Fast food goes Formula One and other April Fools
A ZERO Gravity Training centre is coming to Ringaskiddy, Cork, to train one lucky student for a trip to the International Space Station.
Sadly, the bold claim by Cork Institute of Technology proved to be an April fool’s prank.
‘Zero Gravity Training will be completed at our specialised deep water training facilities at the National Maritime College of Ireland in Ringaskiddy,’ CIT claimed in a statement released on the college’s website yesterday, April 1. April Fool’s Day is celebrated every year by playing practical jokes and spreading hoaxes. But it is increasingly being seized upon by brands for self-promotion.
Lyons announced it was introducing reusable tea bags: ‘Just one tea bag will do you for 50, yes 50, cups of tea,’ it claimed. Meanwhile, Supermac’s CEO Pat McDonagh announced in a statement that the food chain was moving ‘into the fast
lane’ by sponsoring a Formula One team in 2018. Dublin nightclub Lillie’s Bordello revealed plans to install urinals in the women’s toilets. In a statement, a spokesman said it was hoped that the ‘Lady P’ would cut queues in the ladies’ toilets.
Meanwhile, Wexford residents may have been surprised to see the following post on the Pettitt’s Supervalu Wexford Half Marathon and 10km Facebook page warning participants of what would happen if they didn’t finish the race in time: ‘Advance notice: Anyone who hasn’t made it past the 10km mark in Johnstown Castle in under 40 minutes for the Wexford Half Marathon on April 17 will have to wait for the dairy cows to cross.’
‘They are on a special scientific timetable for Teagasc research purposes so runners have to give way,’ it added.
And RTÉ got in on the fun as well, running a prank on its Countrywide show with Damien O’Reilly, which claimed new EU rules were being introduced that would see cows issued with their own name plates.