What Newspaper do you read?

wendell borton · 29-03-2012 08:52PM #1

Was just wondering what national papers ye get if any?

phasers · 29-03-2012 08:53PM

I get my news from After Hours.

Cork boy 55 · 29-03-2012 08:54PM

I don't read the news, I make it

Mint Sauce · 29-03-2012 08:58PM

Irish-Times Weekend Edition

Local Weeklys

Sligo Champion
Donegal News or Donegal Democrat.

mikemac1 · 29-03-2012 08:59PM

Cork Examiner

Ghandee · 29-03-2012 09:00PM

Pretty much none since getting a smart phone a few years ago.

SteppingStone · 29-03-2012 09:01PM

None. There depressing.

Doc Ruby · 29-03-2012 09:02PM

Two free local papers, the indo and times on the internet for free, BBC for free to get a good international perspective, thinking of adding Al-Jaz to that list, and a few quality blogs/forums like the Irish economy one. Just run the lot of them straight into my email inbox and polish them off with my morning coffee, its great.

joshrogan · 29-03-2012 09:03PM

Guardian/observer as well as the weekend Irish times/indo.

John_Rambo · 29-03-2012 09:03PM

I know it's very fashionable to hate the Indo amongst certain folk, but I got it on Saturday. The magazine had some great stuff, particularly a story about the Kerry babies. Amazing story revisited. I miss the Tribune for that sort of stuff. Scanail on RTE is brilliant for it.

HOS 1997 · 29-03-2012 09:03PM

Irish Times.

Cookie_Monster · 29-03-2012 09:04PM

NZ Herald

benway · 29-03-2012 09:09PM

Mung bean eating, sandal wearing, bearded Guardianista right here.

Tesco Massacre · 29-03-2012 09:15PM

The Irish Sun, of course.

Nudity, celebrities doing stuff (Kim Kardashian walking! On the street!), stories about squirrels water skiing, celeb diet tips, horoscopes, soap opera gossip, sports.

You get it all in The Irish Sun.

Mint Sauce · 29-03-2012 09:15PM

Mistake on your Poll OP. The Mirror, The Mail, and The Sun are foriegn tabloids. Sticking irish in the title, or a picture of a z list irish celeb instead of an english z list celeb in the cover, does not make them any more irish.

John Doe1 · 29-03-2012 09:18PM

Readinz fir gayz

DEFTLEFTHAND · 29-03-2012 09:18PM

Indo usually, an Evening herald sometimes. For local news The Midland Tribune which is published once a week. Also reading The Sun's website is a guilty pleasure of mine.

hondasam · 29-03-2012 10:14PM

Daily mail usually.

token101 · 29-03-2012 10:16PM

The Irish Times. But it's the best of a bad, bad lot. The Examiner isn't too bad, but it's very Cork centric. And I'm from Cork!!!

But I much prefer the Guardian. Best paper going.

Celly Smunt · 29-03-2012 10:16PM

buy? news?

St.Spodo · 29-03-2012 10:17PM

The Guardian and The Examiner online. Used to be fond of the Tribune before it went.

GLaDOS · 29-03-2012 10:19PM

irish-stew wrote: »

Mistake on your Poll OP. The Mirror, The Mail, and The Sun are foriegn tabloids. Sticking irish in the title, or a picture of a z list irish celeb instead of an english z list celeb in the cover, does not make them any more irish.

Seems a bit generous to call them a newspaper too...

El Weirdo · 29-03-2012 10:20PM

On the rare occasion I do buy an actual newspaper, it's The Guardian or Observer. Used to buy the Irish Times but it's gone to fuck in the last few years.

Normally get my news from their website.

Edit: No option for Guardian/Observer in the poll. Fail.

G_R · 29-03-2012 10:22PM

Where's the Metro?

Surely such a quality Newspaper is worth of a spot on your poll!

bwatson · 29-03-2012 10:37PM

I get my national news exclusively from the internet now. Keep up with things back home with the Ballymena Times online too.

Being at university in London there are I think 4 different free papers to pick up too. Student papers which generally tell you to weep for Palestinians and hate the rampant sexist overtones of every tv show on ITV don't catch my interest any more.

One thing that has struck me since being on this website is how much Irish people use the British media. I'm not just talking about the Irish versions of papers but the fact that many seem to use the Telegraph, Guardian and Mail extensively even though they don't have a specifically Irish angle at all.

mikemac1 · 30-03-2012 12:42AM

Years since I've seen An Phoblacht, I didn't know it was still going

On Fridays evenings in our town you'd be in the pub and some old man with a heavy jacket and cap would come in and sell it.
Bought it once, not a lot in it. There was a letter in it signed by P something, I forget the name

And that's it, haven't seen that paper since

Akarinn · 30-03-2012 01:00AM

Who needs a newspaper when you have Boards.ie???

policarp · 30-03-2012 01:01AM

No mention of the regional papers ?

The Clare Champion. . .

KeithAFC · 30-03-2012 01:03AM

An Phoblacht. Keep an eye on the latest going ons.

grindle · 30-03-2012 01:23AM

bwatson wrote: »

One thing that has struck me since being on this website is how much Irish people use the British media. I'm not just talking about the Irish versions of papers but the fact that many seem to use the Telegraph, Guardian and Mail extensively even though they don't have a specifically Irish angle at all.

Not sure why anyone'd read the Telegraph (business & politics, maybe?) or the Daily Mail (like feeling bad/hate life?), but the Guardian, the [British] Independent and Private Eye feature genuine journalism, where news is found rather than made, and it's not just tawdry pseudo-journalist opinion pieces that flip at the drop of a coin like we have in Ireland's 'premium' papers.
Despite getting flak for being the toilet-read of liberal middle-class hipsters, they're the only papers I've read that go for everyone's throat, no favouritism.
It's a pity, but our journalism courses have either failed miserably, resulting in stylish twaddle-merchants without the balls to actually observe, never mind research, or they've done such a good job that all the great graduates left for pastures greener to be taken seriously, lest they have their names browned here, or have to compromise their standards/abilities.
I'll gladly skim past the Neo-Hippy elements of Brit papers if it means I get to read articles that don't depend so heavily on smart-arsed colloquialisms-as-journalism. You know... With information.

TL;DR

Pyoor b hatin' Irish newspaprz lyk. Contint sux, bai.
(Obviously a couple of exceptions to the rule)

K-9 · 30-03-2012 04:20AM

bwatson wrote: »

I get my national news exclusively from the internet now. Keep up with things back home with the Ballymena Times online too.

Being at university in London there are I think 4 different free papers to pick up too. Student papers which generally tell you to weep for Palestinians and hate the rampant sexist overtones of every tv show on ITV don't catch my interest any more.

One thing that has struck me since being on this website is how much Irish people use the British media. I'm not just talking about the Irish versions of papers but the fact that many seem to use the Telegraph, Guardian and Mail extensively even though they don't have a specifically Irish angle at all.

That's a bit like wondering why a Ballymena man and a student in London reads and posts on Boards.ie!

Telegraph has a decent soccer section, wouldn't buy it because it is so obviously Euroskeptic, the Mail actually has a fair bit of Irish content, Irish news, GAA, TV etc. and the Guardian is well, the Guardian, a respected paper of international renown. I like the English Independent myself.

The Irish Times, the Indo for GAA coverage and miss the Tribune, it went downhill before it closed but that is a general trend.

Don't buy local papers, just read the free one.

Buy the Phoenix the odd time.

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