Your favourite newspaper?

r3nu4l

So, what's your favourite Irish newspaper and why?

Please do not post why you dislike other papers, just the reason you like your preferred paper!

Also, I know many so called "Irish Newspapers are basically British with a few Irish stories thrown in but...

Also, max of 10 allowed so I've bumped sun/star/mirror together

dangerman

I put down the Irish Times pretty much automatically, though to be honest it's no great shakes anymore. Don't read newspapers would have been more honest... internets all the way nowadays.

r3nu4l

Yes, for me it's the Times. I use the internet for news (google news, RTE, BBC etc) but do find that for in-depth reporting on issues the newspapers beat most Irish news sites hands down.

base2

I read plenty of newspapers but have no favourite as each has something about them that turns me off.

ferdi

http://www.weeklyworldnews.com/ tbh

spoofilyj

I read the Irish times mostly because of the quality crossword and good enough articles.

I also read the Echo when i'm in Cork. On a tuesday mostly caus od the free adds section.

Internet news is good also but like the paper of an evening, when i'm sick of looking at computer screens.

Cup of tea, some bickies and the paper. Quality:)

Litcagral

Why no Irish Examiner or Irish News in the poll? They are both daily Irish papers.

r3nu4l

Yeah, if you read my post you'll see that the poll only allows a max of 10 choices so I wanted to put in Sunday papers as these are the only papers that some people read.

If I left out the tabloids and British "Irish" papers some people would moan about that.

IMO, the Irish News is a Regional paper (big region, I know) with too low a circulation to qualify.

Irish examiner, yes I would have preferred to add that over the Daily Mail (:rolleyes: ) but I figured that my bias against the Daily Mail should not stop me adding it

So if you prefer these or other papers then feel free to add them in and say why you like them

crosstownk

I very seldom buy papers now - I usually use the net but if it's a Saturday and I'm popping in for a pint I'll usually buy the Times.

pclancy

Dam the Leinster Express isnt there. How can any wednesday be complete without a list of who died in Stradbally, who won the over 80s bridge tourney in Ballyhupahawn and a good list of all tractors, trailers and corollas for sale in Ballybrittas.

snickerpuss

Irish Times because i can't stand any of the other irish papers, generally i just read the london times though.

Terry

i buy the sun on a saturday for the tv guide. it covers most of the satellite channels that i watch. other than that it's the liffey champion (north kildare, lucan area). it's a good laugh to read the court reports. most weeks i'll recognise at least one name.

LoneGunM@n

I've always read the indo ... never saw a reason to change

r3nu4l

julep wrote:

i buy the sun on a saturday for the tv guide. it covers most of the satellite channels that i watch. other than that it's the liffey champion (north kildare, lucan area). it's a good laugh to read the court reports. most weeks i'll recognise at least one name.

I used to love the reports in the Liffey Champion - From Lucan, went to NUIM so knew lots of people in the photos and also lots in the court reports Classic was the guy caught stealing the TV from SuperMacs (The TV was directly underneath the CCTV camera! Doh!).

I think that local papers definitely have an edge for the funnier stories!

Hermione*

The Times all the way, though I prefer the rugby coverage in the Indo.
Favourite daily indulgence has to be a large latte and the times crossword, though I haven't done this in ages due to exams. Newspaper purchasing has had to be drastically cut back, though usually I'm a newspaper junkie.

I have to read the times on a Saturday though. Saturdays are incomplete otherwise.

Rolo Tomasi

Rarely buy a news paper on weekdays anymore, I just use www.breakingnews.ie. On Saturdays I almost exclusivley buy the Irish Times mainly for the opinion and sports pages.
Ocassionally I'll buy the Indo if they have an investigative report.

Civilian_Target

Irish Times is good, but lives on a bit of an ivory tower, and often is unnecessarily abusive towards the church.

Lambsbread

Litcagral wrote:

Why no Irish Examiner or Irish News in the poll? They are both daily Irish papers.

That is pretty much a Cork paper so it can go into regional!

But seriously, it is one of the better papers around.

Lump

I read the Irish Indo because it's got a Berliner (small) sized one and I can't control the broad sheet size!

John

Thirdfox

I read www.ireland.com - I suppose that counts as the Irish Times...

