“NOT long now ’til the real deal,” giggled Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin, during his early morning sneak into the Dáil chamber where he has been pretending to be the leader of the country since the Coronavirus crisis shut down normal government proceedings. With acting Taoiseach Leo Varadkar and his frontline team kept on their… Read more »
IN TIMES of crisis, everyday Americans living through the spread of Covid-19 are learning who their friends are. As New York officials beg the Trump administration for medical supplies and support in the hours before and after President Trump announced $100 million worth of medical supplies would be sent to various European nations, those nations… Read more »
THE FINE GAEL caretaker government has been praised for fast-tracking the Covid-19 pandemic into the position of Minister for Housing, in a grown up move that set aside the usual political infighting and sniping. Ireland, bizarrely left without a housing minister since 2017, has rewarded Covid-19’s selfless ingenuity and diligent hard work behind the scenes,… Read more »
“THEY tried to make me waste all the money on people, healthcare workers and medical supplies, but I fought for what’s important; executive pay, bonuses and wealthy businesses,” President Trump tearfully confirmed to reporters after a historic $2 trillion stimulus package was passed by the US Senate. Trump spent long portions of the latest media… Read more »
THE IRISH people, never more unified against a common foe except for when the Brits couldn’t take the hint circa 1916, have insisted that while we’re all in this fight against the Covid-19 pandemic together, the once in a century threat isn’t grave enough to warrant a Fine Gael/Fianna Fáil coalition so hold your horses…. Read more »
“FUCKERS just dropped dead” shrugged a spokesperson for the Russian government today, at a press conference outlining how 376 anti-Putin journalists, scholars and critics managed to contract Coronavirus and die within the space of 2 hours. The 376 deaths bring Russia’s total up to 377, with the state having previously recorded just one death out… Read more »
WITH PRIVATE hospitals being taken into public ownership, increased welfare supports for the vast majority of the nation and a ban on evictions and the implementation of a rent freeze, Irish people are still trying to comprehend how they woke up today to find themselves in an idyllic socialist republic the leaders of the 1916… Read more »
THE swapping of spits, mouth jousting and gymnastic contortion of tongues have been temporarily outlawed in Ireland as part of a raft of emergency Coronavirus laws aimed at, among other things, reducing the spread and flattening the curve. Aside from much needed things like a temporary rent freeze and ban on evictions, the removal of… Read more »
SINN Feín officials have reacted to the news that Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael are closing in on an agreement for government with relief, with some hardened former IRA members ‘weeping openly for joy’ at the news. The country met today’s news that Leo Varadkar and Micheál Martin were preparing to announce a FF/FG coalition… Read more »
EMERGING from a fresh meeting, a pale US president Donald Trump coughed and spluttered his way through the welcome news the entire world was waiting for; given the opportunity to simply sit down and talk with the Covid-19 strain of coronavirus, an agreement with the virus to simply voluntarily cease spreading could be achieved. “I… Read more »