What are the odds?
Michael Collins, Eamon de Valera and Padraig Pearse walk into an airport…
This sounds like the start of a rather strange, and very niche, history joke, but it was reportedly the situation at Cardiff airport yesterday.
Girl on tannoy in Cardiff Airport has just put a call out for passengers Pádraig Pearse, Michael Collins & Eamon De Valera…
— Neil O'Riordan (@noriordan) September 19, 2015
As the odds of three men named Padraig Pearse, Michael Collins and Eamon de Valera all being pals, travelling to the Rugby World Cup together and being late for their flight would seemingly be astronomically high, we reckon Cardiff staff are victims of a cheeky prank.
That didn’t stop the inevitable jokes in reply to Neil O’Riordan’s tweet.
@noriordan They all miss the 1916 to Dublin?
— Ronan Murphy (@swearimnotpaul) September 19, 2015
@noriordan @Gordon_Manning Ah they were only rising her 😂
— Alan O'Mara (@AOMTHECAT) September 19, 2015
https://twitter.com/RichieMcCormack/status/645325825756274688
https://twitter.com/scotushibernus/status/645353398066352135
@kevhog88 @noriordan Where else would you hear the like of it only from the Irish after a few pints #hilarious
— Bernard Dooley (@berndools) September 19, 2015
