Is the Irish Independent a country newspaper?

Lollipop95

In Dublin, the Irish Times seems to be the top selling paper. But in the country It seems to be The a Independent. No one I know in the countryside would read The Times, they would however read the irish times and apparently it's vice versa in Dublin. So is the Indo mainly a country paper? Also, I've read countless complaints on here about the Sindo, what's wrong with it? Admittedly I've never readi it but AFAIK it's not a tabloid so how offensive can it be?

everlast75

It's not even a newspaper...

Saipanne

Always saw it as a Dub paper.

OldMrBrennan83

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stimpson

Lollipop95 wrote: »

Also, I've read countless complaints on here about the Sindo, what's wrong with it?

It's a pile of shite

Saipanne

Who the fawk reads a newspaper these days anyway?

RobertKK

Most of the writers for the Irish Times have high notions of themselves and are unappealing.
Some people have a Denis O'Brien phobia and wouldn't buy the Independent, but it is more a national paper than the IT.


I don't buy either. I don't bother with newspapers now as you can get most of it for free online.

Insect Overlord

It's an awful rag. Almost as bad as the Daily Mail.

Stojkovic

Saipanne wrote: »

Who the fawk reads a newspaper these days anyway?

Id say roughly a million people in Ireland every day.

Stojkovic

Saipanne wrote: »

Who the fawk reads a newspaper these days anyway?

Id say roughly a million people in Ireland every day.

Saipanne

Stojkovic wrote: »

Id say roughly a million people in Ireland every day.

Get with the times, ~1,000,000 people...

Sunnyisland

Its not even a paper, a newspaper is suppose to give you news,all the indo does is give you its employees opinions...

OldMrBrennan83

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ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

As a country person born and bred, I only read the Irish Times and do so daily. The Irish Independent, judging from the few times I've looked through it, is shallow and quite trashy.

StudentDad

The Independent used to be a good paper. It even had a good tagline back in the day. Sadly I feel that it's standards have dropped by quite a margin in the past few years. Unfortunately that can be said of the majority of papers today.
It feels like the papers and a large chunk of the media are bottom feeders.

Trying to avoid anything that isn't either utterly irrelevant or filtered to the point of propaganda (war coverage as an example) is very difficult. I don't care about celeb gossip etc. I don't care what character in a particular soap is doing etc etc.

However, what does irritate me is when a journalist does stick his head above the parapet and says something interesting; he/she gets slammed, not for saying one thing or another. No, they get slammed for voicing an opinion at all!

SD

Stojkovic

Saipanne wrote: »

Get with the times, ~1,000,000 people...

I get The Times everyday.

Both are Dublin papers. The IT is a bit overcome by its place in shaping the nation and the Indo is just dire.

KingBrian2

Never beat the book format of the Irish Independent.

Taco Chips

The Independent has devolved into total rubbish over the last 5-10 years. I find it unreadable. It's a tabloid rag with extremely low quality journalism. At least the Red Tops aren't pretending to be something that they're not.

IT can be hit and miss often but its poles apart in quality to the Indo.

catbear

I loath the Indo and I've found the IT hit and miss.

A decade ago I swore off the IT when its property supplement was bigger than the main paper and stuck to the internet for current events.

However having returned recently I appreciate that there is a quality to the IT that's isn't common in the modern media. Having been surpassed by the internet for the actual news the IT has become a very good paper for discussion.

The Indo on the other hand still seems to cater for people who need their news spoonfed, and residing in the country I can confirm that it is the rag of choice for cleaning mud off ones boots.

Manach

Well, each of them represent differing aspects of the chattering classes whose journalism consists of saying "Mr. Jones is dead" to people who never know Mr. Jones was alive.

padd b1975

I usually take The Sun myself.

MRnotlob606

Terrible newpaper. Over the years it seems to be going more tabloid.

Sunnyisland

padd b1975 wrote: »

I usually take The Sun myself.

That's what exactly I did and I now live in Portugal ...

KingBrian2

realies wrote: »

That's what exactly I did and I now live in Portugal ...

My sympathies if your getting your news from the Sun.

Sunnyisland

padd b1975 wrote: »

I usually take The Sun myself.

realies wrote: »

That's what exactly I did and I now live in Portugal ...

KingBrian2 wrote: »

My sympathies if your getting your news from the Sun.

