What newspaper do you read? (Poll)

face1990

The whole Daily Mail/Tribune kerfuffle got me wondering, what newspapers do boardsies read, and why?

Also, do any of you only buy Sunday papers, or buy papers every day but Sunday?


Personally, I used to get the Indo all the time but I felt it was getting increasingly tabloidy. When the Indo devoted an entire two page spread and half the front page to who Ryan Tubridy went with to some award show, I switched to the Times.

Sometimes I get the free Metro papers or Northside People, sometimes to enjoy in an ironic way.

Run_to_da_hills

Hard copies: Irish Times.

BraziliaNZ

The metro when having coffee at work. The Guardian, the Irish Independent **hides face**, and the Irish Times online. The Guardian is good for covering all kinds of topics.

bluecatmorgana

The Irish Times or the Guardian
The rest are skank

starbelgrade

I don't read any newspapers.

Ricardo G

The daily sport if i'm on my own
Otherwise The mirror

face1990

Forgot to put the Guardian in the poll :P
If a mod would like to add it, I would much appreciate it!

Coriolanus

Hard copy: The Irish Times, English Times, Guardian and English Independent. But none of the above every day or even a paper six days a week. Usually just when the fancy strikes me when I'm out on lunch and don't have a book or my Android.

starbelgrade

Nevore wrote: »

Hard copy: The Irish Times, English Times, Guardian and English Independent. But none of the above every day or even a paper six days a week. Usually just when the fancy strikes me when I'm out on lunch and don't have a book or my Android.

You have a robot?

Cool.

Coriolanus

starbelgrade wrote: »

You have a robot?

Cool.

It's a sexbot.

OPENROAD

The London Times-online

London Evening Standard (online) - excellent evening newspaper, used to cost about 30p, its now free :eek:

Guardian- Good for sport particularly on a saturday

Daily Mail (English edition) when in London. Saturday and Sunday editions-otherwise just read the weekly editions for free in coffee shops.

Really think our own newspapers are far too expensive.

juma

Why isnt the Farmer's Journal listed in the poll?

ordinary_girl

I regularly read the Guardian.

CoalBucket

The Cork Examiner boy

pablomakaveli

The examiner is my preferred choice. I read the independant sometimes but not the sindo. The sindo just seems to be 2 pages of news and then the rest of it is columnist tripe.

I sometimes read the star as well though not much nowadays.

Capt'n Midnight

Today's sindo messed up on the review of the Louth Constituency, printed Dublin West twice instead of Louth :rolleyes:

PeterIanStaker

The Irish Times is the least worst I suppose. Wouldn't buy any of O'Reilly's rags, and the tabloids are simply celebrity obsessed prolefeed that I'd only flick through while waiting in the barber's.

Stinicker

I read the Cork Examiner also and occasionally the Irish Times, as a rule I never buy that Fianna Fail propaganda rag the Independent. It almost makes Fox News look liberal in its bias towards the party of Traitors.

RayM

I buy the occasional hard copy of the Irish Times and usually read the Guardian/observer online.

I liked the Tribune until it went down-market and became little more than a marginally less vacuous alternative to the Sunday Independent. It's a shame the Irish Times doesn't have the money to step in and save it. A quality Sunday paper would be nice.

Asphyxia

I usually read whatever my father has bought

Irish Independent
Daily Mirror
Irish Sun
Kilkenny People
Tipp Star

I sometimes read the Metro and other ones online.

Metallitroll

troll poll? the Sun

DonkeyStyle \o/

What's a newspaper?

--LOS--

Read is quite a strong word


the metro, it's free!

Hate newspapers so much, lame excuse to make money, old news that was on the internet ages ago a lot of the time.

face1990

The widespread availablity of news online must have really hurt the newspaper industry.

The only reasons to buy newspapers now seems to be the convenience of it (being able to read it in places where a laptop would be awkward, or internet isnt available) and the aesthetic pleasure of reading a physical paper.

--LOS--

face1990 wrote: »

The widespread availablity of news online must have really hurt the newspaper industry.

The only reasons to buy newspapers now seems to be the convenience of it (being able to read it in places where a laptop would be awkward, or internet isnt available) and the aesthetic pleasure of reading a physical paper.

Ye but it also makes it easier for them to regurgitate stuff from the web.

face1990

--LOS-- wrote: »

Hate newspapers so much, lame excuse to make money, old news that was on the internet ages ago a lot of the time.

I find online news tends to be very brief accounts, with less detail than print versions, maybe because there's more space to fill in a hard-copy. The flip side is that you get a lot of filler-style waffle and pointless opinion pieces in papers.

Bosco boy

I used to read the sunday tribune but apparently I now read the daily mail!!!!!!

