Sunday, September 11, 2005

The Luck Of The Irish

I'll have to go to Skibbereen...

It's official -- scientists have proved that the people of the small Irish town of Skibbereen do not have unnaturally good fortune. But they do seem pretty happy anyway.

The picturesque town near Ireland's southern coast earned a reputation as the country's luckiest after a series of lottery wins.

But Professor Richard Wiseman of the University of Hertfordshire in England told a meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science in Dublin that he had proved there was nothing particularly lucky about the place...


thanks to Reuters

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