Satire
# satire - Saturday 18 May, 2013
Only losers take the bus, right Leo?: The week’s news skewed
Breaking via The Mire wire: The Gathering at the Dáil; Cabinet clones; Alan Shatter knows what you did last summer.
# satire - Saturday 11 May, 2013
Fine Gael TDs on Twitter and free GP care : The week’s news skewed
Breaking via The Mire wire: Leinster House goes wild photocopying arses, free GP care for healthy citizens, and FG TDs insult each other for Twitter practice.
# satire - Saturday 27 April, 2013
James Reilly, circuses: The week’s news skewed
Breaking via The Mire wire: “I was delighted when I heard we were getting a new political party,” a man on a bus in Rialto said. “Then I heard there were TDs in it.”
# satire - Saturday 13 April, 2013
Here is the week’s news… skewed
Breaking via The Mire wire: How Ireland has some of the fittest fat kids in the world and why the axing of Communion grants is ‘worse than the famine’.
# satire - Saturday 6 April, 2013
Here is the week’s news… skewed
Breaking via The Mire wire: Kim Jong-Un clings on to his place in the Dáil Technical Group, pointing Phil Hogan at North Korea and Ireland nominated by troika for fantasy government awards.
# satire - Saturday 23 March, 2013
Here is the week’s news… skewed
Breaking via The Mire wire: RTE stars confused by Pope’s message of humility, and Office of Public Works ‘may never know’ the source of the Cork floods.
# satire - Saturday 2 March, 2013
Here is the week’s news… skewed
Breaking via The Mire wire: SIPTU president wins Oscar; hopes rise of a politicians’ strike; Pope quits over Croke Park II; Lift chaos leads to primary care centre.
# satire - Saturday 23 February, 2013
Here is the week’s news… skewed
Breaking via The Mire wire: Gerry’s teddy all the talk in toy town; today’s marginalised looking forward to a State apology in 2063; cé hé Micheál Martin?
# satire - Saturday 16 February, 2013
Here is the week’s news… skewed
Breaking via The Mire wire: Donkey meat disgusts horse meat eaters; Pat Rabbitte’s Valentine to himself; retirement advice from an ex-Pope.
# satire - Saturday 9 February, 2013
Here is the week’s news… skewed
Breaking via The Mire wire: Burgers first past the post; Labour reminds us, ‘I woz ere’; all back to Coppers after bank debt deal.
# satire - Saturday 26 January, 2013
Here is the week’s news… skewed
Breaking via The Mire wire: Obesity helping the recliner chair-smuggling business; rural drinking a lifeline for rural Garda stations; GAA jealous of soccer ball boy phenomenon.
# satire - Saturday 22 December, 2012
Here is the week’s news… skewed
Breaking via The Mire wire: Government apologises to Angela Merkel for Mayan apocalypse insult and the IMF’s seasonal message of good will to all. No, really.
# satire - Saturday 8 December, 2012
Here is the week’s news… skewed
Breaking via The Mire wire: Wine replaces the euro as common currency; Budget enshrines right to die in poverty and exclusive details of the Love/Hate Christmas special.
# satire - Saturday 1 December, 2012
Here is the week’s news… skewed
Breaking via The Mire wire: 103% of adults fluent in Irish; evidence of a parliament found in Leinster House; rainwater is tax-free… for now.
# satire - Wednesday 28 November, 2012
Chinese paper deletes story after falling for ‘The Onion’ spoof
…even though Kim Jong-Un WAS named as the satirical paper’s Sexiest Man Alive for 2012.
# satire - Saturday 24 November, 2012
Here is the week’s news… skewed
Breaking via The Mire wire: Gardaí lack resources to monitor Love/Hate characters; HSE inquiry to proceed without actually inquiring; and student grants delayed until after emigration.
# satire - Saturday 10 November, 2012
Here is the week’s news… skewed
Breaking via The Mire wire: A Gathering storm; Al-Quinnada; and Mitt Romney’s Irish cousin?
# satire - Wednesday 7 November, 2012
VIDEO: South Park takes on doping… and charity bracelets*
The best satire on TV had its say on the biggest issue in sport this week. *May contain spoilers and/or sacrilege.
# satire - Saturday 3 November, 2012
Here is the week’s news… skewed
Breaking via The Mire wire: Making it easier to get an Irish Heritage certificate; criminals too busy wetting themselves at Garda Segways to commit crimes; Richie Boucher catches Bond producers’ eye.
