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Sindo hits a new low

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  • #62
    Eugene Norman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,191 ✭✭✭Eugene Norman


    Ireland does have world famous celebs, musicians and actors mostly. The indo gives us a frog faced lawyer famous for being a frog faced lawyer whom the indo reports on every week.

    You actually couldn't parody Niamh horans articles. An onion type version of that article would be written the same with the same characters.


  • #63
    Aidric
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,591 ✭✭✭✭Aidric


    Eugene Norman wrote: »
    Ireland does have world famous celebs, musicians and actors mostly. The indo gives us a frog faced lawyer famous for being a frog faced lawyer whom the indo reports on every week.

    You actually couldn't parody Niamh horans articles. An onion type version of that article would be written the same with the same characters.

    A chipper heiress and a golddigger pumped full of botox. I can't think of a more fitting paradox.


  • #64
    TonyStark
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 851 ✭✭✭TonyStark


    dxhound2005 wrote: »
    Every week in the Sunday Times both their Irish and English restaurant critics report on meals which usually cost well over €100/£100. While Greek people rummage in bins. Classy.

    I was just paying homage to the fact that that article was directly below the Greek one. Why ever tripe like that is pushed to the homepage I will never understand.

    The "celeb" stories are for the most lazy journalism fed by a band of z-list attention seekers.


  • #65
    Menas
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,318 ✭✭✭✭Menas


    Birneybau wrote: »
    Not a single accredited quote. A source said, South Dublin Beauty Therapist said...If they were honest it would just state 'Niamh Horan made up' before every quote.

    Ah well, at least we know that south dublin beauty therapists have their finger on the pulse of the gentile class.

    But as was said earlier, there are enough muppets to buy this, read this and lap it up.


  • #66
    Red Kev
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,793 ✭✭✭Red Kev


    Aidric wrote: »
    Would that be the same Quinta Do Lago resort owned by Denis O Brien? Jesus, that really is shameful hawking.

    What's the betting that Niamh Horan will get a freebie holiday to Quinta do Lago this summer? She'll have a fortnight to make up more sh1te for the Sindo. Shhe has her eye on Barry Egan's job anyway.


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  • #67
    For Forks Sake
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,878 ✭✭✭✭For Forks Sake


    Specialun wrote: »
    Would you not be embarassed if you were the journo..like seriously she went to college, i assume 4 or 5 years....then she ends up writing that crap....

    Embarrassment clearly isn't programmed into her:as this portfolio of garbage clearly shows


    DareGod wrote: »
    Dear jesus. I had to stop reading half way through. Not so much because of the content, but because the writing was atrocious. She repeated herself about twenty times, and the content as vapid and as boring as sin. She should go work for The Journal, the writing there is just as atrocious.

    Only qualification needed to work (note. not write) for thejournal is the ability to carry out Ctrl+C, Ctrl+V, repeatedly.


  • #68
    donegaLroad
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,379 ✭✭✭donegaLroad


    SaveOurLyric wrote: »
    They arent celebs at all. But are the best and most successful in Irish society that most would love to emulate.
    Others aspire to the lifestyle of those the article is describing and like to have a glimpse of how the elite really live, and so enjoy reading the article and dreaming of being like them. Its harmless escapism.

    the guy in the photo in the Indo article was convicted of 17 counts of loan fraud to the value of €4.15 million.


  • #69
    Ash.J.Williams
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,268 ✭✭✭✭Ash.J.Williams


    realies wrote: »
    Read a bit of that online,

    But the number-one destination for yummy mummies and their families has emerged as Quinta do Lago.With the constant 30-degree heat, five-star golf courses or sandy white beaches in Luz, Silves and Sagres, the Irish have brought the party to town.

    The part about Silves is interesting as it must now be a wonder of the world as how come a beach got there as it is in the foot of the mountains and about an hours drive from the sea,Luz is just a small town more known infamously for the. Abduction of maddie McCann , and Sagres is the most southerly point of portugal always windy and a Mecca for surfers.

