The best and worst Irish websites?

Gerry Rio

Best:

Waterford Whispers News

Breakingnews.ie

Broadsheet.iie

Worst:

Joe.ie. Absolute clickbait bollix of the lowest order.

Thejournal.ie. Copy and paste. Copy and paste. Copy and paste. Copy and paste. Copy and paste. Copy and paste. Copy and paste. Copy and paste. Repeat .


Somewhere in the middle:

Boards.ie

Reddit Ireland.




Whats yours?

The_Valeyard

Breakingnews.ie is nearly as bad as thejournal.ie

Birneybau

I'm not just sucking up but Boards.ie is up there with the best. Broadsheet is pretty good too and fair play to them for their campaigns, especially the not backing down to Denis O'Brien.

Joe.ie is fcuking awful, as is the Journal and I've never seen a link to Her.ie that wasn't willfully misleading.

Wacker The Attacker

rte sport is a horrific website.


Theyre still waiting on the results of the 1982 world cup

shampoosuicide

best : don't really like anything

worst : Joe.ie

most overrated: WWN. the headlines can sometimes be worth a chuckle but the satire itself is very weak. think the guy who runs it is pretty clever in an opportunistic sense though

Riesen_Meal

The Emobile top up site...

Fcuk me, it's like a Java scripted horror film!

Gerry Rio

The_Valeyard wrote: »

Breakingnews.ie is nearly as bad as thejournal.ie

Ive never found them to copy as much stuff as The Journal. And if they do at least they get there first. Hence their name I suppose.

Gerry Rio

Birneybau wrote: »

Joe.ie is fcuking awful, as is the Journal and I've never seen a link to Her.ie that wasn't willfully misleading.

Joe and Her have the same owners. Both are equally horrific.

The Backwards Man

The Journal have a story tonight about blu tac bandits that's so bad it's hilarious.

Birneybau

Gerry Rio wrote: »

Joe and Her have the same owners. Both are equally horrific.

I'm well aware. This chancer:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niall_McGarry

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2057464614 (Actually, that's one of your threads )

Gerry Rio

Was it powercity.ie that was once voted the worst in Ireland back in its dayglo late 90s and early 00s look?

They have certainly cleaned up their act since.

Sir Osis of Liver.

Best:boards.ie

Worst:boards.ie(especially when I wake up to a previous nights drunken posts)

Does Aine Chambers have any site?

That would be the best.

cml387

Birneybau wrote: »

I'm well aware. This chancer:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niall_McGarry

Looks to me like an entry well overdue for an edit, or two.

Joziburg

RTE.ie needs a revamp imo

Birneybau

cml387 wrote: »

Looks to me like an entry well overdue for an edit, or two.

By not him.

deaddonkey15

Gerry Rio wrote: »

Joe and Her have the same owners. Both are equally horrific.

I absolutely detest joe.ie, but if there is one Irish website that is even worse, it's her.ie. Nothing but poorly written, cringey, "girlz klub!", horsesh*t.

Arsemageddon

Birneybau wrote: »

I'm well aware. This chancer:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niall_McGarry

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Good grief!

There's nothing as pathetic as someone who has very obviously written their own Wikipedia page

SimonTemplar

From a content point of view, the entertainment section of RTE.ie is horrible. Movie reviews are usually 3/4 plot summary followed by a small opinion, usually written by someone who hasn't a clue how to properly critique a movie. Pretty much all the regular posters in the Film forum of boards write better critiques. Also, their news stories almost always have spelling and grammar mistakes when they are initially uploaded, and sometimes corrected with a new version.

I love WWN, although I guess that depends if that is your type of humour. Boards is pretty good too as a national online forum. It seems pretty rare for a forum site to be country specific that spans a huge variety of topics, rather than a forum site for a specific topic. Is there a Boards equivalent for other countries?

keith16

Gerry Rio wrote: »

Joe and Her have the same owners. Both are equally horrific.

Her.ie :rolleyes:

Look, our font is pink! That's cos it's fer girls.

jamesbere

Best: escorts Ireland

Talib Fiasco

Joe.ie is p*ss poor 90% of the time. Not a big fan of the 42 either, the c*ck sucking they give Conor McGregor is horrid. The comments section is a war zone too and ruins everything

Balls.ie is decent though, much prefer that. Boards is an obvious pick.

