Newspapers/writers

Read the IT Monday to Sat if I'm in Ireland and take the Guardian if I'm in Engerland.

On Sunday its the Turbine and the Business Post.

In terms of sports journos Duggan is streets ahead of Humphries for me. Humphries disappeared up his rectum a long time ago (IMO) and his repeated propensity for 500 words of navel gazing, alternating with a piece on Dublin hurling (one and the same to me) do nothing for me.

5 years ago I would have agreed he was genuinely cutting edge but nowadays the key message that comes across in his writing is that he simply punching the clock.

Malone is decent enough, as is Thornley, but more as recorders of event, rather than feature writers.

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Originally Posted by OneRedArmy

In terms of sports journos Duggan is streets ahead of Humphries for me. Humphries disappeared up his rectum a long time ago (IMO) and his repeated propensity for 500 words of navel gazing, alternating with a piece on Dublin hurling (one and the same to me) do nothing for me.

5 years ago I would have agreed he was genuinely cutting edge but nowadays the key message that comes across in his writing is that he simply punching the clock.

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Agree 100% on Humphries. He tries so hard to be the new Con Houlihan - his column is now an amalgam of ridiculous metaphors.

Irish Times for me. The Indo has gone well downhill in the last couple of years. And the Sunday Independent has to be the worst rag on earth. I expect the Irish Daily Mail is as bad (in a different way) but I have never read it so cannot say so for certain.

Can't stand the Times to be honest, nothing in it to read and I find its rubbish at sport (apart from Humphries, of course)

I dont fine that there is a decent newspaper in ireland at the moment, but I do read the Indo now and again (in desperation), and i find its worth buying on sunday just to read Shane Ross and Gene Kerrigan, and Dion Fanning can be hit or miss


I read the herald every evening cause it passes the time on the bus home, and find its football writers are not bad

The sun is rubbish but the best for horseracing, templegate is a legend!!:)

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Originally Posted by bennocelt

Can't stand the Times to be honest, nothing in it to read

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Surely you meant to say that there's nothing for you to read. :)



Meanwhile for the Irish speakers here today's (on a Tuesday for some reason?) Beocheist is pretty decent, set in Calcutta with lovely Kerry Irish. :) Opens with this pretty funny, if flippant, paragraph; Cén fáth go gcuireann na statisticí éagothroma 80 faoin gcéad/20 faoin gcéad iontas orainn? Nílim ag tagairt don fhógairt do Monster Munchies ag comhlacht idirnáisiúnta éigin. Maítear go bhfuil an táirge 80 faoin gcéad saor ó shalann.


The inequality to which she refers is that 20% of the world earn less than a $1 a day. I've very little meas on money of itself usually but god if you couldn't afford to buy the IT things would be bad. (yes, I know the Times wouldn't be for sale in such countries, tough crowd you lot.) :p

I read the Times and the Indo, more or less at random. I don't think the Indo is up to much but I prefer not to just read from one source - it tends to reinforce biases.

I have no time for the Herald and the tabloids. They aren't newspapers, just collections of sensational headlines and tawdry gossip. I wonder if that's a reinforced bias, or just true. :)

We get the IT & Indo at work so I usually glance through both. While the IT is by far the best Irish newspaper I have not read it regularly since college. I find the It the best laid out paper & they have less wire service content that other papers. The eL content is small but what is there is quality for the most part.

Sunday market is shocking in Ireland. Tribune has been muck for a few years & I would not read the Sindo if was free which leaves with the Sunday Times for Irish content & Observer the odd time.

Agree with the comments the the Irish Times is superior. However as I live in London it I dont get to buy it every day. And for some reason do not like the idea of paying for access to the website even though it is probably cheaper than buying the paper on a daily basis.

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Originally Posted by beautifulrock

Agree with the comments the the Irish Times is superior. However as I live in London it I dont get to buy it every day. And for some reason do not like the idea of paying for access to the website even though it is probably cheaper than buying the paper on a daily basis.

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Same here, I enoy reading a newspaper the old fashioned way, online papers never capture my interest in the same way.

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Originally Posted by osarusan

Which broadsheet has the highest circulation?

Which tabloid has the highest circulation?

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I'd imagine the Times outsells the Indo (if you'd call it a broadsheet. Depressingly the Sun outsells every paper (broad or tabloid) in the UK and Ireland.

Another point I'd like to make is that the English Independent have the most eye catching front covers on a daily basis

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Originally Posted by kingdom hoop

Surely you meant to say that there's nothing for you to read. :)

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yeah and for most people, hence the reason why the Inod is far and away Irelands most read newspaper
I mean the Times is a bit snobby, and Fintan O Toole and his like write for it..........
you know I always like to stand for the man on the street!;)
and not the student/d4 type!;)

I really enjoy Paul Hylands articles for the Herald

by the way............Roddy Forseyth is always an interesting read