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    What Newspapers do you buy and Why??

    The Star....3 good crosswords and decent sport.
    The Indo....decent rugby coverage
    The Herald....cos its the only one in the evening in Dublin.
    Sunday Times....cos it lasts a week
    Sunday World....scandal and a decent crossword.

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    Echo and Examiner because of good Sports and local stuff, parents always read the deaths first!

    Irish Times because it IMO is the best Irish paper.

    Indo metro version is handy for reading in work or when on bus/train.

    Tribune is the only Sunday paper I can tolerate, and only just. Sunday papers in Ireland are very poor.
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    Irish Times cos best overall paper in the country.

    Irish Mirror on fridays sometimes for eL footie

    Tribune cos feck all else, Sunday Business Post for that different angle or Observer (brilliant monthly sports mag) on sundays. Very odd time get Sunday Times.

    Hate Indo, Sindo etc...

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    Irish Times: Good news coverage and two good Crosswords + The Ticket
    Sunday Tribune: Good news, a light read on a Sunday morning with your cuppa, poor on sports though.
    Sunday Times when it's raining and I'm hungover, lasts all Sunday and beyond.

    Might get The Star/The Mirror on a Friday for Dolan's Column, the EL pull-out respectively, but more likely to scan through them in the shop and but the I.T. instead
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    Independent usually, normally don't pick up anything else. Read it online more than I buy it though.

    Times the odd (very odd) time though.

    Not too fond of any tabloids.

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    Derry Journal, best local paper in the city.
    Irish News, it's good for regional news, but they sometimes fill the pages with pointless articles on stuff political parties are complaining about.
    Sunday Tribune, by far the best Sunday paper, can't stand the rest of them.
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    Derry News & Derry Journal

    Irish Star only for the EL coverage, I dont buy British tabloids other than that.
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    I only buy a paper when I'm stuck for something to read in a pub/restaurant. Get my news from the Internet. If I was going to buy a paper, it'd be the Irish Times and/or The Gruandian. Filthy liberal I'm afraid.

    The Star is singularly the worst newspaper I've ever set eyes upon. It's a rag, I wouldn't wipe my arse with it. The Sunday Sport is a better newspaper.

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    great sports section in this paper

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    Quote Originally Posted by dahamsta

    The Star is singularly the worst newspaper I've ever set eyes upon. It's a rag, I wouldn't wipe my arse with it. The Sunday Sport is a better newspaper.
    I work in a Press Office so I get them all for free.

    Adam - I've had this with you before. The Star is the best Irish paper by a country mile. It's the only campaigning paper we have. Without the Star Mad Mullagh McDowell, Mickey Martin and the rest of them would have a free run at destroying the country. And it does great eL coverage.

    Worst papers -

    Irish Times - Self satisfied, smug liberal, panini eating, Ranelagh coffee shop twaddle.

    Sunday Indo - Irish hating, greed loving, neo-Unionist nonsense.

    Evening Herald - No need for a comment.

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    Quote Originally Posted by WeAreRovers
    Adam - I've had this with you before. The Star is the best Irish paper by a country mile. It's the only campaigning paper we have. Without the Star Mad Mullagh McDowell, Mickey Martin and the rest of them would have a free run at destroying the country. And it does great eL coverage.
    You havin' a laugh? Star looks like a school paper in its layout. Wheres its foreign reporters? Star like all the tabloids just jump from one sensational story to the next. Its not as if you'll learn anything from it...

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    Read the S.Indo yesterday and it managed to touch new depths of rubbish. The match report from the Cyprus game didn't resemble virtually anything that I or anyone else I spoke to watched, sadly the Sunday Mirror (English version) had a more realistic reflection of the game.
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    The Bray People, always go to the court section to see who's been up this wek !

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    Quote Originally Posted by dortie
    Derry News & Derry Journal

    Irish Star only for the EL coverage, I dont buy British tabloids other than that.
    I think you'll find that both the Derry news and Journal ARE british tabloids!


    The Examiner is in my opinion the best daily. Sunday papers are steadily getting worse, the free CD's make great ash trays all the same.

    The Donegal Democrate is great for finding out who was caught phishing on the main street at 4am Saturday morning!
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    rovers fans buy the star cause there aren't too many big words and lots of pictures

    i get the times on my desk at work and have to say it is a great paper overall, but the guardian is the best of em all i think.
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    The Tuam Herald or the Enniscorthy Guardian. Not bad papers, no messing!!

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    Quote Originally Posted by max power
    rovers fans buy the star cause there aren't too many big words and lots of pictures
    But there is correct use of the English language, the right punctuation and capital letters where necessary.

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    yeah but i'm a civil servant, cut me some slack
    Ignore Max Power, he is no more, the future is Ron Burgundy. I'd love to be Ron Burgundy but they won't let me........

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    Quote Originally Posted by max power
    yeah but i'm a civil servant, cut me some slack
    That's what worries me.

    I'm a public servant but we have to be much more on the ball - after all, unlike you lot, we can be sacked!

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    my heart bleeds for yee...........

    if i don't don't get decentralisation i'll be back in the free market full time.
    Ignore Max Power, he is no more, the future is Ron Burgundy. I'd love to be Ron Burgundy but they won't let me........

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