Pharmacists in Dublin reported a 3-fold increase in over-the-counter sales of morning-after pills following last weekend’s Vigil4Life. Following the event at Merrion Square, where downwards of 14,000 suffered the ignominy of being preached at by a variety of lunatics ranging from the Jesus-fetishists to Sean Quinn supporters, many took advantage of being off the leash in the big smoke and hit the tiles. rabble spoke to Mossy ‘Sarge’ McDonagh, bar … Read More
Don’t Blow into the Bag
While Danny Healy-Rae was getting Ireland the kind of headlines we haven’t seen since Cowen’s departure, we thought we’d check the stats to see how many deaths weren’t quite enough for our mumbling asshat councillor-come-publican. Thanks to the people at the Road Safety Authority for the following statistics on Road Deaths in Kerry. 2004-2006 saw an average of 15 road deaths per year, 2008 saw a high of 19 deaths … Read More
Bertie’s U-Turn
The little bollix is up to his tricks again. Not content with eating cereal in the cupboard and keeping his cash in a suitcase, Bertie has decided to roll back on his promise to refuse the pension after helping to banjax the country. Along with his mates in the tent cabinet at the time of the brown envelopes Celtic Tiger and the subsequent crash, Bertie was expected to hand back … Read More
Bollotricks
They called for us all to put on the Green Jerseys, but when they got the call the only green we saw was the fat wads they stuffed in their wallets. Scratch Dat Itch explores the fine art of being two faced… You are the forgotten generation whose future was snatched in front of your eyes. Whilst you now shiver in the cold of uncertainty breaking down the doors to … Read More
Santa’s in Jail
Santa Claus was at the capitol building in Austin Texas on Friday afternoon. Surrounded by children he asked them what they wished for Christmas. The boys and girls wrote Love, Peace & Community with chalk on the ground. Then police arrested Santa. He was charged with ‘chalking the sidewalk’, another man wrote ‘Free Santa’ on the sidewalk so they arrested him also. Occupy Austin members have been arrested previously for … Read More
Beep Beep! Privilege coming through!
Senator Fidelma Healy Eames of Fine Gael has been fined €1,850 for failing to tax her massive Merc. She wasn’t in court so her Solicitor told the judge she was ‘contrite’. It’s not the first and we guess it won’t be the last time we’ll hear of Eames in the press. She’s famous for other controversies including a row with a train ticket inspector after she failed to produce … Read More
Starbucks Seasonal PR Backfire
Send them an end of year “pay your bleeding taxes…” We covered Starbucks scurrilous tax avoidance in Ireland and the UK a wee while ago. They’ve only paid €35,000 in taxes here since 2005, while paying €5.7m in royalty and licensing fees to its parent company. Amazing figures really and says an awful lot about the amount of profit being sucked out of the country – nothing illegal about it at all. … Read More
Bleeding the Patient: A Drama
Panning for gold in the economic blog wilderness. A comment on a blog post on IrishEconomy.ie has been picked up by Paul Krugman of the New York Times. The post, written by Gavin Kostick of Fishamble, was in reply to a linked PDF on EU Austerity economics. It’s written as script. Bleeding the Patient: A Drama. Gavin Kostick Says: December 14th, 2012 at 9:27 am Re Box 6 [Scene: A … Read More
Labour Chairman 404
The Labour JobBridgers are quick off the mark it seems. Within half an hour of Labour Chairperson Colm Keaveney voting against his party’s Budget, his signature page has been pulled from the site and all mention of him in Parliamentary Party webpages have also been removed. Good work guys. Transparency in politics. Update: The page has reappeared although there is no reference to Keaveney as Chairperson
Wake Up & Smell the Roses
Deputy Luke Ming Flanagan reads from a letter he received from a priest speaking of the wilderness that carers find themselves in. The ebullient Mattie McGrath follows him with some apocalyptic imagery for the Taoiseach. Hat-tip to Oireachtas Retort via twitter If readers ever feel like a good dose of comedy we recommend the Oireachtas Live link here