[‘800’ by Annie West]
Let’s all be dismayed and aghast,
At what happened back in the “dark past”,
It may be the worst,
But it isn’t the first,
So for now let’s pretend it’s the last.
John Moynes
Author Archives: John Moynes
Outside Leinster House, Kildare Street, Dublin this lunchtime.
Migrant Rights Centre tweetz:
“Thanks to [Labour’s] Aodhan O’Riordain (top) for accepting the Paris Bakery {Moore Street, Dublin] workers’ letter to the Taoiseach and promising to support them.”
Update:
Sinn Fein president Gerry Adams and Vice president Mary Lou McDonald join the protest.
(Sam Boal/Photocall ireland)
[The President of Mozambique, Armando Emilio Guebuza at Aras an Uachtarain yesterday with President Higgins and defiant students from Our Lady’s Well, Mulhuddart National School]
I’m not sure that we chose the best week,
To receive a guest from Mozambique,
With so much going wrong,
We can’t claim that we’re strong,
And not on a long losing streak.
John Moynes
(Mark Stedman/Photocall Ireland)
[Lucinda Creighton]
A brand new political swarm,
Will soon take the country by storm,
They’re bound to delight,
The Catholic Right,
And they’ll call this reaction “reform”.
John Moynes
(Laura Hutton/Photocall Ireland)
This morning our planes will be found,
At rest with their wheels on the ground,
As the crew go on strike,
Not for a pay hike,
But for rosters that are safe and sound.
John Moynes
(Leon Farrell/Photocall ireland)
The credit crunch didn’t preclude,
The Irish from eating their food,
So don’t ask a celt,
To tighten his belt,
He can’t, and he might think you’re rude.
John Moynes
(Mark Stedman/Photocall Ireland)
Celebrity journalists fear,
They’re missing the news of year,
They’re all worried sick,
That they won’t get a pic,
Of America’s most famous rear.
John Moynes
(AP)
We’re gathered together today,
To mutter and backstab and pray,
Once we’ve finished blamin‘
The whole thing on Éamon,
We’ll pretend everything is okay.
John Moynes
So everything’s going awry,
For the CIA’s top Afghan guy,
With his own staff to blame,
For leaking his name,
He’ll now find it tricky to spy.
John Moynes
(Reuters)
They’ve found a bug called Tinkerbell,
And big cuddly bear cat as well,
But most forms of life,
Face hardship and strife,
And too many still hear the death knell.
John Moynes
(AP)