CONCERNS surrounding the accuracy and dependability of facial recognition software in law enforcement have been heeded by An Garda Síochána, who will forgo the emerging technology in favour of gardaí who ‘know a pup when they see one’. There had been calls from concerned parties over the effective ‘mass surveillance’ of the population that comes… Read more »
CATRIONA Evans, a notorious blackhole of joy, and Kevin Farrin, a skin-crawling caveman, have confounded the expectations of experts three drinks into their first date after matching on Bumble, with both complete and utter doses managing to navigate small talk and basic flirting without drinks being thrown over heads. “Any other friend of Catriona’s would… Read more »
GARDA Síochána members are to be trained in on shouting out emergency signals after it was revealed that only a fraction of the force are authorised to use emergency lights and sirens in squad cars, WWN has learned. Visiting a new Templemore training program designed to teach under qualified Gardaí to simply make sirens with… Read more »
LOCAL man Colm Fitzsimons has expressed his confusion at the Australian election results, giving voice to the bemusement many Irish people greeted a result which saw the governing party ousted in decisive fashion. “Why didn’t you contrive to split the vote to such an extent that it delivered a result which pleased absolutely no one… Read more »
IT’S hard in this day and age to know what you should be spending money on, and it’s even harder if you feel you’re self medicating with alcohol in a bid to suppress issues and feelings you know you should address. In a bid to approach this subject in an evolved and progressive way WWN… Read more »
THE truth about how close the Irish health system came to total collapse has been revealed in a stunning new book titled ‘The Almost-Shat Togs’, which gives a behind the scenes look at the weeks following the initial 2020 lockdown and how we were ‘one hospital porter with a hangover’ from total chaos, as is… Read more »
THE news that the government has granted emergency powers to local councils to house Ukrainian refugees has finally tipped Waterford man Keith Clancy over the edge, reducing him to a babbling mess incapable of forming a coherent sentence. “But… what… bout… Irish… our own… people… houses,” muttered Clancy, while drool pooled on his shoulder as… Read more »
BEING trapped in the rental market (or worse: still living at home) can be tough, but at least you’re in the same boat as a lot of your friends, right? That’s until one of the sneaky gits actually manages to buy a house! What do you do now? 1) Congratulate them through gritted teeth It’s… Read more »
IT’S been a rocky road to get here, but the government are pleased to announce that the next phase in the development of the National Maternity Hospital can finally begin, the path ahead clear, all hiccups and hold-ups behind us. “Plain sailing, baby,” announced Tánaiste Leo Varadkar in a video posted on his Twitter last… Read more »
TO CELEBRATE the Fine Gael, Fianna Fáil and Green party coalition government securing* the land for the National Maternity Hospital site at St Vincent’s Hospital, WWN has been treated to an exclusive look at the interiors of the proposed design for the State owned** hospital which comes with no catches***. The state of the art… Read more »
