Have a listen back to Ronan Casey and Anton Savage go through the best, funniest news from a week of Ireland's local newspapers
Did you know bumper stickers could get you into trouble? Well, according to the Nenagh Guardian a young driver was fined in court last week after he displayed a sticker with a lewd message on his car.
The offending message? ‘Durex: Because you don’t know where she’s been’ was emblazoned on his windscreen. In Nenagh Court the man was charged with having safety glass that was not free of inessential stickers. He also had a yellow registration plate with the message ‘You know yourself’ written on it, so he was charged with having non-conforming plates too. The result? Over €400 in fines.
Speaking of expressing oneself, they may not have any TD’s, but as it strives to move forward, Longford is placing its trust in the humble sausage.
A well-known Longford is looking to create the county's very own signature sausage. According to Patrick Conboy in the Longford Leader, Louis Herterich is asking the public to submit recipes as he begins his quest to develop a porcine delicacy unique to Longford. Read the full story here
There was also the heart-warming story of six year old Lizzie Griffith, the new face of Kinder in Ireland and the UK. In Galway, The Galway City Tribune reports on a ‘Storm in a Teacup’ with GMIT staff boiling mad over Barry’s tea ban at meetings. They are saying that penny-pinching policies to ban cups of tea and coffee at meetings – unless visitors are present – are unfair.
The new hospitality rules, which include rationing hot beverages, have caused a stir among staff since being introduced by college president Fergal Barry.
There was also the enterprising Loreto College students from Mullingar who may have found a cure for bad backs. The Westmeath Topic wrote about the acumen of Transition Year students Cliodhna Caffrey, Una Sullivan, Andrea Buckley and Eithne Coyne, who have designed a tool that alters the height of a school desk to allow students more comfort and less strain on the back. ‘Adapt-a-desk’ is already a hit locally and on Facebook.
A big mystery was the mysterious consignment of women’s make-up which turned up at Moneypoint Power Station and was held there for more than a year as the ESB conducted an internal investigation.
The make-up, which is understood to be a large amount of mascara, appeared un-ordered at the West Clare power station in late 2014, and has remained there ever since. A spokesperson from the ESB yesterday confirmed the existence of the make-up and that the company was at a loss to explain how it had come to be at Ireland’s largest power station.
The spokesperson did confirm however, that an internal probe has been carried out by the electricity company, which determined that no illegal actions, such as smuggling on the international boats servicing Moneypoint, was suspected in this case.
And we had the man who shot a fox from the window of moving jeep – just after midnight – in the interests of public safety. His defence was that no damage had been inflicted in the incident, bar the death of the fox.
And there was headlines. All in all, a bumper week in the local papers, as ever!
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Longford sausages pic by Shelly Corcoran
