Best Newspaper in Ireland?

lufties

In fact I should change it to, Is there any decent ones?

The Independent is toxic with 'celeb' nonsense. So what else, The Irish times? meh...

Hande hoche!

I like the Irish times and it's crossword. I predict Daily Mail bashing

lufties

Hande hoche! wrote: »

I like the Irish times and it's crossword. I predict Daily Mail bashing

DM is a tabloid, Indo is a tabloid dressed up as a broadsheet

gramar

What is this newspaper that you speak of?

newport2

Hande hoche! wrote: »

I like the Irish times and it's crossword. I predict Daily Mail bashing

I used to agree with this, but the IT has gone really downhill in the last couple of years. In the last year particularly it has been making huge bids to become the new Guardian.

Still like the crossword though.

artanevilla

The Sun was till they got rid of the tits.

newport2

artanevilla wrote: »

The Sun was till they got rid of the tits.

Thousands of tits still keep the Sun in business

Hande hoche!

lufties wrote: »

DM is a tabloid, Indo is a tabloid dressed up as a broadsheet

Yep they moved entirely to the "metro" format and abandoned the broadsheet.

Robbo

The Skibereen Eagle, mainly because thanks to their efforts we've never had any bother with the Tsar of Russia.

loves_tea

the farmers journal

Legs.Eleven

Not a huge amount to choose from (at least in Dublin). The Times is grand and has some decent journalism in it. I don't read any of the rest. My local paper, the Fingal Indo, is good for a laugh and for a bit of gossip; twas particularly funny when they reported my brother going to court for pissing in public. I think he might've framed it and hung it on his wall. Hard-hitting news there I think you'll agree.

brevity

The (Cork) Examiner is quite good, I'd tend to pick that out of any of the others

anncoates

The SINDO.

It's sometimes more than I can bear midweek to wait for Barry Egan's pithy chronicles of being a ginger, hamster-faced shortarse inexplicably granted access to the bon mots of Irish models and socialites..

Amirani

Irish Times is the only one I'd really buy. Standards have dropped as a result of cost-cutting for sure, but there's still a few decent contributors that are always worth a read.

Hande hoche!

anncoates wrote: »

The SINDO.

It's sometimes more than I can bear midweek to wait for Barry Egan's pithy chronicles of being a ginger, hamster-faced shortarse inexplicably granted access to the bon mots of Irish models and socialites..

There is a tremendous amount of cleavage on show in their Life magazine.

burnhardlanger

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30 cent. UK focused but still, it's 30 cent!

mickydoomsux

The Irish Times is the best paper for news and analysis but they can be frightfully middle-class at times with a bit to much hand-wringing about certain social issues.

The Indo is fairly poor and The Sun/Star/Mirror are literally all the exact same waste-of-good-ink&paper garbage. I seriously don't know why anyone who even consider spending money on them. Celeb gossip, wacky stories pulled of the net and half the paper is sports. Utter rubbish.

Aidric

brevity wrote: »

The (Cork) Examiner is quite good, I'd tend to pick that out of any of the others

It would benefit from a design overhaul imo. That layout and font grate the eyes. Can't be faulted for their strong sports coverage.

lufties

mickydoomsux wrote: »

The Irish Times is the best paper for news and analysis but they can be frightfully middle-class at times with a bit to much hand-wringing about certain social issues.

The Indo is fairly poor and The Sun/Star/Mirror are literally all the exact same waste-of-good-ink&paper garbage. I seriously don't know why anyone who even consider spending money on them. Celeb gossip, wacky stories pulled of the net and half the paper is sports. Utter rubbish.

i was just gonna say there's plenty of fighting talk on the IT, which doesn't seem to reflect the apathetic mood of the nation.

hfallada

The Irish times is the only paper that is anything like a newspaper. The Irish independent is literally opinion pieces that which are Often an unhealthy obsession with gay people or property.

biko

Galway Advertiser is best.

lufties

hfallada wrote: »

The Irish times is the only paper that is anything like a newspaper. The Irish independent is literally opinion pieces that which are Often an unhealthy obsession with gay people or property.

That ****ing Indo is just a biohazard in general, I stay well clear.

Rabelais

I buy the Sindo most Sunday's. It's a good laugh and manages to wind up lots of people.

It can also be fun to visit here and politics.ie and see the usual shinnerbots and lunatic lefties apoplectic with rage at an article some Sindo hack knocked together during his Wednesday afternoon sobriety.

Love reading about Gerald and Lisa as well.

lufties

Rabelais wrote: »

I buy the Sindo most Sunday's. It's a good laugh and manages to wind up lots of people.

It can also be fun to visit here and politics.ie and see the usual shinnerbots and lunatic lefties apoplectic with rage at an article some Sindo hack knocked together during his Wednesday afternoon soberity.

Love reading about Gerald and Lisa as well.

Barry is that you?

Rabelais

lufties wrote: »

Barry is that you?

Yes it is. Here in Sindo Towers we are obsessed with the opinions and viewpoints expressed by spotty students on message boards. AH really captures the zeitgeist when it comes to gauging the hopes, fears and aspirations of Middle Ireland.

It's also a virtual Senate of philosophers, rationalists, economists, geopolitical experts and scientists. Stunning place.

Mint Sauce

Donegal News/Democrat

anncoates

Rabelais wrote: »

Love reading about Gerald and Lisa as well.

Alas, the Andy and Edie of the Irish celebrity firmament are no more

Alf Veedersane

anncoates wrote: »

The SINDO.

It's sometimes more than I can bear midweek to wait for Barry Egan's pithy chronicles of being a ginger, hamster-faced shortarse inexplicably granted access to the bon mots of Irish models and socialites..

Barry's a magician. He can conjure an article out of thin air.

Like the article he wrote on meeting Nigella and she didn't take drugs.

There was probably even a picture of her cleavage.

Rabelais

anncoates wrote: »

Alas, the Andy and Edie of the Irish celebrity firmament are no more

That's what you think! Sources close to the couple tell me they were seen staring lovingly into each others eyes in Chapter One on Sunday evening.

cosy_deal

their isn't any good newspapers in this country

the sindo is hysterically anti republican - sinn fein

the irish times is hysterically PC

the rest don't warrant comment

Aidric

Rabelais wrote: »

Sources close to the couple tell me they were seen staring lovingly into each others eyes in Chapter One on Sunday evening.

An interested onlooker also noted a bulge in Gerard's pants.

Phill Ewinn

Since the job pages disappeared, the property adverts died and reviews of crappy little diesel cars took over I stopped buying newspapers.

When I do want to read yesterdays sports results, listen to opinion of some fat old tart and look at depressing headlines I'll get a free copy in McDonalds.

old hippy

anncoates wrote: »

The SINDO.

It's sometimes more than I can bear midweek to wait for Barry Egan's pithy chronicles of being a ginger, hamster-faced shortarse inexplicably granted access to the bon mots of Irish models and socialites..

I seem to recall Barry did the stand up gigs back in the day, now that's when he was genuinely funny & a decent skin. Unless I imagined it all. Once you fall under the Sindo's shadow you undergo a metamorphosis...