Gardai say 10 per cent of drink drivers was detected between the hours of 6am-6pm
I’m sure that it’s certain to irk
If you’re caught while you’re going to work
But a single night’s sleep
After driving won’t keep
You from driving like a dangerous jerk
John Moynes
Bob Geldof is being touted in Britain as a post-Brexit ‘unifying figure to promote a feeling of national togetherness’, The Guardian is reporting today
He’s not the first old music star
To start to act rather bizarre
But it seems that Sir Bob
Now wants a new job
If Britain needs a ‘Healing Tsar’.
John Moynes
Jack (right) and Stephen Teeling with Teeling Whiskey’s 24-year-old single malt crowned the ‘World’s Best Single Malt’ at the 2019 World Whiskies Awards
In Ireland we do like to think
That we’re pretty good with our drink
And when put to the test
It appears we’re the best
So raise up your glasses and clink
John Moynes
Rollingnews
Icelandic budget airline WOW Air has collapsed and gone out of business
It’s always a terrible scare
When your plane will not get in the air
And as it seems WOW
Is grounded for now
Many people will think it unfair
John Moynes
Pic: WOW Air
The army needs to help cull wild deer, says independent Kerry TD Danny Healy-Rae
In Kerry a climate of fear
Is gripping the Kingdom this year
And so Healy-Rae
Has thought of a way
To use soldiers to deal with the deer.
John Moynes
Pics: Rollingnews
NASA yesterday scrapped a planned historic spacewalk by two women astronauts, citing a lack of available spacesuits that would fit them
Women must constantly face
A world where they’re kept in their place
And not just down here
On our earthly sphere
There’s a glass ceiling up there in space
John Moynes
PIc: NASA
It’s time to decide what to do
With our planet’s surplus of poo
The thought we may drown
In a thick pile of brown
Stuff is awful, but possibly true
John Moynes
Pic: Getty
Sightings of coypu, a large rodent with bright orange teeth, have been made in the Royal Canal
The residents of Castleknock
Are soon to be in for a shock
A beast like a rat
But far bigger than that
May be lurking round the canal lock
John Moynes
Pic: Wikipedia
It seems that a super worm moon
Is due to appear rather soon
Though it may wear a shroud
Of thick opaque cloud
Like a grey disappointing cocoon.
John Moynes
Pic: Getty
British Prime Minister Theresa May speaks during Prime Minister’s Questions in the House of Commons, London yesterday
The cabinet told Mrs May
To ask for a three month delay
They feel apprehension
A longer extension
Might mean that they don’t get their way
John Moynes
Pic: BBC
