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Who's telling the truth - Irish Times or Irish independent ?

  • 29-04-2014 6:30pm
    #1
    Lapin
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 18,184 ✭✭✭✭


    Following this afternoon's mini revolution when a lone rebel stormed Leinster House the following reports were written up by the two papers.

    Indo. Garda slashed.

    Times. No injuries.


    My money is on the IT


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  • #2
    kneemos
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,450 ✭✭✭✭kneemos


    Major celebration in a hundred years.


  • #3
    Iwasfrozen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,250 ✭✭✭✭Iwasfrozen


    They're probably both telling the truth and one's just mistaken. There's no reason to assume either is lying.


  • #4
    No Pants
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    Lapin wrote: »
    Indo. Garda slashed.
    There's no mention of what the injuries are in the Indo report that I'm reading, so he may not have been "slashed", maybe the chap stomped on his toe or something.

    I'm with you on the IT versus the Indo though.


  • #5
    Kermit.de.frog
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    Garda "slashed"? Overly dramatic I think.


  • #6
    Collie D
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    No Pants wrote: »
    There's no mention of what the injuries are in the Indo report that I'm reading, so he may not have been "slashed", maybe the chap stomped on his toe or something.

    I'm with you on the IT versus the Indo though.

    Was only half listening to radio news but I think they said cut fingers. Not exactly slashed but not exactly uninjured either.

    Two different news sited rushing to get the news out I suppose although one is obviously wrong


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  • #7
    Lapin
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    The word 'slashed' was quoted from the Indo's FB page where I took the source from.

    Not my word. All theirs.


    Independent.ie shared a link.
    about an hour ago
    BREAKING: Garda slashed as man tries to enter Leinster House 'with sword and three knives'


  • #8
    No Pants
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    Collie D wrote: »
    Two different news sited rushing to get the news out I suppose although one is obviously wrong
    Nick Davies wrote about the pressures of working in such a news environment. He was referring to the UK, but I'm sure that the same targets are in place here, giving the minimum amount of time to get a new story onto the website with only seconds allowed for proofreading, never mind fact checking.


  • #9
    wazky
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    Thought was usually the TDs who get slashed in there?


  • #10
    jack presley
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    Did the Indo manage to bring Rosanna Davison into the story?


  • #11
    No Pants
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    Lapin wrote: »
    The word 'slashed' was quoted from the Indo's FB page where I took the source from.

    Not my word. All theirs.


    Independent.ie shared a link.
    about an hour ago
    BREAKING: Garda slashed as man tries to enter Leinster House 'with sword and three knives'
    Shows how quickly the site gets edited/amended. No mention of it now.


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  • #12
    _Redzer_
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    All I know is my guy says maybe


  • #13
    safetyboy
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    Sherlock should of been slashed


  • #14
    cletus van damme
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    The IT is a ****ing rag of a paper.

    I hate it with a passion , at least the indo doesn't hide what it is.

    The IT masquerades behind this "paper of record" which is a sham. It a liberal rag for middle class labour voters who don't give a fcuk about anything bar their frothy coffee and social utopia.


  • #15
    Fred Swanson
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    This post has been deleted.


  • #16
    Troy Lumberjack
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    Was it a Samurai sword? Doesn't really count unless it was "a crazed madman brandishing a Samurai Sword".


  • #17
    Davarus Walrus
    Registered Users Posts: 1,280 ✭✭✭Davarus Walrus


    Fred Swanson wrote: »
    This post has been deleted.

    I wonder where they copied and reworded that from.


  • #18
    GaelMise
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 542 ✭✭✭GaelMise


    cletus van damme wrote: »
    The IT is a ****ing rag of a paper.

    I hate it with a passion , at least the indo doesn't hide what it is.

    The IT masquerades behind this "paper of record" which is a sham. It a liberal rag for middle class labour voters who don't give a fcuk about anything bar their frothy coffee and social utopia.

    I have to say that was one of the most fantasticly dense rants I have read on boards in a long time.

    I doff my hat to you sir.


  • #19
    Nodin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 46,938 ✭✭✭✭Nodin


    cletus van damme wrote: »
    The IT is a ****ing rag of a paper.

    I hate it with a passion , at least the indo doesn't hide what it is.

    The IT masquerades behind this "paper of record" which is a sham. It a liberal rag for middle class labour voters who don't give a fcuk about anything bar their frothy coffee and social utopia.


    All that caffeine is building up I see.


  • #20
    Hande hoche!
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,793 ✭✭✭Hande hoche!


    Prefer the Irish Times crossword.


  • #21
    No Pants
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    jack presley wrote: »
    Did the Indo manage to bring Rosanna Davison into the story?
    They really missed a trick there. Also no mention of whether someone wore an outfit twice.


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  • #22
    Nodin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 46,938 ✭✭✭✭Nodin


    No Pants wrote: »
    They really missed a trick there. Also no mention of whether someone wore an outfit twice.

    As long as pippa whatserface didn't fall off a horse, I'll be ok.


  • #23
    tritium
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,455 ✭✭✭tritium


    GaelMise wrote: »
    cletus van damme wrote: »
    The IT is a ****ing rag of a paper.

    I hate it with a passion , at least the indo doesn't hide what it is.

    The IT masquerades behind this "paper of record" which is a sham. It a liberal rag for middle class labour voters who don't give a fcuk about anything bar their frothy coffee and social utopia.

    I have to say that was one of the most fantasticly dense rants I have read on boards in a long time.

    I doff my hat to you sir.

    quite right, its a rag for far more than Labour voters!

    Still an agenda driven rag pretending to be a newspaper though, much like the rest of them


  • #24
    beks101
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    Didn't even read the OP but I'm gonna go with the IT?


  • #25
    Kermit.de.frog
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    Headline on this morning's Irish Independent:

    Roy Keane heading for exit door as job share idea is turned down

    And now this afternoon:
    Roy Keane will not be going to Glasgow Celtic, Independent.ie can exclusively reveal.


    That's how it's done folks. You scoop the readers in the morning and then you scoop them again a few hours later in the afternoon with a totally different outcome to same story you previously claimed was exclusive. That's how you run a newspaper.

    I wish the Irish Times was as classy.


  • #26
    goose2005
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    Maybe the guard pissed on your man?


  • #27
    feargale
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    Neither.


  • #28
    Karl Stein
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,689 ✭✭✭Karl Stein


    lolpapers


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