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December 15, 2008

Mutant zombie spotted in Manchester

Arnold Corns
Posted by : Arnold Corns
Filed under : World News

There were frightening scenes in Manchester this weekend as a real life monster prowled the streets and terrorised passers-by.
Reports were made to police at around 1.30am as revellers in the Princess Street area were faced with the hideous beast. It is thought that the zombie, who had already feasted on the blood and brains of [...]


December 12, 2008

Farmer arrested for hearing deficiency

Arnold Corns
Posted by : Arnold Corns
Filed under : Irish News

A County Mayo farmer has been arrested and charged with mass murder as the pork crisis took a sinister turn yesterday. With products heading back onto the shelves and bacon addicts across the land now able to go to bed without seeing dead babies crawling across the roof at them while techno music plays in [...]


December 11, 2008

Ronnie McGrew – My Dublin: Episode 8

Arnold Corns
Posted by : Arnold Corns
Filed under : Ronnie McGrew

Ronnie McGrew appears every Thursday on the Irish Sentinel to talk about the town he loves so well. This week he’s in the festive spirit as he talks about Christmas in Dublin.
Ronnie McGrew may cause side effects such as nausea, diziness, headaches and AIDS.
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December 10, 2008

Black hole confirmed in County Kilkenny

Arnold Corns
Posted by : Arnold Corns
Filed under : Irish News

There is a giant black hole at the centre of Urlingford, Co. Kilkenny, a study has confirmed.
German astronomers tracked the movement of 28 stars circling the centre of south Leinster, using two telescopes in Chile. The black hole is four million times heavier than our Sun, according to the paper in The Astrophysical Journal.
Black holes, [...]


December 10, 2008

Sentinel Snippets: Dec 10th 2008

Arnold Corns
Posted by : Arnold Corns
Filed under : Snippets

Katy French has been appointed Managing Editor of Independent Newspapers. “She still got so much sass”, says Tony O’Reilly.
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Irish poultry producers are ‘living in fear’ according to one chicken farmer. “If people think the stuff being fed to pigs and cattle is bad, wait till they find out what shite we give the birds. It’s [...]


December 9, 2008

Crumlin man declared bankrupt after Christmas lights bill

Arnold Corns
Posted by : Arnold Corns
Filed under : Irish News

There might be still two weeks until Christmas but one Crumlin man is suffering for his attempts to bring Christmas cheer to his neighbourhood.
Steven ‘Dotso’ Doherty, 43, of Bangor Road has become well known for the lights outside his home. Over the years it has grown from a simple set of fairy lights in a [...]


December 8, 2008

Tittle Tattle Tot

Murphy Brownlove
Posted by : Murphy Brownlove
Filed under : Irish News

It’ll be lonely next Christmas for cheating Athy housewife Bridget McAuley after her own child stood against her in divorce proceedings from husband Seamus. Bridget’s four-year-old son Otis Jay testified that he had caught his mother in flagrante with a strange bearded man on Christmas Eve of last year.
Courageous tot Otis immediately informed his father [...]


December 8, 2008

Contaminated Irish pork products to return Ireland to the dark days

Arnold Corns
Posted by : Arnold Corns
Filed under : Irish News

Ireland was thrown into chaos this weekend as pork products were banned from shelves across the country. The ban came as test results revealed the presence of harmful dioxin-like PCBs in the meat.
Without wishing to scaremonger at this difficult time the Irish Sentinel can only come to one conclusion: Ireland is [...]


December 5, 2008

Mother of Shannon Matthews to face extended jail term

Arnold Corns
Posted by : Arnold Corns
Filed under : World News

The mother of Shannon Matthews, whose 24-day disappearance sparked a massive police hunt and media campaign, faces a ’substantial’ jail sentence after being found guilty yesterday of kidnapping her daughter.
Karen Matthews hatched a plan with Shannon’s uncle, Michael Donovan, to keep the child hidden and get rich off the money donated by the public and [...]


December 4, 2008

Ronnie McGrew – My Dublin: Episode 7

Arnold Corns
Posted by : Arnold Corns
Filed under : Ronnie McGrew

Ronnie McGrew appears every Thursday on the Irish Sentinel to talk about the town he loves so well. This week it’s about the most Dublin thing of all, the River Liffey.
Ronnie McGrew should be taken as part of a calorie controlled diet.
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