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Paulus As, Chris Beville, Johnny Driscoll and Servatius Antonius
ELTON resident Servatius Antonius along with his friends may have built the biggest snowman in Ireland, measuring an impressive 23 foot, during the cold freezing weather over the weekend.
Servatius and his friends Paulus As, Chris Beville and Johnny Driscoll dubbed the huge snowman, Big Bill and spent five hours constructing the snow figure on the soccer pitch in Elton. Servatius said it was "worth it" considering they had no water or electricity.
The huge snowman, Big Bill pictured in Elton
He continued: "We built the snowman from making the base from rolling big balls of snow together. As it got higher the balls of snow got smaller and smaller as we had to use a ladder.
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"Eventually, when we got around 14 foot above the ground, the three guys threw up big snowballs to me as I slowly stacked it. The aim was to make a snowman where a traffic cone was used as the nose!"
Servatius decided to name the snowman Big Bill after a history teacher he works with.
The group also built a large snowman during the Beast from the East in 2018. "Our aim was also to beat that snowman," remarked Servatius.
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