CONFRONTED with scenes of protests in East Wall over the plan to house of asylum seekers in a 380-unit building converted from an office block and growing presence of blatant racism on social media, the government has confirmed that this doesn’t sound like much to worry about. “We’ve tried everything; we’d told people complaining about… Read more »
NOT sure on its source or where the rumour started but the government feels a responsibility to the public to let them know they heard tomorrow’s housing protest in Dublin has been called off. “Yeah mad, we thought it was going ahead too but honestly save yourself the journey. Would hate to see travel all… Read more »
A MEMBER of the Sinn Féin press office has entered Mary Lou McDonald’s office to ask if she has been following the latest evidence given in ongoing Regency shooting trial. “You haven’t been following it? Oh that’s great. No, no reason, just gah, you’know yourself. Murder trials; so boring, right haha? Honestly I wouldn’t even… Read more »
THE 2022 Fine Gael ard fheis took place in Westmeath and WWN gained exclusive access to the weekend’s festivities and speeches. Westmeath was chosen as a location for this year’s Ard Fheis because Dublin has too many homeless people who would have ruined group selfies by appearing in the background asking for change. Only 14,389… Read more »
MICHEÁL MARTIN has once again let his famous temper and lust for public fighting get the better of him on the steps of Leinster House when at a routine media address he called out Vladimir Putin over Russia’s banning of over 52 Irish officials from the country. “Very easy to play the big man in… Read more »
AS FORMER president Donald Trump formally announced his intentions to run again in 2024, a weary and sighing American nation is today kicking themselves for not just letting him stay put in 2020. “He’d be nearing the end of his second term now, and that would have been that,” winced America, bracing themselves for another… Read more »
EVEN Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has admitted that Matt Hancock’s decision to go on I’m A Celebrity and get attacked and humiliated on live television for a fortnight seems like a smart idea compared to what’s going on at home. Sunak made the statement ahead of Thursday’s budget, where his chancellor Jeremy Hunt will attempt… Read more »
“GUYS IT’S literally in the name,” explained a spokesman for the Taliban defending their decision to ban women from parks and funfairs in Kabul, which hasn’t drawn much condemnation because countries are busy with their own problems. The Taliban’s slow suffocation of women’s freedoms has been met with condemnation from a number of western nations… Read more »
SENIOR US Republicans are scratching their heads after the party failed to match pre-election predictions of huge gains. “Slogans such as ‘we’ll make you carry your rapist’s baby even if you’re 13’ just didn’t connect with folks as we’d hoped, Dr Oz saying women need a politician’s permission for an abortion was our most liberal… Read more »
THE latest John Lewis Christmas advert has been met with tears, smiles and universal acclaim from everyone except Waterford man Owen Carroll who didn’t feel a flicker of emotion throughout. The commercial, which features a middle-aged man learning how to skateboard so that he can have something in common with the vulnerable child he and… Read more »