What are your favourite Sunday Newspapers?

Tom Dunne

I was going to start a poll, but no doubt I would leave out some of the trash rags, so we will leave it free text.

So, what Sunday newspapers do you read and why?

I buy the Sunday Times and the Business Post. Primarily because I can't stand anything remotely tabloidy, such as the Sunday Independent and The Tribune.

While the Sunday Times still is essentially a British paper with an Irish wrapper, I still find most of it quite refreshing to read. I read the SBP because it has generally a balanced view on current affairs, with none of the hysteria.

Pen1987

I bought the Sunday Tribune every week for about 8 years and was quite happy with it until its recent redesign.

Some elements of the "new" Trib I really hate. A social diarist has no place in a sunday broadsheet, kick your man Sweeney out. The Billy Keane column is... urgh... I'm not even bothered beginning, where did he come from?

Still, I quite like Una Mullaly's work and Ken Foxe is a solid addition. Michael Clifford is a good journalist but I find his writing style very difficult to read, his syntax seems to be all over the place - maybe it's just me. Other than that... there seems to be FAR more opinion pieces since the re-styling. Not a good thing. I liked the old Trib much more. I wish they were more of a sunday edition of the IT than a poorer sister to the Sindo. I believe the IT idea was the original aim of the Trib.

The Sunday Times. Great newspaper but its so west-brit it drives me nuts. I wish the newsroom in Dublin had more control over what they cover. If it had more of an Irish angle on world news I'd buy it much more. Their stable of journalists is great, John Mooney on crime, Richard Oakley on pol, Colm Coyle is another good journo and Mark Tighe will probably be one of the best journalists in this country in 6/7 years time, he's only 25/26 now. Unfortunately I dont think they are used to their full potential.

The Paul Williams. Not a fan of tabliods but I can make a bit of an excuse for the SW just to read what P-Willy came up with this week, everything else is extra. An "entertaining" read, at times.

The Sindo. *pukes*... sadly it attracts so many (clueless) readers that the Trib is attempting to copy it, terrible. I actually think some people buy it to see what hilarious ****e they came up with this week. They must buy it in some sort of ritual cleansing of the soul, reading it kind of helps you believe you are in fact a good person - there is no way you could be as awful as the people producing this excuse for a newspaper. The sad fact is, the core news journalists - as in people who were serious journalists before the Sindo went down the swanny at 3AM - are still good journalists, theyre just muzzled by an editor/management so bias towards opinion over news that theyre hidden by all the ****e.

I wish there was an Irish sunday version of the NY Times, or even a more politcally central Guardian.

Sad Professor

I usually buy the SBP and/or the Sunday Times. I work most Sundays though so there's no point in buying several papers but when I'm off I'll usually pick up The Observer and the Independent on Sunday as well.

Aidric

I think The Observer is a great read from start to finish, great size as well. In terms of the Irish Sundays I'll usually plump for The Sunday Tribune.

J.S. Pill

Pen1987 wrote: »

The Sindo. *pukes*... sadly it attracts so many (clueless) readers that the Trib is attempting to copy it, terrible.

Too right

I only buy the sunday business post, I like the independent on sunday aswell but the shop across the road from me doesn't stock the english papers and there is no way I'm walking into town first thing sunday morning.

deisebabe

the tribune...and the mail....i know...quality....but the weeks tv bit is dead handy

gaf1983

I like the Sunday Times for its sports coverage, I rate Denis Walsh and Peter O'Reilly very highly, and its football coverage is very comprehensive. Also there can be interesting pieces in the Magazine from time to time, yesterday A.A. Gill wrote about his recent trip to Iceland to see how the locals are coping from its transformation from one of the richest countries per capita in the world to "the Big Issue seller of Europe." Not too mad about Liam Fay's pieces however.

Find the Sunday Business Post can be very good for features. I like the Tribune but it is choc-a-bloc with op-ed pieces, I always found this to be the case though.

