THE brutal vivisection of Prime Minister Liz Truss on local radio stations in the UK yesterday has become a police matter, with Scotland Yard tasked with bringing those responsible to swift justice. “The Prime Minister was spotted in good health – relatively good health, that is – at 8AM yesterday morning, following a nice relaxing… Read more »
SPEAKING to WWN today about yesterday’s big Budget ’23 giveaway, Taoiseach Micheál Martin advised the nation not to spend it all on silly things, and if everyone could stop annoying the government and remember to vote them in again when the next election rolls around, that would be great. “You’re welcome,” Martin began, referring to… Read more »
WITH €4.1bn worth of ‘one-off measures’ including €600 energy bills credit, a €500 rent tax credit, increases in child benefit, a 25% cut in childcare costs and the raising of the 20% income tax threshold to €40,000, Minister for Finance Paschal Donohoe has produced a budget which has attempted to reverse the damage his own… Read more »
NASA’s successful mission to crash a spacecraft onto a distant asteroid has been heralded as a complete success, and proof that even deep space isn’t safe from aerial assault by the US government. The ‘DART’ mission, not affiliated with the even more dangerous transport system in Dublin, was launched in November of last year in… Read more »
“NO LIZ, we nominated you to run the country, not ruin it” A clear miscommunication has lead to recently installed British PM Liz Truss helping the pound achieve its lowest rate against the dollar in 37 years and the miscommunication certainly explains the eagerness of her Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng to give tax breaks to millionaires… Read more »
GERMANY may have solved that whole ‘we’re buying all of our fossil fuels from a maniacal despot’ problem this week, following an ‘energy security’ deal with the honest and upfront United Arab Emirates, WWN can confirm. The move should ease fears that the country, and by extent the whole of Europe, had become too reliant… Read more »
“BUT Paschal you’re still the Minister for Finance, why wouldn’t you be doing the fecking budget? We’re screwed “You’ll be Minister for Finance in December, why in the name of God would I be doing up a budget when I’ll be outta this bitch in two months? Jesus Michael, bit of common sense would have… Read more »
SUCH has been the disgusting nature of Phillip Schofield and Holly Willoughby’s queue skipping behaviour, not even massive tax giveaways to millionaires or the pound hitting a 37-year low can distract the British public from what’s really important. And this morning the This Morning hosts have been served severe justice. At 10am this Friday, Schofield… Read more »
THOSE IN attendance at the weekend’s cost of living protest in Dublin may have felt it served as a clear message to those in power that everyone from families, low wage workers, students and small businesses are struggling and more must be done to help them. However, it appears this is way off the mark… Read more »
STARTING AT 2pm on Saturday the 24th of September at Parnell Square in Dublin a pre-budget cost of living protest is set to take place, aimed at pressuring government to address the issue. News of this protest will come as a big worry to people who have spent every waking hour giving out about the… Read more »