Newspaper of the Century | The 2008 Hijinx Awards

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April 22, 2010

Volcano to shutdown M50 Northbound at Ballymount

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

In what commentators are calling an act of God, the M50 Northbound at Ballymount will be closed due to a volcanic eruption in the area. The volcano, named ‘askmebollix’, has led to 750 metric tons of nonsense being spewed into the airwaves every second as gobshites around the country add their tuppence.
Literally hundreds of people [...]


March 3, 2010

Irish eyes not smiling as emigration heartache hits a broken land once more

Posted by : moriarty
Filed under : Features, Irish News

Dun Laoghaire Harbour. The boulevard of broken dreams. A lonely Tayto packet whistles across the rain-spattered jetty, near where the group of Irish mammies are huddled in the cold, waving goodbye to their sons. One of them crushes a fag butt beneath her sodden Louboutins and turns away. She can’t look [...]


June 10, 2009

Nation bids fond fuck-off to Mary ‘Tooodle-Lou’ McDonald

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

News that festering pork-slit, Mary Lou McDonald, has crashed out of public life has been greeted with enthusiasm by anyone with two brain cells to rub together, according to initial reports on the public reaction to last Friday’s elections.
“Who the fuck is she kidding with her stupid face and her crap mullet? She has [...]


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 11, 2009

Banks play musical-deposits as funding cut for 900 special needs students

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

“Wait… WHOA! Can you guys actually see what we’re doing?!?”
Such were the words of one senior Irish Life & Permanent executive after it emerged that Anglo Irish Bank and IL&P had been playing a game of ‘give me the lend of four to six billion euro, will you?’
Anglo Irish Bank came in for further… well [...]


January 19, 2009

Blessed among bloggers blocked

Geraldine Veronica
Posted by : Geraldine Veronica
Filed under : Irish News

A major Irish blogger, whose hilarious moniker your correspondent cannot speak for fear of reprisals from her corporate overlords, has been all but silenced by major Irish companies intent on selfishly having their employees actually earn their miserable wages during the course of their working days.  Our unnamed hero, who despite the made-up nature of [...]


January 16, 2009

Sentinel Snippets – January 16th 2008

Arnold Corns
Posted by : Arnold Corns
Filed under : Snippets

The government is to distribute shares of Anglo Irish Bank amongst the public once the nationalisation is ratified in the Dail on Tuesday. Each house will be sent a booklet containing up to 50 shares, depending on how many people are resident, their Dublin postcode (if applicable) and the employment status.
Each share provides €1,256 worth [...]


January 13, 2009

Cowen says Irish economy needs Japanese kickstart

Arnold Corns
Posted by : Arnold Corns

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. [...]


December 8, 2008

Contaminated Irish pork products to return Ireland to the dark days

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

Ireland was thrown into chaos this weekend as pork products were banned from shelves across the country. The ban came as test results revealed the presence of harmful dioxin-like PCBs in the meat.
Without wishing to scaremonger at this difficult time the Irish Sentinel can only come to one conclusion: Ireland is [...]


December 1, 2008

Vintners to freeze drink prices. Not everyone fooled.

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

It’s good news for lushes, sots, drunkards, rummies, barflies and alcos across Ireland as publicans have announced a one year price freeze.
The gloomy economic outlook, rising unemployment, and more people opting to drink at home has put pressure on the industry to get revellers back in to bars. The Licenced Vintners Federation (LVF) and the [...]