WASHINGTON DC WORD OF IRELAND’S Simon Harris seeking the country’s Foreign Affairs portfolio so he can fight new US President Donald Trump over the latter’s trade policy is said to have sent shivers down the spines of the new administration even as it prepares to take power. “The Donald is literally carrying a spare pair…

DUBLIN “I’LL BET HE HAD no idea that fellow was one of them. If he had even known the man was in the Dail, let alone connected to the new government, I’d say he would never have agreed to pose for that snap. I know him. He’s an ordinary decent criminal. He has his boundaries.…

BELGRADE, THURSDAY THE DETERIORATING STATE of British finances has caused the UK Government to make plans for a GoFundMe page aimed at raising enough money to help clear their debts. “We’ll be asking for just one pound a week, from everyone, for as long as it takes,” said a Westminster insider. “Like union dues. Very…

MEXICO CITY THE ARRIVAL OF Mexican firefighters to help their American neighbors fight the fires devastating Los Angeles, has seen a call for California to return to its original position as a province of Mexico. California was ‘acquired’ by the United States after the Mexican-American War of 1848, together with what is now Nevada, Arizona…

BIBLE REPORTER LUKE MARK A SCIENTIST WHO has spent seventy five years searching, says he has found the apple picked by Eve and given to Adam in the Garden of Eden. The story of Adam and Eve is told in the Bible’s Book of Genesis. It is never specifically stated that the so-called Tree of…

FROM OUR LOS ANGELES CORRESPONDENTS FURIOUS RESIDENTS OF Los Angeles who have lost their homes in the devastating fires ranging through parts of the city, are now praying for climate change to save them from the incompetence of the state’s leaders. “Shit, if the fucking climate warms a little, we might just get wetter weather…

PACIFIC PALISADES “IT’S BEEN COMING for years. Now I fear it may have arrived. There won’t be an insurer on the planet that will touch Los Angeles – or much of California for that matter.” Madrid is an YouTube Influencer who made her fortune promoting what she calls “effortless liposuction”. As she stood in her…

FROM OUR POLAR BEAR DESK A LARGE INCREASE in polar bear migration between Greenland and Iceland has been recorded in the immediate aftermath of Donald Trump’s statement that he would not rule out the use of force if is offer to buy the Danish dependency is rejected. Yogee Bubu, an Icelandic naturalist who swims with…

BELGRADE, THURSDAY TERRITORY, RESOURCES AND treasure are out, stadium events are in, says a political philosopher who believes mankind is going through a transition so profound that when it is over what remains will not recognize what went before. Hegel Bertrand of the Swift Twain Institute in Ontario says his latest research confirms his theory…

KABUL THE LATEST TALIBAN effort to erase women from daily life in Afghanistan is to be countered by a cunning CIA scheme to inundate the wretched Asian country with millions of windows disguised as walls. The Taliban has ordered that all windows which give views of women, with the capacity to promote obscene acts, are…