THE PSNI has confirmed that while Loyalist paramilitaries and Republican groups such as the New IRA remain a threat in Northern Ireland, there has been growing concern for shy diffident Republicans. “Sure, there’s a queue out the door for lads claiming responsibility for scrawling IRA graffiti on a toilet door, but what about the more… Read more »
A NUMBER of Loyalist paramilitary groups have written a really rather crossly-worded letter to the prime minister of Britain expressing their dismay at the ongoing Northern Ireland Protocol issues, while also withdrawing their support for the Good Friday Agreement, more or less, there’s a few bits in there they ‘want to hang on to’. “Mr…. Read more »
RESIDENTS in the Republic of Ireland have en masse made their first tentative steps into exploring a permanent move to Northern Ireland to coincide with the probable return of pubs in line with Boris Johnson’s recently announced plans for England, WWN has learned. Speeding through Garda checkpoints only to find themselves caught up in miles… Read more »
WITH both the UK and the Republic of Ireland outlining their roadmap out of Covid lockdown in the past few days, a committee of border counties will now sit down and work out what the next few months look like for them in terms of ‘living with covid’. Delegates from Donegal, Tyrone, Fermanagh, Derry, Armagh,… Read more »
TAKING the mere rumour of the ludicrous proposal for an underground tunnel linking Northern Ireland to Scotland as the official ‘green light’, the DUP has spent the night hacking away at the earth in a bid to progress a subterranean tunnel. “No this is a great idea, what better way to keep a Union together… Read more »
THE FIRST victim of what some are calling unworkable and unenforceable fines for non-essential cross border crossings was fined €100 after being found in possession of what gardaí deemed to be a non-essential border collie cross. “So what, the collie’s herding ability, its intelligence, agility and obedience isn’t enough is it? You had to go… Read more »
NORTHERN IRELAND’s DUP party has taken a brief break from complaining about the consequences of a Brexit they heavily campaigned for and were warned about by everyone in favour of engaging in some garden variety racism. Forced to defend the DUP’s nonexistent reputation after its MP Gregory Campbell exploded at the sight of black people… Read more »
BORIS JOHNSON is said to be struggling to perfect the most indelicate, ignorant and unhelpful set of remarks in response to the emergence of serious threats being issued by Loyalist thugs to port staff in Northern Ireland as a result of a sea border existing between it and the mainland UK. “I think the best… Read more »
EUROPEAN COMMISSIONER Ursula von der Leyen has unreservedly apologised for ‘acting the complete and utter Brit’ by blithely invoking Article 16 of the withdrawal agreement and setting up the possibility of casually trampling all over the Good Friday Agreement, which was ‘very English of her’. “Who am I, Boris Johnson?” von der Leyen said, accompanying… Read more »
AS A border poll looks increasingly likely within the next decade and debate about how the process of a shared island should be approached, WWN looks into how feasible an inclusive, welcoming and tolerant United Ireland is. Soliciting opinion from across the island, WWN gained a clearer picture as to how that could be achieved:… Read more »