What newspaper do you read? (Poll)

face1990 · 06-02-2011 11:48PM #1

The whole Daily Mail/Tribune kerfuffle got me wondering, what newspapers do boardsies read, and why?

Also, do any of you only buy Sunday papers, or buy papers every day but Sunday?

Personally, I used to get the Indo all the time but I felt it was getting increasingly tabloidy. When the Indo devoted an entire two page spread and half the front page to who Ryan Tubridy went with to some award show, I switched to the Times.

Sometimes I get the free Metro papers or Northside People, sometimes to enjoy in an ironic way.

Run_to_da_hills · 06-02-2011 11:50PM

Hard copies: Irish Times.

BraziliaNZ · 06-02-2011 11:50PM

The metro when having coffee at work. The Guardian, the Irish Independent **hides face**, and the Irish Times online. The Guardian is good for covering all kinds of topics.

bluecatmorgana · 06-02-2011 11:50PM

The Irish Times or the Guardian
The rest are skank

starbelgrade · 06-02-2011 11:52PM

I don't read any newspapers.

Ricardo G · 06-02-2011 11:52PM

The daily sport if i'm on my own
Otherwise The mirror

face1990 · 06-02-2011 11:53PM

Forgot to put the Guardian in the poll :P
If a mod would like to add it, I would much appreciate it!

Coriolanus · 06-02-2011 11:54PM

Hard copy: The Irish Times, English Times, Guardian and English Independent. But none of the above every day or even a paper six days a week. Usually just when the fancy strikes me when I'm out on lunch and don't have a book or my Android.

starbelgrade · 06-02-2011 11:56PM

Nevore wrote: »

Hard copy: The Irish Times, English Times, Guardian and English Independent. But none of the above every day or even a paper six days a week. Usually just when the fancy strikes me when I'm out on lunch and don't have a book or my Android.

You have a robot?

Cool.

Coriolanus · 06-02-2011 11:57PM

starbelgrade wrote: »

You have a robot?

Cool.

It's a sexbot.

OPENROAD · 06-02-2011 11:57PM

The London Times-online

London Evening Standard (online) - excellent evening newspaper, used to cost about 30p, its now free :eek:

Guardian- Good for sport particularly on a saturday

Daily Mail (English edition) when in London. Saturday and Sunday editions-otherwise just read the weekly editions for free in coffee shops.

Really think our own newspapers are far too expensive.

juma · 06-02-2011 11:59PM

Why isnt the Farmer's Journal listed in the poll?

ordinary_girl · 07-02-2011 12:00AM

I regularly read the Guardian.

CoalBucket · 07-02-2011 12:01AM

The Cork Examiner boy

pablomakaveli · 07-02-2011 12:05AM

The examiner is my preferred choice. I read the independant sometimes but not the sindo. The sindo just seems to be 2 pages of news and then the rest of it is columnist tripe.

I sometimes read the star as well though not much nowadays.

Capt'n Midnight · 07-02-2011 12:12AM

Today's sindo messed up on the review of the Louth Constituency, printed Dublin West twice instead of Louth :rolleyes:

PeterIanStaker · 07-02-2011 12:14AM

The Irish Times is the least worst I suppose. Wouldn't buy any of O'Reilly's rags, and the tabloids are simply celebrity obsessed prolefeed that I'd only flick through while waiting in the barber's.

Stinicker · 07-02-2011 12:16AM

I read the Cork Examiner also and occasionally the Irish Times, as a rule I never buy that Fianna Fail propaganda rag the Independent. It almost makes Fox News look liberal in its bias towards the party of Traitors.

RayM · 07-02-2011 12:30AM

I buy the occasional hard copy of the Irish Times and usually read the Guardian/observer online.

I liked the Tribune until it went down-market and became little more than a marginally less vacuous alternative to the Sunday Independent. It's a shame the Irish Times doesn't have the money to step in and save it. A quality Sunday paper would be nice.

Asphyxia · 07-02-2011 12:42AM

I usually read whatever my father has bought

Irish Independent
Daily Mirror
Irish Sun
Kilkenny People
Tipp Star

I sometimes read the Metro and other ones online.

Metallitroll · 07-02-2011 12:47AM

troll poll? the Sun

DonkeyStyle \o/ · 07-02-2011 01:06AM

What's a newspaper?

--LOS-- · 07-02-2011 01:10AM

Read is quite a strong word

the metro, it's free!

Hate newspapers so much, lame excuse to make money, old news that was on the internet ages ago a lot of the time.

face1990 · 07-02-2011 01:11AM

The widespread availablity of news online must have really hurt the newspaper industry.

The only reasons to buy newspapers now seems to be the convenience of it (being able to read it in places where a laptop would be awkward, or internet isnt available) and the aesthetic pleasure of reading a physical paper.

--LOS-- · 07-02-2011 01:13AM

face1990 wrote: »

The widespread availablity of news online must have really hurt the newspaper industry.

The only reasons to buy newspapers now seems to be the convenience of it (being able to read it in places where a laptop would be awkward, or internet isnt available) and the aesthetic pleasure of reading a physical paper.

Ye but it also makes it easier for them to regurgitate stuff from the web.

face1990 · 07-02-2011 01:14AM

--LOS-- wrote: »

Hate newspapers so much, lame excuse to make money, old news that was on the internet ages ago a lot of the time.

I find online news tends to be very brief accounts, with less detail than print versions, maybe because there's more space to fill in a hard-copy. The flip side is that you get a lot of filler-style waffle and pointless opinion pieces in papers.

Bosco boy · 07-02-2011 01:32AM

I used to read the sunday tribune but apparently I now read the daily mail!!!!!!

Senna · 07-02-2011 02:05AM

I read the Independent because its free from work. Normally start at the business page, then sports (normally has a good bit of golf), then just flick through the rest starting at the cover.

squeakyduck · 07-02-2011 04:55PM

I don't buy the paper myself, but if there is one in work I will read it even if it is from the day before! :P I love the metro when I'm on the way into work in the morning, catch some snippets of news before work and on my lunch.

I love reading the Irish Indo, but I find that it's richness of good newsy news has gone down recently, its starting to turn very tabloidy imo. Don't get me wrong I love the tabloids but its nice to read a good news paper every once in a while. Irish Life magazine is always read when I go home, my mum and dad keep them stockpiled for me because they know how I love it!:D:D

I love the guardian, I have it tabbed on google chrome, they do very good coverage of current affairs - the Chillian miners was fantastic live minute by minute updates and a stream. I find a lot of the news channels get news from the guardian too especially with the football transfers in the past week.

Pupito · 07-02-2011 05:04PM

Bosco boy wrote: »

I used to read the sunday tribune but apparently I now read the daily mail!!!!!!

Heh, yeah. I find that bizarre, it's not as though they have a similar editiorial line or anything. Kinda like people you see in pubs sometimes, they'll order a certain pint, only to be told that the Carlsberg/Heineken/whatever is off. "Ok then, I'll have a rum and coke instead".

Mint Sauce · 07-02-2011 05:06PM

Hard Copies -

The Indo once or twice a week
Irish Times at the weekend

Sligo Champion once a week
Donegal News when ever I go home for weekend

Online -

London Evening Standard

As for the S*n, wouldn't even use it if out of bog roll.

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