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It looks like Luke 'Ming' Flanagan actually enjoyed his Ice Bucket Challenge

Or, as he described it, his ‘glorified piss bucket challenge’.

THE POLITICAL ICE bucket challenges aren’t showing any signs of stopping… We’ve had everyone from Martin McGuinness to Leo Varadkar take the plunge in the last seven days.

So it’s no wonder then that Luke ‘Ming’ Flanagan decided to join in with the charity craze.

The recently installed MEP is no-stranger to water-based publicity stunts, of course. Who could forget the time he asked a Minister to drink a glass of dirty water which he described as “glorified piss”?

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The outspoken former TD even re-used his ‘most unparliamentary language’ posting today’s video…

Watch… 

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Now is it just us, or did Ming enjoy that a little too much?

(Note: You’ll find more details about the Andrew Lydon Trust, set up to help extend the life expectancy of the Connemara man, who has motor neurone disease, here.)

Read: A minister did the Ice Bucket Challenge today…any guesses? 

Read: Will Enda Kenny do the ice bucket challenge? We asked…

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