Irish TV reports on ’meteor crater’ that was dug by sunbather in Dublin

An amateur astrophysicist couldn’t believe his luck when he discovered a meteor crater on a Dublin beach and was interviewed by a TV news crew about the “cosmic event”. Sadly for Dave Kennedy, the crater was nothing more than a massive hole dug by a couple of friends wielding children’s buckets and spades. The galactic anticlimax came after Mr Kennedy appeared on television holding a “meteorite” or, as is now more likely, a small heavy rock, and declared it had “come from above”. “As you can tell here there is a scorch mark on the side, so that would have been at the angle that it came down and its weight,” Mr Kennedy told the reporter for Virgin Media News, “I’m not sure of its composition, but we’re definitely going to have to find out.” Read the full article here: #dublin #meteor #beach Subscribe to The Telegraph with our special offer: just £1 for 3 months. Start your free trial now: Get the latest headlines: and are websites of The Telegraph, the UK’s best-selling quality daily newspaper providing news and analysis on UK and world events, business, sport, lifestyle and culture.