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The Sunday World.

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  • #32
    darkdubh
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    Worth a listen.

    http://www.rte.ie/archives/exhibitions/1406-newspapers/368683-sunday-world/


  • #33
    Ralf and Florian
    Site Banned Posts: 1,489 ✭✭✭Ralf and Florian


    Kevin Sharkey being mentioned in the clebs who disappeared without trace thread reminded me of when he was presenting Megamix circa mid 80's the Sunday World did a story on him where they printed these pictures that he'd done for a gay porn magazine in London when he was living there in the 70's. I remember being struck by the fact that he had this big 70's afro in the pictures which was at odds with his then hip looking 80's image.That and the fact that he was balls naked.


  • #34
    sunbeam
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    I vaguely recall they had a hair spy as well as a pub spy at one stage where undercover reporters would go and selflessly get their hair done in the name of research.


  • #35
    darkdubh
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,628 ✭✭✭darkdubh


    What was the name of that middle aged woman who did the agony aunt column? Dear "insert name" it was called.

    Edit: Found out there was a column called Dear Linda.


  • #36
    interlocked
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    Dear Linda.

    There was also Micheline McCormack.

    In the 1980's they started a campaign that real men didn't eat quiche which most Irish men wouldn't have recognised if it was slapped in their face.

    There was also the showbiz correspondent "Swashbuckling" Andy Deveraux who had a worrying penchant for Bob Segar, and another journalist with a beard at the time called Bill "something"

    They had a Grub Spy, Pub Spy and a Hair Spy who was obsessed with hair brush sterilisers.

    BTW Kevin Marron was the editor of a 1970's Irish men's magazine called Man Alive which featured full nude spreads of Irish women, hard to believe that that was happening over forty years ago, episode 2 even included an interview with one Eamon Dunphy, keeping it real even then baby............................

    https://brandnewretro.ie/2011/08/25/man-alive-issue-2-june-1974-mens-fashion/


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  • #37
    darkdubh
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    interlocked wrote: »
    Dear Linda.

    There was also Micheline McCormack.

    In the 1980's they started a campaign that real men didn't eat quiche which most Irish men wouldn't have recognised if it was slapped in their face.

    There was also the showbiz correspondent "Swashbuckling" Andy Deveraux who had a worrying penchant for Bob Segar, and another journalist with a beard at the time called Bill "something"

    They had a Grub Spy, Pub Spy and a Hair Spy who was obsessed with hair brush sterilisers.

    BTW Kevin Marron was the editor of a 1970's Irish men's magazine called Man Alive which featured full nude spreads of Irish women, hard to believe that that was happening over forty years ago, episode 2 even included an interview with one Eamon Dunphy, keeping it real even then baby............................

    https://brandnewretro.ie/2011/08/25/man-alive-issue-2-june-1974-mens-fashion/

    That's the woman I was thinking of, I was getting the two columns mixed up. I seem to recall she was kind of conservative in terms of the advice she gave people, ie sex before marriage etc. Dear Linda was anonymous I think.

    Link with picture of Michelle McCormack.

    https://stillslibrary.rte.ie/indexplus/image/2131/039.html


  • #38
    darkdubh
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    darkdubh wrote: »
    What was the name of the guy who had a column where he'd be giving out about women drivers and feminism etc? Have a feeling it might have been slightly tongue in cheek or maybe not, always used to spark angry responses in the letters section. He had a big red face and looked like he was fond of a few jars.
    interlocked wrote: »
    Dear Linda.

    There was also Micheline McCormack.

    In the 1980's they started a campaign that real men didn't eat quiche which most Irish men wouldn't have recognised if it was slapped in their face.

    There was also the showbiz correspondent "Swashbuckling" Andy Deveraux who had a worrying penchant for Bob Segar, and another journalist with a beard at the time called Bill "something"

    They had a Grub Spy, Pub Spy and a Hair Spy who was obsessed with hair brush sterilisers.

    BTW Kevin Marron was the editor of a 1970's Irish men's magazine called Man Alive which featured full nude spreads of Irish women, hard to believe that that was happening over forty years ago, episode 2 even included an interview with one Eamon Dunphy, keeping it real even then baby............................

    https://brandnewretro.ie/2011/08/25/man-alive-issue-2-june-1974-mens-fashion/

    I think that might be the guy I was posting about earlier, wish I could think of his second name.


  • #39
    Ralf and Florian
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    Henry was one of the strips in the kids section. Never quite got the deal with him.He had no visible mouth and as far as I know never spoke.


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  • #40
    branie2
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    Ralf and Florian wrote: »
    Henry was one of the strips in the kids section. Never quite got the deal with him.He had no visible mouth and as far as I know never spoke.


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    I've forgotten about Henry until now. Talk about a blast from the past!


  • #41
    johnnyyesno
    Site Banned Posts: 78 ✭✭johnnyyesno


    He looks kind of like a fetus.


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  • #42
    johnnyyesno
    Site Banned Posts: 78 ✭✭johnnyyesno


    interlocked wrote: »
    Dear Linda.

    There was also Micheline McCormack.

    In the 1980's they started a campaign that real men didn't eat quiche which most Irish men wouldn't have recognised if it was slapped in their face.

    There was also the showbiz correspondent "Swashbuckling" Andy Deveraux who had a worrying penchant for Bob Segar, and another journalist with a beard at the time called Bill "something"

    They had a Grub Spy, Pub Spy and a Hair Spy who was obsessed with hair brush sterilisers.

