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Imasha Costa & Rebecca Daly

Irish shop worker sets new record with 13-inch 99 ice cream cone

One Irish woman just pulled Ireland’s tallest 99 - at a massive 13 inches.

It has overtaken the previous record holders by just an inch.

Cork woman Kellie pulled the enormous ice cream cone in Oodles, Mahon Point in Co Cork on Thursday.

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The record was previously held by Curran’s Service Station in Meath, after worker Sean Gaughran pulled another giant cone.

Crowds started to gather in the shop as each of the staff members had a turn pulling a monster 99 ice cream.

Kellie stepped up to the machine and pulled an unbeatable effort.

Speaking on RedFM on Friday, Neil Prendville said: "Kellie was the bravest young woman I came across."

"She pulled an incredible 13-inch ice-cream cone - and does not include the cone, just whippy ice cream."

He added the event was run "to simply beat the record from up the country."

"They don't regularly sell it. We just invited everyone and anyone to come down and have a go at pouring their own 99. Kellie was a member of staff at Oodles who then actually did the best in the end."

Earlier in July, a Centra on Patrick's street was serving a monster 99 dubbed "The Dermonator" by customers as Ireland's heatwave kicked in.

Cork Beo brought the tape down and it was measured at 7.8 inches.

Dermot O'Leary's effort got a lot of fanfare, with snapper extraordinaire Tony Tobin even writing a poem as a tribute to it.

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