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 »
“NO LIZ, we nominated you to run the country, not ruin it” A clear miscommunication has lead to recently installed British PM Liz Truss helping the pound achieve its lowest rate against the dollar in 37 years and the miscommunication certainly explains the eagerness of her Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng to give tax breaks to millionaires… Read more »
ITALY is taking its first steps towards a return to fascist-centric politics this week, as the political party ‘Fratelli D’Italia’ looks set to sweep the general election and put the country’s first far-right leader since the outbreak of WWII, despite how all that ended. Named after the evil family in The Goonies, Fratelli D’Italia and… Read more »
GERMANY may have solved that whole ‘we’re buying all of our fossil fuels from a maniacal despot’ problem this week, following an ‘energy security’ deal with the honest and upfront United Arab Emirates, WWN can confirm. The move should ease fears that the country, and by extent the whole of Europe, had become too reliant… 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 »
THE DEATH in police custody of Kurdish woman Mahsa Amini has sparked 7 days of relentless protests involving large numbers of women has led to the Iranian government admit overestimating the bullshit women will endure. “Death at the hands of the ‘morality police’ for the crime of wearing a hijab incorrectly, we must confess we… Read more »
TAOISEACH Micheál Martin delivered a historic address to the UN yesterday decrying Russia for acting like a ‘rogue state’ while calling on the international community to do more to enhance food security around the world. The speech cements Martin’s place in Irish political history and allowed him to grandstand on the international stage, but it… Read more »
WITH THE 2021 Northern Ireland census results revealing that Catholics make up a larger percentage of the population, the Unionist minority is already seeing instantaneous and sobering changes. Having spent the day in the six counties WWN saw firsthand some of these astonishing changes, which included: For the first time since 1921 the majority of… Read more »
NOT EVEN days after making headline news as the first ever child of a TD to enter the Dáil chamber while it was in session, the child of independent Violet Anne Wynne has make expense claims totaling €20,000. “They’ve also been in touch to see how many more hours they have to do in the… Read more »