Senna

I read the Independent because its free from work. Normally start at the business page, then sports (normally has a good bit of golf), then just flick through the rest starting at the cover.

squeakyduck

I don't buy the paper myself, but if there is one in work I will read it even if it is from the day before! :P I love the metro when I'm on the way into work in the morning, catch some snippets of news before work and on my lunch.

I love reading the Irish Indo, but I find that it's richness of good newsy news has gone down recently, its starting to turn very tabloidy imo. Don't get me wrong I love the tabloids but its nice to read a good news paper every once in a while. Irish Life magazine is always read when I go home, my mum and dad keep them stockpiled for me because they know how I love it!:D:D

I love the guardian, I have it tabbed on google chrome, they do very good coverage of current affairs - the Chillian miners was fantastic live minute by minute updates and a stream. I find a lot of the news channels get news from the guardian too especially with the football transfers in the past week.

Pupito

Bosco boy wrote: »

I used to read the sunday tribune but apparently I now read the daily mail!!!!!!

Heh, yeah. I find that bizarre, it's not as though they have a similar editiorial line or anything. Kinda like people you see in pubs sometimes, they'll order a certain pint, only to be told that the Carlsberg/Heineken/whatever is off. "Ok then, I'll have a rum and coke instead".

Mint Sauce

Hard Copies -

The Indo once or twice a week
Irish Times at the weekend

Sligo Champion once a week
Donegal News when ever I go home for weekend

Online -

London Evening Standard

As for the S*n, wouldn't even use it if out of bog roll.

ScumLord

I don't buy any newspapers, I prefer to make up my own news.

RJGMovie

I used to read the Tribune but noticed it was becoming a womans/feminist paper. Even the competitions were only giving womens prizes like Spa Weekends away. Credit must go the the IMOS for their audacious stunt yesterday. For Sundays it will be Times or Mail.

During the week I read Metro, and Daily Star on Saturday. The Star has very good sports/racing coverage and does'nt take itself too seriously. :cool:

deise go deo

I read Gaelscéal, Its an Irish weekly paper.

--Kaiser--

The Sunday Times.
Irish papers are garbage

Renn

Option for 'I don't read any newspaper' is missing.

Sprrratt

Irish Times? Feckin geeks the lotta ya.

Kasabian

I can't read.

thenutflush

I only read the Sunday Independent "Life" magazine, just because I'm very immersed in Dublin's social scene, I suppose I'd consider myself to be part of this countries elite social circle. There was a brilliant article a few years back about how the young elite are managing to bravely deal with the recession, by cutting back on the number holidays per year and the designer clothes they buy, they were truly inspiring examples of how the upper middle class of this country are managing to whether this recession. I used to read the property supplements too but they seem to have disappeared for some reason.

Kasabian

thenutflush wrote: »

I only read the Sunday Independent "Life" magazine, just because I'm very immersed in Dublin's social scene, I suppose I'd consider myself to be part of this countries elite social circle. There was a brilliant article a few years back about how the young elite are managing to bravely deal with the recession, by cutting back on the number holidays per year and the designer clothes they buy, they were truly inspiring examples of how the upper middle class of this country are managing to whether this recession. I used to read the property supplements too but they seem to have disappeared for some reason.

The Sun really, go on admit it.

pajor

Might have a glance over the Irish Times website.
Read The Guardian if it's lying around at home or in the library in college

Last paper I bought was the French paper, Le Monde before Christmas in easons. But there has been a mysterious disappearance of French papers in this country since then...

Ditch

None. But there's no option for that answer. Might I be part of a vast, 'silenced' majority

mikemac

Used to buy the Daily Mail, now I can read a lot of the articles in After Hours instead

R0ot

Where is the "none" / "I don't read any" option.

Naikon

The Times and the Examiner. The rest are s.hite.

stevejr

Irish Independent...for the Cryptic Crossword.

Dave!

I check Irishtimes.com and reuters.com most days.

Haven't bought a newspaper in years. The good ones are too awkward to hold.

Buceph

I rarely buy a newspaper. But I read, the Irish Times, New York Times and BBC's news sites.

questionmark?

Irish Daily Mail and The Independent when in Ireland along with the local papers. I read the evening post when over in Bristol-land along with BBC news/RTE websites and of course after hours:D


When i read the papers i stick by the rule of thumb that is a paper is 10% news and 90% bull****e!

Azureus

I used to buy the Indo religiously until they reported on an incident I was relatively close to and they were tabloid-y, inaccurate, with no regard for the people involved. So I stopped for awhile. Then I started again and they started reporting about that facebook chick commenting on Michaela Hartes death. Pointless story so I rememebered why I had orginally stopped reading it and stopped again-for good this time.

Now I read the Times online, the Metro on work breaks and the Star at home (purely cuz the bf buys it in work every day and brings it home, bitta light entertainment at the end of the day!)

brokenhinge

I’ve read most of them again with a great appreciation for the press, for the media — Um, all of them, any of them that have been in front of me over all these years.