Author Archives: John Moynes

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau won a second term in Canada’s national elections yesterday despite having been weakened by a series of scandals that tarnished his image as a liberal icon.

For weeks now I’ve wanted to know
What would happen to Justin Trudeau
Would a taste for black face
Cost the PM the race?
But they’ve given him another go

John Moynes

AP

A legal battle over an orthographic squiggle has ended in victory for a couple granted the right to write their infant son’s Breton first name as Fañch instead of Fanch.

It’s always a terrible shame
If you can’t give a child the right name
But French courts say it’s fine
To use a squiggly line
Without breaking the rules of the game

John Moynes

AFP

The American National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) ‘ignored’ signs of life on Mars in 1970s, according to a former senior scientist at the agency

Evidence of life in space
Should bring tears to a scientist’s face
So to choose to ignore
It and not look for more
Seems like a shocking disgrace

John Moynes

Pic: NASA

Dublin City councillors want to bring the remains of James Joyce and his wife Nora Barnacle back to Ireland from  Flunturn cemetery Zurich, Switzerland.

There once was an author, James Joyce
Possessed of a singular voice
His death overseas
Is causing unease
As a Dublin grave was his choice

John Moynes

Pic: Graves of Famous writers

Londis, 49 Grafton Street, Dublin 2 was served with a closure order last month after a dead rat was founder under its deli counter

You don’t want a dead rat by your feet
When you’re going for something to eat
So delis like those
Are now forced to close
Until they’re clean, tidy and neat

John Moynes

Pic: Google Maps