Newspaper of the Century | The 2008 Hijinx Awards

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Lady Gaga to quit social media. For charity. Not for real. For charity. Not how you think. For charity.: 21st century attention seeking. - Let’s have a round of applause, and a... This is living. This is the Living Room. : One of the great challenges facing the government during the votes on... Government to take a stand, following market research : Political anoraks all over the nation can’t stop talking about the... Volcano to shutdown M50 Northbound at Ballymount: In what commentators are calling an act of God, the M50 Northbound at... Global warming re-launched as ‘Good Weather’: Billions of earthlings had their loads lightened this morning with news...
July 29, 2009

Cancer totally kicking ass in 2009

Gay-Gay Phyl
Posted by : Gay-Gay Phyl
Filed under : World News

The world’s most deadly condition received broad applause yesterday following news that cancer had taken another major motherfucker out. Fresh off the back of some sterling work that spared us a middle-aged, televised Jade Goody, the literate world today rejoiced with the news that King Dong Ill is checking the fuck out thanks to pancreatic [...]


April 6, 2009

Budget to receive cool welcome, much like visit of uncle who holidays a lot in Thailand with his pals, while leaving wife and kids at home

Gay-Gay Phyl
Posted by : Gay-Gay Phyl
Filed under : Irish News, Politics

It may be doom and gloom for economies, but one silver lining this Spring is the booming business of fiscal metaphors. Once the sole province of David ‘pass the cocaine’ McWilliams, this intellectual space is now swarmed by every balding, right-wing, conservative-religious commentator the midlands can cough up. 
On Wednesday, Bruce Arnold of the Irish Indepedent [...]


September 25, 2008

Eddie Hobbs enjoying nation’s plunge into recession

Arnold Corns
Posted by : Arnold Corns
Filed under : Irish News

Irish celebrity account Eddie Hobbs has reacted with glee to the news that the country is officially in a recession for the first time since 1983.
The star of TV hits such as ‘Show me the money’, ‘Spend it like Beckham’, ‘Eddie’s Euro Vision’ and ‘Eddie does Dallas’ today held a press conference in Captain America’s [...]


September 24, 2008

Left Out in the Poled

Tadgh Torres
Posted by : Tadgh Torres
Filed under : Irish News

Thousands of Polish nationals have expressed their disgust as the influx of foreign nationals into the country coupled with the downturn in the Irish economy has seen many of them lose their jobs.  With the slowdown in the housing market many building contractors are looking to cut costs and have pinpointed the large number of Poles working [...]