THE President has held a moment’s silence for all the tea in Ireland that has been spilled, poured down the sink, tossed out into the back garden or otherwise wasted over the years, as he unveiled a new sculpture to the beverage in Dublin’s Smithfield area. “This nation owes a great debt to tea, and… Read more »
OFTEN making the news for ill-judged comments an envious Leo Varadkar wish he said privately in the Fine Gael WhatsApp, Owen Keegan is to Dubliners what his lookalike and ‘Who Framed Roger Rabbit?’ villain Judge Doom, was to the residents of Toontown. Taking Keegan’s recent sarcastic comments to the UCD Students Union that students should… Read more »
CREW members of the International Space Station have been advised to ‘keep the windows up and not hang around’ when flying over Dublin, following a spate of upper-atmospheric anti social behaviour, WWN can report. Damage to the side of the orbiting craft has been put down to rocks, used batteries and eggs that have been… Read more »
LOCAL Dublin 8 man David Kellans was in a celebratory mood this morning after learning his locality landed the no.15 spot on TimeOut magazine’s annual Coolest Neighbourhoods In The World list. “This is great honestly, the more lists Dublin 8 ends up on the more tourists will come and they’re easier targets then myself for… Read more »
THE IRISH property market is reeling from an An Post error which has seen one rural Irish house given a Dublin Eircode, sparking panic and delight in equal measure in property industry circles. “I’m sorry I know it’s a converted cow on a flood plane built on a secret nuclear weapon testing site, but its… Read more »
TAINISTE Leo Varadkar has been both commended and criticised in equal measures after staging a one-man demonstration outside the homes of the anti-vax protestors who were outside his house at the weekend. Having learned the names and addresses of the dozen or so ‘patriots’ who posted videos on social media of themselves waving banners and… Read more »
ENDORSED by businesses, supported by locals and enjoyed by over 300,000 the runaway success of an 11-week trial pedestrianisation of Capel St and Parliament St is to be ended in a move that makes sense only to Dublin City Council. “Wow, never in our wildest dreams did we think when we went ahead with this… Read more »
SHORTLY after giving the green light to the hugely popular move by the Luas operator to make the Luas free to travel for all, WWN experienced it in all its glory and we have an exclusive review for all those readers eager to try it for themselves: Some minor disruption at the Stephen Green’s stop… Read more »
SEVERAL recent doom-mongering posts surrounding the safety of Dublin city centre have suggested that the nation’s capital has been surrendered to roaming mobs of louts, without a single guard to be seen. Nonsense! The guards are doing a great job and Dublin is as safe as any other town or village, providing you take the… Read more »
GARDAÍ say there is ‘nothing they can do’ about an alleged assault which took place on a private premises Saturday, even after it emerged there is as many as 24,000 eye witnesses and extensive CCTV footage, WWN Sport can confirm. Despite a wealth of CCTV cameras on the premises where the incident took place, those… Read more »