Councilors and gardaí in Mayo are calling on people to give up bad driving for Lent. Mayo County Council has said that instead of giving up chocolate, beer or hanging around the swimming pool taking surreptitious camera phone photos of pre-pubescent girls in swimsuits, motorists should stop speeding, tail-gating and using phones while driving.
The gardai [...]

After a week-long radio campaign against Head Shops, which saw a legitimate business burned to the ground, RTE insiders have declared the exercise a ‘100% success’ and revealed it to be a test case through which social change can be made.
A source told the Irish Sentinel last night “The Head Shops thing was just the [...]

Ruler of the tiny kingdom of Smurf Village, Papa Smurf, has been subjected to racial abuse, both physical and verbal, whilst visitng the Co. Meath town of Athboy.  Smurf, who is 165 years old this March, currently visiting Athboy as part of the Town Twinning Process was said to ‘visibly smurfed’ at his treatment by [...]

Under-pressure Fine Gael leader Enda Kenny today secured the backing of his party after the fall-out from the resignation of high profile TD, George Lee.
Serious questions had been raised about Kenny’s ability to continue as leader but after a meeting at Fine Gael HQ this afternoon senior party members came out in support.
“Enda Kenny [...]

Some of the leading figures from the online world are arriving in Ireland to take part in the Dublin Web Summit, which gets under way later today.
More than 400 people are expected to attend the event at Trinity College this evening. Across Ireland web enthusiasts are frantically freeing up enough space on [...]

There were angry scenes in Dail Eireann this afternoon as the opposition labelled the government ‘a bit shit, really’ in the light of new unemployment statistics.
The latest live register figures show that almost every single person in Ireland is now unemployed but Taoiseach Brian Cowen said the country was being ‘led in the right direction’. [...]

Things might be bad in the public sector, but spare a thought for the assholes whose job it is to vomit nauseating slogans into your mind – advertisers. Things are so bad that new outdoor ad stealth-megalith, Bravo Advertising, has taken to advertising itself.
Advertising about advertising – normally the preserve of dreadfully sub-standard national broadcaster [...]

The Irish media is abuzz with the news that an anonymous blogger has paid an anonymous celebrity an undisclosed settlement in a libel case.
Details are sketchy at the moment but The Irish Sentinel can exclusively reveal the nuts and bolts of the case without naming names. It stems from a blog post made in the [...]

In light of criticism of the new speed limits arbitrarily applied to Dublin’s streets, Dublin City Council have responded and informed The Irish Sentinel that is just the first in a series of measures to save the lives of Dubliners killed in our capital each year.
“To say some random councillor just thought this up and [...]

Ben Dunne was last night celebrating his new title of King of Irish Advertising having scooped top prize at the National Radio Advertising Awards.
The ceremony is held every year to acknowledge the best in radio advertising and for producers, recording studio employees, voice over artists and advertising industry folks to get pissed, tell each how [...]