Today British prime minister Boris Johnson is floating the idea of Ireland leaving EU rules, laws and regulations temporarily to effectively rejoin Britain in a bid to help Britain avoid the dreaded backstop, something the British government came up with to avoid a hard border in Northern Ireland in the wake of Britain voting to… Read more »
DUBLINERS emerged today to hold an emergency press conference expressing their desire for the rest of the county to buck up its idea and start helping out around here. “We pay most of the income tax, corporation tax, you name it we’re the ones carrying you workshy, low income bastards on our shoulders and it’s… Read more »
WOMEN and their clothing choices continue to be a bone of contention in Irish society, with fresh calls for regulation on the amount of fabric a woman should be wearing at any given time. Although Ireland has always insisted that women dress appropriately by covering up their bodies as much as possible so as to not… Read more »
THE country’s largest property website Daft.ie has been ordered by the Irish Human Rights Commission (IHREC) to block discriminatory advertising terms from appearing on its website. The IHREC said it undertook a review of the website and identified a number of adverts it believed discriminated on housing, detailing the full list of banned phrases below: No… Read more »
YOU may not have a partner, you may not be expecting a baby, but that doesn’t mean that you don’t have the perfect name picked out for when a little bundle of joy finally arrives at your door, however many years that may take. But wait, what’s this? Your friend you haven’t heard from in… Read more »
IN A LANDMARK day property developers are celebrating the news that Dublin City Council and An Bord Pleanála have finally seen sense and stood aside as a sensible solution to Dublin and Ireland’s housing crisis has been found in the shape of a return to Victorian era slums. Developers, who had recently lobbied government and… Read more »
THE Royal Family has announced that Prince Andrew has been placed on suicide watch, amid fears that the under-pressure Prince may be about to do something that would bring the peerless name of the family into disrepute. Under direct orders from the Queen, the Royal’s favourite son will be kept on watch until such a… Read more »
AFTER preparing himself for the kind of rush of febrile adrenaline he has only experienced when sharing a busy cinema with people as the n-word is loudly screamed on screen during a Quentin Tarantino movie, one local movie goer has expressed his disappointment at the absence of the derogatory term in Once Upon A Time… Read more »
THE MOMENTARILY ICONIC advert by British supermarket chain Iceland featuring a young animated orangutan made its mark late last year and sparked the media into action, feeding the public’s desire for a high volume of articles on the issue of palm oil products for a week or two. Many members of the public were shocked… Read more »
FOR ONE lucky Irish person, their primary schools years of shrieking away at a excruciatingly ear shredding version of Three Blind Mice has paid off in spectacular fashion as they have signed a $1 million record deal with Interscope Records. Home to Dr. Dre, Lady Gaga, Lana Del Rey and now Irish man and recorder… Read more »