Like when a brightly coloured orb reputedly crashed in the Mountains near Boyle in Roscommon in 1997. Days later, black cars with tinted windows were reported nearby, while helicopters hovered overhead. To this day local authorities deny any knowledge of such events.

A Government dossier on UFO's was recently released under the Freedom of Information Act. It reports several UFO sightings, from hovering spacecraft in Tipperary to strange lights in the skies over Donegal.

There's no mention of Alien abductions, symptoms of which include disorientation, loss of memory strange marks on the body and severe headaches. Is it just us, or do Irish alien abductions sound remarkably like the morning after a wedding?