Tag Archives: A Limerick A Day

US president Donald Trump and North Korea South Kim Jong-un

Old Trump didn’t know what to do
When Kim’s latest test missile flew
So he begged the Chinese
To sort it out please
He’s such a strong leader. It’s true.

John Moynes

Pics: Getty

Northern Ireland Secretary James Brokenshire (left) and Irish Foreign Minister Simon Coveney following the breakdown of assembly talks yesterday

A deadline’s a deadline and so
It’s time for the North’s talks to go
On once again
And on, and on, then
Will they reach an agreement? Well, no.

John Moynes

Pic: PA


A mocked-up cover of a Time magazine in the Champions Sports Bar & Grill at the Trump National Doral Miami

I reckon it’s somewhat sublime
To appear on the cover of Time
But a chap who would make
An obvious fake
Is clearly no better than slime.

John Moynes

Pic: Getty

British Prime Minister Theresa May (left) with DUP leader Arlene Foster in Downing Street yesterday

That smooth operator Arlene
Did a deal that just has to be seen
For she gets to say
If poor Mrs May
Still gets tea every week with the Queen.

John Moynes

Pic: AP

Ed Sheeran closes the Glastonbury Festival last night

Some Glastonbury-goers have said
That the headliner filled them with dread
They’re far too highbrow
For pop music now
So Sheeran left them seeing red.

John Moynes

Pic: NME

The albino corn snake found in a tree in north Dublin

Be careful out in Ballybrack
For you may end up under attack
From a big hungry snake
If he chooses to take
You home to chew on as a snack.

John Moynes

Pic Bairbre O’Malley

The ‘sourtoe’ cocktail at the Downtown hotel in Dawson City, Canada

Do any of you people know
A fellow who’d drink up and go
Without paying his bill
And, this might make you ill,
Without giving back the dead toe?

John Moynes

Pic: Alamy