Newspaper of the Century | The 2008 Hijinx Awards

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March 4, 2009

Private members club ‘gone to the dogs’, says owner

Arnold Corns
Posted by : Arnold Corns
Filed under : Irish News, Tech & Web

A Stoneybatter man’s private club may have to be disbanded after an error in the Golden Pages brought about some unwarranted attention.
The Dublin Groomer’s Association, operating from Dermot Happle’s basement, has been in existance since 1997, the same time at which Yahoo first launched their Java powered chat rooms. Since then it has been a [...]


March 3, 2009

Bully Not So Tough after Molestation

Tadgh Torres
Posted by : Tadgh Torres
Filed under : Irish News

A 10 year old boy’s 5 year reign of terror over classmates in a Co.Galway primary school came to an abrupt end last week after his father “Raped the living the shit out of him”
Bully, Butch Masterson, had wreaked havoc over students at St. Lukes Primary school in Tuam since enrolling there as a 5 [...]


March 2, 2009

Knowledge a tomato, says Irish captain

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

The heroic moaners of Irish sports-journalism were left chewing on their pencil-ends this week end, when Irish rugby captain broad-sided them with a dollop of semantic philosophy in a pre-match press conference. When asked his views about the upcoming game against England, O’Driscoll said:
“Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is knowing [...]


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 24, 2009

Harry Potter villain Identified as key Anglo investor

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

The strange and wondrous convention known only as ‘Irish banking’ was thrown into chaos last night with the news that ‘He-who-must-not-be-named’ was one of the key investors who borrowed hundreds of millions of euro to buy shares in the pathetic, failed, disgraceful and disgusting Anglo Irish Bank.
In response to the news, the chief financial officer [...]


February 23, 2009

‘We can’t name the Anglo 10′ says Minister

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

A Minister of State has today contended that the Government cannot identify the ten individuals involved in the €451 million transaction to purchase shares in Anglo Irish Bank.
Dick Roche, Minister for Dwarves, Midgets and Flids, said that Brian Lenihan, Minister for Finance, told him the individuals could not be named for complex financial reasons.
“He said [...]


February 17, 2009

Labour to table Dáil motion today

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

The Labour Party is to table a Dáil motion today calling on the Government to ’shut the fuck up’ for a period of not less than 3 months.
Labour leader Eamon Gilmore, along with party colleagues, drafted the motion at a secret convention in an upstairs room at Buswell’s Hotel last Saturday night. The Labour Party’s [...]


February 16, 2009

Declan Ganley interview

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

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.


February 12, 2009

Epic literary work juxtaposing Irish economy and sport back on the agenda after soccer team gives performance of the decade

Gay-Gay Phyl
Posted by : Gay-Gay Phyl
Filed under : Arts & Ents, Irish News

 
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 [...]


February 11, 2009

Extra security for Irish Blog Awards as tensions mount between Ireland’s most popular bloggers

Lancelot Clearmountain
Posted by : Lancelot Clearmountain
Filed under : Irish News, Tech & Web

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 [...]