Bock The Robber

Did you see this guy’s video on the news? He was as mad as a bag of spanners. A fruit. A complete nutcase. I’ve been listening to the coverage since [...]

I’ve just watched Pat Kenny interviewing Bill O’Reilly, and I have to admit it isn’t really clear to me what just happened. Was that the finest piece of satire ever [...]

The media behaved disgracefully towards poor Tania Corcoran, who died giving birth to twins as did one of the babies. There was absolutely no reason to report that Tania was [...]

What about the good old Broadcasting Commission of Ireland, huh? Now there’s a fearless watchdog working to keep Ireland a better place, wouldn’t you think? I was especially taken by [...]

Oh, they’re all there. Fústar and Grandad, Skinner, Sweary, Twenty and Mulley. The whole lot of them, all there together in the Irish Times. And how comfortable they look, lounging [...]

Did I hear that right on the news? Did they really say that the guy convicted of money laundering had the cash in a box of washing powder? Please tell [...]

I nearly forgot to mention this little episode, consumed as I was with the Croke Park thing at the weekend. On Sunday morning before we headed off to Mulligan’s, Wrinkly [...]

Tonight I was listening to Newstalk when a report came on about the latest executions in Iraq. The report said that the Iraqis had hanged two men, and had accidentally [...]

Wrinkly Paddy points out that a small fire in a large apartment block merited headline news on our national broadcaster, RTE. Parochial? Ah, go on, then. Yeah!

That Ipswich thing has to be disturbing, don’t you think? Murders of five girls by a sad, disturbed fucker. Or even two sad, disturbed fuckers. Is there a stipulation in [...]