How stuck for news is 'De Leader'?

panda100

munsterdevil wrote: »

Not the Leader but a rather typical feature from West Limerick’s Observer!

https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=1819265958101589&id=579011885460342

And to be honest I’m still quite fond of the Observer, lot of memories and for better or worse it’ll never change!

I was out for a jog one Saturday morning in Rathkeale and was stopped by the West Limerick observer photographer for a photo. The week after I was on the 2nd page of the paper with the tagline ' 'Panda100' out for a run in Rathkeale'. You gotta love the Observer :pac:

munsterdevil

Unfortunate advertising

seachto7

munsterdevil wrote: »

Not the Leader but a rather typical feature from West Limerick’s Observer!

https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=1819265958101589&id=579011885460342

And to be honest I’m still quite fond of the Observer, lot of memories and for better or worse it’ll never change!

Probably paid for the article?

Cookiemunster

munsterdevil wrote: »

Unfortunate advertising

What appears in the advertising in down to your browsing history........

munsterdevil

Cookiemunster wrote: »

What appears in the advertising in down to your browsing history........

If that’s the case I got off lightly

panda100

Surely the Leader are treading on quite dangerous territory with these sort of hocus pocus claims

“She told me she was going for an operation and was worried it might be cancer, and asked if she could take the rosary beads from Medjugorje off the statue and touch her stomach with them. It was very emotional. I cried when I saw it,” he told the Leader.

Others, he said, have knelt down at the statue and prayed for their own special intentions, including the parents of a wheelchair-bound child from Cashel, Tipperary.

A mother from Tuam, Galway, was carried up the steps to the shrine by her son, so she could touch it and say a prayer.

Mr Fitzgerald said people have offered him money to say a prayer at the shrine, which he has declined. He has received envelopes with petitions, which he intends to hand in to the Redemptorist Church at Mount St Alphonsus in the city.

“I don’t want anything. The one mistake I made was not putting up a collection box where people could leave their petitions.

Inspite of severe gales, he said he would not move Our Lady inside the house this Monday as Hurricane Ophelia approached.

“Not one of the things around the shrine stirred. Not even the trees around her. There was not one bit of damage done. I couldn’t get over it. If she was taken, it was God's will, but Our Lady kept us safe.”

Recounting his own “miracle”, Des said: “I asked a builder to keep an eye out for a statue of Our Lady for me, and he dropped it off in the porch. I asked him to give me a few minutes to say a Hail Mary, after I placed the rosary beads from Medugorje around her neck.

“I said the Hail Mary and placed my left hand on top of her head and asked her to look after me and give me my health back. I have had a wheelchair for 10 years and was only able to walk ten yards before having to sit down.

“I hadn’t the statue 10 minutes when I was able to walk fully. It was a miracle straight away. To prove it to myself, I walked out of the house, down to the gate and back up again. Before I was barely able to stand up for a minute on my own,” he told the Limerick Leader.

riverrocked

“I don’t want anything. The one mistake I made was not putting up a collection box where people could leave their petitions.

Jesus, the irony it burns!

panda100

No weekly twitter update from Vanquished

I see Eugene Phelan has stepped up from behind the editors desk to write this impressive piece

This is the sort of news item that ends up in 'It's a funny world' in Private Eye.

Vanquished

panda100 wrote: »

No weekly twitter update from Vanquished

I see Eugene Phelan has stepped up from behind the editors desk to write this impressive piece

This is the sort of news item that ends up in 'It's a funny world' in Private Eye.

Tame enough this week

https://twitter.com/EugenePhelan1/status/923251752023085057

Although I note that the Leader has lost it's chief Catholic affairs and general miraculous events correspondent: Anne Sheridan. She must have got sick of Eugene sending her off to cover stains on walls that have an apparent likeness to the Lord Almighty God! Or the parish priest that's known to deliver a witty sermon.

panda100

Vanquished wrote: »

Tame enough this week

https://twitter.com/EugenePhelan1/status/923251752023085057

Yay! Vanquished's synopsis tweet is how I get the lowdown on Limerick goings on for the week

Vanquished wrote: »

Although I note that the Leader has lost it's chief Catholic affairs and general miraculous events correspondent: Anne Sheridan. She must have got sick of Eugene sending her off to cover stains on walls that have an apparent likeness to the Lord Almighty God! Or the parish priest that's known to deliver a witty sermon.

Ha! I think Anne Sheridan started off as a really excellent reporter when she joined the Leader years ago. It's a shame she ended up as the chief Catholic guff and general miraculous events correspondent. I always thought she had a lot more potential then that. I guess working for the Leader just sucks all the journalistic integrity out of you.

Insect Overlord

They must not have a Sports editor any more, if what I've been reading recently is anything to go by. Nothing gets proofed before it goes up online. The standard of English spelling and grammar is all too often comparable to that of a child starting out in 4th Class at primary school.

