RTE announced today they will stand by their decision to send Charlie Bird on a slow boat to China, and have publicly defended the move after coming under fire from licence fee payers complaining about the €300 expenditure. But the broadcaster, which has cut costs in the face of a funding deficit, stressed it kept… Read more »
Fans of Irish pop duo Jedward congratulated them after they became parents to a beautiful baby daughter yesterday when a surrogate produced the couple’s first ever child. Writing on Twitter, they said: “OMG!!! A baby girl! Girls are so cool. We can’t wait to bring her home and play with dolls and stuff.” Vanilla, who… Read more »
A recently euthanised Kerry Jane Elizabeth Katona in a last ditch attempt at fame is being sliced open in front of a live studio audience at TV3 studios, Ballymount, Dublin. Producers of the show say that othing is spared. viewers will see everything, from intestines pouring out on the floor to her rotted nose been… Read more »
A controversial new facebook game that has drawn harsh criticism from both politicians and the general public asks players to build an Afghani poppie farm and sell as much opium as you can in order to fund the Taliban rulers in your virtual district. Zynga LTD, a San Franciscan game developer , released the game… Read more »
A SUSPECTED serial killer who went by the name of ‘Jessica Fletcher’ has been arrested at her home in south east Cork today after an anonymous phone-call to Gardai. Angela Lansbury, 81, was arrested in a farmhouse-style retreat after gardai received a tip-off about her whereabouts. Lansbury had become the subject of a major woman-hunt after… Read more »
A PRIVATE investigator working for the News of the World allegedly hacked into ET’s ‘phone home messages’ in 1982, a lawyer for the Extra-Terrestrial said today. ET’s name, intergalactic phone number, account number and password were found in material seized by police from the News of the World’s contracted private investigator, Glenn Mulcaire, in August… Read more »
A LEADING VATICAN cardinal said yesterday that Pope Benedict was nearing “the final levels of Medal of Honour” the latest prelate to express alarm over the pontiff’s newly found addiction to first-person shoot em up’s. The remarks by Italian Cardinal Luigi Minestrone came as Ben’s closest aide sought to minimise concern over the his early… Read more »
A new indigenous Baldwin tribe has been discovered in the south west corner of Chile earlier this week. This is the second known tribe of the Baldwin race to be discovered in the last fifty years, Survival International said today. John Clementine, the director of the group, which lends support to thousands of tribes across… Read more »
DEAD Irish student John Stevens will star in an up and coming CSI Miami episode later this year, just two days after his untimely death, it was revealed yesterday. The 28-year-old mature student, who was killed when he fell from a three story balcony, will have a cameo role in the episode called ‘Party Fever’… Read more »
