Who is this one who writes for the Irish Times every week? She seems insufferable. She was calling for national service there a few weeks back for under 25's I think (one assumes she's beyond that vintage herself). Seems heroically self absorbed.
https://www.irishtimes.com/life-style/people/2024/08/30/ive-moved-to-a-sydney-suburb-so-posh-it-makes-me-uneasy/
Good for you?
There are a lot of insufferable columnists out there. What is it about this particular young female columnist that irks you so much?
Just turn the page and read Sean Moncrieff's column.
Might be more to your liking.
No point linking to a paywall Kermit. She was a Rose of Tralee, then on Ireland AM. She moved to Australia. It's just an Opinion Piece. You're not bound by her opinions and can even drop a letter to the editor refuting her stance if you wish. People do it about different articles every day.
I love her articles. And Seán Moncreiff's, as it happens, so they're not mutually exclusive.
She is realtively harmless, easy to read and pretty forgettable. Which isn't exactly an insult, sometimes you want to read something akin to chewing gum for the eyes in a TV programme. A Tipping Point of the newspaper world so to speak.
This is it precisely. Nobody is forced to read any contributor they actively dislike. I buy the IT every day but never read Michael Harding's pieces, as I find them inane. It's easy enough to skip past them.
Try producing a column every week about nonsense, make it appear it's making some sort of point, and dont take the easy way out by making it provocative and controversial.
It takes real skill.
I like Sean Moncreiffe he is well aware he is drifting in to cranky old man territory and has decided to embrace it.
Brianna is a former Rose or Tralee contestant, from Aussie settled here for a while, did a bit of whimsical writing and some telly cos she's a decent looking doll.
And of course, like her millenial professional woman opposite number in the Indo, Stefanie Preissner, she just had to come out as 'neuro-divergent', which of course just means she's a woman.
And now she's taken her quirky Irish boyfriend and they've moved (back) to Sydney, but she seems to still be writing Irish Times columns from there, telling us why everything in Australia is epic and everything in Ireland is hellish. Seems to me you'd get away with that for ONE column piece, but not week in and out, not to the Irish Times audience. So, I expect she'll be taken off the roster there soon enough. And that'll be the story of her.
Why doesn't she move on and write for an Australian national newspaper? They must be crying out for raw talent like this.
I don't agree with that she's much more subtle that that she says why are things less complicated in Australia and more straight forward to acesses, that's not the same as Australia fantastic Ireland afwel.
Do you still listen to Joe Brolly Doc?
The amount of cranky old people on the boards, really noticing it lately.
An awful lot of low T anger out there. Would, usually, read what Parkins has to say, myself. Have heard her on radio before too, always came across as someone worth listening to.
She works on some Australian channel iirc but keeping an existing column when possible is most likely preferable to any writer these days.
Well it's been around since the dawn of time, Internet-Age speaking. I'd love to know the average age profile of Boards contributors. I suspect it would start with a 4. At least 😀
Parkins : ” I’m leaving Ireland, I don’t have the energy for life here “….. that’s fair enough ok,
So what happens, she does leave Ireland but she’s making a living by writing for an Irish newspaper ( Irish Times ) whose main target audience is Irish people living in Ireland. So she hasn’t the energy for Ireland or life in Ireland unless Ireland is writing her a pay cheque .
I’ve read two of her columns and it looks like the IT are basically paying her for writing a diary / brain fart guff article for them… absolutely nothing impressive, imaginative, interesting or original…
Hardly journalism, most of us could do that…. Give me a page in x publication and hey I’ll offer my opinions and experiences…..
Why don't you pitch for one then?
If it's that handy a number it's surely a no-brainer.…
Because I don’t have the interest and they couldn’t afford me 🤷♂️
she drives me bananas.
Wrote a column every week about how sh1t Ireland is, then moved home and continued to write about how sh1t Ireland is. She has absolutely nothing to say for herself.
Today’s column was jaw dropping. Obnoxious humble bragging with no humour and no discernible point. Absolutely up her own hole.
Got you thinking all the same.
Even exercised enough to go online to complain about it.
Job done.
She's a whinger. Whiny and depressing. By now, I just turn the page right past it every week.
I wish they would get someone cheerfuller - or at least more balanced - to write these opening-page pieces.
Yesterdays column was dire.
Her Grandparents or was it her parents, eimmigrate to Australia from iner city Dublin.
That would make a far more interesting column.
It's a topic we don't read a lot about.
Irish emigration stories tend to be about Kerry/west if of Ireland people doing well for themselves in America.
A lot of anger coming your way from the usual suspects, OP.
I was in Australia last year the people I know who have lived there 20years don't think it's so great, cost of living house prices etc etc.
That started a long time ago. His rant about people saying "and good morning from here" was cringe.
Along the lines of "you're coming onto a show in this timezone, say good afternoon " and the fact that he grumbled into the next day about it.
Sean of "The End" would have torn that version to shreds
I too, irrationally hate people that I hate, irrationally.
Don't like it, don't read it. Seems simple enough.
She's an absolute pill. Endlessly whining about Ireland in any of her articles I've been foolish enough to read. The Irish Times has gone to s**t over the past few years, unfortunately. Gone from being the 'paper of record' to a poor imitation of The Guardian, publishing hoax articles about fake tan being a type of cultural appropriation.
It's probably worth noting that two other articles about life in Australia were published in the main paper on Saturday.
https://www.irishtimes.com/abroad/2024/08/31/i-think-i-would-have-had-a-very-fixed-life-in-ireland-i-feel-very-light-in-australia/?
https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2024/09/01/in-australia-rents-are-high-costs-are-rising-can-it-remain-a-mecca-for-irish-emigrants/
I noticed that. There seems to be a fixation with Australia at the IT recently.
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