WWN’s latest addition of its Euro 2016 round up saw Italian players feign outrage and indignation using only comical hand gestures a total of 1,345 times. Germany’s victory on penalties is just the 4,345th time Germany have won a knockout tie via a shootout. Germany’s penalty misses in the shootout represent the first time a… Read more »
A NEW set of nationwide commemorations has been announced for next week in the wake of Easter weekend’s successful 1916 Centenary events. The sombre and harmonising scenes witnessed on the streets of Dublin especially moved the Nation, prompting calls to commemorate this past weekend’s commemorations with a commemoration of its own. “Planning is at the… Read more »
EMERGENCY services have closed central Dublin this afternoon after a band of Easter rising reenactment volunteers gunned down dozens of innocent people, leaving 24 dead and many more injured. What was to begin as a reenactment of the 1916 rebellion, turned out to be Ireland’s first mass shooting on the 100th anniversary of the Easter… Read more »
HUNDREDS of Sinn Féin volunteers have been sent into the Lily fields in a bid to shore up their pitiful harvest of paper flowers ahead of the Easter bank holiday weekend. It is believed that a tough election season combined with the over-exposure of the 1916 Rising centenary has led to the failure of large… Read more »
WE’RE all familiar with what the leaders and fighters of the 1916 Rising died for, our sovereignty and other meaningless things but what has often failed to land on the pages of Irish history books if what they absolutely, categorically did not die for. For the first time ever, thanks to countless hours of research… Read more »
WATERFORD resident Liam Curley has expressed his intention to honour the memory of the Rising leaders by getting absolutely out of his skull and booze and drugs, WWN has learned. Avoiding the more obvious ways of commemorating those that fought in the Rising, such as attending commemorative events, Curley has chosen a form of expression… Read more »
We here at WWN Banter absolutely loved the Rising, we mean like, really loved it and we couldn’t let this historically significant anniversary go by without providing a definitive ranking of those involved based solely on their fuck-a-bility, so without further a do, here’s our countdown: 10) A new entry at 10, it’s the O’Farrell’s… Read more »
A CONUNDRUM we’ve all contemplated, and the answer remains very elusive despite all the efforts to remind ourselves the Easter Rising 1916 happened.
A PANICKED Nation is now furiously consulting Wikipedia in the hope of learning all of the names of the leaders involved in 1916 off by heart, with a Government imposed deadline of Easter Sunday put in place this morning. “They sacrificed so much and that sacrifice paved the way for a lot more, the least… Read more »