Gerry Rio

Forgot two.

Good:

Daft.ie. Maybe the best run business website in the country?

Somewhere in the middle:

Entertainment.ie. If I have to read entertainment type stuff then its usually on this. The original of the species.

keith16

broadsheet is pretty shit these days too.

Gerry Rio

Birneybau wrote: »

Please do not click these willfully baiting links:

http://www.her.ie/celeb/matt-leblanc-and-matthew-perry-reveal-reason-why-they-didnt-attend-jennifer-anistons-wedding/249572

They weren't invited.

http://www.her.ie/life/this-is-the-one-thing-you-should-never-have-on-your-facebook-profile/249465

Mobile phone number apparently.

http://www.her.ie/celeb/ed-sheeran-just-got-a-new-tattoo-and-were-not-sure-what-to-make-of-it/249479

How fcuking vague is that?

http://www.her.ie/motors/dermot-oleary-has-landed-himself-a-brand-new-job/249488

A car show apparently.

All those links are on their first page right now!

You do realise you're just sending traffic to this sh*te right?

shamrock55

Boards is the best,
gaa website was made by a 5 yr old its absolute muck

Birneybau

Gerry Rio wrote: »

You do realise you're just sending traffic to this sh*te right?

Have deleted it, was trying to show how leading their headlines are but the bloody short URLs were coming up.

Pity we can't post pictures in AH

Gerry Rio

keith16 wrote: »

broadsheet is pretty shit these days too.

Not really. Its just as good as it was three years ago and they stood up to DOB in spectacular fashion.

shampoosuicide

Birneybau wrote: »

Have deleted it, was trying to show how leading their headlines are but the bloody short URLs were coming up.

Pity we can't post pictures in AH

wouldn't worry about it, couple of curious haters is a drop in the ocean anyway, this crap is always going to have an audience and it's not going anywhere.

Zaph

Gerry Rio wrote: »

Was it powercity.ie that was once voted the worst in Ireland back in its dayglo late 90s and early 00s look?

They have certainly cleaned up their act since.

That revamp is quite recent because I looked at the Power City site only a month or two ago and it looked like something that even Geocities would have rejected for looking too crap.

keith16

Gerry Rio wrote: »

Not really. Its just as good as it was three years ago and they stood up to DOB in spectacular fashion.

It's the same old crap all the time tho

"Shure where would ya get it"

People sending in photos of when the sun comes out for 5 mins. I'd tell you where you would "get it", almost anywhere other than Ireland.

"Da Papers"

"We don't normally do this"

People sending in photos of their **** bikes with a message "I bought this bike for 5 grand 2 weeks ago and it was nicked from outside a pub in Cabra. I only went in for 5 mins"

"Ah Here"

etc. etc.

And then below the line the same 10 to 15 posters who are permanently angry and just complain about whatever it was that has just been posted.

I doubt DOB is losing any sleep over them tbh.

Gerry Rio

Zaph wrote: »

That revamp is quite recent because I looked at the Power City site only a month or two ago and it looked like something that even Geocities would have rejected for looking too crap.

Lol thats the one. Im sure the cache of the old website can still be found somewhere.

Gerry Rio

keith16 wrote: »

It's the same old crap all the time tho



I doubt DOB is losing any sleep over them tbh.

No, but Id say you are :P

BoJack Horseman

TheJournal is dire beyond compare
independent.ie is an awful experience too.

The Irish times is a little better but still not great

shampoosuicide

keith16 wrote: »

It's the same old crap all the time tho

"Shure where would ya get it"

People sending in photos of when the sun comes out for 5 mins. I'd tell you where you would "get it", almost anywhere other than Ireland.

"Da Papers"

"We don't normally do this"

People sending in photos of their **** bikes with a message "I bought this bike for 5 grand 2 weeks ago and it was nicked from outside a pub in Cabra. I only went in for 5 mins"

"Ah Here"

etc. etc.

And then below the line the same 10 to 15 posters who are permanently angry and just complain about whatever it was that has just been posted.

I doubt DOB is losing any sleep over them tbh.

'Dublin, you're looking well!'

'Meanwhile, in Rathmines...'

Gerry Rio

Deleted User wrote: »

Does Aine Chambers have any site?

That would be the best.