    The Indo a great two minute read of your Sunday morning...
    sounds like a sh1t party


  • #70
    walkingshadow
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 369 ✭✭walkingshadow


    The people in that article should go on vacation to Islamic State- I hear its really beautiful this time of year.


  • #71
    Princess Consuela Bananahammock
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,779 ✭✭✭✭Princess Consuela Bananahammock


    Eugene Norman wrote: »
    Ireland does have world famous celebs, musicians and actors mostly. The indo gives us a frog faced lawyer famous for being a frog faced lawyer whom the indo reports on every week.

    You actually couldn't parody Niamh horans articles. An onion type version of that article would be written the same with the same characters.

    Oh, I don't know - you'd just have to paradox it with a serious issue.

    (Try to hear this in the voice of an 11-year-old girl)

    "Well the summer holidays are over and, as has been foretold for some time now, the Apocalypse is upon us. I spoke to a thin man on a horse who said he'd been waiting and wondering if it would ever go ahead and now - the moment we've all been waiting for is here.

    But the yummy-mummies aren't convinced: Jactinta O'Shaghnessy sitting on the beach in Sandycove (in a stunning white-sequined dress with REAL! red flames) wasn;t prepared for the scarcity of the Ballygowan! And as for the lemon - how hard can it be to find a slice of lemon at the end of the world? Do we ask for much these days?"

    Everything I don't like is either woke or fascist - possibly both - pick one.



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  • #72
    DareGod
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    DareGod wrote: »
    She should go work for The Journal, the writing there is just as atrocious.
    For Forks Sake wrote: »
    Only qualification needed to work (note. not write) for thejournal is the ability to carry out Ctrl+C, Ctrl+V, repeatedly.


    And there are times when they manage to f*ck even that up.


  • #73
    Birneybau
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,430 ✭✭✭✭Birneybau


    walkingshadow wrote: »
    The people in that article should go on vacation to Islamic State- I hear its really beautiful this time of year.

    IsIsh? (As I imagine the people in the article would sound)


  • #74
    Aglomerado
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,790 ✭✭✭Aglomerado


    Dog walker 1234 wrote: »
    It is absolute rubbish

    Vapid shyte, to be sure. :mad:


  • #75
    c68zapdsm5i1ru
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,709 ✭✭✭c68zapdsm5i1ru


    I knew Gerard Keane and Lisa Murphy would be in there somewhere.

    The Indo does Trojan work, in fairness, trying to convince us all that there's this glitterati of interesting, talented people around Dublin to whom we should all aspire. I'm sure the ex models, brash businessmen and vapid hangers on who form this 'glitterati' are very impressed by themselves. It's been going on for years. It used to be Olivia Treacy and Michelle Rocca and Terry Keane; now it's Rosanna Davidson and Glenda Gilson and Yvonne Keating.

    In the meantime genuinely talented, interesting people doing useful things with their lives stay happily off the back pages of the Indo.


  • #76
    DarkyHughes
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,393 ✭✭✭DarkyHughes


    What the hell is a "Dublin's society circle"?


  • #77
    Mr Freeze
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,618 ✭✭✭Mr Freeze


    This is nothing compared to my American cousins (well my Mam's cousins) and their constant "Vacationing"and pictures on Facebook.

    They must have a holiday a month and post videos and photos on FB complete with bullsh1t description of what they were up to this time.

    I'd block them if it wasn't so much craic giving out about them. :pac:


  • #78
    PopePalpatine
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,166 ✭✭✭✭PopePalpatine


    I'm just wondering, what is it with the Sindo's fascination with Gerald Keane? Was he Dinny's lawyer at some point?


  • #79
    partyguinness
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,202 ✭✭✭partyguinness


    Lisa Murphy looks ridiculous.


  • #80
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 12,694 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    The Sunday papers are dross, the Saturday papers were doing alright but even they have more or less given themselves over to rubbish as well. Its telling that the Sunday papers have 10 lidil shopping vouchers in them.


