AVOIDING making direct eye contact with him, answering his phone calls and changing the topic of conversation to anything that isn’t yet another hapless, embarrassing bid to get money off the taxpayer, Peter Casey’s family are struggling with how to tell him, if at all, that he’s the last person they’d ever vote for. A… Read more »
THE 2020 general election has once again pulled the onerous issue of the pension age into the spotlight, with workers currently scheduled to reach pension age at the spry age of 67, rising to 68 in 2029. But with many workers forced to retire from their jobs at 65, this leaves a few years where… Read more »
The full blow by blow account of the bruising encounter between the Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil leaders as it happened: Things about to kick off, Virgin Media adopting a US politics style ‘head-to-head’ debate here, however, the confetti canons and cheerleaders are a bit much. Pat Kenny is wearing a Tom Ford suit tonight,… Read more »
WITH the General election looming in just a few short weeks, prospective voters who want to get on the register have until… ah, shite! It was today, and you missed it, didn’t you? Are you serious? Really? You just let the day come and go without doing one simple thing? As we were saying, February… Read more »
POSSIBLY the central issue at the forefront of the minds of a big section of the electorate, which is reflected by the fact political parties are all claiming to have the magic solution. But just what are Ireland’s political parties saying and promising when it comes to housing? WWN has collected all the parties’ big… Read more »
ALTHOUGH the upcoming General Election has brought out some of the ugliest inter-party fighting that the country has ever seen and the nation remains numbed by the scale of the homelessness and health service crises, there was a moment of levity earlier today as the Labour party insisted that they too should be invited onto… Read more »
PARAMEDICS were called to a Dublin man’s house after he was left trapped under and ultimately crushed by a deluge of election campaign leaflets fired through his letter box following the first weekend of 2020 general election campaigning. Declan Brohan (59) had been looking forward to the arrival of candidates at his door as it… Read more »
A PANIC-stricken Fine Gael have held an emergency budget meeting to divert as much public funding as possible to their general election campaign, following a shocking poll that shows them trailing behind Fianna Fáil by several points. “Pull as much cash as you can away from housing services, fuck it we need it more” cried… Read more »
YOUR ONE STOP SHOP for all the twists and turns from today’s campaign trail: As the drug gang violence continues to spill out onto the streets politicians have denied this is a ‘hot button election issue’ as “most of the communities terrorised by the gangs don’t bother voting”. Fine Gael went on to ask the… Read more »
THE STREAMING giant Netflix has named Ireland as the location for the next few series of the popular ‘Narcos’ series, stating the country was the obvious choice after recent drug-related headlines. Netflix is sticking close to the winning formula of a filming in a narco-state terrorised by brazen criminals, enabled by inept political leadership from… Read more »