The Irish Sentinel has secured a full length, n0-holds barred interview with Declan Ganley which we bring to you now.

Also, coming up this week, a Blog Awards special in which we preview all the candidates for all the awards in all the categories. New columnist John Waters is working on the copy as we speak.

England’s most famous racist water-buffalo, Jade Goody looks set to lose her battle against cancer anytime now, in what the majority of poll respondents agree is ‘no great loss’.
A spokesman for cancer said: “Of course she’s going to lose her battle against cancer. No one beats cancer. The US army and Diego Maradona don’t beat [...]

Ronnie McGrew appears every Thursday on the Irish Sentinel to talk about the town he loves so well. This week, after a cold snap in Dublin, he remembers inclement conditions in times gone by.
Ronnie McGrew was shot in the leg during a gig in Carlow and had a replacement knee made entirely of pewter fitted [...]

 
The world of Irish publishing is bracing itself for a wave of deeply symbolic, allegorical fiction that will contrast the collapse of the Irish economy with the meteoric rise of Irish sport in the past week. It remains unclear, however, why things rise meteorically, when in reality such projectiles are characterised by a spectacluar and [...]

Two of Ireland’s most prominent bloggers have escalated their war of words as they both reach the finals of the blog awards. Nice Guy and Fucking Zeitgeist Abuse Guy have grown their respective community of supporters rapidly over the past year and both have a rating of 9.1 and 9.3 sychophants per blog post as we go into [...]

“Wait… WHOA! Can you guys actually see what we’re doing?!?”
Such were the words of one senior Irish Life & Permanent executive after it emerged that Anglo Irish Bank and IL&P had been playing a game of ‘give me the lend of four to six billion euro, will you?’
Anglo Irish Bank came in for further… well [...]

Authors and playwrights are up in arms at the latest stand-out performance of the Irish rugby team. The team lifted the spirits of the nation last Saturday with a dazzling display, but delusional writers all over the country who have yet to drown in their own conceits are dismayed at the possible grand-slam.
“Everything was perfect,” [...]

Humourless booze behemoth, Diageo has countered accusations of taking itself FAR too seriously by focus-grouping it’s own staff to find out ‘what it means to be funny at the expense of the parent company’. Rebecca Grave, head of the Internal Funnies Department at St. James’s Gate said:
“We take fun seriously at Diageo. Using a mixture [...]

Two titans of the broadcasting world got their mic leads in a tangle when it emerged that veteran-veteran Henry Kelly warned Gerry Ryan that he was playing a ‘dangerous game’ by refusing to take a pay cut, like most of RTE’s big hitters. Gerry Ryan responded by saying that Henry Kelly’s Going For Gold  was [...]

The Immigrant Council of Ireland has hit out at politicians calling for a crackdown on immigration in response to the economic crisis.
The council says it is particularly concerned about calls for a tightening of work-permit rules in light of spiralling unemployment across the country.
But politicians have hit back saying they’re only looking out for the [...]