‘Unemployed To Be Referred To As Un-Self-Employed’ –Brown
PM Gordon Brown MP Newly appointed British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has given his first indications today of what the ‘new priorities’ will be in his new government. As expected, social security and welfare reform were top of the agenda as Mr Brown announced that the term ‘unemployed’ would no longer be used in official [...]
Opinion: Opposition Parties Can Best Serve Nation With Armed Seizure of GPO
Once again the Fianna Fáil/PD alliance regain their firm grip on the levers of power, thanks in no small way to another sham election, one in which the outcome was as predictable as the midsummer’s day is long. The loser parties may appear gutted at the margin of defeat but in private at least, they [...]
17 Incidents of Pickpocketing at Fianna Fáil Photo Shoot
The Fianna Fáil Parliamentary Posse A photo shoot outside Leinster House involving all 78 Fianna Fáil TDs yesterday led to 17 separate instances of pickpocketing amongst their ranks
Big Brother Race Row Over ‘Rodney King’ Reconstruction Task
Channel 4 is in trouble again with media watchdog Offcom after last night’s episode of reality TV show Big Brother saw housemates given this week’s challenge of reconstructing the infamous Rodney King beating incident of 1991. The housemates were told to decide amongst themselves who would play the police officers Laurence Powell, Timothy Wind, Theodore [...]
Higgins Announces Return to World of Gaming
Joe Higgins (left) and Adolf Hitler, as he appears in the Wolfenstein 3D computer game Dublin West – Recently unseated Socialist Party TD Joe Higgins has followed in the footsteps of now deceased Tánaiste Michael McDowell by announcing his retirement from active politics. In a letter published in the Fingal Socialist Higgins has given reasons [...]
Fianna Fáil-Green Party Talks End In Mass Street Brawl
It was a black day for Irish politics yesterday as talks between Fianna Fail and the Green Party on a possible coalition ended in a vicious fight. Several government ministers and Green Party members were hospitalised with injuries ranging from minor, to extremely serious in the case of Séamus Brennan who sustained a punctured lung. [...]
Ex-DUP Jim Allister To Join The Monster Raving Loony Party
The DUP’s European Member of Parliament Jim Allister has announced his intention to join the Monster Raving Loony Party. This move has followed his decision to quit the Democratic Unionist Party, of which he was a founding member, in protest of its acceptance last month of a power sharing deal with Sinn Féin. In a [...]
