There could be good news for workers at Waterford Wedgewood. The troubled crystal and crockery company has debts of €400m but oil rich Dubai has made an offer which would see not only the company move to the Middle-East, but the entire county.
The only sticking point appears to be the war between Waterford and Tipperary [...]

Taoiseach Brian Cowen will leave Ireland for Las Vegas later today in an attempt to balance the country’s books.
With a delegation that will include Minister for Finance, Brian Lenihan, and Cowen’s personal henchman and bodyguard, Mary Coughlan, the Fianna Fail leader will ‘hit the slots’ to try and win enough money to keep the country [...]

A Sutton man was last night arrested and charged with the murder of his wife. Paul McGlynn from Bayside Park was taken into custody after calling Gardai to inform them of his wife’s death.
He claimed he came home from the supermarket to find his wife being attacked by a one-armed man. He told Gardai he [...]

Sex offenders could be electronically tagged and monitored after leaving prison, under plans unveiled today.
Justice Minister Dermot Ahern said GPS (Global Positioning System) satellite technology would track offenders for six months after release. Outlining the scheme further a government spokesperson said “We believe this is something that will benefit the public. For a start each [...]

Tragedy struck Longford early this morning as a bug in Microsoft’s flagship web browser slaughtered 14 innocent school children.
The deceased 4th class students all attended the St. Mary of the Divine Spoon national school in Abbeyshrule. A post-mortem will be carried our later this afternoon, but it is believed the children perished during mid-morning break. [...]

For four years the Irish Blog Awards have been a raucous, and often nude, celebration of the best of the Irish ‘blogosphere’.
From all corners of the country bloggers of all shapes and sizes converge on Dublin to drink pints, tell jokes about UNIX and swap Wordpress upgrade tips. Secondary to this is an elaborate awards [...]

Following reports which suggested that up to 400 people were awaiting admission to hospitals across Ireland the HSE has insisted that ‘there’s nothing to worry about’.
Each of the patients is currently lying on a hospital trolley in a corridor, janitor’s closet, hallway or atrium but hospital administrators say media reaction has blown the problem out [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]