DESPITE being subjected to a procession of bad luck that would turn most mortals into a husk of a human being, local man Eoin Hallins is sticking by his favourite mantra. “Pure awful dose of bad luck but sure onward and upwards, as I always say,” remarked Hallins to the funeral director after he showed… Read more »
THE EVENING’S games saw Argentina face off against a Poland team who honestly played like scoring a goal would give them some horrific disease. The referee livened things up when he awarded Argentina a penalty in the most unjust awarding of something since Forrest Gump beat Pulp Fiction and Shawshank Redemption to Best Picture Oscar…. Read more »
HAVING spent several years as a pup before moving on to a decade as a confirmed latchiko, Waterford man Eamon Brennan has finally been promoted by his community to the honourable title of ‘some boy altogether’. However, the prestigious ‘some boy’ title isn’t handed out lightly. Brennan, 34, had to work hard over the years… Read more »
WHAT A JOYOUS time it is to welcome your first child into the world. While you’re still be riding that high, it may be worth reminding yourself that parenting isn’t all plain sailing and that there’s no time like the present to establish solid rules and structure. Not with your child but with your parents… Read more »
“SHITTY fecking Christ on a pedalo!” panicked local music hipster Grainne Folan as it dawned on her that Spotify’s annual ‘Wrapped’ end of year summary of users’ listening habits was nearly upon the world but she has spent the majority of the year listening to chart hits. A chance for many people to showcase how… Read more »
FORMER billionaire Sean Quinn has been described as a ‘visionary, a business mastermind, and a damn decent fella’ by former billionaire Sean Quinn in a new three-part documentary airing on RTÉ. ‘Quinn Country’ chronicles the rise and downfall of Quinn, who fell from his lofty status as Ireland’s richest man after the collapse of Anglo… Read more »
YESTERDAY’S World Cup games were sponsored by that realisation it’s been fairly shit and hosting it Qatar has killed your love for one of the very few things that brings you joy, and Budweiser. Group A saw Senegal earn a penalty when Ecuador’s Piero Hincapie was punished by the referee for simply spotting Ismaila’s Sarr’s… Read more »
TALES of festive oddness aren’t anything new, everyone will have heard of a family that eats their Christmas dinner at 8PM, or a co-worker who doesn’t attend the office Christmas party because they don’t want to make a show of themselves in front of everyone. But there are few Christmas quirks that are as ghastly… Read more »
THE SUPREME COMMITTEE overseeing the running of the World Cup in Qatar have expressed their continued and unending shock and surprise at the fact that hosting the tournament involves people from a vast array of countries turning up. “At no point did we consider inviting the whole world to Qatar would involve people actually taking… Read more »
