“GLITTERY pink cowboy hats, 2 for 15 euro” It is with these words over the course of the 9th, 10th, 11th, 16th and 17th of September that Dublin man Richie Cassidy will become the nation’s richest person, supplanting the Limerick natives Patrick and John Collison at the top of the Irish money tree. Cassidy will… Read more »
A WATERFORD couple’s date night has been temporarily halted after one of the pair insisted that they’re sitting across the restaurant from a person who may or may not be an actor who may or may not have been in something, WWN can report. “Don’t look, don’t look, don’t look, but that’s definitely your man…. Read more »
HAVING spent the entirety of his adult life as a diligent, bill-paying TV watcher and subsequent streaming service subscriber, Waterford man Ian Keeling has finally adopted the world of the dodgybox for his entertainment needs. “There was a time in my life when I would have hesitated to hand over my bank details to a… Read more »
CROWD footage from the 79th Venice Film Festival that appears to show popstar-turned-actor Harry Styles spitting on his ‘Don’t Worry Darling’ co-star Chris Pine has ground worldwide production to a halt for the rest of the day, perhaps even the week. In dramatic scenes reminiscent of Will Smith slapping Chris Rock at the Oscars earlier… Read more »
IT WAS MEANT to be five nights of triumph and a celebration of his music but not even Garth Brooks is immune to the soaring cost of tourism in Ireland. With hotel prices cynically hiked across Dublin and its surrounding areas during his five night residency in Croke Park, Brooks has fallen victim to high… Read more »
HUNDREDS of people are expected to converge on Queen’s County today to witness the country’s first Electric Picnic, which will be headlined by an appearance by US inventor and electrical pioneer Thomas Edison, with support by Four-Donkey Dynamo & The Hydro-Electric DAAAMN. The road from Dublin to the midlands is expected to be very busy… Read more »
REVELERS at Electric Picnic hoping to use the HSE’s first ever festival safe drug testing facility have been warned that is it just us or is that garda slowly tip toeing his way closer to the tent? Seen as a major step forward in dealing with drug culture and trying to prevent any deaths from… Read more »
THE MOST ANTICIPATED movie since the medium of film was invented. Finally, Michael Flatley’s magnum opus has hit the screens. WWN was there to capture the very first audience reactions ahead of ‘Blackbird’ becoming the highest grossing movie of all time: “I have seen the face of God” – Elaine 55, Dublin. “I liked how… Read more »
CITING creaking knees and sensitive hearing 23-year-old festival stalwart James O’Beirne fears his days of enjoying festivals like Electric Picnic may be behind him. “The first time I went down, there was eight of us crammed into a Micra, I was in the boot the whole way down and it was all great craic. Shits… Read more »
