Let’s have a round of applause, and a cinder block on the fingers, for Alecia Keys, who came up with the idea of raising money for charity by asking you to pay to see celebrity tweets and Facebook updates. On the face of it, this sounds like real progress – less Lady Gaga, more money [...]

The Internet was last night preparing itself for an epic battle of halfwits as two of the web’s biggest sites went to war. Tech analysts are suggesting the scrap between YouTube’s comments and Chatroulette could be the most ‘depraved and utterly cretinous’ in history.
For years YouTube comments have held the honorary title of ‘Most retarded [...]

Social media experts up and down the country today rejoiced at the launch of Google’s new social media product ‘Buzz’.
“We’ve had a mare of a Q1 so far” said Adele Staunton of leading Irish digital media agency Vapidit.ie
“Our portfolio of expertise was waning there for a short while. People had begun to unlock the deep, [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

The Irish Sentinel can blow its own trumpet this morning, and not in the biblical sense, as we unveil the first pictures of Apple’s eagerly anticipated new device.
Nicknamed the iSlate it is set to revolutionise communication, networking and and e-reading. Some of the features of the new device include:

Ecological and environmentally friendly ‘chalk’ with which [...]

A number of violent episodes followed in the wake of the boards.ie hack last week. Intrepid forum moderators had no choice but to manifest their Hitler complexes in the so-called ‘physical’ world.
“I moderate my forum on boards with an iron fist. Nobody, and I mean NOBODY, fucks with me and gets away it.”
The words of [...]

The people of Haiti were today celebrating the first miracle of the new decade as a mass status change on Facebook instantaneously solved all the problems caused by last week’s devastating earthquake.
As shocked and badly wounded Haitians looked on in wonder, buildings reassembled themselves and rose skywards, services such as water and electricity began to [...]

The Irish Sentinel is pleased to announce its return after a months of recuperation and rehabiliation after a satire overdose. The state of the nation saw Sentinel writers produce, but never publish, over 475,057 articles for the month of May alone.
Madness and canibalism ensued, however, normal-ish service will be resumed over the coming weeks.
Thank you,
The [...]