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  • #2
    GhostInTheRuins
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,977 ✭✭✭GhostInTheRuins


    To be fair they only have space for a small headline on that page.


  • #3
    Six of One
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 197 ✭✭Six of One


    I see that. And I also know the content is more shocking than the lack of vowels in the headline! But I still think it's not good enough. Fitting headlines into spaces is what them there media types do isn't it?! :)

    I'd hate to have to read this sort of thing regularly. I thought at first it was a farmer Christian Brother!


  • #4
    Max Power1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,272 ✭✭✭✭Max Power1


    To be fair should we not be reading the subject matter, which is a lot more important than whether RTE abbreviate their headlines?


  • #5
    dublintuition
    Closed Accounts Posts: 115 ✭✭dublintuition


    GhostInTheRuins wrote: »
    To be fair they only have space for a small headline on that page.


    They should have shortened 'brother' in that case


  • #6
    Euro_Kraut
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,957 ✭✭✭Euro_Kraut


    GhostInTheRuins wrote: »
    To be fair they only have space for a small headline on that page.

    'Ex-Christian Brother...' would have worked too.


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  • #7
    GhostInTheRuins
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,977 ✭✭✭GhostInTheRuins


    Euro_Kraut wrote: »
    'Ex-Christian Brother...' would have worker too.

    Yeah that would work.

    I can't see any reason why it's shortened on the article page though - http://www.rte.ie/news/2009/0623/drummondsj.html


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