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Half price digital sub to Irish Times

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  • Registered Users Posts: 4,467 ✭✭✭harr


    Glebee wrote: »
    I had it for a few months on the cheap last year and it was excellent. Completely different than the app. If I could find a way to get the sunday Times along with the weekly epapers I might resub. Cant seem to see the Sunday epaper on offer, only the Sunday roundup of the weeks events.
    I get the Sunday e paper no problem with all the mags...not sure if it's a different offer I picked up ..I taught it would come with all additions automatically ...


  • Registered Users Posts: 6,550 ✭✭✭Glebee


    harr wrote: »
    I get the Sunday e paper no problem with all the mags...not sure if it's a different offer I picked up ..I taught it would come with all additions automatically ...

    Defo did not come with mine last year, Sunday was just a wrap up of the week previous, no epaper. Dont know the reason?


  • Registered Users Posts: 4,654 ✭✭✭ablelocks


    Glebee wrote: »
    Defo did not come with mine last year, Sunday was just a wrap up of the week previous, no epaper. Dont know the reason?
    harr wrote: »
    I get the Sunday e paper no problem with all the mags...not sure if it's a different offer I picked up ..I taught it would come with all additions automatically ...

    Some Times are Irish, Some Times are not. The Sunday Times isn't published by the Irish Times. The Irish Times doesn't publish a Sunday edition. But the Sunday Times is published by The Times, which also does a daily Times Monday to Saturday. But that Times is also different to the Irish Times, which also only publishes Monday to Saturday.


  • Registered Users Posts: 7,943 ✭✭✭_Whimsical_


    Glebee wrote: »
    Defo did not come with mine last year, Sunday was just a wrap up of the week previous, no epaper. Dont know the reason?

    I'm fairly sure that the Sunday Times and the Irish Times are two different operations. The Sunday Times is a Sunday version of the UK Times paper and there is an Irish version of that that we get in the shop. You sign up with a completely different company for the Sunday Times access. They had a free month trial running last year and when I went to cancel after it they offered me 3 more months for free. Maybe they'd give you a free trial of you contacted the company. Might be worth a shot!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 44 Nesser


    ablelocks wrote: »
    Some Times are Irish, Some Times are not. The Sunday Times isn't published by the Irish Times. The Irish Times doesn't publish a Sunday edition. But the Sunday Times is published by The Times, which also does a daily Times Monday to Saturday. But that Times is also different to the Irish Times, which also only publishes Monday to Saturday.

    Quite strange that someone who was saying how excellent the Irish Times subscription is was not aware of this very basic fact.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 7,943 ✭✭✭_Whimsical_


    Nesser wrote: »
    Quite strange that someone who was saying how excellent the Irish Times subscription is was not aware of this very basic fact.

    I think it's a mistake an awful lot of people make actually, easily done given the name..


  • Registered Users Posts: 4,467 ✭✭✭harr


    My sub is the times (Irish edition) not the Irish times ...when I open app it's says the times and the Sunday times and when I down load the daily epaper it's the times (Irish edition) it has both Irish and U.K. Content ...

    The free App people are talking about is the Irish Times


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 44 Nesser


    harr wrote: »
    My sub is the times (Irish edition) not the Irish times ...when I open app it's says the times and the Sunday times and when I down load the daily epaper it's the times (Irish edition) it has both Irish and U.K. Content ...

    The free App people are talking about is the Irish Times

    Ah right. You do realize that this is a thread discussing why people want to pay €96 a year for online subscription to Irish Times articles when they are already available for free. The epaper you are extolling is for the UK Times. These articles are also available for free online.

    Charging for online news is a failed business model. Practically all papers that have tried it gave gone back to releasing articles for free with revenue coming from ads embedded in articles.

    Which is why I find the enthusiasm for paying for online content by some on this thread so puzzling


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 18,268 ✭✭✭✭ Mariana Wet Prison


    Nesser wrote: »
    Ah right. You do realize that this is a thread discussing why people want to pay €96 a year for online subscription to Irish Times articles when they are already available for free. The epaper you are extolling is for the UK Times. These articles are also available for free online.

    Charging for online news is a failed business model. Practically all papers that have tried it gave gone back to releasing articles for free with revenue coming from ads embedded in articles.

    Which is why I find the enthusiasm for paying for online content by some on this thread so puzzling

    I have the epaper app on my phone. It's definitely the Irish Times!
    At less than a cup of coffee a week, it's a bargain .


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 44 Nesser


    harr wrote: »
    It's not free... there is a huge difference between the free app and the actual e-papers the e-paper is exactly the same as the physical paper you purchase in shop including all magazines and sports highlights which can be watched from a tab in the sports section... this is a very good deal the Sunday paper is 3 quid alone...and I find the sports coverage excellent...with the E paper you have to download the content each morning with a different app

    Yes but harr has a completely different app.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 44 Nesser


    At less than a cup of coffee a week, it's a bargain .

    You do realize that is a phrase the charity industry use to try to persuade people that they aren't really paying that much. How much a second does it cost you?


  • Registered Users Posts: 4,654 ✭✭✭ablelocks


    the Irish Times " free app" is ltd to a certain number of articles so is not the full version.

    the Irish Times subscription is to multiple devices and includes an e-paper - this is why this offer posted by the op is very good value. You get the full Irish Times coverage for approx 33c per day, incl. all supplements and whatever else is included in the subscription.

    ditto the (UK) Times and the Sunday Times - 5 euro a week for full access to all their content. Afaik, the Times online content is behind a paywall - you cannot get any of it for free.

    I will gladly pay for content from either of these sources - the quality is very high, the range is broad and I can generally trust that the news they report is researched, validated and true. Other sources of news, not so much.

    And there are very few ads, at least in the Times. I'm not sure about the Irish Times yet. Anytime I come across "free news" content online, there are ads, clickbait articles for more "news" which directs to more ads.

    Free is never free - there is a cost.


  • Registered Users Posts: 4,331 ✭✭✭Arthur Daley


    What is the archive like on this subscription? Has anyone tried the archive section as that isn't freely available as far as I know

    Is it fairly comprehensive like front pages for a given date or is it high level, selective and thrown into the mix as a 'feature' but of little use?


  • Registered Users Posts: 3,216 ✭✭✭nc6000


    I'm starting to wonder why people bother posting bargains or offers on here if these are the responses they get.

    Thanks OP, I've signed up. The digital version of the paper works very well on my tablet and even though there are ways around having to subscribe and other free news sites I think The Irish Times could do with some support otherwise (as someone else pointed out) we aren't left with much in the line of decent newspapers.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 431 ✭✭Killergreene


    There's an easy enough way to bypass the pay wall lads. Keep your money in your pocket.


  • Registered Users Posts: 876 ✭✭✭eclipsechaser


    Nesser wrote: »
    Ah right. You do realize that this is a thread discussing why people want to pay €96 a year for online subscription to Irish Times articles when they are already available for free.


    It's like you're being thick on purpose. It would be nice to read this thread without you saying this over and over again.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 18,268 ✭✭✭✭ Mariana Wet Prison


    I signed up previously for these free access sites posted here and elsewhere. Needless to say I never used them due to the hassle involved in accessing the free content.


  • Registered Users Posts: 19,587 ✭✭✭✭Muahahaha


    There's an easy enough way to bypass the pay wall lads. Keep your money in your pocket.

    How, disable cookies or something?


  • Registered Users Posts: 528 ✭✭✭All My Stars Aligned


    Cheers OP.


  • Registered Users Posts: 5,178 ✭✭✭killbillvol2


    What is the archive like on this subscription? Has anyone tried the archive section as that isn't freely available as far as I know

    Is it fairly comprehensive like front pages for a given date or is it high level, selective and thrown into the mix as a 'feature' but of little use?

    It's very comprehensive and searchable. I searched for a minor figure in Irish football from the 60s and it threw up nearly 20 articles. You can also search for a specific day's newspaper.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 2,355 ✭✭✭cruhoortwunk


    Incognito mode in Chrome works to get around their paywall restrictions. You can click around to your hearts content with it enabled.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,569 ✭✭✭Special Circumstances


    Incognito mode in Chrome works to get around their paywall restrictions. You can click around to your hearts content with it enabled.

    I think next week's opinion piece lumps anyone who does this in with ultra right wing death camp operators and russian hackers.


  • Registered Users Posts: 4,157 ✭✭✭Sappy404


    I think next week's opinion piece lumps anyone who does this in with ultra right wing death camp operators and russian hackers.

    Don't be ridiculous, that would suggest negative connotations towards the alt-right. They wouldn't dare associate such interesting people with something as unscrupulous and socialist as getting online content for free.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 44 Nesser


    Sappy404 wrote: »
    Don't be ridiculous, that would suggest negative connotations towards the alt-right. They wouldn't dare associate such interesting people with something as unscrupulous and socialist as getting online content for free.

    I think a reasonable inference is that those who choose to pay a subscription for online content are supporters of the alt right. Whereas those that chose to read the exact same online content for free are amoral socialists.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,569 ✭✭✭Special Circumstances


    Sappy404 wrote: »
    Don't be ridiculous, that would suggest negative connotations towards the alt-right. They wouldn't dare associate such interesting people with something as unscrupulous and socialist as getting online content for free.

    From reading the Irish Times I think we're pretty much all alt-right unless we've done a permanent house swap with a transgender Syrian archi-doc-gineer.

    Is that child's wifi still live in Aleppo? And would you need a proxy to read Una Mullalys daily bounty of joy over there?

    I'm seriously considering it like.


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,445 ✭✭✭bovril


    How do the supplements (weekend magazine, weekend review etc) with with the epaper? Are they available in epaper format too? I'd love if they did a sample in the app so I could see how it works. Very tempted to subscribe.


  • Registered Users Posts: 3,379 ✭✭✭VG31


    bovril wrote: »
    How do the supplements (weekend magazine, weekend review etc) with with the epaper? Are they available in epaper format too? I'd love if they did a sample in the app so I could see how it works. Very tempted to subscribe.

    Yes, when you select the paper thumbnails of the supplements appear at the bottom of the screen and you can select them.

    I can post a few screenshots later if you want.


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,445 ✭✭✭bovril


    VG31 wrote:
    I can post a few screenshots later if you want.


    That would be great if you could. Thanks a million.


  • Registered Users Posts: 3,379 ✭✭✭VG31


    bovril wrote: »
    How do the supplements (weekend magazine, weekend review etc) with with the epaper? Are they available in epaper format too? I'd love if they did a sample in the app so I could see how it works. Very tempted to subscribe.
    bovril wrote: »
    That would be great if you could. Thanks a million.

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  • Registered Users Posts: 1,445 ✭✭✭bovril


    Thanks VG31. That's great.


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