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

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As I bent over with a blonde's hand slipping around the top of my thigh, I pondered how there are worse ways to burn  calories on a sleepy Thursday evening.

Now usually I'd make someone buy me dinner before getting into this position.

But here I was, getting my first taste of the world of women's rugby.
- See more at: http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/niamh-horan-on-women-in-rugby-i-never-play-a-game-without-my-tan-30495836.html

It gets worse! How, in light of the Irish Ladies' Team wonderful achievement against the All Backs- was this awful, sexist claptrap. I deplore the Sindo more each Sunday.

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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.

Tarzana

conorh91 wrote: »

Presumably it helps pay for her prison of negative equity.

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

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?

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.

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

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?!

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.

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?

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.

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:

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

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.

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

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.

RoscommonTom

Shes a fine looking girl in fairness to her

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:

Wibbs

I suppose beauty is subjective.

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.

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:

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.

osarusan

Terrible article. Terrible writer. Terrible paper.

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.

ghostdancer

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

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.

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.

KingOfFairview

ghostdancer wrote: »

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

This.

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.

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.

dwayneshintzy

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

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.