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Great White Sharks coming to Ireland

Wompa1 · 2013-04-05 14:54:46

Just when you thought it couldn't get any worse for Ireland. Apparently there was a Great White spotted off the coast of Kerry a couple of weeks ago with suggestions that due to the increasing tempartures in the drift and the plentiful seal population, more and more sharks are likely to make Ireland a regular destination.…

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05-04-2013 3:54pm

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Just when you thought it couldn't get any worse for Ireland. Apparently there was a Great White spotted off the coast of Kerry a couple of weeks ago with suggestions that due to the increasing tempartures in the drift and the plentiful seal population, more and more sharks are likely to make Ireland a regular destination. Galway will be like the town in Jaws. If you scream shark we've got a full scal panic on our hands. It's July! We can't close the beaches, it's the festival season...

I for one, welcome our new shark overlords...

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#2 05-04-2013 4:03pm
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Doesn't matter, it's too cold to swim anyway..

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#3 05-04-2013 4:03pm
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its fcukin freezing in this bloody country and anybody in the water no matter what time of year is must be nuts and deserves to be eaten by a big poxy shark

the end.

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#4 05-04-2013 4:04pm
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Galway aye, we should probably kill them all to keep the sharks safe.

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#5 05-04-2013 4:04pm
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Wompa1 wrote: »

We can't close the beaches, it's the festival season...

attitudes like this got people killed god damit

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#6 05-04-2013 4:04pm
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Wompa1 wrote: »

Just when you thought it couldn't get any worse for Ireland. Apparently there was a Great White spotted off the coast of Kerry a couple of weeks ago with suggestions that due to the increasing tempartures in the drift and the plentiful seal population, more and more sharks are likely to make Ireland a regular destination. Galway will be like the town in Jaws. If you scream shark we've got a full scal panic on our hands. It's July! We can't close the beaches, it's the festival season...

I for one, welcome our new shark overlords...

any link to this or is it just hearsay?

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#7 05-04-2013 4:09pm
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westies4ever wrote: »

any link to this or is it just hearsay?

Yep....
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055711644

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#8 05-04-2013 4:14pm
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Shark Fin Soup for everyone! Yay!

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#9 05-04-2013 4:17pm
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Ah jaysus,next they'll be given them social welfare,new cars and houses.For Jaysus sake.

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#10 05-04-2013 4:18pm
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He can't go down with three barrels...not with three barrels on he can't.

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#11 05-04-2013 4:19pm
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[insert obligatory] "We're gonna need a bigger boat."

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#12 05-04-2013 4:19pm
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It was an April Fool

https://www.facebook.com/wicklowweather?fref=ts

Our headline story on April 1st of a great white in Irish Waters was an April Fools joke and we let people know it was an April Fools, the story has been shared in 49 countries, nearly 700 times and viewed 110,000 times. Our most shared and viewed story to date!!

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#13 05-04-2013 4:20pm
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PM me if you need shark repellent.

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#14 05-04-2013 4:28pm
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It was just Michael Fassbender home on holiday.

http://ismichaelfassbenderashark.tumblr.com/

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#15 05-04-2013 4:30pm
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I'd rather sharks than jelly fish any day.

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#16 05-04-2013 4:34pm
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Skid X wrote: »

It was an April Fool

https://www.facebook.com/wicklowweather?fref=ts

Our headline story on April 1st of a great white in Irish Waters was an April Fools joke and we let people know it was an April Fools, the story has been shared in 49 countries, nearly 700 times and viewed 110,000 times. Our most shared and viewed story to date!!

So disappointed.

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#17 05-04-2013 5:25pm
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Dey tuk ur wimmens !!

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#18 05-04-2013 5:33pm
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Fratton Fred wrote: »

I'd rather sharks than jelly fish any day.

Can't abide the mother****ers. They can't be frightened away either like most creatures. Relentless bastards.

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#19 05-04-2013 5:38pm
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The Great Whites Joe, they do be blocken the aisles with the free double buggies joe, and the fighten in the streets between them and the pitbulls, joe, and the shark teen threesomes joe, the goverment joe, its wrong joeeeeeeeeeeeee......

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#20 05-04-2013 5:45pm
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Only a matter of time before they do show up sure wasnt there one seen off cornwall a few years ago. Theres already plenty of sharks around ireland blues,makos,threshers,porbeagles,basking and even the odd hammerhead. Plenty of them horrible ****in seals for them to eat too

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#21 05-04-2013 5:48pm
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cd07 wrote: »

Only a matter of time before they do show up sure wasnt there one seen off cornwall a few years ago. Theres already plenty of sharks around ireland blues,makos,threshers,porbeagles,basking and even the odd hammerhead. Plenty of them horrible ****in seals for them to eat too

Yes, the seal is a well know horror about the coasts. Pregnant women are advised never to look seaward.

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#22 05-04-2013 5:57pm
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Pilotdude5 wrote: »

It was just Michael Fassbender home on holiday.

http://ismichaelfassbenderashark.tumblr.com/

That's brilliant!

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#23 05-04-2013 6:02pm
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Eleven hundred Galwegians went into the water at Salthill. Three hundred and sixteen came out and the sharks took the rest.

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#24 05-04-2013 6:12pm
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Maybe big Phil might be in Salthill when the Great Whites come calling.

In the water he would have the look of a well fed seal.

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#25 05-04-2013 6:16pm
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By sharks do you mean Spanish students?

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#26 05-04-2013 6:22pm
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Tabnabs wrote: »

[insert obligatory] "We're gonna need a bigger boat."

"We're gonna need a bigger currach."

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They're not the kings of the ocean some people think they are. Killer whales have been known to kill them.

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#28 05-04-2013 6:33pm
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Skid X wrote: »

It was an April Fool
!

Well in that case, all that's left to be said is:

"Smile you son of a bitch".

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#29 05-04-2013 6:33pm
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Great whites love a bit of swan when there's no seal about

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#30 05-04-2013 6:58pm
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davet82 wrote: »

its fcukin freezing in this bloody country and anybody in the water no matter what time of year is must be nuts and deserves to be eaten by a big poxy shark

the end.

Have you genuinely never experienced warm seas off Ireland? If you haven't, I feel sorry for you!

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#31 05-04-2013 8:34pm
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Corvus Maximus wrote: »

Eleven hundred Galwegians went into the water at Salthill. Three hundred and sixteen came out and the sharks took the rest.

"But we delivered the Bamb"

April Fools or not, this thread went the way I would have wanted.

Have you ever been close up to an Atantic Ocean Great White? It's got big dead eyes, like a dolls eyes....

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