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Sindo - Niamh Horan's Article on Women's Rugby

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  • #62
    GLaDOS
    Moderators, Regional East Moderators Posts: 23,257 Mod ✭✭✭✭GLaDOS


    Seeing a huge amount of negative reaction online and on the radio to this. Apparently she's writing a response next week, I'd say she's delighted.

    Cake, and grief counseling, will be available at the conclusion of the test



  • #63
    Tarzana
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,062 ✭✭✭Tarzana


    conorh91 wrote: »
    Presumably it helps pay for her prison of negative equity.

    Eh no, you're getting your eejits mixed up there.


  • #64
    AnonoBoy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,559 ✭✭✭✭AnonoBoy


    c_man wrote: »
    Anyone remember the '03 Girls? Was always good for a 'tasteful' accompanying photoshoot as I recall.

    I'm going to regret asking this but what were the '03 Girls?


  • #65
    AnonoBoy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,559 ✭✭✭✭AnonoBoy


    ScienceNerd wrote: »
    Seeing a huge amount of negative reaction online and on the radio to this. Apparently she's writing a response next week, I'd say she's delighted.

    Of course she is. She know she's sh*te, she just wants attention.


  • #66
    Annasopra
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41,236 ✭✭✭✭Annasopra


    I wonder why Niamh Horan is so obsessed about threesomes?



    http://m.independent.ie/irish-news/rugby-ace-flees-country-to-avoid-threesome-scandal-29470809.html


    http://m.independent.ie/opinion/analysis/tweets-on-threesomes-reveal-lack-of-critical-thinking-29165183.html

    It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was us, what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things.

    Terry Pratchet



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  • #67
    c_man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,436 ✭✭✭c_man


    AnonoBoy wrote: »
    I'm going to regret asking this but what were the '03 Girls?

    Bunch of young, female Sindo columnists who were the vanguard of the Celtic Tiger. Every week (way back in 2003!) they'd set to a theme, each write some guff about it and then they'd plaster it with photos of themselves in lingerie and stuff.

    Well that's the way I remember it... I can't be the only one! it wasn't a mad dream, was it?!


  • #68
    Son of Sniglet
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 37 ✭Son of Sniglet


    Ah, the '03 team. I remember it well. They were so bad, they were almost beyond parody, although the Phoenix used to satirise them (and Barry Ego, another clown) regularly.


  • #69
    AnonoBoy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,559 ✭✭✭✭AnonoBoy


    c_man wrote: »
    Bunch of young, female Sindo columnists who were the vanguard of the Celtic Tiger. Every week (way back in 2003!) they'd set to a theme, each write some guff about it and then they'd plaster it with photos of themselves in lingerie and stuff.

    Well that's the way I remember it... I can't be the only one! it wasn't a mad dream, was it?!

    That does ring some vague horrible bell alright. Was that genius who bought a half-million euro apartment right before the bubble burst despite the bank and her parents telling her not to among them?


  • #70
    Gandhi
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 976 ✭✭✭Gandhi


    AnonoBoy wrote: »
    That does ring some vague horrible bell alright. Was that genius who bought a half-million euro apartment right before the bubble burst despite the bank and her parents telling her not to among them?

    The real tragedy of the bubble bursting was that it smudged her fake tan.


  • #71
    c_man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,436 ✭✭✭c_man


    Ok, it was the '03 team. My mistake
    The 03 (later 04) team were a group of young female journalists who appeared in the Sunday Independent during 2003 and early 2004. The articles, originally appearing in the Living supplement but soon promoted to the main section, comprised the various members of the team writing usually very poor quality short articles on a common subject. However they were usually accompanied by a large colour group photo of the team posing scantily clad and very occasionally topless.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunday_Independent_(Ireland)#The_03_team

    :pac:


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  • #72
    VinLieger
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,610 ✭✭✭✭VinLieger


    c_man wrote: »
    Ok, it was the '03 team. My mistake



    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunday_Independent_(Ireland)#The_03_team

    :pac:

    How have i never heard of this? I feel like i missed something essential to my life that I can never get back


  • #73
    Davarus Walrus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,280 ✭✭✭Davarus Walrus


    What's slightly ironic is that an unintentionally sexist piece of throwaway journalism allows us to see how many online keyboard warriors are angry little misogynists.


  • #74
    KingOfFairview
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,388 ✭✭✭KingOfFairview


    Imagine working for a newspaper that employed Ian O'Dohery and John Waters and still managing to be the worst journalist there... Ireland's Kay Burley


  • #75
    Shakespeare's Sister
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,412 ✭✭✭Shakespeare's Sister


    Criticising her isn't misogyny just because she's a woman. No more than criticism of a male journalist writing gobshytery is misandry.


