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This ice bucket challenge comes complete with the greatest Irish mammy commentary

“I can’t get the feckin’ thing back.”

Aug 25th 2014, 6:00 PM 56,557 Views 53 Comments

AN IRISH MAMMY coming into contact with the ice bucket challenge? It was bound to happen eventually.

When Maura O’Neill set out to do an ice bucket challenge, she tasked her mother with filming it. All perfectly fine. Except her mother can’t quite get a handle on operating the camera or steadying the screen.

D’oh.

And so we’re left with some wonderful Irish mammy commentary, which will surely resonate with anyone who has witnessed their mother attempt to take a photo with an iPhone.

Excerpt: ”Jesus, ’tis gone! It’s shifted in all directions, Eamonn!”

Source: Maura O'Neill/YouTube

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This ice bucket challenge comes complete with the greatest Irish mammy commentary

“I can’t get the feckin’ thing back.”

Irish ice bucket challenge goes horribly, disastrously wrong >