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Man takes photo a day: discovers he’s ageless
A Clontarf man who took a picture of himself every day for the last 86 years says he is flabbergasted to discover that he appears to be immortal.
Philip Traynor began his project in 1921 and has taken a snapshot of himself every morning since. It was only when a neighbour, who he showed the collection [...]
1,400 learner drivers penalised
The Irish Sentinel has today learned that over 1,400 provisionally licensed drivers are to be disciplined following recent changes to the motoring laws.
Most of the offenders had reportedly failed to properly display L-plates or had been using their vehicles unaccompanied by a fully-licensed driver.
As a result, the offenders are to be taken to a purpose [...]
Sentinel Snippets
A county Louth man will appear in court today charged with the sexual assault of a Raleigh Grifter. Thomas Byrne, 39, was arrested by Gardai last week when they found him repeatedly penetrating the end of the rubber handlebar grips.
Three children under the age of ten who were in the bike shop at the time [...]
Snapshock! It’s not just your picture they’re taking.
Passport seekers are being advised to steer clear of photo booths across Ireland as a firmware update malfunction has caused them to suck the souls from unsuspecting users.
In highly classified internal documents seen by the Irish Sentinel, technical staff at Farrell Corp, the company that makes 95% of the machines present in supermarkets and DART [...]
Greens go National, Socialist
Ahead of today’s pre-Dáil seminar in Tralee, a local meeting of The Irish Green Party has mooted the changing of their name from ‘Comhaontas Glas’ to ‘The Black Cross with Arms Thingy on a Striking Red and White Background Party’. The title ‘The Khaki Supremacists’ was also suggested.
The gathering, which was held in the parish [...]
TV3 reel in the rodent
TV3 will this evening premiere a new family drama entitled ‘The Littlest Death Gerbil’, the station’s latest attempt to capitalise on the viewing public’s lust for homespun wisdom and sickening torture porn. In a bold move away from their usual diet of eye-gougingly hideous reality television and consistently appalling z-list celebrity chat, the station have [...]
Dublin taxi row neither black nor white
A Fine Gael TD caused outrage yesterday with comments suggesting that black taxi drivers, those being taxi drivers of African origin and not those driving the London style cabs, should be prevented from using bus lanes and taxi ranks until they can pass a test to show they know their way around Dublin like a [...]
Louth shopping tragedy claims 3 lives
DUNDALK – In what passers-by described as a ‘violent cataclysm of blood-soaked chaos’, the rush for this week’s special offer at the local Aldi store claimed three lives on Wednesday morning.
A further 12 shoppers were rushed to Drogheda general hospital for treatment and are said to be in a stable condition. The chief consultant stated [...]
Play cancelled, no one particularly bothered
The Abbey Theatre was last night forced to cancel an evening performance of ‘Obligatory Wilde’ due to an anonymous ‘Scottish King’ threat. It was the third cancellation of the play in as many weeks.
Front of House manager Angela Mooney received the call just five minutes before the Brian Friel translation of the classic tourist-trapping play [...]
Irish blogger likes everything
In a move that has shocked large sections of the Irish blogging community, one blogger has broken from the norm and declared himself to be ‘100% positive about everything!’.
It’s a far cry from the bitter, tired ranting that spews from the keyboards of the country’s most prominent keyboard warriors but Bernard Byrne is unapologetic about [...]