Ruu_Old

Internet news ftw, dont read newspapers really

constitutionus

Ruu wrote:

Internet news ftw, dont read newspapers really

same here with the added sources of radio and telly. newspapers are just compromised by the fact big business owns em. if tony o reilly is caught riding a five year old boy your not gonna read about it in the indo. likewise there not gonna give fair annalyisis of political parties if the boss wants his party to win. sad fact is even regional papers are being bought over at an alarming rate by a small number of businsess groups which isnt in the best interest of genuine investigative journalism.
papers are grand for crosswords and sudoku but increasingly you have to look elsewhere for the full story on an issue instead of a biased slant:(

r3nu4l

constitutionus wrote:

same here with the added sources of radio and telly. newspapers are just compromised by the fact big business owns em. if tony o reilly is caught riding a five year old boy your not gonna read about it in the indo. likewise there not gonna give fair annalyisis of political parties if the boss wants his party to win. sad fact is even regional papers are being bought over at an alarming rate by a small number of businsess groups which isnt in the best interest of genuine investigative journalism.
papers are grand for crosswords and sudoku but increasingly you have to look elsewhere for the full story on an issue instead of a biased slant:(

Sad fact is that even many internet sites are biased in their news opinions. The smaller news sites just don't have the credibility more often than not, especially if they are reporting regular news (not techie or specialist news).

Local papers can be quite good but yep, onl;y have to look at the list owned by the Indo to realise that they are not exactly going to be fair in local or general election time :rolleyes:

Wacker

I love the Irish Times. The articles are really good, Fintan O'Toole's columns are always brilliant, and I loved Myers. Not enough for me to move to the Independent though; I went off them majorly due to their coverage of foot-and-mouth disease, of all things. I wouldn't rate tabloids at all as newspapers per se; the people I know who read them don't even consider them to be news sources. They are more about entertainment than news.

constitutionus

r3nu4l wrote:

Sad fact is that even many internet sites are biased in their news opinions. The smaller news sites just don't have the credibility more often than not, especially if they are reporting regular news (not techie or specialist news).

Local papers can be quite good but yep, onl;y have to look at the list owned by the Indo to realise that they are not exactly going to be fair in local or general election time :rolleyes:

agree entirely with ya man. but at least were meant to be suspicious of the net seeing as any nutter can post. the main newspapers pretend they dont have an agenda when its obvious when you read one with any regularity that they do. my favorite was the indo and heralds coverage of the irish ferries dispute. i just cant figure out for the life of me why it was so sparse

plus the net does get stuff even the telly misses such as the coverage of the o connell street riots. youtube was brilliant on this. so while im not stupid enough to believe everything i read on the net i still reckon its the best shot of getting info the gov or the mainstream media dont want to cover (as in the mayday riots where the comishioner of the gardai came on rte and blamed the hippies for starting it, then the video footage they thought they confiscated turned up on the net clearly showing unnumbered gardai batton charging people and bashing em against the head. strangly enough the comishoner disapeared off the face of the earth for months after that:D )

arctic lemur

The Irish Daily Mail as it's not too tabloidy. The articles are a good mix and you learn the odd interesting thing and its quick to read at morning break! I dont like the INDO or Times because their language is too high falutent.

dubmick

Lump wrote:

I read the Irish Indo because it's got a Berliner (small) sized one and I can't control the broad sheet size!

John

It's not actually, the Guardian is published in Berliner format which is slightly larger than the Indo's compact size.

Tar.Aldarion

Is it the times or independent that has the crossaire?
I read that one and do the crosswords daily.

phantom_lord

Without doubt it has to be the times

Font22

the times all the way, cant beat the crossword!

Tar.Aldarion

Guess I'm a times man then!
Love it.

Although I frequently buy the independent by accident.

iFight

Times too;)

New_Departure06

The Irish Daily Mail.

Pighead

Back in the early 90's Pighead wasn't the suave sophisticated man he is today. I was a knob jockey with sexist views and limited vocabulary. I was an avid reader of The Daily Sport.

For all those not familiar with the paper The Daily Sport is a filthy paper full of semi naked ladies and strangly enough only a couple of pages of sports news. I was particularly fond of the nipple count rating system they used in the TV section to let viewers know how many nipples would be on view for any particular programme.

