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
Samiro05
That’s super! Don’t live anywhere near though so good luck to those on the search for them! If I were to live there though and had seen this video yesterday then I would’ve got a group of friends to go to every known christmas tree in their cities to find them :)
slates16
yep this is quite insulting and tasteless
wiskeyjack
I find the whole article racist
In this day and age its so not cool to beliitle other people
i think you should look at you own politicians expenses scandal
before belittling ours
and English people wonder why they are hated abroad
colossalblue
er, this article was written by a proud Irishman who lives in Dublin. This website is owned and edited by myself, I live in Belfast and have Irish, Scots and English blood in me. I’m immensely proud of every aspect of my heritage but I am perfectly capable of having a little laugh at certain aspects.
I think perhaps you missed a joke and leapt into the role of victim a little too easily.
limerickred
Aah the power of editing. The original article clearly stated in the first paragraph “their country” and now has been changed. Perhaps he didnt know where he was from while writing that section. Proud indeed!
Crazyfrog23
There is a radio station beside that christmas tree, I was listing to it this morning and they were saying people started gathering around the box going mad to try and get what was inside lol.
colossalblue
aw, don’t take it to heart, we know you’re only joking. No real harm done ;)
wiskeyjack
i wish to say sorry to for my earlier commoents about the “English being hated abroad” it was uncalled for
and becides it christmas
i wanna stay on Santa’s “Good List”
PaddyGamezBox
This must be the worst form of a ‘joke’ I have ever saw. Stand up in the middle of Ireland with a loudspeaker and read out your story surrounding the press release. See how long you guys last then. To take the economic problems of Ireland and then label the Irish as fools at such a sensitive time without doing your homework properly is just downright rude, inconsiderate shows how much of an idiot and ignorant some people can be.
Regards
A Galwegian
limerickred
“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.”
There is no greater nation in the world for laughing at itself. All you can do is laugh when youre on the dole and see bank officials giving themselves bonuses and politicans retiring to pensions larger than their salaries. The article came across very badly. No proud Irish person would ever describe their country as the land of guinness and bar room fighting. He should be ashamed.
Kovacs
He’s not. At all.
It’s called taking the mick out of yourself. If you can’t see it for that, that’s fair enough. If you think I should be ashamed if myself for ribbing my own country, that’s also fair enough. The majority of people saw this for what it was, however: a satirical slant on a serious subject. Nations have been self-depreciating themselves for years. The English are famous for poking fun at themselves. As are the Scots. As are the Irish! If some sensitive people are going to take it to heart, so be it.
And us Irish are bloody proud of our Guinness and our belligerent attitude. Stereotype? Too right. But it’s satire. It was lost on you. In hindsight, maybe joking about barroom fighting went too far, and for that I’ll apologise. It was an obvious quip and I should have come up with something better and possibly more positive about I country I’m very proud of. So, I have changed the article, as I’m big enough to accept that people took what I said the wrong way. Now, can we move on?
solidsteven
Yep, we are very proud of our tea. We are a nation of Tea drinker and we have no backbone. Also we hate everyone. This everyone is a Stereotype of the English people. I don’t find that offensive and i’m English, now i’m going to make my Tea and hate everyone.
Raider197
My God, I don’t think I’ve ever seen so much hostility in a TSA comments section.
Being Irish, I’m completely un-bothered by the article (I actually found it quite humourous), especially since it was written BY an Irish person.
People need to lighten up a little, if we couldn’t poke fun at things or laugh at ourselves the world would be in a much worse state than it is now.