An Irish judge called a defendant a 'gobshite' and inspired the best headline ever

If your Dad wrote headlines.

SOME HEADLINES JUST write themselves, really.

That’s the case with this glorious offering from next week’s Leinster Leader.

Five words can really say a multitude, can’t they?

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Dust off the prize cabinet, Leinster Leader. A Pulitzer might be headed your way.

Is this the harshest obituary headline ever?

This is perhaps the greatest Mayo headline to have ever existed >

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An Irish judge called a defendant a 'gobshite' and inspired the best headline ever

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Is this the harshest obituary headline ever?

This is perhaps the greatest Mayo headline to have ever existed >