I read The Sun nowadays but have found the standards have been dropping in the George And Lynne cartoons lately so I'm currently on the look out for a new paper. My evolution continues.

dead air

I read both the times and the independent in work most days. Don't have a preference really. I pick up the Sunday Tribune at the weekend though.

drdre

every day my dad buys the irish times and saturday is a day off from the papers.
but on sunday the best papers are business post and sunday times.that just makes the day(mainly the motoring section):D

Tar.Aldarion

Hi Polmki!

Daithio

The English Independant is the best out there IMO. As for Irish dailys the Times is the best of a bad bunch. The Sunday Tribune is very good though.

the real ramon

The Irish Times is the best daily in Ireland imo, I'd read it most days, mainly for the world news section and editorials. It does live in it's ivory tower a bit, but I find it's usually right and accurate. The UK Sunday Times is good too, just for a centre-right bias to balance out the daily centre-left bias of the IT;)

therannu

If The Irish Examiner, as a national paper, isn't included, then why the hell is The Evening Herald, as a Dublin paper?

r3nu4l

The evening herald is shipped and read outside Dublin (and your welcome to it in my view ) but as the Herald sells more copies than the Examiner...

As I said earlier, the max count allowed in the poll is ten, the Herald is there because it sells more than the examiner and also because much like the daily mail and the tabloids I can't stand it so it would be unfair of me to put in only papers I like (in which case the poll would read simply,...Do you read the Irish Times )

Pigman, I'd forgotten about the Daily Sport, published by Paul Raymond the publisher behind the soft porn "Men Only" magazine. You may or may not be surprised to learn that despite the cover title, the magazine is not full of men only, quite the opposite in fact :rolleyes:

Yep, the Times crossword and the letters page, Editorials etc make it my number one choice.

Juan Pablo

Would read the Irish Times most days, I love the Sports Monday supplement on a Monday and the Motoring section on Wednesdays. I find Paddy Agnew very enjoyable to read. Sundays would be the Sunday Times purely for Jeremy Clarkson (ok and all the other good bits!) however I would happily buy an Irish Times on a Sunday were it to ever come about.

Red Hand

The Irish Times before they got rid of Myers. Now its the Independent. Sunday Times is nearly the best value

Manolo Blahnik

It's between the Examminer and the Echo

solskjaer20

Irish News.

Ohyeah

In order of preference

1. The Guardian
2. The (London) Independent
3. Daily Ireland
4. The IT cause you have to really!
5. The Kerryman

I hate the Indo!:mad:

Dudess

I think the Irish Examiner is really good. Very well laid out and some great writing and features. It's a lot better than when it was the Cork Examiner. It will always be associated with Cork, but I think it's managing to gradually lose that regional flavour.
I also really like the Guardian and, of the papers in the poll, I would choose the Irish Times and the Sunday Tribune. I like the Sunday Times too for its zillion supplements. Not all of the content is great, but you can't beat all that stuff for such a low price.

biko

I hardly ever read newspapers. Big bulky things that is impossible to fold properly when you are on the bus.

I get my news from news sites, TV (RTE) or the radio. Occasionally I pick up the Advertiser.

Balmed Out

Definately Hands down Examiner. The Times is good on foreign affairs but dublin centered on all else and its sports is rubbish although it does have an excellent crossword. Theres a lot more substance in the examiner then the rest. The herald is appaling and not available to all of Ireland.

byte

Don't buy many papers, except for weekends, where I'll buy the Irish Times.

Ohyeah

I think both the Irish Examiner and the Daily Ireland are the two most improved papers over the past seven or eight months. The examiner is really a national paper now and they do brill reports on health etc...politically they are more populists than the right wing Indo and the increasingly right wing Times.

Daily Ireland is only a year old or so but I think its improving all the time, it is defo republican and left wing, but at least it prvoides some choice in the market. Some of the front pages and interviews are excellent, and you find stuff there you just will not get anywhere else.:D

I know the Village is not a paper but it has improved so much recently as well, excellent in fact.

I really think Irish people should almost boycott the crap British tabloids!:mad: