AS CLAIRE BYRNE Live airs its final ever episode tonight after seven years on the air, WWN looks back on the current affairs show’s greatest segments which often involved elaborate set pieces that helped to raise serious political debate to new levels of seriousness. 1) Who can forget when Claire dedicated a show to a… Read more »
WHAT past-their-prime star from yesteryear is worth their salt without an association with some of the world’s most murderous leaders? And indeed, what kind of dictator doesn’t come endorsed by a has-been celebrity? Here’s a run-down of just a few long-forgotten obscure stars; see if you can guess which evil overlord they’re cosying up to!… Read more »
APPEARING OUT of nowhere and immediately beginning a conversation about black market digital TV boxes unprompted, local man Graham Fillan confirms you only have to ask. “It has the works, you love a bit of sport don’t ya? This has all the Prem games. Granted, with Arabic commentary but you’re never too old to learn… Read more »
JUDGE! TAKE SIDES! Froth at the mouth, wildly over exaggerate how much you give a shit. Excessive punctuation!!!! Grab the semtex because it’s time to blow this shit out of proportion! Yes that’s it, drink up the gloopy brain flattening anger juice. It’s a disgrace, and so is the reaction to the reaction of the… Read more »
ALBERT Square is in mourning today following the death of long-time resident Dorothy ‘Dot’ Cotton at the age of 95, and while police seem content that there was no foul play, they want to bring her no-good son Nick Cotton in for questioning just to be on the safe side. “He’s always been a wrong… Read more »
PRODUCERS of the long-running but sadly soon-ending Australian soap Neighbours are planning a big send-off for the final episode with dozens of returning characters but robotics company Boston Dynamic are currently running into problems with the real star of the show. “We’re 90% of the way there with a robotic Bouncer the dog,” said a… Read more »
RETURNING with another series, WWN catches up with presenter Dermot Bannon on his secret addiction to fondling large panes of glass and how he deals with his urges in the new series of Room to Improve. It got to the stage where I was caressing four, five windows a day. Past clients would come home… Read more »
THE national broadcaster’s habit of handing out high-profile gigs to the offspring of the Irish celebrity pool has been criticised in a new report titled ‘1,789 reasons why the country aren’t going to pay another cent in licence fees’. Singling out no-one in particular, the report shows that Ireland has reached the peak of how… Read more »
“SERIOUSLY, I don’t know how the hell I’ve docked hundreds of luxury yachts, I haven’t a clue what I’m doing,” Below Deck’s Captain Lee Rosbach tells WWN in an exclusive one-on-one interview, following on from the success of the hugely popular reality show. We caught up with Captain Lee in Monaco ahead of filming for… Read more »
HAD YOU settled down on the couch for the evening in the hopes of ‘accidentally’ stumbling upon RTÉ’s ‘Dancing With The Stars’ in a bid to provide yourself with 60 plus minutes of nonstop complaining and declaring you’ll never pay the licence fee again? There is another way, a different path. It turns out, according… Read more »