  • #76
    RoscommonTom
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 922 ✭✭✭RoscommonTom


    Shes a fine looking girl in fairness to her


  • #77
    Shakespeare's Sister
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,412 ✭✭✭Shakespeare's Sister


    RoscommonTom wrote: »
    Shes a fine looking girl in fairness to her
    http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/99/Rock-a-Hula_Ted-grab01.jpg

    :pac:


  • #78
    Wibbs
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,387 Mod ✭✭✭✭Wibbs


    I suppose beauty is subjective.

    Many worry about Artificial Intelligence. I worry far more about Organic Idiocy.



  • #79
    tritium
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,793 ✭✭✭tritium


    Between this moron in the sindo and una mulally in the irish times women's rugby teams everywhere must be wondering what they did to deserve this.


  • #80
    Tarzana
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,062 ✭✭✭Tarzana


    ScienceNerd wrote: »
    Seeing a huge amount of negative reaction online and on the radio to this. Apparently she's writing a response next week, I'd say she's delighted.

    Exactly. Professional troll. And Niamh Horan is annoying too. :pac:


  • #81
    Caliden
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,981 ✭✭✭Caliden


    Was listening to today FM yesterday evening and they had a player from the team on to talk about their success in the world cup amongst other things and I was delighted that nothing was mentioned about that troll in the independent.

    She doesn't deserve any more attention.


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  • #82
    osarusan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,059 ✭✭✭✭osarusan


    Terrible article. Terrible writer. Terrible paper.


  • #83
    Azteccoffee
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 6 ✭Azteccoffee


    Magaggie wrote: »
    Criticising her isn't misogyny just because she's a woman. No more than criticism of a male journalist writing gobshytery is misandry.

    Exactly, misogyny/ misandry is hatred of all men/ women.


  • #84
    ghostdancer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,539 ✭✭✭ghostdancer


    exactly the type of tripe that readers of the Indo/Sindo deserve tbh.
    a paper for f-ing idiots.


  • #85
    kylith
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,745 ✭✭✭✭kylith


    Davarus Walrus wrote: »
    What's slightly ironic is that an unintentionally sexist piece of throwaway journalism allows us to see how many online keyboard warriors are angry little misogynists.
    Magaggie wrote: »
    Criticising her isn't misogyny just because she's a woman. No more than criticism of a male journalist writing gobshytery is misandry.
    If there are any misogynists in this it's Ms. Horan with her portrayal of women as hair-and-makeup obsessed borderline lesbians.


  • #86
    dwayneshintzy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,343 ✭✭✭dwayneshintzy


    Her article on the reaction to this will be utterly predictable....a token "apology" followed by rounding on the "vile abuse" she's had to endure, and how her critics are the real villain of the piece.


  • #87
    KingOfFairview
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,388 ✭✭✭KingOfFairview


    ghostdancer wrote: »
    exactly the type of tripe that readers of the Indo/Sindo deserve tbh.
    a paper for f-ing idiots.

    This.


  • #88
    Robroy36
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 224 ✭✭Robroy36


    Magaggie wrote: »
    You could say that about the criticism of absolutely anyone who does anything for a living. You have even just criticised Roisin Ingle, who has a career as a journalist and broadcaster which is more than you can claim etc etc.
    Niamh Horan is not renowned either. But you know this.

    I compared her to Roisin Ingle and Una Mullally. The very a fact that I compared her to these women implies that they are on a comparable level.


  • #89
    Shakespeare's Sister
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,412 ✭✭✭Shakespeare's Sister


    dwayneshintzy wrote: »
    Her article on the reaction to this will be utterly predictable....a token "apology" followed by rounding on the "vile abuse" she's had to endure, and how her critics are the real villain of the piece.
    Yeh the apology will be kinda sarcastic, and then she'll launch into her passive-aggressive tirade, with references to "begrudgery", "PC brigade", "the feminists" (yet she might also get "misogyny" in there), cyber-bullying and how people on internet forums are World of Warcraft playing anti-social virgin geeks.


  • #90
    dwayneshintzy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,343 ✭✭✭dwayneshintzy


    Definitely, the "so-called" feminists are the real misogynists here, "showing their true colors", etc.


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  • #91
    KingOfFairview
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,388 ✭✭✭KingOfFairview


    Robroy36 wrote: »
    I compared her to Roisin Ingle and Una Mullally. The very a fact that I compared her to these women implies that they are on a comparable level.
    No it doesn't. If i compare her to Golda Meir and Benazir Bhutto it doesn't follow that she's actually comparable to them.


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