ANY potential ‘vaccine cert’ which people can carry on their person in Ireland that would permit them to avail of and do things non-vaccinated people cannot will be reassuringly easy to forge, the Minister for Health Stephen Donnelly has said. Modeled on the Garda Age Card, the vaccine cert will be an easily copied and… Read more »
THE confluence of high tide and heavy rainfall has resulted in Cork City being issued with a flood alert to go alongside the constantly active, 365-day-a-year alert regarding predictable local and national government response. “Residents are told to expect a flood of ‘it’s an issue for the council’ responses, with a heavy surge of TDs… Read more »
DESPITE having the American people, countless failed lawsuits and now the electoral college confirming the results of the 2020 US election for him, one loser is still not getting it. The individual, having lost more money than anyone else in America in the 1980s, is believed to be well versed in losing, if not the… Read more »
WHILE political experts expected the Green party to tear itself apart as betrayed voters looked on with a mix of disappointment and satisfaction, none had guessed it would be this soon. “Wow, that was quick, I had them chucking themselves in a recycling bin a little over a year into government,” offered political commentator Sarah… Read more »
IT’S a very real tragedy lost amidst the selfish bleating on about students nurses, but today WWN focuses the spotlight on the pay and working conditions of those far more deserving; unpaid student TDs. Nurses working on the frontlines of Covid-19 and in A&E departments think they have it bad? They will hang their heads… Read more »
ONGOING protests surrounding the result of the US presidential election resulted in a surprisingly small number of injuries yesterday, after clashes between Antifa and the Proud Boys turned out to be downright civilised compared to what had been expected. The Proud Boys, an anti anti-fascist organisation who are somehow not fascists, clashed with pro-Biden supporters… Read more »
A DESPONDENT group of Irish politics watchers have come to the regrettable conclusion that a pissing contest between Fine Gael and Sinn Féin is best Ireland can do. Ireland’s lurch further toward a predictable weekly onslaught of ‘I know you are, but what I am-isms’ from the two rival parties brings with it significant risk… Read more »
“I SEE a man with a beard, and glasses, surrounded by people in balaclavas” said Leo Varadkar today, after being presented with a Rorschach ‘ink blot’ image with the instruction to just ‘say what you see’. “Is that correct?” “Mr. Varadkar, there are no ‘right and wrong’ answers with these tests, it’s just to get… Read more »
TAOISEACH Micheál Martin and Northern Ireland First Minister Arlene Foster are to meet today to discuss claims of the Irish state’s collusion with the IRA in relation to a string of terrorist murders, as well as laying down new vocals for what is hoped to be the ‘version to end all versions’ of the Pogues… Read more »
THIS WEEK the government voted down a motion by Solidarity-People Before Profit which proposed paying student nurses, with the vote losing 77 votes to 72 votes. While some of the Irish public seem aggrieved by the outcome, it may just be that they haven’t seen things from the government’s side who drew on a dazzling… Read more »