The Most Boring Article Ever

Mr.David

Brought to you, courtesy of today's Irish Independent. Hilariously weak!

Rachel must take car, bus and bike to get to her work

Rachel Last spends up to four hours on the road every day commuting from her home in Mornington in Co Louth to her job in Dublin city centre.

She uses a combination of her own car, public transport, walking and city bikes for maximum speed.

Rachel works for a software company on Harcourt Street.

“I leave home at 7am to get to work at 9am and if I leave any later than that I’m late for work. Ten minutes makes all the difference,” she said.

“I drive from Mornington to Coolock to drop my eight-year-old son Dylan to my mam’s.

“I park in the village where kids get off the bus for school because it means I have a better chance of getting on.

“Otherwise the bus could be full up and it will drive by. “

It takes Rachel about 45 minutes on the bus to get to work if she catches a bus which passes by her office door.

“Sometimes it’s quicker to get a bus to Connolly Station and walk up to Harcourt Street, which takes about twenty minutes, or get a city bike which only takes about 10 minutes.”

http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/rachel-must-take-car-bus-and-bike-to-get-to-her-work-30334165.html

MY CUP OF TEA

yes...you're right

Nash Bridges

It's like a bad Junior Cert English essay.

That just about sums up the quality of reporting in the Indo I think.

AlanDeGenerous

That's 30 seconds of my life I'll never get back....

Wossack

Louth person with dublin job in commuting shocker

Hande hoche!

Hard hitting journalism.

BizzyC

Was there a point to that article other than letting us know how she gets to work?

MRnotlob606

aww poor rachel get that woman a medal.

My name is URL

At least they didn't try to implicate Gerry Adams

Alf. A. Male

We should help her out. Have a whipround, put me down for 20 lashes.

blade1

AlanDeGenerous wrote: »

That's 30 seconds of my life I'll never get back....

You were warned beforehand!

Cienciano

Clodagh Sheehy must be in the running for a Pulitzer Prize after that article.

The Backwards Man

Shoddy journalism. The Daily Mail would have had what age she is and what value her house is.

mike65

Intern level, she won't make it. But she is getting an extra 50 euro a week!

Tangatagamadda Chaddabinga Bonga Bungo

A two hour commute sucks big time. That's two hours you could spend playing a farming simulator game instead of wasting your time away.

Cienciano

The Backwards Man wrote: »

Shoddy journalism. The Daily Mail would have had what age she is and what value her house is.

And would tell us if she was "busty" or not

The Backwards Man

Cienciano wrote: »

And would tell us if she was "busty" or not

Na, that's the Sun

The Mirror would tell us she worked as a 'boffin'.

kneemos

Does it tell us why she can't drive to work?

topper75

Indo Exclusive:
MY COMMUTE HELL
Busty Louth Boffin reveals all

Pic: A bicycle locked against a lamppost

Ash.J.Williams

She never said what she had for breakfast.

FreshKnickers

Meh, I've had boringier.

Caliden

Just read it before opening this thread and after the reaching the end I thought to myself, "where's the rest of this article, what point are they trying to get at?"

Larianne

Ann likes Cake.
Barry likes Jam.

whirlpool

HA!

It's like an article that would be in the Junior Cert French exam - for higher level it would be in French, for Ordinary level it would be in English, and you'd have to answer questions on it.

They may be going for the "world's most pointless piece of journalism ever" guinness world record though.

Donkey Oaty

Caliden wrote: »

Just read it before opening this thread and after the reaching the end I thought to myself, "where's the rest of this article, what point are they trying to get at?"

It's not clear from the internet link, but presumably it's an add-on to this article about Dublin's traffic congestion, which quotes Leo Varadkar as saying

“My own feeling from living in Dublin, and travelling to various other locations, is that congestion in the city has actually reduced in the last ten years".

“It doesn’t ring true,” he added, commenting on the international traffic report which put Dublin sixth in Europe and tenth in the world for city traffic congestion.“Galway is more congested than Dublin - so I’d like to read the report and study it,” said Mr Varadkar.He insisted a lot of improvements had been made in pedestrian facilities, the cycling infrastructure and the Luas cross city link being built at the moment.

mosstin

My name is URL wrote: »

At least they didn't try to implicate Gerry Adams

We don't know if she makes it home from work yet, so nothing can be ruled out.

catallus

I don't see the problem.

This article is informative and easy to read.

It won't be winning any Pulitzers but as an example of informative journalism it does what it says on the tin.

Oink

My name is URL wrote: »

At least they didn't try to implicate Gerry Adams

Exactly. There is a clearly a cover-up here. The blatant collusion within this Fenian coterie of newspapers, Gardai, the RUC, and Dublin Bus is there for all to see. But the people want the truth, and they will get the truth.

jimgoose

Mmm. Strong is the Couldn't-Give-A-Rattlin'-Scuttery-Fuck with this one.

My name is URL

I expected the author of the article to be some young one just starting out as a journalist

I was wrong

KungPao

My name is URL wrote: »

I expected the author of the article to be some young one just starting out as a journalist

I was wrong

Looks a little old for an intern alright.

