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January 27, 2010

It’s a big fucking iPhone. Seriously, what were you expecting?

Fintan Chevalier
Posted by : Fintan Chevalier
Filed under : Business, Tech & Web

I’ll keep this brief.  We’re big fans of Apple hardware here in Sentinel Towers. Corns uses a Macbook Pro to organise cannibal deathmatches in Liberia. I myself cruise the information pornohighway from time-to-time using one, but never without a microwaved pomelo close by. We have faith in Apple’s ability to produce a great operating system [...]


January 19, 2010

Criminals beg for an end to Williams dispute

Arnold Corns
Posted by : Arnold Corns
Filed under : Business, Irish News, Media

Ireland’s top criminals held a secret meeting in a Baldoyle warehouse this weekend to to discuss the ongoing dispute between crime journalist Paul Williams and the Sunday World.
Despite fulfilling his contract the Sunday World has tried to prevent Williams from taking up a job offer from the News of the World, going so far as [...]


March 18, 2009

Dara O’Briain joins Big Tobacco to get teens smoking early

Gay-Gay Phyl
Posted by : Gay-Gay Phyl
Filed under : Business, Irish News

Flushed with the success of his radio ads encouraging people to spend every waking hour in the pub – responsibly – funny bald man, Dara O’Briain is set to take his lovable delivery into the awkward hearts and minds of thirteen-year-olds all over Ireland.
 “For Big Tobacco to stay profitable we need to start 500 teens [...]


March 12, 2009

Ryanair to charge for emotional baggage

Gay-Gay Phyl
Posted by : Gay-Gay Phyl
Filed under : Business, Irish News

Michael O’Leary has grabbed headlines again with his latest move now being a surcharge on prolonged, psychological unhappiness.
“We trade in misery at Ryanair, and no-one is going to come on one of my planes and stew in their own juices without paying me for the pleasure.”
The new charges will see recently broken-up people pay and [...]


February 27, 2009

Ryanair to start charging for toilets

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

In a move which has disgusted satirists the world over Ryanair has hinted it might charge people to use toilets on their flights.
Biting, humourous websites across the UK and Ireland slumped against their keyboards, some openly weeping.
“This is awful”, said an unnamed Daily Mash source. “I mean, coin slot airplane toilets from the cheapest airline [...]


February 11, 2009

Banks play musical-deposits as funding cut for 900 special needs students

Gay-Gay Phyl
Posted by : Gay-Gay Phyl
Filed under : Business, Irish News

“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 [...]


February 10, 2009

Diageo uses focus groups to measure ability to laugh at itself

Gay-Gay Phyl
Posted by : Gay-Gay Phyl
Filed under : Business, Irish News

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 [...]


November 24, 2008

Aldi to sell Bank of Ireland shares

Arnold Corns
Posted by : Arnold Corns
Filed under : Business

Discount supermarket Aldi has emerged as a major stockmarket player having taken advantage of last week’s crash in Bank of Ireland shares.
From a yearly high of €18 shares fell to just €0.85c and millions were lost from stock and pension portfolios. This morning a sharp rise in the bank’s shares was reported on the ISEQ [...]