Comhrá

Smart journalist wanted. Closing date for applications this Thursday.

https://twitter.com/AlanEnglish9/status/924949179276939264

Berty

http://www.limerickleader.ie/news/home/279579/weddings-already-in-high-demand-as-limerick-s-adare-manor-reopens.html#.WfrEwHE-HYs.facebook

If I'm correct reading it they just simply watched the programme on RTE the previous evening the same as I did. All the quotes I read were lifted straight from that show.

zulutango

They're a tabloid rag, so a lot of their content will be anything that keeps people either buying the paper or clicking through to their website. Quality of content is low on the list of priorities. What's most important, for them, is that they stay afloat so they consistently appeal to the lowest common denominator. Sadly, that's at the expense of good journalism and the it's also at the expense of Limerick.

I wouldn't blame the journalists so much. I think many of them are pretty good. It's an editorial / management / ownership problem.

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panda100

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I think that was her last article and in fairness I think it's a really excellent piece of writing. It's rare that I read a Limerick Leader article from start to finish but I did read that. It's a good move for her to leave as The Leader would keep stifling any talent that she has.

OfTheMarsWongs

Nigel Dugdale won’t be writing the City View column anymore.

http://www.limerickleader.ie/news/columns-opinion/279897/signing-off-city-view-i-believe-in-limerick-but-we-need-to-engage-and-ask-questions.html

panda100

OfTheMarsWongs wrote: »

Nigel Dugdale won’t be writing the City View column anymore.

http://www.limerickleader.ie/news/columns-opinion/279897/signing-off-city-view-i-believe-in-limerick-but-we-need-to-engage-and-ask-questions.html

I never really read it as I always felt it was just whole load of rehashed press releases and fluff pieces. The column really improved in the last year though and brought a change in perspective on Limerick matters.

Would like to see a decent female commentator in his place, but this is Limerick so no doubt will be another middle-aged bloke.

kilburn

Lol middle aged 30's now !

Poxyshamrock

You should put your own name in the running, Panda! You raise good points on here.

RINO87

Zulutango for city view!!!

zulutango

RINO87 wrote:

Zulutango for city view!!!

The place would be burned to the ground within a week.

panda100

Poxyshamrock wrote:

You should put your own name in the running, Panda! You raise good points on here.

I fear the leap from Nigel Dugdale to an atheist, feminist, anarchic, socialist dreamer may be too much for the poor readers of The Limerick Chronicle to handle

panda100

I don't know which is worse, RTE for commissioning this programme or The Leader for writing about it

A COUNTY Limerick man who has a five-star lifestyle at home with his Mammy is to feature on an RTÉ series, where he will attempt to stand on his own two feet.

Brian Barry, a 26-year-old from Pallaskenry, admits that he is “treated like royalty” at home, but despite this, sought help to move out from presenter Brendan Courtney for new series This Crowded House.

Rents outside cities are also skyrocketing, up 12 percent nationwide in a year, but unlike the other people featured in the show, who are struggling to bear the cost, Brian’s biggest concern is staying in his kingdom — Pallaskenry.

“I found the show to be a good experience and certainly an eye-opening one in relation to the housing market in Limerick,” he told the Limerick Leader.

“It’s a tough market. I was very lucky to have my mum and dad as a safety net, whereas other people don’t have such luxury and are really struggling from week to week. It’s heartbreaking stuff,” he added.

Pallaskenry is “the greatest place on Earth” according to Brian — and he eats, drinks and socialises almost exclusively in the West Limerick village.

His parents do everything for him — his mother cooks and cleans for him, his lunch is made for him before work, and he is woken up by his dad every morning with a cup of tea.

He even says during filming that his mum clips his toenails for him — but he maintains that it was a joke (“I’m happy to confirm my mother does not clip my toenails!”)

“I wouldn’t call Brian domesticated,” says his mother Ann during the show.

Brian now has a girlfriend, Denise, and she hopes that he will prove his ability to fend for himself by living alone for a couple of months.

If he can do that, they will consider taking the next step in their relationship, and moving in together.

With no landlord references in a competitive rural market, Brian had to face the possibility of renting outside of Pallaskenry — but by the show’s end, he had signed a lease.

The four-part series intervenes in the not-so-unusual phenomenon of adults in their 20s and 30s who are living at home with their parents. The Pallaskenry man will feature this Tuesday, November 7, at 9.30pm on RTÉ2.

Run Denise Run!!

L.T.P.

http://www.limerickleader.ie/news/home/280622/limerick-family-sees-funny-side-as-bakery-makes-pig-s-ear-of-peppa-birthday-cake.html

More essential news.....

Mc Love

L.T.P. wrote: »

http://www.limerickleader.ie/news/home/280622/limerick-family-sees-funny-side-as-bakery-makes-pig-s-ear-of-peppa-birthday-cake.html

More essential news.....

A part of me just died - when did the Limerick Leader turn into the Daily Mail?

zulutango

Is Daniel Keating their new clickbait hire?

Vanquished

https://twitter.com/EugenePhelan1/status/930883275748454401

https://twitter.com/EugenePhelan1/status/930883963505258496

Insect Overlord

Christ. Is he writing those Tweets himself? It's almost as desperate as the crap 95fm put out on Twitter. Standards have slipped, lads. Standards have really slipped.

panda100

Yay, Vanquished's twitter updates return :pac:

How f*cked up is Eugene Phelans twitter cover photo? Really reflects the sexist, jaded cliche that The Limerick Leader has become.