* the pope appeared on my gown...

IN the midst of all the reporting on the Pope's death, the Irish Mirror's front page today featured a woman who claims the pope appeared on a gown she was wearing whilst at the hairdresser's last Saturday, the day the Pope died.

Now really, there's so many things wrong with this, where do I begin? Possibly with the fact that the Mirror believed this story was worthy of front page news. And ok it's a tabloid but come on lads, this is front page material for the Daily Sport or some other similar publication, not something which purports to be a newspaper...

The woman was in her local hair salon last Saturday (some hours before the Pope died) and noticed the Pope's face looking up at her from the gown thrown around her shoulders. She allegedly showed it to one of the hairdressers who said 'that looks like the Pope' (therefore it must be true...) and this spectacle was 'witnessed' by six other women in the salon. What utter nonsense and an outrageous front page story by a newspaper.

But, this is the paper which ran a story two weeks ago 'My granny appeared at her own funeral' or something like that. The story centred around the fact that during a wake for the deceased woman, someone took a picture which showed a foggy mass, apparently not visible to the eye during the time the pic was taken. *sigh* It's obvious some ludramon* opened the camera and the film fogged, no mystery, no mysticism, no ghosts. The Mirror is obviously dragging the barrel for stories...

*ludramon, Hiberno-English word for a fool