I am not going to try and make anymore afterhour jokes as no one but me gets them :-(

bob50

For my sins i bought the Sindo last sunday what a waste

There were 8 to 10 full page ads for dunnes / super v etc

No point in buying a paper for ads

The Irish Times is too liberal for my liking prefer a conservative type paper like the daily mail

voz es

catbear wrote: »

Having been surpassed by the internet for the actual news the IT has become a very good paper for discussion.

I think that is what make the Irish times worthy of its money. I might not always agree with what is being agreed with what is being wrote in the Irish Times but at least it is a good argument.

My main gripe with the times is its size, it is unpractical.

The Independent really should change its title.

Joo0

Shows the state of the country when the Indo is the best selling newspaper. The Business Post raises issues that papers owned by a certain person somehow forget to write about.

meeeeh

I'm Times person myself, Indo is too much of a tabloid. That being said Times features are fairly Dublin centred so I am not surprised it's not overly popular around the country.

Mycroft H

The Examiner is a country newspaper. It's a decent paper too.

uch

The indo is a biggoted piece of jax roll

padd b1975

realies wrote: »

I am not going to try and make anymore afterhour jokes as no one but me gets them :-(

Tell me about it!!

My post was a piss take of those pompous morons who use the word 'take' instead of 'buy' when discussing newspapers... I'm wasted on you people!

Lollipop95

I read a copy of the Times once but the layout of the paper seriously annoys me, I wish they printed a smaller version like the Indo, it's more compact and way easier to read. AND you don't feel like you're wrestling with the paper!

biko

I find that any major news story finds its way to AH anyway.

uch

Lollipop95 wrote: »

I read a copy of the Times once but the layout of the paper seriously annoys me, I wish they printed a smaller version like the Indo, it's more compact and way easier to read. AND you don't feel like you're wrestling with the paper!

I wrestled with a paper once, but I was Black and Blue afterwards

topmanamillion

I'd be an either or person. I run a mile from any of the tabloids like the sun/mail or mirror. There's only so many time stop can read "from a source close to....." without realising it's pure horse ****.

Bored_lad

We're in the country and buy the times. I wouldn't dream of buying the Indo its basically a tabloid at this stage.

DanielODonnell

Dubliners have a heritage of their own, maybe I shouldn't say that as the moderators shut down my thread about dubliners not being of the Gaelic heritage, all the mods are dubs you see

uch

DanielODonnell wrote: »

Dubliners have a heritage of their own, maybe I shouldn't say that as the moderators shut down my thread about dubliners not being of the Gaelic heritage, all the mods are dubs you see

In before the Ban

Junkyard Tom

DanielODonnell wrote: »

Dubliners have a heritage of their own, maybe I shouldn't say that as the moderators shut down my thread about dubliners not being of the Gaelic heritage, all the mods are dubs you see

Should we kick Dublin out of Ireland?

Capt'n Midnight

bob50 wrote: »

For my sins i bought the Sindo last sunday what a waste

Did you not use the coupon for the German supermarket ?



Indo isn't exactly a paper of record these days. Just too many inaccurate reports.

Arbiter of Good Taste

Indo used to be a much better paper.

IT is, and always has been, a 36 page liberal op ed. Just as bad, but for some reason the people who read it seem to think they are better than the rest

Lollipop95

Just wondering, when people say the Times is a liberal paper, what do you mean by it? I only really skimmed through it once so I wouldn't know! My own parents buy the Indo and I do like it.

However, why so much hate towards the Sindo and not the Indo? Aren't they the same except the Sindo is a Sunday version of the Independent?

Mantis Toboggan

realies wrote: »

Its not even a paper, a newspaper is suppose to give you news,all the indo does is give you its employees opinions...

Same as every newspaper so! Propaganda filled hyperbole

CelticRambler

Being out-of-the-country, I don't have the opportunity to buy a hard-copy version of either, but based on the illiterate rubbish churned out on the Independent's website, I'd rather spend my money on bog-roll. Apart from the hundreds of spelling, grammar and vocab mistakes, and stupid cut-and-paste-and-paste-again errors, they seem to cycle through just three stories - the "tragic", the "savage" and the "outrage" ... not to mention that they seem to be a champion of vertical videos, most of which they describe as having "gone viral" after they've had about a hundred views. :rolleyes:

I used to read the Evening Press; now it'd be the Times.

Of course it may just be that I was indoctrinated as a Dublin-reared child. :pac: