VIDEO: Father Of Tralee Student Reacts To Seeing Her Doppelgänger

Posted in Something Cool, Tralee by Fergus Writes Things

Michael was visibly shocked at how much the looked alike.

IN A follow up to our very popular story recently in which a young Tralee student met her almost identical twin through the ‘Twin Strangers’ website (see previous story here), a follow up video has now been uploaded by the site.

The new video shows the reaction of Tralee’s Shannon Lonergan’s father Michael as he sees his daughter and her Swedish doppelgänger, Sara, together for the first time.

We imagine that Michael genuinely struggled for a second or two to identify Shannon from the two, such is the extreme likeness between the two.

“I had to look, I really did. I was shocked, they do look an awful lot alike. I’m still getting over it,” he laughs in the video.

Watch Michael’s reaction video below, courtesy of Twin Strangers.

16Dec2015

VIDEO: Tralee Student Meets Her Swedish Doppelgänger

Posted in Something Cool, Tralee by Fergus Writes Things

Shannon Lonergan from Tralee met her almost identical twin, Sara in Dublin recently.

A YOUNG TRALEE student has recently had the very surreal experience of meeting her almost identical twin thanks to the team over at the TwinStrangers.com website.

Shannon Lonergan, a student from here in town signed up the website a while back and received an email from the site telling her that her doppelgänger had been found in 17 year old Swedish girl, Sara.

The video below details the very first meeting between the two with both girls exhibiting slight nerves before the big moment.

“I gave her a hug and then we just stood there like ‘Oh my God, this is so weird’,” said Shannon in the video.

“Our noses, our eyes… we have the exact same ears… lips, expressions, pout, smile… it’s just weird,” she finished.

Check out the pretty amazing footage below…

22Nov2015

VIDEO: Castleisland’s Niamh Finds Third Almost Identical Lookalike

Posted in Kerry News, Local News, Something Cool by Fergus Writes Things

Castleisland’s Niamh Geaney has found a third almost identical lookalike.

A CASTLEISLAND woman, who earlier this year achieved worldwide fame after finding two almost perfectly identical doppelgangers, has now gone onto find her third ‘twin stranger’ who again bears an uncanny and almost scary resemblance to her.

The original project started as a bet between Castleisland’s Niamh Geaney and her two friends, Terence Manzanga and Harry English from Dublin City University.

Back in March of this year, the trio set themselves the challenge of seeing who could find their closest lookalike, or their ‘Twin Stranger’ as they dubbed the project, in just 28 days.

After just two weeks, the search came up trumps for Niamh after she located her first ‘twin’ in Karen Branigan, before going on to find her second doppelganger Luisa Guizzardi in Italy.

Niamh Geaney with her first ‘twin stranger’, Karen Branigan.

Niamh with her second ‘twin stranger’, Luisa Guizzardi.

Well, they say that good things come in ‘threes’ and this is certainly the case here after Niamh recently met up with her third lookalike, Irene Adams, who hails from Sligo.

The two woman are filmed meeting for the first time in the video below and as you will see, the resemblance between the two is almost identical.

“People who didn’t know either of us would think that we’re related,” Irene states in the video.

If you’d like to look for your ‘Twin Stranger’, head over to their website HERE.

Check out Niamh meeting her third ‘twin stranger’ in the video below…