I'm glad she has brought this poor commuter's plight to my attention. It has been a real eye opener and certainly food for thought!

Sunglasses Ron

How much are Indo journos actually paid, the new ones anyway? Surely very few people buy papers anymore, and their mobile app is terrible (it is the only app I know of with a pop up advert when you launch it). I would hazard a guess at below 21k?

jimgoose

Sunglasses Ron wrote: »

How much are Indo journos actually paid, the new ones anyway? Surely very few people buy papers anymore, and their mobile app is terrible (it is the only app I know of with a pop up advert when you launch it). I would hazard a guess at below 21k?

The Indo is excellent. I bought one the other day to fill gaps between two bits of wall so I could cover the joint with plaster.

GLaDOS

I assumed the OP hadn't quoted the full article and clicked into the link expecting to get the full story.

I was wrong.

Sunglasses Ron

jimgoose wrote: »

The Indo is excellent. I bought one the other day to fill gaps between two bits of wall so I could cover the joint with plaster.

So you're the c'unt who bought the last one from my local Londis on Tuesday morning.

I had to dig deeper and buy a four pack of Andrex thanks to you.

sbsquarepants

She should rent a room from Alison O'Riordan - synergy in action, it would be a win/win for all concerned:D

KTRIC

I don't know about you lads but I want to hear more about Rachel Last and her amazing exciting life !! :rolleyes:

MonkeyTennis

This is SCANDALOUS!!!

Mornington is in Meath.

Donkey Oaty

KTRIC wrote: »

I don't know about you lads but I want to hear more about Rachel Last and her amazing exciting life !! :rolleyes:

Here you go: from the Evening Herald, 21 December 2010

A Dublin mum told of how it took her and her five-year-old son almost four hours to get home while using the M50 and M1 Motorways last night.

Rachel Last (25) works in Mulhuddart in West Dublin and travels there from her home in Drogheda, Co Louth, every day.

Last night, it took her an hour to get from Blanchardstown to Clonshaugh in North Dublin -- a journey that would normally take 20 minutes.

But there was worse to come -- it took her another three hours to get from Clonshaugh to her home in Drogheda.

"On a good day, I could drive from Mulhuddart to Drogheda in one hour and 15 minutes.

"My son Dylan goes to school in Clonshaugh, which is where his grandparents live, and I pick him up from there every evening after work."

Rachel and Dylan left Clonshaugh at 6.30pm last night -- reaching their Drogheda home at 9.30pm.

"I should have known to turn back when it took me 45 minutes to get from the N32 to Dublin Airport -- that journey would normally take five minutes.

"But I thought because I had made it so far, I might as well power on

"As soon as I saw the traffic, I turned around and said to my son 'Dylan, look at this', but he was asleep," she said.

Thankfully, he slept soundly as they made the three-and-a-half hour trip back home to Drogheda.

"Traffic inched slowly from Dublin Airport until the second exit in Balbriggan. It took me two hours to get there. It was exhausting. Traffic wasn't moving and motorists were getting out of their cars as they were desperate to go to the toilet or just to stretch their legs."

Thinking she had passed the worst, Rachel continued on with her journey.

"However, as I passed through Julianstown, in Co Meath, it appeared the roads hadn't been gritted or snow cleared so nobody could see any road markings.

"Traffic wasn't heavy here, but motorists just couldn't see where they were going. It was really dangerous.

"At this stage, I saw a number of people getting out of their vehicles and sticking their hazard lights on in the hard shoulder. They couldn't go any further.

"We eventually reached our front door at 9.30pm -- Dylan woke up and had no idea how long it had taken."

http://www.herald.ie/news/mum-endures-a-nightmare-journey-but-dylan-5-sleeps-all-the-way-home-27969468.html

MonkeyTennis

Wow!

Alf Veedersane

Has Rachel been on the Liveline yet?

MonkeyTennis

MonkeyTennis wrote: »

Wow!

Such news. So interest.

Nash Bridges

Tomorrow from the same author, "Ann and Barry go to the Zoo".

AnonoBoy

So every few years someone writes an article about how this woman gets to work?

Is this like a boring commuting version of the Up series on BBC.

jimgoose

AnonoBoy wrote: »

So every few years someone writes an article about how this woman gets to work?

Is this like a boring commuting version of the Up series on BBC.

I think it's the Irish version of Fifth Gear. :pac:

Renegade Mechanic

mike65 wrote: »

Intern level, she won't make it. But she is getting an extra 50 euro a week!

Yeah but will she be able to eat off it....?

FunLover18

How come Rachel is getting all the attention?

I presume she wasn't stuck in a one car traffic jam for five hours! I think we need to hear from the other mums and sleeping toddlers

logically

Willing to bet this is an article in progress that got published by mistake and hasn't been noticed yet by the web editors or what not.

kneemos

catallus wrote: »

I don't see the problem.

This article is informative and easy to read.

It won't be winning any Pulitzers but as an example of informative journalism it does what it says on the tin.

Except the information needs a point.