This meme originated from an Irish news report from the national broadcaster RTE. The news was covering a story on the increasingly bad weather during January 2010. During the broadcast a reporter gives a voice over on how the ice and snow had effected the whole country while a clip runs on screen. The clip is of a man walking along a foot path carrying a shopping bag who suddenly slips and falls on the ice landing quite violently on his head.

The original broadcast

Youtube currently has 46 individual videos on this event including different versions / remixes of the video.

Remixes include

The clip was deemed hilarious by the public and a facebook group entitled "Hate to be the fella who fell over on RTE news…" was created. To date the page has 103,000+ fans.

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=292958908437&ref=ts#!/pages/hate-to-be-the-fella-that-fell-over-on-the-RTE-news/417652205397?ref=ts

Even Reaction videos were posted

As of right now there is a search to find out who the person is, however his identity has yet to be revealed.