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The best and worst Irish websites?

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    #62
    deex
    Registered Users Posts: 88 ✭✭deex


    I haven't used it in a year or so, but I remember the Bus Eireann website being absolutely bloody horrific.

    Let's say I wanted to go from Town A to Town B, and I knew that such a bus existed, although I didn't know specifically where in the town the bus stops were.

    You'd go onto the website to find that information, and it would ask you to input, from a big big list, the EXACT stop in town A and the EXACT stop in town B that you wanted a bus to and from.

    So you'd make your best guess.... ehhh... Main Street to Main Street? Nope, no such bus exists apparently. Oh alright then, uh... Main Street to Opposite the Fire Station? Nope, guess again.

    And you'd have to find the EXACT combination before it would even think of showing you a timetable. F*ckers. Telling me the location of the bus stops in the town is YOUR job! Arrrrrrgggghhhhhh.


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    #63
    thee glitz
    Registered Users Posts: 2,294 ✭✭✭thee glitz


    Wacker The Attacker wrote: »
    rte sport is a horrific website.


    Theyre still waiting on the results of the 1982 world cup

    Ye, I thought that too. See you're supposed to download the RTÉ News app.


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    #64
    ps3man
    Registered Users Posts: 786 ✭✭✭ps3man


    Just came across this.

    Vote for best is SevereMMA. Small group of lads cover all the Irish MMA Scene, very insightful and on the ball.

    Worst is Joe.ie, same gripe as everyone else, used to read all their stuff up until about a year ago when they turned their model into that click baiting ****e. Stuff that was on The Lad Bible rehashed and claimed to be original. Also their founder claiming to have grown their sites by the quality of their content is an insult. Had nothing to do with all the like and share giveaways of PS4's I am sure.


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    #65
    Tarzana2
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,553 ✭✭✭Tarzana2


    Wacker The Attacker wrote: »
    rte sport is a horrific website.

    Awful awful awful.

    Me: "I wonder what the latest score in that big Gaaaah game is?" *Pootles over to the RTÉ Sport website*

    RTÉ Sport website "Why the FÚCK would we give you that information?"


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    #66
    Tarzana2
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,553 ✭✭✭Tarzana2


    shampoosuicide wrote: »
    most overrated: WWN. the headlines can sometimes be worth a chuckle but the satire itself is very weak. think the guy who runs it is pretty clever in an opportunistic sense though

    Yeah, the headlines are frequently gold, but the accompanying articles are never that well written and just lack bite. Like they can't seem capitalise on the soundbite headline.


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    #67
    Tarzana2
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,553 ✭✭✭Tarzana2


    cml387 wrote: »
    Looks to me like an entry well overdue for an edit, or two.

    Yeah, look at what it's been flagged for: "The neutrality of this article is disputed"


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    #68
    Mother Brain
    Closed Accounts Posts: 255 ✭✭Mother Brain


    Tarzana2 wrote: »
    Yeah, look at what it's been flagged for: "The neutrality of this article is disputed"

    ERROR 404

    Reality not found. ;)


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    #69
    Hollister11
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,482 ✭✭✭Hollister11


    Paddypowers website is terrible. Its hard to use, and doesn't look great.

    As others have sai Joe.ie is such clickbait.


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    #70
    Duffy the Vampire Slayer
    Registered Users Posts: 5,378 ✭✭✭Duffy the Vampire Slayer


    I find the WWN writer often seems to have had 2 or 3 ideas for an article and tries to use them all in a piece. The result is a poorly written mess.


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    #71
    Lady Chatterton
    Registered Users Posts: 19,585 ✭✭✭✭Lady Chatterton


    I hate the Vodafone website so much, it seems to do nothing but generate annoying error messages.


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    #72
    circadian
    Registered Users Posts: 6,898 ✭✭✭circadian


    Dublin Bus is just as unintuitive as it's timetables.


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    #73
    Tarzana2
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,553 ✭✭✭Tarzana2


    MrsD007 wrote: »
    I hate the Vodafone website so much, it seems to do nothing but generate annoying error messages.

    O2 used to be the same. Shockin' bad.


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    #74
    Tarzana2
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,553 ✭✭✭Tarzana2


    circadian wrote: »
    Dublin Bus is just as unintuitive as it's timetables.

    I dunno, I quite like their site. Easy to navigate and has lots of useful information.


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    #75
    ACANDROID
    Registered Users Posts: 58 ✭✭ACANDROID


    Best.

    Daft.ie very easy to find what you are looking for.

    Worst.
    Joe.ie, same points as everyone else has made, and the worst of all Lovin Dublin. 23333661 ways you know your from Dublin. The article about your man stalking that woman on the bus was just short of demented.


