Article re MNS in Tribune Sports TV review

**DonO'Bate** · 31/03/2008, 11:00 PM

Originally Posted by mattie

The tribune see their target market as people who mainly like rugger and gah ball. they actually give very little coverage to the EPL either. My father gets it but i think its a bit hit and miss overall... off topic but there was a superb article on suicide bombers by robert fisk in it this week.

On the article in question, it was always going to have a slightly sarcastic tone as that column approaches everythin that way.

I actually thought it was encouragin to see a tribune writer pleasantly surprised by anything to do with the loi

The last time the Tribune gave any decent coverage to the LOI was when Dunphy was their soccer correspondent. Remember his Chicken League match predictions and his fascintation with Gino Lawless's thighs. His next favourite target was then Irish boss Eoin Hand. Dunphy cut his journalistic teeth writing about the LOI and turned him into the well known media commentator he is today.

**pete** · 31/03/2008, 11:33 PM

Used to buy the Tribune but gave up a couple of years ago. The sport section is quiet poor & while I watch rugby I don't want to read 5-6 pages of it every week. I now get the Sunday Times & I have accepted will be minimal LOI coverage. For LOI I would need a tabloid but I am not a tabloid reader.

**amaccann** · 01/04/2008, 7:54 AM

Of course the Indo's no better; was just reading yesterdays & of course there was minimal coverage, apart from a side panel dedicated to one of the games (the Cork/Cobh one). It's discouraging when some mickeymouse trophy MK Dons are taking part in gets more newspaper space than the weekend's LoI action.

**Jerry The Saint** · 01/04/2008, 10:23 AM

Originally Posted by KevB76

In its football round-up page in the sports section you get tables and results form all the main european leagues, all the english divisions right down to blue square, and scottish down to 3rd division and bizarrely nothing at all on our own league.

Another example of the typical laziness in Irish journalism. All these statistics are provided to them so require no effort to fill space in the paper. If you look for the GAA NFL/NHL tables, a lot of the time they won't give them - why? Because the GAA/Allianz isn't great at supplying them, so the newspaper would need to work them out for themselves - too much effort.

**paudie** · 01/04/2008, 12:26 PM

Originally Posted by Jerry The Saint

Another example of the typical laziness in Irish journalism. All these statistics are provided to them so require no effort to fill space in the paper. If you look for the GAA NFL/NHL tables, a lot of the time they won't give them - why? Because the GAA/Allianz isn't great at supplying them, so the newspaper would need to work them out for themselves - too much effort.

Correct. No NFL tables in the Tribune on Sunday, which is bizarre, considering they give the Scottish 3rd Division table.