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Irish Newspaper Archives website issue

  • 02-02-2019 10:05am
    #1
    Hermy
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 11,299 Mod ✭✭✭✭


    Anyone else having an issue accessing Irish Newspaper Archives?

    I can log in but I'm getting a runtime error message when I try to access the papers.

    Genealogy Forum Mod



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  • #2
    Tombom1
    Registered Users Posts: 50 ✭✭Tombom1


    Hermy wrote: »
    Anyone else having an issue accessing Irish Newspaper Archives?

    I can log in but I'm getting a runtime error message when I try to access the papers.

    I can't log in at all ,but I'm doing in through my student account.


  • #3
    spurious
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 27,103 CMod ✭✭✭✭spurious


    Working OK here on Virgin connection.

    Often clearing the cache helps with it.


  • #4
    srmf5
    Registered Users Posts: 311 ✭✭srmf5


    It's working for me too using eir and I'm logging in through a student account.


  • #5
    Hermy
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 11,299 Mod ✭✭✭✭Hermy


    I'm back in now so perhaps just something in the ether.

    Genealogy Forum Mod



  • #6
    SophieLockhart
    Registered Users Posts: 203 ✭✭SophieLockhart


    Does anyone with an account have the following problem... death notices from around 2006-2009 don't show up in search results, at least for the main papers. I searched for a particular entry, nothing showed up, so I thought maybe that edition was missing. But I then used the 'browse' function, did find that day's paper and the entry was there. Even if you search something general like 'murphy regretted', no death notices show up. Strange.


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  • #7
    L1011
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 67,523 Mod ✭✭✭✭L1011


    murphy <NEAR> regretted

    should work

    The OCR is shockingly, appallingly bad though.


  • #8
    SophieLockhart
    Registered Users Posts: 203 ✭✭SophieLockhart


    No I mean 'murphy regretted' will show up plenty of notices from other years but not from those I mentioned. The OCR is not perfect it's true.


  • #9
    KildareFan
    Registered Users Posts: 683 ✭✭✭KildareFan


    SophieLockhart wrote: »
    Does anyone with an account have the following problem... death notices from around 2006-2009 don't show up in search results, at least for the main papers. I searched for a particular entry, nothing showed up, so I thought maybe that edition was missing. But I then used the 'browse' function, did find that day's paper and the entry was there. Even if you search something general like 'murphy regretted', no death notices show up. Strange.


    Fortunately RIP.ie started posting death notices from the early 2000s onwards; as we've found out from Covid19, RIP now publishes almost 100% death notices.


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