A sell-out crowd of 82,300 was reached in Croke Park last Saturday evening for the All-Ireland semi-final between Dublin and Mayo
If you’re thinking you might want to go
To watch Dublin win five in a row
Then maybe think twice
As they’ve hiked up the price
Once again, which is rather poor show
John Moynes
Pic: Sky Sports
They’re making a change to the rule
About who must do Irish in school
So you won’t have to pay
An expert to say
You’re dyslexic, as that just seems cruel
John Moynes
Pic: Shutterstock
Universities were able to engage in widespread rent hikes because new caps introduced by Housing Minister Eoghan Murphy (above) will not take effect until next week.
A minister had the intent
To limit the rising of rent
And while that sounds great
It kicked in too late
So it didn’t achieve what he meant
John Moynes
Up to 40 previously unknown monuments from the Bronze Age have been discovered near Newgrange
A top archaeologist, Steve,
Has said stone age people would leave
Just outside Newgrange
An incredible range
Of structures he couldn’t believe
John Moynes
Germans kept awake by ‘noisy neighbours’ found the sound came from ‘copulating hedgehogs’
If you’re sleeping in Augsburg tonight
You’re in for a terrible fright
For no one enjoys
The terrible noise
That hedgehogs emit in delight
John Moynes
Pic: Shutterstock
In future we’re likely to see
The end of the old licence fee
You’ll pay if you own
An iPad or smartphone
Or even a laptop PC.
John Moynes
Pic: Shutterstock
Earlier: Nothing To See Here
University of Limerick researchers have discovered the ‘equation of the perfect cup of coffee through the power of maths’
if you’ve ever wanted to know
How to brew up a great cup of Joe
Some nerds have agreed
It’s hard sums that you need
To work out how the coffee will flow
John Moynes
Pic: Forbes
Richard Boyd Barrett will be collecting signatures at a co-living development site on Eblana Avenue, Dún Laoghaire, County Dublin he has described as ‘Dickensian’ at 12.30pm
There’s a TD who feels strongly that
A person who’s renting a flat
Should be given a place
With just enough space
To start swinging an average cat
John Moynes
Yesterday: Good To Co
In a review being carried out by the National Council for Curriculum and Assessment (NCCA) Irish could be dropped as a compulsory subject
A conclave will write a new rule
To govern the last years of school
There’s a rumour about
That Irish is out
As employers don’t think that it’s cool
John Moynes
Pic: Pinterest
