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Sunday Times Rich List

  • 18-05-2014 1:59pm
    #1
    Blondie919
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,454 ✭✭✭


    For two weeks in a row now the Sunday Times magazine is taken up with a list of the richest people in Ireland and the UK. Does anyone really care? I certainly don't. I'm broke or close to it every day so I couldn't care less who the wealthiest people are. I think it's a waste of paper and it's a waste of a magazine. There's usually interesting articles in the magazine but as soon as I saw what it held today and last Sunday I threw it in the bin. Do any of ye read it?


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  • #2
    brian_t
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,788 ✭✭✭brian_t


    Blondie919 wrote: »
    For two weeks in a row now the Sunday Times magazine is taken up with a list of the richest people in Ireland and the UK. Does anyone really care? I certainly don't. I'm broke or close to it every day so I couldn't care less who the wealthiest people are. I think it's a waste of paper and it's a waste of a magazine. There's usually interesting articles in the magazine but as soon as I saw what it held today and last Sunday I threw it in the bin. Do any of ye read it?

    I imagine that the Sunday Times would be surprised that someone who was broke was actually buying their newspaper.

    I don't think that you are their target readership.


  • #3
    Blondie919
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,454 ✭✭✭Blondie919


    Okay, so it was a slight overstatement but funds are low. The paper costs only €2.80. It's the only paper I buy. I threw the magazine in the bin but kept the rest.


  • #4
    brian_t
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,788 ✭✭✭brian_t


    I don't buy it myself but I will admit there is a lot of reading in it so it's relatively good value compared to some papers.

    I think that there are a reasonable number of people who do like reading about people who are very rich and/or famous.


  • #5
    feargale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    Are they not doing the taxman a favour by telling him about all the reddies these people have?


  • #6
    Lapin
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 18,184 ✭✭✭✭Lapin


    I like the Rich List. It's a harmless read and not to be taken too seriously.

    I also like reading how many of those in it started out with nothing and made it big. Good luck to them.


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  • #7
    coylemj
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,622 ✭✭✭✭coylemj


    All of it is wild speculation as most of the people have wealth that's tied up in property and companies that are based all over the place. How can you calculate Richard Branson's wealth - or the Queen of England? All garbage to sell papers.


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