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 [...]


February 24, 2009

Galway man to sue Google over Gmail outage

Arnold Corns
Posted by : Arnold Corns
Filed under : Tech & Web

A Galway man today filed a €47,000,000 lawsuit against Google for an outage to its Gmail service which lasted more than four hours.
Millions of users throughout the world found themselves unable to access the Gmail web page, although POP/SMTP and IMAP service functioned without a problem for the duration of what Google engineers describe as [...]


February 17, 2009

Stephen Fry wanted for murder

Arnold Corns
Posted by : Arnold Corns
Filed under : Tech & Web

Broadcaster, actor and full time Twitterer Stephen Fry is wanted by the Metropolitan Police this evening after causing the deaths of four people in South London.
Detectives believe that the shock of Fry responding to a Tweet, a short message sent via Twitter, proved too much for the unfortunate user who went by the handle of [...]


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 [...]


December 17, 2008

Security flaw in Internet Explorer kills 14 children

Fintan Chevalier
Posted by : Fintan Chevalier
Filed under : Irish News, Tech & Web

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. [...]


December 17, 2008

Libertas urges people to vote ‘no’ to Irish Blog Awards

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

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 [...]


November 28, 2008

Mumbai terrorist attacks deemed irrelevant

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

The recent terrorist attacks in the Indian city of Mumbai have shocked the world yet cultural experts have declared the events to be of ‘little importance’ and claimed they will be forgotten by history within weeks.
A team of so-called Cultural Scientists set-up by professors and academics at Trinity College in Dublin has outlined the criteria [...]


October 20, 2008

Rags to riches: Ireland’s latest dot com millionaire

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

It might seem like just an ordinary bedroom in an ordinary suburban Dublin house. It’s somewhat gloomy, a Star Wars poster on the wall, crunchy Kleenex littering the floor and the effervescent glow of the PC screen illuminating barely a quarter of the space.
But from these humble surroundings Colin Doyle, an unassuming 31 year old, [...]


October 9, 2008

Apple sub-notebook to debut on the 14th October

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

Apple nerds across the globe today were whipped into a frenzy of flubbery joy following the publication of leaked photos of the Cupertino company’s brand new notebook (pictured).
The images appeared on the web just days before Apple’s October 14th media event where Steve ‘El Savior’ Jobs is expected to reveal a hotly anticipated sub-$800 notebook.
Through [...]


October 8, 2008

419er turns out to be A-OK for Dublin man

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

A Rathfarnham man is enjoying his new found wealth today after being rewarded by the wife of a late African politician.
Sean Dempsey, a milkman, was today $12,000,000 richer when his act of kindness enabled Mrs Betswinga N’Dugu to release funds that had been held in her late husbands bank account after his death. She had [...]