Don't really like the Sunday Independent for many of the reasons outlined by other posters in another thread near here, for more on that topic you can check out the Facebook group entitled Isn't the Sunday Independent utter rubbish? Have to say though that I enjoy reading Gene Kerrigan (though he rarely seems to offer solutions to problems he rails about) and Cathal McCarthy when he features. Brendan O'Connor, on the other hand, comes across as a sneering bully.

Aidric

gaf1983 wrote: »

Not too mad about Liam Fay's pieces however.

Ha, I don't think I've ever seen him give a positive TV review.

Rosedale6

I really like the New of the world, but forget to buy it half the time.

Tom Dunne

Rosedale6 wrote: »

I really like the New of the world, but forget to buy it half the time.

If you don't mind me askning, why? To me, it's the cream of tabloid trash, devoid of any reading material. Although, admittedly, it's a long, long time since I actually read one.

jdivision

NOTW is very good at what it does. It knows what it is and has no pretensions. There's a reason it's won newspaper of the year for most of the past decade.

Tom Dunne

jdivision wrote: »

NOTW is very good at what it does.

Which is what? I'm not trying to be provocative here, I genuinely haven't a clue what you are talking about.

Just having a look at their website, it seems to be the usual tabloid rubbish of celebrity nonsense, human interest "tragedies" and sport. Staple tabloid drivel for the uninitiated, as far as I can see.

jdivision

Yes, you're right but if you accept that you'll realise they do it far better than anybody else. They've also broken some important stories in their time. The great rumour is they have a safe full of stuff that they can never print.

monument

Whether out on the town or not, I normally by the SBP on Saturday night. From there it depending how busy, or how lazy, I'll be on Sunday. I've likened to the Sunday Times recently, used to prefer the Tribune, but I buy it less since it's been dragged into the ditch. The Observer would be next. I more or less randomly buy others sometimes. And the very odd time I've gotten almost all the Sundays.

Kevster

The Sunday Times is by far the best in my opinion, but my mother buys the Sunday World. I always give out to her about it, because it's just a pile of ****e.

IRE60

Kevster wrote: »

The Sunday Times is by far the best in my opinion, but my mother buys the Sunday World. I always give out to her about it, because it's just a pile of ****e.

I think the Sunday Times was better - it seems, currently, not to concentrate too much on the ‘Irish edition’, which it did in the past. I buy the SBP (out of a kind of necessity really - just in case there is something in it) and literally ever week regret it. I but the Observer - great paper on a Sunday and good business/media section and I but the Sunday World - so there!

monkey9

What journalist's work i just really cannot read is Roy Curtis in the Sunday World's sport's section. The bloke thinks he's hilarious.......and he's not. Completely unreadable!

Darragh29

I like reading Brendan O' Connor in the Sindo, he is usually on the front page so I can get it on the internet, 'cos the paper isn't worth buying just to read one article!

I always get the SB Post...

Tom Dunne

Isn't it a sad state of affairs that the only decent Irish paper appears to be the SBP? All the others are either tabloid trash, or Oirish editions of UK newspapers.

K4t

Sunday Independent. Only reason is for Gene Kerrigan and to see what crazy views Eilish O'Reagan has come up with.

Life magazine makes me sick but I'll flick through to find a nice picture.

HALLOW RUBY

The Sunday Times most weeks. Great Sports Section in it.

GusherING

Tom Dunne wrote: »

Isn't it a sad state of affairs that the only decent Irish paper appears to be the SBP? All the others are either tabloid trash, or Oirish editions of UK newspapers.

The SBP is probably the best Irish Sunday paper but its biggest problem is that half the articles have been written days before Sunday. It always feels a bit out of date!

Pen1987

Darragh29 wrote: »

I like reading Brendan O' Connor in the Sindo, he is usually on the front page so I can get it on the internet, 'cos the paper isn't worth buying just to read one article!

I always get the SB Post...

... the man can hardly read let alone write. Absolute tripe every single week. The only reason to read that would be to marvel at how such muck ever got on the front page of a supposedly broadsheet newspaper.

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