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Is The Sunday World Just A Fanzine for Criminals?

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    #32
    ToddyDoody
    Registered Users Posts: 4,421 ✭✭✭ToddyDoody


    LivelineDipso wrote: »
    I think it is. It makes stars out of the sociopaths.

    It is also one of the reasons people claim we have a "lawless" society when we live in onw of the safest countries on the planet.

    It'll be whatever you want it to be (including toilet paper)


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    #33
    tipptom
    Registered Users Posts: 4,219 ✭✭✭tipptom


    mikemac1 wrote: »
    I see Gerry Hutch's limos around Ballyfermot all the time.

    I used to think limos were for rich and successful people.

    Now I know they are used by loud skangers
    Think Gerry is viewed as an ordinary decent criminal by them now.


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    #34
    Our man in Havana
    Closed Accounts Posts: 29,476 ✭✭✭✭Our man in Havana


    The sunday worst is read by the same people who watch TV3 and think xposé is a quality news programme. It is a paper for the lowest common denominator.


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    #35
    tipptom
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    Our man in Havana wrote: »
    The sunday worst is read by the same people who watch TV3 and think xposé is a quality news programme. It is a paper for the lowest common denominator.
    I think the Tallafornia cast of chavs are the biggest customers for the Hutches limosines but they have to pay for them themselves cause TV3 wont pony up.


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    #36
    JTMan
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    The frightening thing is that the Sunday World sells over 200,000 copies a week and it is the second largest selling newspaper in Ireland.

    The good news is sales of this rag are down 8% year-on-year and sales are in terminal decline like the rest of the newspaper industry. Its owner IN&M is in well documented serious trouble. The Sunday World may only have a short life left.


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    #37
    charlemont
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    I wouldn't think they glorify crime because most of these stories always end the same with long prison sentences or a bullet to the head.


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    #38
    tipptom
    Registered Users Posts: 4,219 ✭✭✭tipptom


    Fungus wrote: »
    The frightening thing is that the Sunday World sells over 200,000 copies a week and it is the second largest selling newspaper in Ireland.

    The good news is sales of this rag are down 8% year-on-year and sales are in terminal decline like the rest of the newspaper industry. Its owner IN&M is in well documented serious trouble. The Sunday World may only have a short life left.
    Its still a massive circulation alongside the Sindo which pains me to say but they are quite admirable figures,think IN&M s problems were more their foreign investments.


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    #39
    Miss Lockhart
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,639 ✭✭✭Miss Lockhart


    There's no denying that this paper is a totally sensationalist rag. I also agree that the stupid nicknames are cringeworthy.

    However, I agree with the poster who said that a lot of what is covered would go unreported by the rest of the Irish media - and I don't think that's right either.

    Also, I am in the unfortunate position of knowing one of the crime families regularly covered by the paper pretty well - and I can tell you they HATE the Sunday World and Paul Williams. They certainly don't see it as them being glorified or bigged up.


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    #40
    tipptom
    Registered Users Posts: 4,219 ✭✭✭tipptom


    I think Paul Williams wants to be a bigger celebrity than than the skangers he turns in to celebritys


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    #41
    darkdubh
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,628 ✭✭✭darkdubh


    Why are all these guy's called Fat or Fatty something or other?It's all Fatty Thompson McFatty Fathead The Fat Don The Big Fat Penguin O,Fatface.


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    #42
    gobnaitolunacy
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    darkdubh wrote: »
    Why are all these guy's called Fat or Fatty something or other?It's all Fatty Thompson McFatty Fathead The Fat Don The Big Fat Penguin O,Fatface.

    The rise in criminal obesity?


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    #43
    Lenin Skynard
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,970 ✭✭✭Lenin Skynard


    One of these days Paul Williams is going to hire someone to shoot him in the shoulder just so he seems more legitimate. I mean Veronica Guerin got seven shades of sh1t knocked out of her and was eventually shot dead. Paul Williams hasn't had so much as a snot flicked at him, there must be a lot he's missing because the criminals don't seem bothered about him at all.


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    #44
    dd972
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    Fungus wrote: »
    The frightening thing is that the Sunday World sells over 200,000 copies a week and it is the second largest selling newspaper in Ireland.

    The good news is sales of this rag are down 8% year-on-year and sales are in terminal decline like the rest of the newspaper industry. Its owner IN&M is in well documented serious trouble. The Sunday World may only have a short life left.

    Good riddance to the print media, especially the tabs when they go over the cliff


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    #45
    Wattle
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    Paul Williams used to live near me. One day I went down to the local shops and there he was getting out of his car which he had parked really badly, practically blocking the pavement. I really wanted to go up to him and say 'Mr Williams. That parking is absolutely criminal'.


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    #46
    gbee
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    LivelineDipso wrote: »
    I think it is. It makes stars out of the sociopaths.

    It is also one of the reasons people claim we have a "lawless" society when we live in onw of the safest countries on the planet.

    TBH, I feel we are living in an under reported crime society, they shoot journalists, don't they.


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    #47
    The Dagda
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    Paul Williams doesn't write for the Sunday World anymore :confused:


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    #48
    tipptom
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    The Dagda wrote: »
    Paul Williams doesn't write for the Sunday World anymore :confused:
    Why are you confused by that?


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    #49
    Lapin
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    The only thing worth reading in that rag since Houlihan died is Pub Spy.

    The rest of the paper is a complete fúckload of mind polluting drivel.


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    #50
    The Dagda
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    tipptom wrote: »
    Why are you confused by that?

    People, you included, keep mentioning him in this thread about the Sunday World.


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