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The best and worst Irish websites?

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  • #32
    Gerry Rio
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 654 ✭✭✭Gerry Rio


    Zaph wrote: »
    That revamp is quite recent because I looked at the Power City site only a month or two ago and it looked like something that even Geocities would have rejected for looking too crap.

    Lol thats the one. Im sure the cache of the old website can still be found somewhere.


  • #33
    Gerry Rio
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 654 ✭✭✭Gerry Rio


    keith16 wrote: »
    It's the same old crap all the time tho



    I doubt DOB is losing any sleep over them tbh.


    No, but Id say you are :P


  • #34
    BoJack Horseman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,247 ✭✭✭✭BoJack Horseman


    TheJournal is dire beyond compare
    independent.ie is an awful experience too.

    The Irish times is a little better but still not great


  • #35
    shampoosuicide
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 415 ✭✭shampoosuicide


    keith16 wrote: »
    It's the same old crap all the time tho

    "Shure where would ya get it"

    People sending in photos of when the sun comes out for 5 mins. I'd tell you where you would "get it", almost anywhere other than Ireland.

    "Da Papers"

    "We don't normally do this"

    People sending in photos of their **** bikes with a message "I bought this bike for 5 grand 2 weeks ago and it was nicked from outside a pub in Cabra. I only went in for 5 mins"

    "Ah Here"

    etc. etc.

    And then below the line the same 10 to 15 posters who are permanently angry and just complain about whatever it was that has just been posted.

    I doubt DOB is losing any sleep over them tbh.

    'Dublin, you're looking well!'

    'Meanwhile, in Rathmines...'


  • #36
    Gerry Rio
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 654 ✭✭✭Gerry Rio


    Deleted User wrote: »
    Does Aine Chambers have any site?

    That would be the best.


    Something strange I just noticed. Put her name into Facebook and click on her Fanpage.

    You will be redirected to this https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Podge-and-Rodge-Show/104109126292888?rf=110972398930785


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  • #37
    Mumha
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,247 ✭✭✭Mumha


    The_Valeyard wrote: »
    Breakingnews.ie is nearly as bad as thejournal.ie

    Nearly but the journal is awful. They've gone down the road of pandering to the Shinners and Anti Water crowd which they are infested with. All they're after is click count for advertising, and are shameless in doing so.


  • #38
    twistyj
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 182 ✭✭twistyj


    Best: getthere.ie

    Worst: irishrail.ie


  • #39
    Gerry Rio
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 654 ✭✭✭Gerry Rio


    shampoosuicide wrote: »
    'Dublin, you're looking well!'

    'Meanwhile, in Rathmines...'

    And it features stuff from outside of Dublin too.

    What would you prefer from an Irish site? "Meanwhile in Baghdad"?


  • #40
    The_Valeyard
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,452 ✭✭✭✭The_Valeyard


    Mumha wrote: »
    Nearly but the journal is awful. They've gone down the road of pandering to the Shinners and Anti Water crowd which they are infested with. All they're after is click count for advertising, and are shameless in doing so.

    Read the comments section,

    You will wish the dinosaurs were never wiped out.


  • #41
    BoJack Horseman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,247 ✭✭✭✭BoJack Horseman


    Mumha wrote: »
    Nearly but the journal is awful. They've gone down the road of pandering to the Shinners and Anti Water crowd which they are infested with. All they're after is click count for advertising, and are shameless in doing so.

    every couple of hours is a gurning pic of Enda Kenny with a headline along the lines of "Guess who ran over your dog then took a sh*t on the declaration of independence"

    just to enrage the shinners & the 'antis'.
    Anger drives clicks... which drives sweet sweet cashish.

    They know what they are, no point improving now.

    (and this isn't hyperbole..... http://www.thejournal.ie/enda-kenny/news/


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  • #42
    shampoosuicide
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 415 ✭✭shampoosuicide


    Gerry Rio wrote: »
    And it features stuff from outside of Dublin too.

    What would you prefer from an Irish site? "Meanwhile in Baghdad"?

    i'm more making fun of the tropes/banal phrases than the location.


  • #43
    Gerry Rio
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 654 ✭✭✭Gerry Rio


    Arent Thejournal, thedailyedge and boards.ie all the same owners?


  • #44
    Gerry Rio
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 654 ✭✭✭Gerry Rio


    shampoosuicide wrote: »
    i'm more making fun of the tropes/banal phrases than the location.

    Its aimed at office workers bored out of their minds looking for a distraction. Its not meant to be The Wall Street Journal.


  • #45
    keith16
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,061 ✭✭✭keith16


    Gerry Rio wrote: »
    Arent Thejournal, thedailyedge and boards.ie all the same owners?

    Yes, and daft too. All owned by distilled media. Pretty sure adverts is too.

    Another dreadful website.

    Selling this iPhone, no offers.

    €5 offered

    Will you swap for this packet of stickers?