  • #81
    vertmann
    Closed Accounts Posts: 106 ✭✭vertmann


    DarkyHughes wrote: »
    What the hell is a "Dublin's society circle"?

    I presume they're the drinking buddies of the Sindo journalists?


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  • #82
    DEFTLEFTHAND
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,499 ✭✭✭✭DEFTLEFTHAND


    Niamh Horan always does a good job of winding people up on here. There was another thread about her a while back where she was laughing at womens rugby in an article and it sparked outrage. The Sindo have a right gem on their hands.


  • #83
    fiachr_a
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,204 ✭✭✭fiachr_a


    partyguinness wrote: »
    Lisa Murphy looks ridiculous.
    The photo in yesterday's paper of Vogue DJing beside a pool in Ibiza to two people was worse.


  • #84
    fro9etb8j5qsl2
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,391 ✭✭✭fro9etb8j5qsl2


    Niamh Horan's latest offering is about some 5 star caravan park in Wicklow. I'll save ye the torture of actually reading it by summing it up for you in one quote:

    "It's the domestic version of Marbella or Quinta Da Lago," says one socialite who has BBQ-d with the residents.

    Describing the prestige of owning a mobile home in the exclusive enclaves, she says: "It's like owning a lawn mower in Monte Carlo. In other words, only the very rich can afford a garden there. Having a luxury mobile home in this part of Ireland is no different."

    :rolleyes:


  • #85
    ToddyDoody
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,417 ✭✭✭ToddyDoody


    Every Sunday. :)


  • #86
    Arciphel
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,835 ✭✭✭Arciphel


    Owning a lawn mower in Monte Carlo - I'm telling you the Purlitzer beckons for this hack.


  • #87
    galljga1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,937 ✭✭✭galljga1


    Brianna Strong Toolbox wrote: »
    Niamh Horan's latest offering is about some 5 star caravan park in Wicklow.

    :rolleyes:

    Is that not a bit of a contradiction in terms?


  • #88
    wendell borton
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,335 ✭✭✭wendell borton


    DarkyHughes wrote: »
    What the hell is a "Dublin's society circle"?

    NounURL="https://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=circle_jerk&action=edit&section=3"][COLOR=#0066cc]edit[/COLOR][/URL

    circle jerk (plural circle jerks)
    1. (vulgar, slang) A group of males masturbating ("jerking off") together (with or without interpersonal contact).
    2. (vulgar, slang) A metaphor for any group activity performed for personal gratification.
    3. (drug user slang) A person who shares syringes when injecting drugs.
    4. (Internet slang) An online community where a group of people form an echo chamber, either intentionally (as satire), or unintentionally.
    Take your pick of the above.


  • #89
    For Forks Sake
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,878 ✭✭✭✭For Forks Sake


    Brianna Strong Toolbox wrote: »
    Niamh Horan's latest offering is about some 5 star caravan park in Wicklow. I'll save ye the torture of actually reading it by summing it up for you in one quote:

    "It's the domestic version of Marbella or Quinta Da Lago," says one socialite who has BBQ-d with the residents.

    Describing the prestige of owning a mobile home in the exclusive enclaves, she says: "It's like owning a lawn mower in Monte Carlo. In other words, only the very rich can afford a garden there. Having a luxury mobile home in this part of Ireland is no different."

    :rolleyes:

    SRSLY? http://www.myhome.ie/residential/brochure/s53-potters-point-brittas-bay-wicklow/2833553


  • #90
    DeadHand
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,823 ✭✭✭DeadHand


    Jaysus.

    There's no way this is satire? This is serious? These people are real?


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  • #91
    c68zapdsm5i1ru
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    In fairness to Niamh Horan, if there are idiots around prepared to spout that kind of rubbish, and other idiots prepared to believe that these nouveau riche blingers represent some kind of high society, she's just giving people what they want.

    I think it's well understood now that the Sindo is a cheap rag and the people featured in it are, in the main, vapid non entities who think hanging designer labels out of their ears and erecting security gates around their tacky piles in Castleknock and Howth make them role models the rest of us aspire to follow with bated breath.


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