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The Times Ireland/Sunday Times Ireland

Birneybau · 2019-01-07 12:49:59

Dropping subscription price from €21 to €5 with 1st month free. I've been a subscriber for years (Hello iPad and Bose speaker) and was about to pull the plug but that's a great price. Number for exisiting subscribers to change is 1800 949687. https://store.thetimes.ie/?CMP=EXT-ireland-in_paper-24_09_2015-932-0-0-0

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#242 22-05-2019 8:07pm
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Irish Times weekend option is a good price imo:

€20 per month
Irish Times Sat - print delivered
+ All Digital Access + ePaper
+ nytimes.com and the NYTimes app

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#243 22-05-2019 11:40pm
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I'm gonna stick with it. The Sunday Times should be close enough to same

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#244 23-05-2019 6:59am
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WhatsGoingOn2 wrote: »

You should subscribe to Readly for those

Or free access via public library apps..RBdigital

https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=105482221

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#245 23-05-2019 8:43am
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caviardreams wrote: »

Irish Times weekend option is a good price imo:

€20 per month
Irish Times Sat - print delivered
+ All Digital Access + ePaper
+ nytimes.com and the NYTimes app

Not as good as it sounds. If you don't live in a big city or much beyond The Pale you cannot get the weekend paper edition delivered.

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#246 23-05-2019 9:46am
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They are basically cutting the vast majority of staff for the daily edition....

Wonder what that means for the daily content...

Three people to be left after cuts

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.rte.ie/amp/1050863/&ved=2ahUKEwisvYvyoLHiAhXI5KQKHQgpD_4QFjAKegQIAhAB&usg=AOvVaw3XD3AgyiRrzd9YxV08mA6J&ampcf=1

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#247 23-05-2019 12:09pm
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Loafing Oaf wrote: »

The other thing is I'm not as focused on the Irish content as others in this thread seem to be. I usually jump to T2 first thing and then maybe flick through Comments. I might very well keep up the subscription even if there was no specifically Irish coverage at all...

That is increasingly going to be the case for the daily edition due to the cuts

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#248 23-05-2019 1:43pm
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Before anyone subscribers to what little is left of Irish journalism in this package, have some consideration for the awful way News UK (Sunday Times/Times owner) has treated staff ...https://twitter.com/AarRogan/status/1131279012062552070?s=19

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#249 23-05-2019 1:49pm
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glasso wrote: »

They are basically cutting the vast majority of staff for the daily edition....

Wonder what that means for the daily content...

Three people to be left after cuts

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.rte.ie/amp/1050863/&ved=2ahUKEwisvYvyoLHiAhXI5KQKHQgpD_4QFjAKegQIAhAB&usg=AOvVaw3XD3AgyiRrzd9YxV08mA6J&ampcf=1

Be like one of those political parties with four or five TDs that still insist on having a spokesperson for everything. Each of the three will presumably have to cover a huge field of news.

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#250 23-05-2019 4:18pm
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JTMan wrote: »

Before anyone subscribers to what little is left of Irish journalism in this package, have some consideration for the awful way News UK (Sunday Times/Times owner) has treated staff ...https://twitter.com/AarRogan/status/1131279012062552070?s=19

Yeah, the Irish Times are real paragons of virtue when it comes to treating staff well. Just ask Paddy Agnew @PaddyAgnew who was dismissed after 31 years as Rome Correspondent https://www.irishcentral.com/news/paddy-agnew-irish-times

The Irish Times maintained that he could not have been dismissed from his position as he never held the role of Rome Correspondent. Over the past 30 years, Agnew’s articles regularly appeared on page 12 of the newspaper as well as over 200 of his stories making the front-page of the Times.

Wouldn't wipe my arse with that rag.

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#251 24-05-2019 1:41am
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Anyone having issues with paper not loading two days now just blank screen

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#252 24-05-2019 7:19am
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torrevieja wrote: »

Anyone having issues with paper not loading two days now just blank screen

Working on my phone ok

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#253 24-05-2019 7:56am
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torrevieja wrote: »

Anyone having issues with paper not loading two days now just blank screen

I had this. Deleted and reinstalled and works fine now.

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#254 24-05-2019 11:22am
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Dr. Nick wrote: »

torrevieja wrote: »

Anyone having issues with paper not loading two days now just blank screen

Working on my phone ok

Same

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#255 24-05-2019 12:50pm
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Whats phone number to cancel subscription folks plz

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#256 24-05-2019 7:20pm
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I wouldnt be at all surprised if, when the 'closure' happens that they revert to pre-IRE edition and ship in/print here the UK edition sans Irish content. They sold circa 2,800 copies before the rebranding which would net them in or around 800k p.a - nobody wants to leave that on the table.

Anyway, 800k would be enough to cover redundancies!!!!!

