Fergal Mulligan, programme director of the National Broadband Plan, has said the plan may cost the state €1bn less than the reported €3bn
The cabinet have to confess
That their big broadband plan is a mess
Now one of their staff
Has said, for a laugh
That it may cost one billion less
John Moynes
Pic via Oireachtas.ie
Japan’s foreign minister Tara Kono will ask foreign media outlets to write Japanese names with the family name first, as is standard in Japan
Taro Kono will shortly proclaim
That when writing a Japanese name
Give the last word a shunt
Till it gets to the front
And you’re winning the nominative game
John Moynes
Pic: Getty
Nigel Farage is doused in milkshake while campaigning in Newcastle, England yesterday
Now Farage and his shitty ilk
Deserve to be showered in milk
Shakes, but his base
Will say it’s a disgrace
While Nigel’s still farting through silk
John Moynes
Pic: Getty
In a letter sent to the Irish Times, doctors in the newly-formed ‘Cannabis Risk Alliance’ have warned of the dangers of possible reefer madness in Ireland if pot is legalised
A group of top doctors agreed
That talk of medicinal weed
Is a big Trojan Horse
That will soon lead, of course
To a terrible future indeed
John Moynes
Pic: The Cannabis Collection
Donald Trump at Shannon Airport during a visit to Clare in May 2014
Now Trump might be coming to Clare
But they still cannot figure out where
He’ll meet in Leo in June
So while that’s quite soon
The whole thing’s still up in the air
John Moynes
Pic: Ballywire
Last night.
Pearse Centre, Pearse Street, Dublin 2.
Artist Robert Ballagh (above left) launches Scenes Of Moderate Violence, the first volume of long form poetry from poet and ‘sheet ‘ricksmith John Moynes (above right).
Buy here
Scenes of Moderate Violence (Unbound)
Pics via Darragh Doyle, Una Minh and Sinead Ryan
Earlier: A Limerick A Day
The Voynich manuscript dubbed the ‘world’s most mysterious text’ has been decoded revealing sex tips and abortion advice, it has been claimed
A boffin has taken a look
At an ancient and baffling book
Has he found the key
to an old mystery?
Or is he a fraudulent crook?
John Moynes
Pic: Wikimedia
The EU has told Britain that it is on a “Brexit break” and will only listen to Theresa May’s negotiator Olly Robbins (above) today
In Brussels they say they can’t take
Any more of the Brexit headache
They hope the UK
Will grow up some day
But right now they’re taking a break
John Moynes
Pic: Getty
Soldiers of the Irish Defences Forces during a training exercise in the Glen of Imaal in County Wicklow last Summer
Do we properly pay defence staff?
To be honest they barely get half
Of what they deserve
Do we think those who serve
Have only signed up for a laugh?
John Moynes
Pic: Irish Defence Forces
A Limerick A Day giant John Moynes (left) and his first volume of long-form poetry, Scenes of Moderate Violence (Unbound)
Anything good in the Irish Times?
“I like rhyme, I like structures and I like rules. I love a good sonnet. I’m a hoor for a villanelle. Some of these things have fallen out of fashion in the poetry world, just as poetry has been falling out of fashion in the actual world….”
Poet John Moynes.
FIGHT!
‘I’m a hoor for a villanelle. I like a good joke. Poetry criticism often doesn’t’ (Irish Times)
John will be launching we’ll be launching ‘Scenes of Moderate Violence’ on Wednesday, May 15 in the Pearse Centre, pearse Street, Dublin 2 at 6pm.
Scenes Of Moderate Violence (Unbound)
Earlier: A Limerick A Day
John’s portrait by Alan O’Regan
