User:CLWE/DYK/1

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In full, the first 8 efforts
# Description Image Article(s) and/or “hook” Create Expand Arc. Hits
1 Media ... that Ireland's reality show Fáilte Towers takes its name from the BBC sitcom, Fawlty Towers? 00:04, 17 August 2008 (UTC)
2 Travel ... that mountaineer Ger McDonnell, the first Irish person to summit K2, brought a hurley to the summit of Mount Everest in 2003? 12:09, 19 August 2008 (UTC)
3 Weather ... that the 2008 Irish flash floods submerged one of the busiest roads in Northern Ireland under six metres of water? 23:42, 28 August 2008 (UTC)
4 Sport ... that following show jumper Denis Lynch's Olympic ban for doping offences, the President of the Olympic Council of Ireland threatened to ban the equestrian team from participating in future Olympic Games? 17:15, August 30, 2008 (UTC)
5 Painting ... that Lucian Freud described the Titian paintings Diana and Acteon and Diana and Callisto as "simply the most beautiful pictures in the world"? 11:52, 3 September 2008 (UTC)
6 History ... that, to mark the 350th anniversary of Oliver Cromwell's death, RTÉ and the History Channel created the multipart documentary Cromwell in Ireland? 11:06, 6 September 2008 (UTC)
7 Medicine ... that the 2008 drama Whistleblower focused on the irregular number of caesarian hysterectomies carried out by Dr Michael Neary in an Irish hospital? 02:21, 7 September 2008 (UTC)
8 Geography ... that the 2008 Kerry bogslide was described as "one of the most frightening and overwhelming events ever witnessed"? 20:37, 9 September 2008 (UTC) 17,900 - 6th most viewed in September 2008