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For lovers of the paranormal who've grown weary of waiting for the Loch Ness monster to reappear, here's a new "monster" to feast your eyes upon. Three college students were filming a short movie as a class project at Lough Foyle, a large tidal estuary in County Donegal, Ireland, when something very odd moved through the water in front of them, UPI reports. "Looks like we have our own Loch Ness monster!" Conall Melarkey, a student at North West Regional College in Derry, Ireland, wrote in his posting of the video clip to YouTube. ...

The prolonged death of a beached, 15-foot fin whale in Baltimore, Ireland, turned into a spectacle for many townspeople while leaving others feeling ashamed. According to The Irish Times, the fin whale beached itself on shallow rocks last week, attracting numerous voyeurs. But as the whale's death throes continued over several days, some say that curious interest turned into insensitive gawking. The backlash regarding how the situation was handled has led many to demand a policy be created on how to treat similar incidents in the future. "The level of ignorance over this has been fairly shocking," Padraig Whooley of the Irish Whale and Dolphin Group (IWDG) told The Irish Times. "The ...

While many looked upon this past weekend's Kentucky Derby with excitement, there was a terrifying horse race happening in another part of the world. Irish authorities are experiencing big trouble with an outbreak of illegal, unethical and dangerous highway horse races. This video contains an example of one of these horse races. According to Jalopnik, the matches are called "Irish gypsy horse races" and are often conducted by nomadic Irish Travelers. A racer will get drunk and take a horse and carriage on busy roadways, weaving in between cars and narrowly avoiding head-on collisions. In this instance, police were able to safely stop and apprehend only one participant. Authorities are ...