# satire - Sunday 21 October, 2012
Here are our 5 favourite fake football stories of the week
Roy Keane and Mick McCarthy to release a charity single, and other fantastical tales.
# satire - Saturday 6 October, 2012
Here is the week’s news… skewed
Breaking via The Mire wire: Children’s hospital site for Balbriggan? TDs to stay home to cut costs? Chinese takeaways off menu for athletes?
# satire - Sunday 30 September, 2012
Iran’s news agency: Sorry we mistook a story from The Onion for real news
Iran’s state news agency ran a story about an opinion poll which found Mahmoud Ahmadinjad was more popular than Barack Obama. Only problem? It was from The Onion.
# satire - Saturday 22 September, 2012
Here is the week’s news… skewed
Breaking via The Mire wire: James Reilly wins international comedy award; mystery as man found in Dublin “without a care in the world”; Rosanna’s breasts issue complaint.
# satire - Saturday 15 September, 2012
Here is the week’s news… skewed
Breaking via The Mire wire: Will Rory McIlroy attend The Gathering? And round 2 of Michael Noonan versus the IMF…
# satire - Saturday 8 September, 2012
Here is the week’s news… skewed
Breaking via The Mire wire: Litter-picking fun for tourists; injuring oneself to get away from James Reilly; one-way free travel?
# satire - Saturday 25 August, 2012
Here is the week’s news… skewed
BREAKING via The Mire wire: Burglars thank Department of Justice for not replacing Garda squad cars and a Rose goes rogue…
# satire - Saturday 18 August, 2012
Here is the week’s news… skewed
BREAKING via The Mire wire: The GAA dismisses reports of vajazzling – and the Mars Curiosity rover faces a hostile reaction from the natives.
# satire - Thursday 16 August, 2012
Video: NASA is sexy and they know it
NASA’s Curiosity mission + LMFAO’s Sexy and I Know It = inevitable parody video.
# satire - Saturday 11 August, 2012
Here is the week’s news… skewed
BREAKING via The Mire wire: The underground sect which has never been exposed to Craig Doyle – and would you trust NAMA to mind your children?
# satire - Saturday 4 August, 2012
Here is the week’s news… skewed
BREAKING via The Mire wire: Why wasn’t Seán Quinn honoured at Olympics opening ceremony? Will Shell truck rescue create 13,000 jobs?
# satire - Saturday 28 July, 2012
Here is the week’s news… skewed
BREAKING via The Mire wire: New study highlights the upside to childhood obesity – and how commuters are killing the buzz for junkies taking drugs in public.
# satire - Saturday 21 July, 2012
Here is the week’s news… skewed
BREAKING via The Mire wire: Students to be means tested by their teachers – and how the poor are leading by example when it comes to austerity.
# satire - Saturday 14 July, 2012
Here is the week’s news… skewed
BREAKING via The Mire wire: Reilly for Finance Minister? Too warm a welcome for RTÉ’s new MD of news?
# satire - Saturday 7 July, 2012
Here is the week’s news… skewed
BREAKING via The Mire wire: Buying the God particle; elderly targeting the elderly; Ireland’s first efficient bank?
# satire - Saturday 30 June, 2012
Here is the week’s news… skewed
BREAKING via The Mire wire: The Government stands up to itself over the Croke Park Agreement; household charge to be used for floods; and new e-voting machines on the way…
# satire - Saturday 23 June, 2012
Here is the week’s news… skewed
BREAKING via The Mire wire: A “no loaves, no fishes” Eucharistic Congress; TDs free to terrorise old constituencies…
# satire - Saturday 16 June, 2012
The week in news… skewed
BREAKING via The Mire wire: Ireland let Spain and Italy down at Euro 2012 and why the Lotto’s not worth winning on the dole…
# satire - Saturday 9 June, 2012
Here is the week’s news… skewed
BREAKING via The Mire wire: Mick Wallace saves the country €2.1 million; Irish Catholics get religious guidance from Fr Ted re-runs; and Finance officials no longer allowed to do sums…
# satire - Friday 8 June, 2012
The Magnificent Seven: Aprés Match skits
With the popular RTÉ clip show returning for the Euros, we thought we’d revisit some of our favourite clips.
# satire - Saturday 2 June, 2012
Here is the week’s news… skewed
BREAKING via The Mire wire: Cars caught driving at the speed limit; unemployed told not to pull sickies during Euro2012; sunshine emergency…
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