Just tasteless, no?

    • You do realise the article itself is quite patronising dont you? Not only to Ireland but to Sonys office here.

    • How is it patronising to the office? I mention that it does exist because when I mentioned it before many of my fellow Irishmen and women said they didn’t even know Sony had a pressence here.

    • philbert8 does have a point though, if someone who was not familiar with sonys generosity finds 1 they will surely think its a bomb, i dont think sony have thought this through properly, maybe a poster on an ally wall with a token attached would have sufficed

    • Why should you have to explain that Sony have an office here? Why wouldnt they? And why does the writer state in the first paragraphy “their country” and in the last paragraph “85 billion we now owe”? Is he Irish or not?

  5. I lived in Ireland for a year and nearly every bridge, highway and train system says part funded by the EU Union on it.

    • Im lost in the relevance to that :-) the eu union so the european union union

    • I live in Wales and I kid you not… it’s packed with Welsh people! Crazy times.

  6. My familys irish and im uninsulted, of course tasteless jokes are my (shit i cant spell this word why did i decide yo use it) forte’.

  7. Despite the fact that most of the things like that are in northern ireland…………

    • have you seen Sons of Anarchy Season 3? they paint a beautiful picture of the N.I countryside, but potray Belfast as something out of WWII. If i was to base a visit to ireland on that program, I (I know its not relevant but i thought i’d share it as we’re talkin Ireland)

  8. Wow thats a nice thing for xmas P.S. bring it to birmingham!

  9. Ugh I just woke up, couldn’t be arsed looking for them. That’s just my early morning mentality, wait till I have a cup of tea/coffee =P Haha just realised its not early morning ha =\

  10. Are you referring to the “troubles”, or else I don’t get the joke.

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