broadsheet.ie is closing.

There's always TFK and the comments section of The Journal, both repositories of insightful opinions and intelligent debate.😁

you can add the Property Pin to that list, another formerly decent site that's been taken over by tinfoil-hat-wearing muppets.

Lots of their audience did ignore it. And didn't come back.

There's a blast from the past.

Apologies for my tardy lateness in posting here but foreign climes have been beckoning me since around the time Broadsheet went norks up.

It's a great irony of course that a site that once made its name for asking difficult and awkward questions eventually closed because posters left in droves as they were uncomfortable with the questions being asked on it. And as time progresses some of those questions about the effects of a mass, relatively untested vaccination programme are now becoming more relevant.

Ultimately I suspect Broadsheet tried to please too many people and like all internet forums the clique of hardcore posters who inevitably over time like to think it's their baby and no-one elses were offended - simply because John Ryan gave a voice to people who wouldn't normally be given the time of day in the MSM.

And Broadsheet was riven with contradictions. Like most Irish media there was a large streak of ingrained and unchecked Anglophobia running through it while at the same time moderators wore their woke, right-on credentials like a badge of pride. As long as you abused the right people - Denis O'Brien, the Brits, Protestants, anti-abortionists, anyone calling for checks on immigration, John McGuirk and indeed anyone with a slightly right of centre viewpoint you could pretty well get away with anything defamatory, derogatory and abusive.

The sweetest irony of all is that those posters who tried to shut down dissenting voices on Broadsheet by calling them racist, bigoted, homophobic and every other entry in the Woke Bingo Full House now have nowhere else to go to spread their bile because they threw their toys out of the pram when John Ryan dared to pose a few uncomfortable questions.

Not only that they miss out on all the wonderful tales of the life of luxury led by TenPin Terry and the fragrant and voluptuous Lady TenPin.

A big shout out too to Charger Salmons, Admiral Nelson and Ollie Cromwell.

Marvellous™

Cut the crap. They weren't "just asking questions" ffs.

Was a regular contributor to the property pin during the financial crisis. That was a really special community at that time. It was like being able to look into the future. Unfortunately the shrewdies who used to post there were driven out looney conspiracy theorists who took over.

Well, Broadsheet was one of the few outlets in the Irish media that questioned the whole Mother Theresa Claire Byrne and Saint Luke O'Neill campaign that it was the entire nation's patriotic duty to get jabbed with an unproperly tested vaccine that as we now know has produced considerable side-effects including death.

When the entire Irish media and political Establishment attacked any dissenting voice Broadsheet was one of the few who gave them publicity.

I might not have always agreed with them but in a country with no functioning opposition and barely a dissenting or questioning voice in the media as the HSE and Holohan ripped up democratic rights and forced a medical dictatorship on Ireland I was grateful for their attempts to voice scepticism.

This country really could do with more dissenting voices at the moment.

The woke pile-ons were a sight to behold.

Supposedly liberal and compassionate posters frothing at the mouth and spraying out abuse and invective at anyone who didn't aspire or conform to their narrow group-think.

And daily calls to ban posters who weren't one of them.

So it was no surprise when they picked up their ball and ran home for tea with Mammy when John Ryan confounded their smug complacency by giving space to conflicting views.

You know, like the Irish Times gives editorial room to those commentators whose views don't slavishly follow those of Fintan O'Toole...

Well, perhaps the Irish Times is a bad example of plurality and independent thought.

Shame. There were one or two interesting writers and some amusing posters but by jove the place was as dry as a stick towards the end - you wouldn't want to read the comments to have a laugh or cheer yourself up.

"Just asking questions".

I had forgotten about the Kate Fitzgerald thing. Years and years of 'just asking questions', blaming various people for her suicide while simultaneously making the case it wasn't suicide at all, and it was all a giant conspiracy and cover-up.

Dreadful.