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Best source for irish news?

  • 18-12-2010 6:21pm
    #1
    nudist
    Closed Accounts Posts: 157 ✭✭


    Rte six one and the irish times seem to have gotten rather ****e of late-where do you get your news fix from?


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  • #2
    Poly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,807 ✭✭✭Poly


    +1 Like you, RTE have turned my stomach recently.

    BBC, Newstalk, I quite like the journal.ie too


  • #3
    Princess Peach
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,698 ✭✭✭✭Princess Peach


    Boards.ie


  • #4
    Biggins
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 34,567 ✭✭✭✭Biggins


    http://www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/


  • #5
    easyeason3
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,104 ✭✭✭easyeason3


    Biggins.


  • #6
    maxxie
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 949 ✭✭✭maxxie


    yor aulones


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  • #7
    Biggins
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 34,567 ✭✭✭✭Biggins


    easyeason3 wrote: »
    Biggins.
    :o


  • #8
    dlofnep
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,759 ✭✭✭✭dlofnep


    After Hours.


  • #9
    Son Of A Vidic
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,370 ✭✭✭✭Son Of A Vidic


    RTE don't do impartiality, you'd probably be better off getting free unbiased news from these guys - http://www.kcna.co.jp/index-e.htm


  • #10
    squod
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,704 ✭✭✭squod


    nudist wrote: »
    Rte six one and the irish times seem to have gotten rather ****e of late-where do you get your news fix from?

    Well nudist! It's clear you've been hanging out with the wrong people. RTE are big knobs IMO. They need a good dressing down, show the world they have balls enough to report the news.

    I can highly recommend these fine reporters they aren't afraid to show the naked truth.


  • #11
    Mint Sauce
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,293 ✭✭✭✭Mint Sauce


    BBC and thisislondon (evening standard).


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  • #12
    GizAGoOfYerGee
    Closed Accounts Posts: 355 ✭✭GizAGoOfYerGee


    I get mine from a robot.

    http://news.google.ie/news/section?pz=1&cf=all&topic=n&ict=ln


  • #13
    Biggins
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 34,567 ✭✭✭✭Biggins


    If its world news, the following:

    http://www.reuters.com/
    The English Times site (have a subscription)
    http://newsmap.jp/
    http://www.japantimes.co.jp/
    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/
    http://www.irishcentral.com/
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/
    http://www.irishtimes.com/
    http://www.nytimes.com/
    http://www.eff.org/
    http://www.digg.com
    http://www.theaustralian.com.au/

    ...To name a few.


  • #14
    mikom
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,391 ✭✭✭✭mikom


    http://www.youtube.com/user/NMAWorldEdition

    The Grizzly bear is much better than Dobbo.


  • #15
    jack presley
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,687 ✭✭✭✭jack presley


    Definitely not the Irish Independent's website anyway. Most of their stories are about either Britain or the North


  • #16
    strobe
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,872 ✭✭✭strobe


    All Alison O Riordan, all the time.


  • #17
    Rabies
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,258 ✭✭✭✭Rabies


    Boards.ie, news.bbc.co.uk and rte.ie


  • #18
    dxhound2005
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,420 ✭✭✭✭dxhound2005


    The Irish News


  • #19
    Scuid Mhór
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,326 ✭✭✭Scuid Mhór


    al-jazeera.


  • #20
    Nolanger
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,556 ✭✭✭Nolanger


    Wikileaks.


  • #21
    wonton
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,214 ✭✭✭wonton


    I use the inernet that way i can skip the bits that are just depressing and horrible to listen to

    "16 girls were raped while being stabbed in a car crash last"

    ugh tell us some good news for a change!


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  • #22
    milly4ever
    Closed Accounts Posts: 542 ✭✭✭milly4ever


    http://www.irishnews.com/


  • #23
    Cat Melodeon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,617 ✭✭✭Cat Melodeon


    Mark Little's current project:
    http://www.storyful.com/stories

    Also like The Journal
    http://www.thejournal.ie/

    and for a bit of a laugh, Newswhip:
    http://newswhip.ie/

    Then the usual mix of the IT, BBC World, the Economist (& boards, of course).


  • #24
    Absurdum
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,445 ✭✭✭Absurdum


    twitter


  • #25
    Dravokivich
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Music Moderators, Politics Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 22,360 CMod ✭✭✭✭Dravokivich


    RobitTV


  • #26
    Gran Hermano
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,330 ✭✭✭Gran Hermano


    Sickipedia is always useful in finding out whether anyone of note has died.


  • #27
    KindOfIrish
    Registered Users Posts: 454 ✭✭KindOfIrish


    Taxi drivers


  • #28
    CrazyRabbit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,659 ✭✭✭CrazyRabbit


    I use the HTC Android News Application to give me news based on keywords. So for example, I can get news mentioning the town where I live, or on certain topics. Basically, it's customised news.

    RTE news is pathetic. It misses so much newsworthy stories that it is not a credible source of news.


  • #29
    Spacedog
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,775 ✭✭✭Spacedog


    wikileaks.ch --> cablegate --> search by origin --> D --> Embassy Dublin.

    Gubuwire = blatent plug, but less of a joke than RTE news. :pac:


  • #30
    seanbmc
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,842 ✭✭✭seanbmc


    Google News is pretty good, it's what I use anyways. Twitter is good sometimes too.


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  • #31
    OPENROAD
    Registered Users Posts: 11,692 ✭✭✭✭OPENROAD


    irish-stew wrote: »
    BBC and thisislondon (evening standard).

    +1 for the London Evening Standard, excellent newspaper, very good Friday magazine and its free, plus the thisislondon website is updated during the night in the event of any breaking news.


  • #32
    Mint Sauce
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,293 ✭✭✭✭Mint Sauce


    OPENROAD wrote: »
    +1 for the London Evening Standard, excellent newspaper, very good Friday magazine and its free, plus the thisislondon website is updated during the night in the event of any breaking news.

    Very good paper, only one I get any time I'm in london. Not sure though if changing it to a free paper was the best idea. Would be concerned of more ads appearing to fund them and it being littered all over the tube like the Metro is. Also seems harder to find now, I have only seen it at tube stations since it became free (unless that has been changed since last time I was over), and they disappear quickly. At least when you paid for it you could get it from the local newsagent at any time of the afternoon or evening.


  • #33
    OPENROAD
    Registered Users Posts: 11,692 ✭✭✭✭OPENROAD


    irish-stew wrote: »
    Very good paper, only one I get any time I'm in london. Not sure though if changing it to a free paper was the best idea. Would be concerned of more ads appearing to fund them and it being littered all over the tube like the Metro is. Also seems harder to find now, I have only seen it at tube stations since it became free (unless that has been changed since last time I was over), and they disappear quickly. At least when you paid for it you could get it from the local newsagent at any time of the afternoon or evening.

    It was always very cheap before, have to say the ads are not too bad, I view the newspaper online daily and it doesn't seem to have changed that much, though yes it seems harder to get now and it does disappear quickly.


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