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    #76
    Notavirus.exe
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 832 ✭✭✭Notavirus.exe


    Gerry Rio wrote: »
    Somewhere in the middle:

    Boards.ie

    Reddit Ireland.

    INB4 ban.

    Anyway, what's up with Waterford Whispers? It stinks of trolling.


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    #77
    endacl
    Registered Users Posts: 22,231 ✭✭✭✭endacl


    Any cinema site. What's wrong with Movie>Time>Pay>Done?


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    #78
    koriko
    Registered Users Posts: 149 ✭✭koriko


    Best
    - educationposts.ie
    I like to chit chat about school stuff anonymously- good virtual staffroom.

    Worst- there's a few....
    - three.ie - disgracefully keeps crashing and going to error404

    -AIB.ie - why did they change the layout on it again last August, it was fine as it was!

    - mydealpage.ie- picture the use to lure you in to click on a deal somewhat misleading- I don't use it anymore.


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    #79
    retalivity
    Registered Users Posts: 14,000 ✭✭✭✭retalivity


    (dis)honourable regional mention - DonegalDaily

    Its like a transition year project where they tried to outjournal thejournal as well as just making stuff up


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    #80
    RobertKK
    Registered Users Posts: 33,727 ✭✭✭✭RobertKK


    Best: Supervalu for grocery shopping.


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    #81
    ps3man
    Registered Users Posts: 786 ✭✭✭ps3man


    Seems Joe.ie got finalised at the web awards for best web only daily publication. Handing out awards for click baiting and copy & paste.


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    #82
    The Cool
    Registered Users Posts: 1,094 ✭✭✭The Cool


    retalivity wrote: »
    (dis)honourable regional mention - DonegalDaily

    Its like a transition year project where they tried to outjournal thejournal as well as just making stuff up

    Yes this! It's as good a source of information as your mam coming in and going "wait til I tell you who's dead, you know your man up the road, no I don't know his name either, beardy fella"
    Donegal Dollop is great though.

    For all the mentions of Joe.ie, Her.ie is worse. "You HAVE to see the shoes Kim Kardashian wore out for coffee!" That's great thanks.

    Beaut.ie used to be really good, they would have good makeup reviews, tutorials, high street picks, etc, the kind of stuff you'd expect from a beauty site. Then they went bust and got bought by Entertainment.ie, and now they throw up any old shíte in an article just to fill the site with more content and get the clicks. They had a post with optical illusions pictures a while back. Why?!


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    #83
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    The horrendously misnamed theliberal.ie has to be among the worst. It's basically a socially conservative rip-off of The Journal run by dinosaurs. Have heard rumours that the competitions they run are all fake.

    The Journal gets a lot of bad press but I don't mind it so much. Some of the editing can be a bit sloppy but I like the site layout and the idea behind it. The Daily Edge section often makes for good light-reading during lunch hour.


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    #84
    b757
    Registered Users Posts: 1,370 ✭✭✭b757


    Best..

    slang.ie
    waterfordwhispersnews.com

    Worst.. (Has to be the one everybody posted)
    joe/her.ie


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    #85
    rodge68
    Registered Users Posts: 613 ✭✭✭rodge68


    Newstalk..can never seem to get any joy from their podcasts..

    Irish Rail is a joke..I havent used it in a while..How a tourist would navigate it I never know...as confusing as their PA announcements..


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    #86
    justchecked
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 367 ✭✭justchecked


    rodge68 wrote: »
    Newstalk..can never seem to get any joy from their podcasts..

    Irish Rail is a joke..I havent used it in a while..How a tourist would navigate it I never know...as confusing as their PA announcements..

    same story as with the buses mentioned above.

    name your station: no fvcker give me a fvcking list. I dont walk around with a fvcking compendium of random train stations.


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    #87
    Muahahaha
    Registered Users Posts: 19,610 ✭✭✭✭Muahahaha


    justchecked wrote: »
    same story as with the buses mentioned above.

    name your station: no fvcker give me a fvcking list. I dont walk around with a fvcking compendium of random train stations.

    worst thing about the Irishrail site for me is that I cannot ever seem to spell Heuston Station correctly on the first go. At least Google tells you that you're an idiot and give you the correct spelling. But Irishrail just does nothing until you get it right. It must be infuriating for tourists who wouldn't have a clue of any of the stations. All they want to do is go from Dublin to Cork but to do so they have to know the names of the 1916 Rising volunteers, to the exact letter. If you get it wrong then you can't go anywhere and the website will do absolutely nothing to help you out.


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