SKY Sports pundit and former Republic of Ireland midfielder Roy Keane has expressed his disgust at the way the Russian forces in the Kharkiv region of Ukraine were ‘taken apart’ at the weekend, stating that Putin’s troops were completely caught napping and deserve the losses they’re currently suffering at the hands of Ukrainian troops sweeping… Read more »
ON HIS first official visit as Taoiseach to Ukraine, the full horror and scale of the damage done in the eastern European country was brought home to Micheál Martin as he toured Bucha, remarking how eerily similar it was to Mayfield in his native Cork. “I heard it’s €750bn you need to rebuild the whole… Read more »
CONTINUING its enduring acts of solidarity with the Ukrainian people, Ireland has kindly agreed to ‘let’ Ukraine beat them in tonight’s Nation’s League game in Dublin. “You might think that having lost to Armenia, the 92nd ranked team in the world, that we’d have no say in whether Euro 2020 quarter finalists Ukraine beat us… Read more »
IN WHAT is being described as an unabashedly selfless act, local man Noel Creenan signed off on a package for his neighbour who wasn’t in and is giving the package a safe haven until his neighbour arrives home from work. Sitting down to talk to WWN in his sitting room, Noel admits he still can’t… Read more »
IT has been explained to Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy that the plight of his nation ‘couldn’t have been expected’ to still be front-page news after three months of coverage, adding that people ‘don’t really like when these things have no end in sight’. Factors contributing to Ukraine’s demotion down the ranks of newsworthy items include:… Read more »
BEWILDERED and full of questions, an immeasurable number of White House interns and aides have been dumped off Lockheed C-5 Galaxy military transport planes and left on Kyiv airport tarmac in what is perhaps the biggest blunder of Joe Biden’s presidency yet. Biden, having secured support from lawmakers for a $40 billion aid package to… Read more »
“I KNOW a thing or two about resisting the stranglehold of an occupying foreign force, let me tell you that,” stated a somewhat-inebriated Eoghan McDoohan yesterday in the pub, as WWN reporters did their best to enjoy a post-work pint and avoid yet another drawn out conversation with the supposed former IRA man. McDoohan, who… Read more »
IN RESPONSE to Boris Johnson controversially comparing Ukrainians fighting back against the Russia invasion of their country to Britain voting to leave the EU, people with working brains and rudimentary understanding of the world have been quick to help the British PM understand that the comparison doesn’t quite fit. “Brexit would be more like if… Read more »
A Waterford man has vowed to never drink a Black Russian cocktail for however long it takes for Russian dictator Vladimir Putin to back out of Ukraine. Making the announcement on Saturday night, hero David Mannihan gathered friends and revelers attending Egan’s Nightclub around him before ordering the once popular concoction. “I refuse to drink… Read more »
LABELING his address of the House of Commons as ‘historic’ an inordinate number of times, a misty eyed Tory government moved by Volodymyr Zelensky patriotic appeals went as far as to say ‘absolutely not you old cad you’ to all requests. “Some splendid stuff in there about recognising Russia as a terrorist state, hairs on… Read more »