Taoiseach Brian Cowen has said there are no immediate plans to increase the existing retirement age for either public or private sector workers.
However, as Cowen is about a trustworthy as Gary Glitter in a room full of pre-pubscent Asian girls, reports are leaking from Leinster House than an announcement is imminent. The Irish [...]

There were angry scenes in Dail Eireann this afternoon as the opposition labelled the government ‘a bit shit, really’ in the light of new unemployment statistics.
The latest live register figures show that almost every single person in Ireland is now unemployed but Taoiseach Brian Cowen said the country was being ‘led in the right direction’. [...]

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 [...]

With huge public spending cuts expected to be announced by the government, fans of monkeys will be unhappy to hear that Brian Cowen is introducing new legislation which will prevent people from owning more than one monkey at a time.
He is also set to introduce a monkey tax which is based on the monkey’s usefulness [...]

On the first day of his official visit to Japan Taoiseach Brian Cowen has denied any falling out with Minister for Finance, Brian Lenihan, and said Ireland needs to look at Japan in order to get the economy going on.
On rumours of a dispute between himself and Minister Lenihan he said “There’s nothing to it. [...]

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 [...]