    BTW Kevin Marron was the editor of a 1970's Irish men's magazine called Man Alive which featured full nude spreads of Irish women, hard to believe that that was happening over forty years ago, episode 2 even included an interview with one Eamon Dunphy, keeping it real even then baby............................

    https://brandnewretro.ie/2011/08/25/man-alive-issue-2-june-1974-mens-fashion/

    Lol, I remember Dear Linda.

    sundayworld.jpg

    https://brandnewretro.ie/2017/07/17/retro-worries-42-boomerang/


  • #43
    TheRiverman
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    Thirty five years since it was first published.


  • #44
    johnnyyesno
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    TheRiverman wrote: »
    Thirty five years since it was first published.

    It's been longer than that, it started in the early 70's.


  • #45
    The Crowman
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    Did the Sunday World have a page 3 in the 80's/90's like the English tabloids did? I seem to remember them having regular models in a state of undress but they'd stop short at showing them topless. I remember a few nude shots from behind all right.


  • #46
    The Crowman
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 991 ✭✭✭The Crowman


    That story about the Aussie woman who kicked up a fuss over not being addressed as Doctor reminded me of when Gay Byrne had a weekly column in the Sunday World in the late 80's. It was not long after he got his doctorate from Trinity and he wrote the column under the name "Dr Gay Byrne" and it was accompanied by a picture of him in mortar board hat and dressed like an Oxford don. He got a lot of slagging over that I recall with people feeling that he was getting fierce notions about himself. I don't think the column lasted all that long,I think it was him telling anecdotes and general musings on life. The only thing he wrote in it that sticks in my head was a statement he made one week that he found Charley Chaplin "about as funny as cancer".


  • #47
    Hangdogroad
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    I first heard of Viz when Sunday World did a story on it circa 1989. They had a picture of Johnny Fartpants on the cover, not as the main pic but one one of those smaller panels accompanied by the tagline " Is this the world's rudest comic?"


  • #48
    Hangdogroad
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    Anyone remember the TV column in the Sunday World by the late John Little? He really didn't hold back on shows he didn't like. He tore strips out of that RTE prison drama "Inside". It was awful tbf. He'd slate Fair City as well when it first started.


  • #49
    odyssey06
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    Hangdogroad wrote: »
    Anyone remember the TV column in the Sunday World by the late John Little? He really didn't hold back on shows he didn't like. He tore strips out of that RTE prison drama "Inside". It was awful tbf. He'd slate Fair City as well when it first started.

    I didn't come across that alas and I don't remember Inside either... I love reading those old reviews from Clive James for that era.
    The Fair City one would be class to read now.

    "To follow knowledge like a sinking star..." (Tennyson's Ulysses)



  • #50
    Hangdogroad
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    odyssey06 wrote: »
    I didn't come across that alas and I don't remember Inside either... I love reading those old reviews from Clive James for that era.
    The Fair City one would be class to read now.

    He would have been doing the TV column 1980s into the early 90s then for some reason he was switched to doing the horoscopes which I thought was an awful waste of his talents. He passed away in 2002.


  • #51
    Hangdogroad
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    About the infamous Carcass Symphonys Of Sickness cover story from 1990.

    https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=585842238634958&id=209863716232814


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  • #52
    Pawwed Rig
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    Was there a guy called something Ekin? Des maybe?

    Also they used to post Dr Ruth agony aunt section which presumably they bought on the cheap from the States where she would advise all sorts of perverts


  • #53
    Hangdogroad
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    Pawwed Rig wrote: »
    Was there a guy called something Ekin? Des maybe?

    Also they used to post Dr Ruth agony aunt section which presumably they bought on the cheap from the States where she would advise all sorts of perverts

    Yeah he was the political correspondent in the Sunday World.
    I'd forgotten that they used to post that Dr Ruth column.


  • #54
    Hangdogroad
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    I remember another moral panic story they did around the same time about those bubblegum stickers the Garbage Pail Kids.

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garbage_Pail_Kids


  • #55
    Hangdogroad
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    RTE piece on the Sunday World in 1987. Among the montage of lurid headlines is the one about Kevin Sharkeys gay porn magazine photos. I remember those billboard adverts about "pushers". You don't hear that term anymore in relation to drug dealers, at least in Ireland. Its a term I always associate with Today Tonight and 80s tabloid headlines.


    https://www.rte.ie/archives/2017/0815/897524-sunday-world-tops-sales/?fbclid=IwAR0KaBAB5St0vowyYPHC50CMJqGzTtFYoCEe5XtlGImMbnYDoIuB8Nf6zzs



  • #56
    Hangdogroad
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    Its a shame that the Irish News Archives only has back issues of the Sunday World from 2019 onwards. Very hard to come across 70's, 80's or 90's SW material online. This is from the Evening Herald , 1986.

    Evening Herald 1891-current, Friday, June 27, 1986 - Page 31.png




  • #57
    L1011
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121575519#Comment_121575519

    British Newspaper Archives has 1987-2019

    My suspicion is that INM/Mediahuis don't have good quality copies of pre 87 so would need to be digitised from the National Library. I'm not sure when they bought it, it was independent (Creation Publishing) originally



  • #58
    L1011
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    INM bought a controlling stake in 1978, if anyone else ever wonders about that question.



  • #59
    NewbridgeIR
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121576593#Comment_121576593

    British Newspaper Archives has a few local papers too - New Ross Standard being one which is great for fact-checking stuff from my youth.



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