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Early Breakfast With Paula MacSweeney

Mad Newspaper Headlines

There is a rogue swan going around killing rivals in a pond in Wales and The Irish Sun had a field d...
TodayFM
TodayFM

8:11 AM - 9 Jul 2018



TodayFM
TodayFM

8:11 AM - 9 Jul 2018



There is a rogue swan going around killing rivals in a pond in Wales and The Irish Sun had a field day covering this very serious story. They mocked up a swan behind bars “winged and dangerous”... but the piece de resistance was the headline – “Swannibal Lecter”. YES.

 

This brought us to a discussion about funny headlines in newspapers... like Australia's "Army Van Disappears" - they lost an army jeep after painting it in camouflage (this is true).

A newspaper in the West of Ireland really didn’t think this one through:

 

And neither did these guys, also in the West: 

 

This kid from Waterford is going places: 

This is really edge-of-your-seat stuff: 

And this was a really close call, back in 2003: 

And there was even a day back in 1930 that there was simply NO NEWS: 

 

Let's not forget the magazines that I stock up on before a flight... 

 



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