Something strange I just noticed. Put her name into Facebook and click on her Fanpage.

You will be redirected to this https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Podge-and-Rodge-Show/104109126292888?rf=110972398930785

Mumha

The_Valeyard wrote: »

Breakingnews.ie is nearly as bad as thejournal.ie

Nearly but the journal is awful. They've gone down the road of pandering to the Shinners and Anti Water crowd which they are infested with. All they're after is click count for advertising, and are shameless in doing so.

twistyj

Best: getthere.ie

Worst: irishrail.ie

Gerry Rio

shampoosuicide wrote: »

'Dublin, you're looking well!'

'Meanwhile, in Rathmines...'

And it features stuff from outside of Dublin too.

What would you prefer from an Irish site? "Meanwhile in Baghdad"?

The_Valeyard

Mumha wrote: »

Nearly but the journal is awful. They've gone down the road of pandering to the Shinners and Anti Water crowd which they are infested with. All they're after is click count for advertising, and are shameless in doing so.

Read the comments section,

You will wish the dinosaurs were never wiped out.

BoJack Horseman

Mumha wrote: »

Nearly but the journal is awful. They've gone down the road of pandering to the Shinners and Anti Water crowd which they are infested with. All they're after is click count for advertising, and are shameless in doing so.

every couple of hours is a gurning pic of Enda Kenny with a headline along the lines of "Guess who ran over your dog then took a sh*t on the declaration of independence"

just to enrage the shinners & the 'antis'.
Anger drives clicks... which drives sweet sweet cashish.

They know what they are, no point improving now.

(and this isn't hyperbole..... http://www.thejournal.ie/enda-kenny/news/

shampoosuicide

Gerry Rio wrote: »

And it features stuff from outside of Dublin too.

What would you prefer from an Irish site? "Meanwhile in Baghdad"?

i'm more making fun of the tropes/banal phrases than the location.

Gerry Rio

Arent Thejournal, thedailyedge and boards.ie all the same owners?

Gerry Rio

shampoosuicide wrote: »

i'm more making fun of the tropes/banal phrases than the location.

Its aimed at office workers bored out of their minds looking for a distraction. Its not meant to be The Wall Street Journal.

keith16

Gerry Rio wrote: »

Arent Thejournal, thedailyedge and boards.ie all the same owners?

Yes, and daft too. All owned by distilled media. Pretty sure adverts is too.

Another dreadful website.

Selling this iPhone, no offers.

€5 offered

Will you swap for this packet of stickers?

BoJack Horseman

keith16 wrote: »

Will you swap for this packet of stickers?

I'll give you 4 stickers & will expect cash my way.

I can only meet on the Inishowen peninsula.

Gerry Rio

keith16 wrote: »

Yes, and daft too. All owned by distilled media.

I thought Daft bought a chunk of Boards but the lads behind Boards owned The Journal, Daily Edge, Adverts etc under the Distilled Media holding company seperately.

Could be wrong though.

shampoosuicide

Gerry Rio wrote: »

Its aimed at office workers bored out of their minds looking for a distraction. Its not meant to be The Wall Street Journal.

just because banality has a purpose/audience doesn't mean we should accept it.

The Irish websites I visit most:

All the Irish-English-Irish dictionaries and pronunciation guides (getting bigger every day)

Placenames Database of Ireland (continuously fascinating and enlightening about all Irish placenames)

Library catalogue with free downloadable audiobooks, music, etc

Mydealpage.ie (all the Groupon/Pigsback/Living Social etc deals on one website)

IrishTimes.com (the best of an awful print media in Ireland)

Mumha

The_Valeyard wrote: »

Read the comments section,

You will wish the dinosaurs were never wiped out.

True, and I wouldn't be surprised if some of their own staffers had IDs on both sides, to stoke things up further. As against that, I know one of the "ordinary" contributors who has their own separate issues and they are being consumed by it all.

jack presley

keith16 wrote: »

broadsheet is pretty shit these days too.

I like the funny and non serious stories on Broadsheet but the political ones are too lefty for my liking so I don't even click on them anymore, especially that French bloke (or bloke with the French name).

With Waterford Whispers I think reading the heading is enough. They make me laugh but the stories themselves try too hard to keep the joke going and it normally has run out of steam by about the second line. It was the same with the Onion for me.