Taoiseach Brian Cowen will leave Ireland for Las Vegas later today in an attempt to balance the country’s books.
With a delegation that will include Minister for Finance, Brian Lenihan, and Cowen’s personal henchman and bodyguard, Mary Coughlan, the Fianna Fail leader will ‘hit the slots’ to try and win enough money to keep the country [...]

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 [...]

Taoiseach Brian Cowen has had recent discussions with the social partners about the new national pay deal, in the context of further economic decline.
With latest exchequer figures showing Ireland has a greater deficit than Rafael Benitez’s transfer dealings at Liverpool, emergency measures were needed. The agreed 6% increase has been widely criticised as too generous [...]

Thousands of teachers descended on the Taoiseach’s constituency over the weekend to deliver an angry message to Brian Cowen over Budget cutbacks in education.
Up to 4,000 primary and secondary school teachers and parents stormed O’Connor Square in Tullamore, Co Offaly, roaring slogans to show their anger at Fianna Fail.
President of the Irish National Learners Alliance [...]

According to the latest opinion poll, Fianna Fáil popularity amongst the Irish public is at an all-time low. In a fancy Pacman shaped pie-chart in today’s Irish Times, Fine Gael lead the poll with 34%, while Cowen and the Fianna Fáil rat circus languish in the doldrums with a paltry 2%. This places the [...]

With the budget looming the government has decided a new approach is needed to reassure citizens that they know what they’re doing.
Nicknamed ‘Honesty First’ it is expected that ministers from all departments, and even the Taoiseach, will admit to errors in order to let people know they can fix them. “How can anybody have any [...]

The Dail resumed after its summer break today and the opposition were quick to round on the government for the state of the economy.
Leading the charge was Labour leader Eamonn Gilmore who accused Taoiseach Brian Cowen of doing nothing and claimed that 146,000 people had lost their jobs since he took over as leader of [...]

The Irish Sentinel has today learned that over 1,400 provisionally licensed drivers are to be disciplined following recent changes to the motoring laws.
Most of the offenders had reportedly failed to properly display L-plates or had been using their vehicles unaccompanied by a fully-licensed driver.
As a result, the offenders are to be taken to a purpose [...]