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 »
“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 »
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 »
IN A MOVE the coalition would describe as reckless, naive, populist and downright foolish if Sinn Féin proposed it, the government is to explore introducing a third income tax band at 30% in an effort to alleviate cost of living pressures. While many members of the public would welcome such a move detailed in the… Read more »
HAVING breezed through Sinn Féin’s 142nd attempt at passing a vote of no confidence in the coalition, the Micheál Martin fronted government celebrated by ramming through a planning bill which every single interested party that isn’t a money grabbing developer has labeled ‘a disaster’. “It just feels like the perfect way to say fuck you,”… Read more »
NEWS that the average rent for a new tenancy in Dublin stands at €1972 has been greeted with a vast ocean of expressionless acceptance by local Fine Gael voting couple Martin and Nuala O’Laudlin, WWN can confirm. “We’re not exactly big fans of Leo, Simon and Paschal ourselves,” explained the couple, who are such massive… Read more »
AN INTERNAL report compiled by Simon Harris has reached the shocking conclusion that Fine Gael is struggling to attract young people to join the party for some inexplicable reason. Aside from ‘snazzy new social media campaigns’ a number of strategies designed to incentivise people to join Young Fine Gael include: Scribbling out Sinn Féin with… Read more »
ANGRY protesters outside the Fianna Fáil think-in at the Slieve Russell hotel have been assured that their concerns surrounding the Mica redress scheme will all be taken care of in due time, specifically at a later date when a new government has taken over. Assurances have been made that the ongoing issue, which involves some… Read more »
REACTING to the latest Irish Times poll which shows increased support for Sinn Féin, local centre right student and Fine Gael supporter Cian Whelan can’t believe his naive parents, only just getting into politics, have fallen for the the republican party’s nonsense. “They’ve only really just started getting into politics, and that always sees people… Read more »
“DOES this even still fit me?” laughed Tánaiste Leo Varadkar today, after his iconic sign from the ‘Welfare Cheats Cheat Us All’ ad campaign turned up during a clear-out of his garden shed today. The clean up was prompted by the government’s announcement of the gradual reduction and phasing out of the Pandemic Unemployment Payments,… Read more »