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# Weird

All time
20 hit songs that were originally intended for other singers
If these songs had gone to the artists they were intended for, the world would be a different place.
The weirdest and most brilliant pictures sent in by our readers
Sometimes we are sent really useful news tips and pictures, other times we are sent really weird stuff like this.
Here are the weirdest and most brilliant pictures sent in by our readers
Sometimes we are sent really useful news tips and pictures, other times we are sent really weird stuff like this.
Here are the weirdest and most brilliant pictures sent in by our readers
Sometimes we are sent really useful news tips and pictures, other times we are sent really weird stuff like this.
11 memories anyone who grew up with a weird surname in Ireland will recognise
Roll call.
Here's what happens when you ask a kid to design an ad for a funeral home
The blackest of black comedy.
11 St Patrick's Day t-shirts that straight up make no sense
*bellows through bullhorn* NOTHING TO DO WITH US!
Doppelgangers, a pig's head and an alien saviour: The 20 strangest stories of 2015
“That CAN’T be right…”
24 weird and wonderful seasonal photos that you won't find on a Christmas card
The best presents are left at the bottom of the stocking.
17 photos that beg the question 'What the hell happened?!'
Seriously.
A photographer looked through people’s forgotten photo accounts - here are the odd and eerie pictures he found
Curiouser and curiouser.
Chile player faces Copa America ban after allegedly inserting finger into Cavani's anus
The Uruguay star was sent off for reacting to the incident in question.
America has approved genetically modified spuds and apples
That means spuds that won’t bruise, and apples that won’t go brown. Weird.
8 news items that will make you glad you're not in a relationship
Do not want.
Ireland’s Ronnie O’Brien signing for Juve and 11 more of the weirdest football transfer stories
Also featuring the infamous case of Ali Dia.
12 really strange things that happened in 2014
“Where people throw ducks at balloons, and nothing is the way it seems.”
You can now lie in a box and relive what Diana's death smelled like
A Dutch university has recreated the smell and sounds of celebrity deaths.
6 unexpected things that happened this week
A politician into bondage, an over-eager suitor and a sock-eating dog – it’s all the week’d weirdest news.
6 unexpected things that happened this week
IVF penguins, foam hotdogs and a human skull – it’s all the week’d weirdest news.
6 unexpected things that happened this week
Chicken, computer coders and stripping – it’s all the week’d weirdest news.
6 unexpected things that happened this week
Cats with many lives and priests with recording contracts – it’s all the week’d weirdest news.
6 unexpected things that happened this week
– it’s the week’s weirdest news.
16 stupid questions the internet has about Irish people
Why do all Irish people look the same? Because we don’t.
6 unexpected things that happened this week
Romanian royalty, condom-shaped ice-creams and more.
6 unexpected things that happened this week
Eyeballs, sleepwalking and botty coughs – it’s the week’s weirdest news.
6 unexpected things that happened this week
Waitresses with guns, monster members and headbangers – it’s the week’s weirdest news.
6 unexpected things that happened this week
Cyclist-eating geese, Krusty Krabs and MENSA – it’s the week’s weirdest news.
6 unexpected things that happened this week
Bras, dentures and cocaine cookies – it’s the week’s weirdest news.
Woman rescued after managing to get her tyres stuck in overhead wires
How did this even happen?
This has to be the least appealing job ad in Ireland
He’ll paint you like one of his French girls.
6 unexpected things that happened this week
No beef for the Mexican World Cup team –find out why plus all the weirdest stories you need to hear.
On The Trail: 9 odd, weird and wonderful things from Election 2014
The election trail can be an odd place, here are a few things we’ve come across in recent days…
From bikinis to Nazi relatives, the weird ways our continental cousins are campaigning...
They’re a crazy bunch on that mainland.
6 unexpected things that happened this week
Baptising aliens, Never Been Kissed and cash in a couch – it’s all the weirdest stories you need to hear.
This 'kissing simulator' is the weirdest thing on the internet
And we can’t stop playing. HELP US.
6 unexpected things that happened this week
Loyal dogs, a “serial pooper” and hot dogs – it’s all the weirdest stories you need to hear.
A businessman is being walked around London on a lead
Everyone is understandably confused.
6 unexpected things that happened this week
A crow is smarter than your kid, the French are taking over the world and doggie dialtones – it’s all the bizarre news stories you need to know about.
6 weird things that happened this week
Scientists are THIS CLOSE to cloning a woolly mammoth – it’s all the bizarre news stories you need to know about.
6 weird things that happened this week
Biros, cosy penguins and a 30,000-year-old virus brought to life – it’s all the bizarre news stories you need to know about.