Newspaper of the Century | The 2008 Hijinx Awards

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January 30, 2009

Attenborough Predicts Cold Day in Hell within a Decade

Tadgh Torres
Posted by : Tadgh Torres

Leading Naturalist and broadcaster, Sir David Attenborough has predicted that the drastic changes we are currently seeing in the global climate could soon lead to sub zero temperatures in the Mediterranean, sub-Saharan Africa and even in the firey pits of hell.
 Attenborough forecasts that a reversal of global warming caused by a new phenomenon known as [...]


January 30, 2009

Dunphy says RTE stars should ‘do their bit’

Arnold Corns
Posted by : Arnold Corns
Filed under : Arts & Ents, Irish News

Eamon Dunphy says RTE’s biggest earners should be prepared to make sacrifices in order to maintain and save the jobs of their lower paid colleagues.
Speaking to Morning Ireland the former Milwall player and founder of the ‘If you see Jack Charlton kick him in the bollocks and run away’ website, told Cathal MacCoille that pay [...]


January 29, 2009

Ronnie McGrew – My Dublin: Episode 13

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 talks about his first pint and Dublin’s most famous export, Guinness.
Ronnie McGrew invented the whole concept of passing the Dutchie, but originally passed on the right hand side.

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January 28, 2009

Black President remains unkilled despite full week in power

Gay-Gay Phyl
Posted by : Gay-Gay Phyl
Filed under : World News

World-improving policies opposed by rich, fat, white status quo as Obama chooses venn diagram of goodwill over axis of evil.
President Barack Obama, the world’s best living human being, recently announced that America would aim for oil independence, thereby reducing the threats posed by its dependence on foreign oil supplied by sometimes hostile regimes. Republican Party [...]


January 27, 2009

Gorilla warfare as government bans monkeys

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

With huge public spending cuts expected to be announced by the government, fans of monkeys will be unhappy to hear that Brian Cowen is introducing new legislation which will prevent people from owning more than one monkey at a time.
He is also set to introduce a monkey tax which is based on the monkey’s usefulness [...]


January 26, 2009

New lead as Dublin man shot in Spain

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

Spanish police, investigating the shooting of an Irishman on the Costa del Sol, have tentatively ruled out any gangland involvement.
Johnny Mulligan, a 41 year old father of eighteen, was shot twenty-seven times in the head in Benalmadena, near Torremolinos on Saturday night. Initially it was thought the crime was related to his previous involvement with [...]


January 23, 2009

Community slammed for inaction in abuse case

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

Angry citizens of cartoon land have slammed Charlie Brown and his bohemian friends after details of a shocking abuse case emerged. One of Brown’s group, Pigpen, was frequently seen in school with dirty clothes, stink lines and, from time to time, flies around his head.
An investigation by social workers has revealed that Pigpen was forced [...]


January 22, 2009

Ronnie McGrew – My Dublin: Episode 12

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 a little bit in his cups.
Ronnie McGrew kills all known germs dead.

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January 20, 2009

Obama inauguration spells trouble for Dublin man

Arnold Corns
Posted by : Arnold Corns

A Dublin man was arrested in his Mount Street office today and charged with ‘lack of interest in the inauguration of a black president’.
Dermot Mannion, who works for an advertising agency, was at his desk when Gardai arrived on the scene, placed him in handcuffs and carted him down to the Pearse St station in [...]


January 19, 2009

Hitler spotted in Arnotts

Fintan Chevalier
Posted by : Fintan Chevalier
Filed under : Politics

Celebrity party animal Adolf Hitler was spotted in Arnotts of Henry St. today, apparently purchasing refill capsules for his Nespresso machine.
The German socialite, famous for his late night brawling outside local pigsties such as Renards and Ron Blacks, was accompanied by on-and-off girlfriend Eva Braun.
The two haven’t been seen in public together since 1945 which, [...]