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#257 24-05-2019 8:37pm
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torrevieja wrote: »

Whats phone number to cancel subscription folks plz

See here: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/static/contact-us/?region=ie

If you’re in the Republic of Ireland please dial:
From your mobile: 015360818
Free from your landline: 1800949687

Yet another service that lets you sign up online but does not let you cancel online. There should be a law that states that if a company lets you sign up online then it must let you cancel online.

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#258 30-05-2019 5:20pm
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JTMan wrote: »

See here: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/static/contact-us/?region=ie

Yet another service that lets you sign up online but does not let you cancel online. There should be a law that states that if a company lets you sign up online then it must let you cancel online.

I cancelled this morning and it took nearly 20minutes to cancel , really annoying to have to explain over and over that the content just isn’t what you want and you just want to cancel , got really sulky towards the end and kept saying its just €5 and are you certain you want to cancel , anyway you should be able to cancel online

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#259 30-05-2019 10:55pm
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I rang Tuesday and there was a bit of let’s have @ look etc anyway they offered me two offers two months free or 6 months half price

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#260 31-05-2019 1:10pm
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Just in process of cancelling now. Had to get cranky to tell them I don't want to go through why I want to cancel, I told them it's because they are closing their print edition and letting most of their staff go, he was telling me there's a 30 day consultation process and they will then announce what they have planned. I said no thanks, just cancel, he got the message and put me on hold while everything loads.:rolleyes:

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#261 13-06-2019 11:01am
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sweetie wrote: »

I re-signed up with payment coming from my three phone credit.

How do you do this? Do you have to phone and cancel first?

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#262 13-06-2019 11:05am
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dulpit wrote: »

Just in process of cancelling now. Had to get cranky to tell them I don't want to go through why I want to cancel, I told them it's because they are closing their print edition and letting most of their staff go, he was telling me there's a 30 day consultation process and they will then announce what they have planned. I said no thanks, just cancel, he got the message and put me on hold while everything loads.:rolleyes:

So what happened in the end. I'm in contract until Nov paying half price

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#263 13-06-2019 11:06am
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Tazz T wrote:

How do you do this? Do you have to phone and cancel first?

Yes

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#264 13-06-2019 2:28pm
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Luckycharms_74 wrote: »

So what happened in the end. I'm in contract until Nov paying half price

Oh they just cancelled, it finished for me about a week later based on when my payment date was. I was in a rolling monthly contract though...

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#265 14-06-2019 3:20pm
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I rang to cancel, should I expect to be on hold for a long time?

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#266 14-06-2019 3:43pm
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thomond2006 wrote: »

I rang to cancel, should I expect to be on hold for a long time?

They try to give you the runaround with offers/etc. If you just get firm and tell them you want to cancel and don't want any offers, you'll be on hold for 3-4 minutes while they process (or at least that's what I had to go through).

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#267 02-08-2019 9:04am
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I have been a long time subscriber since the iPad / boss offers.
I was on a half price rate until I notice this month was charged the full price.
I rang up and got a nice person on the phone who switched me to the €5 a month offer even though I was in contract until end November 18 and will get pro rats refund for the full monthly charge in August

For €5 it’s worth it but not at full price
The Irish section has been decimated recently. Today it has 7 articles. I know the office has been downgraded but still, I don’t want to have to go back to the crappy independent for my news

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#268 02-08-2019 10:00am
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anyone manage to get this working on a Fire HD 8? I sideloaded play store but when I open the app and login it tells me i'm not subscribed! Works fine on an old ipad mini but that's banjaxed.

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#269 02-08-2019 10:45am
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sweetie wrote: »

anyone manage to get this working on a Fire HD 8? I sideloaded play store but when I open the app and login it tells me i'm not subscribed! Works fine on an old ipad mini but that's banjaxed.

It works fine on mine.

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#270 02-08-2019 12:09pm
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sweetie wrote: »

anyone manage to get this working on a Fire HD 8? I sideloaded play store but when I open the app and login it tells me i'm not subscribed! Works fine on an old ipad mini but that's banjaxed.

Careful - you might have downloaded the UK version?

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#271 02-08-2019 12:09pm
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Luckycharms_74 wrote: »

I have been a long time subscriber since the iPad / boss offers.
I was on a half price rate until I notice this month was charged the full price.
I rang up and got a nice person on the phone who switched me to the €5 a month offer even though I was in contract until end November 18 and will get pro rats refund for the full monthly charge in August

For €5 it’s worth it but not at full price
The Irish section has been decimated recently. Today it has 7 articles. I know the office has been downgraded but still, I don’t want to have to go back to the crappy independent for my news

That's an understatement. They fired everybody and hired (or re-hired) 3 to pump out as many articles as possible.

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