  • #46
    BoJack Horseman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,247 ✭✭✭✭BoJack Horseman


    keith16 wrote: »
    Will you swap for this packet of stickers?

    I'll give you 4 stickers & will expect cash my way.

    I can only meet on the Inishowen peninsula.


  • #47
    Gerry Rio
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 654 ✭✭✭Gerry Rio


    keith16 wrote: »
    Yes, and daft too. All owned by distilled media.

    I thought Daft bought a chunk of Boards but the lads behind Boards owned The Journal, Daily Edge, Adverts etc under the Distilled Media holding company seperately.

    Could be wrong though.


  • #48
    shampoosuicide
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 415 ✭✭shampoosuicide


    Gerry Rio wrote: »
    Its aimed at office workers bored out of their minds looking for a distraction. Its not meant to be The Wall Street Journal.

    just because banality has a purpose/audience doesn't mean we should accept it.


  • #49
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 5,094 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    The Irish websites I visit most:

    All the Irish-English-Irish dictionaries and pronunciation guides (getting bigger every day)

    Placenames Database of Ireland (continuously fascinating and enlightening about all Irish placenames)

    Library catalogue with free downloadable audiobooks, music, etc

    Mydealpage.ie (all the Groupon/Pigsback/Living Social etc deals on one website)

    IrishTimes.com (the best of an awful print media in Ireland)


  • #50
    Mumha
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,247 ✭✭✭Mumha


    The_Valeyard wrote: »
    Read the comments section,

    You will wish the dinosaurs were never wiped out.

    True, and I wouldn't be surprised if some of their own staffers had IDs on both sides, to stoke things up further. As against that, I know one of the "ordinary" contributors who has their own separate issues and they are being consumed by it all.


  • #51
    jack presley
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,687 ✭✭✭✭jack presley


    keith16 wrote: »
    broadsheet is pretty shit these days too.

    I like the funny and non serious stories on Broadsheet but the political ones are too lefty for my liking so I don't even click on them anymore, especially that French bloke (or bloke with the French name).

    With Waterford Whispers I think reading the heading is enough. They make me laugh but the stories themselves try too hard to keep the joke going and it normally has run out of steam by about the second line. It was the same with the Onion for me.


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  • #52
    Birneybau
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,450 ✭✭✭✭Birneybau


    keith16 wrote: »
    Yes, and daft too. All owned by distilled media. Pretty sure adverts is too.

    Another dreadful website.

    Selling this iPhone, no offers.

    €5 offered

    Will you swap for this packet of stickers?

    Don't blame the site though, blame the internet for allowing mentalists a place to be mental.


  • #53
    smash
    Closed Accounts Posts: 34,808 ✭✭✭✭smash


    Birneybau wrote: »
    Don't blame the site though, blame the internet for allowing mentalists a place to be mental.
    You have to blame the site. Donedeal works, the way in which transactions are done on adverts just doesn't.


  • #54
    Birneybau
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,450 ✭✭✭✭Birneybau


    smash wrote: »
    You have to blame the site. Donedeal works, the way in which transactions are done on adverts just doesn't.

    My mate has a car up on Done Deal, she specifically asked for calls only between 18:00 and 21:00.

    Had a missed called from 03:30 the other morning, a few after midnight.


  • #55
    kupus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,151 ✭✭✭kupus


    Just after checking Alexa and this is madness.

    The Sunday world website is one of the most visited news websites in Ireland
    And it ranks and number 31 overall.
    OMG.
    Who the hell is reading that rag. It's even above the guardian haha


  • #56
    Barely There
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,481 ✭✭✭Barely There


    Worst:
    Banking365 the day before payday.


    Best:
    Banking365 on payday.


  • #57
    Gerry Rio
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 654 ✭✭✭Gerry Rio


    smash wrote: »
    You have to blame the site. Donedeal works, the way in which transactions are done on adverts just doesn't.


    I agree.

    AFAIK Done Deal lets sellers put their phone number up whereas Adverts makes sellers go through a big merrygoround of bollixology.


  • #58
    suicide_circus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,801 ✭✭✭✭suicide_circus


    Worst: Joe.ie and TheJournal.ie.....appalling copy n paste clickbait bollix


  • #59
    Ursus Horribilis
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,168 ✭✭✭Ursus Horribilis


    Silicon Republic. The website looks like it was designed by a 5 year old using a Microsoft Frontpage wizard.


  • #60
    fullstop
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 12,720 ✭✭✭✭fullstop


    Another vote for joe.ie for worst.

    "check out this Irish mammy's reaction". "Things only an Irish mammy would say". "How you know you have an Irish mammy"...etc ad nauseum.


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  • #61
    Gerry Rio
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 654 ✭✭✭Gerry Rio


    Odus fell down wrote: »
    Silicon Republic. The website looks like it was designed by a 5 year old using a Microsoft Frontpage wizard.

    This one? https://www.siliconrepublic.com/

    Looks ok to me.


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