New year’s eve - a time when many people commit suicide. For those who aren’t such cowardly pussies it’s a chance to put a bad year behind them and start again.
However, folk who have suffered throughout 2008 and are hoping the new one will be better will be dismayed by reports from New Zealand which [...]

There was further condemnation of Israel last night as armed forces launched another savage attack on the Gaza strip.
The missile bombardment, described as ‘retaliatory’ by Israel’s foreign minister Yitzak Kilarab, came in response to a Palestinian attack on a Jewish family’s house in Lennox Street, Dublin 8.
In the early hours of last night a Palestinian [...]

Millions of children across the world are facing a bleak Christmas after it was revealed than Santa Claus is unlikely to make his deliveries this evening.
Reports suggest that he travelled from the North Pole last night and checked into the Priory clinic in what onlookers described as a ‘tired and emotional’ state.
Santa’s PR agent, Max [...]

There were frightening scenes in Manchester this weekend as a real life monster prowled the streets and terrorised passers-by.
Reports were made to police at around 1.30am as revellers in the Princess Street area were faced with the hideous beast. It is thought that the zombie, who had already feasted on the blood and brains of [...]

The mother of Shannon Matthews, whose 24-day disappearance sparked a massive police hunt and media campaign, faces a ’substantial’ jail sentence after being found guilty yesterday of kidnapping her daughter.
Karen Matthews hatched a plan with Shannon’s uncle, Michael Donovan, to keep the child hidden and get rich off the money donated by the public and [...]

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 [...]

Somali pirates yesterday furthered their reputation as the world’s most fearsome buccaneers as they hijacked the space shuttle Atlantis.
NASA chiefs were left red-faced when the rag-taggle bunch of raiders, armed only with cutlasses, scimitars and fishing nets clambered up the scaffolding just moments before take off. It is believed they stashed the crew in one [...]

Barrack Obama, in a move aimed at cementing his bipartisan credentials, appears set to make a number of unusual appointments to his cabinet team. Already widely expected to offer Democrat rival Hillary Clinton the Secretary of State role, the President-Elect is going one step further, reaching out to Frank Philpott, a kid who used to [...]

There was further condemnation of Haringay Council in North London today. After seeing Baby P die despite receiving over 60 social worker and hospital visits there have been calls for heads to roll after staff completely missed the fact that a mother ate her own baby.
The incident happened in August of this year. Social workers [...]

With no end in sight to the fighting in the war-torn Democratic Republic of Congo, Trócaire has launched a campaign of awareness in the hope that donations can be increased to help the hundreds of thousands starving and dying in the troubled African country.
The violence increased last August when rebel alliance leader Laurent Nkunda sent [...]