ON THIS DAY 2009: Criminal Investigation Launched Over Meme Painting

THE GOVERNMENT has praised the quick actions of the gardaí as an attempt to mock the leader of the country is being snuffed out amid a full criminal investigation into the matter.

“This insult cannot stand. We’re a 21st century democracy with a free society but those freedoms should immediately be suspended the second anyone calls into question our great leader,” a government spokesperson confirmed, despite other governments around the world, including the US, expressing concerns over limiting free speech.

Utilising a new technology called a ‘meme’ the artistic terrorist sought to terrorise the eyes of unsuspecting people viewing works of art in the National Gallery, where Ireland’s most wanted man hung the abominable insult to our brave Taoiseach.

“It’s not enough the State is suffering grave financial woes, we have this lunatic on the loose to contend with,” confirmed one broadsheet journalist who can’t envision making fun of, at any point in the future, a foreign administration going through peoples phones in search of mocking jokes of their leader.

“We urge people to rat this man out, but for those without any information – lock your doors, hug your children and above all else don’t under-react, this is among the most despicable crimes in the history of the state and this person will pay,” confirmed an investigating guard, who thinks the police being pressured to investigate at the behest of politicians is probably a good thing.