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01 February 2010

Dublin road deaths

Speed limits lowered to just 30kph (18mph) in Dublin city centre in order to “save lives”.


17 January 2010

Haitian earthquake is punishment

Says right wing evangelical Christian Pat Robertson? So what’s new about that. More interestingly, liberals think it’s punishment too.


10 January 2010

Oh no! Snow!

Snow! The snowpocalypse! And salt will destroy the water table! And sand will cause flooding!


11 December 2009

Salty language in the chamber?

forth’s message to Dáil Éireann: fuck the lot of you.


07 December 2009

Cross-border shopping trips emit tonnes of carbon

It’s not just unpatriotic, it’s KILLING PEOPLE


28 November 2009

English literary critic says Ireland is doomed

C’mon Eagleton, knock it off


22 November 2009

Flood! Pestilence! Government blather!

Floods will cause a swine flu epidemic. Apparently.


12 November 2009

Hobbs’s (lack of) choice

The end is nigh! – Eddie Hobbs


11 November 2009

The end of the world (again)

World faces catastrophe unless energy use changes, sayeth the Irish Examiner


03 November 2009

Ireland will survive climate change: Lovelock

But then we’ll have to deal with nasty immigrants! The horror!


An apology

‘We wuz right’


28 October 2009

Shopping is not a political issue

Go North, young man!


19 October 2009

The plague

The flu really will kill us all this time. Really. Honestly. Well, maybe next time.


17 October 2009

Consuming TV will destroy the planet

Hollywood seeks to ban large screens.


16 October 2009

Oops, they’re at it again

Dissident republican bomb threats – yawn.

Updated: 12.06 PM