the last local edition

ex_infantry man

this week the final edition of the munster express is to be printed in waterford, sad times with the loss of twelve jobs!!the paper will go on but won,t be printed in waterford no more!!!
http://www.rte.ie/news/av/2011/1214/media-3141551.html

tom traubert

RTE just ran a nice nostalgia piece to wrap up the 9 o' clock news including interviews with the compositors.

Sad news indeed but and another sign of the times.

cococoady

I hear they are moving the printing to Cork. How are they going to save money compared to printing it here??

Brick Session

Moving it to Birr in Co. Offaly by all accounts

SillyMcCarthy

I heard it was the north!

seanybiker

Brick Session wrote: »

Moving it to Birr in Co. Offaly by all accounts

Tis cold up there

looksee

cococoady wrote: »

I hear they are moving the printing to Cork. How are they going to save money compared to printing it here??

Probably they are completely automated with faster, modern equipment.

ex_infantry man

tis prob to a press where couple of papers are printed and not just one twice weekly so this would reduce cost by outsourcing

Brick Session

Tis all about reducing the costs. At the end of the day, it does not matter if it is in Cork, Birr or the North, it is just sad to see it gone from Waterford and 12 jobs gone with it.

sign of the times I suppose.

deisemum

It's gone to Belfast.

Sad to see more people losing jobs.

Sully

Its widely reported its gone to Birr, including from RTEs Damien Ternian..

hardybuck

Perhaps if they save money on printing, they might be able to invest in decent journalists. Some of the stuff they publish is awful, at other times there is nothing in it at all. A proofreader would also be welcome!

Looking at Cork, while allowing for their much larger size, they still manage to offer a good quality daily paper. Excellent for sport in particular. They also have the Examiner. While technically national it is still very much a Cork paper.

We'd be better off to have all the newspapers in the county merge into one proper company.

abouttobebanned

The staff at the munster have said its going to Birr (saying this since Monday) - where do rumours of Belfast come from?!!

ex_infantry man

tis waterford shur! ! ! Rumours grow feet and run wild, it,ll be getting printed in moscow next watch lol

deisemum

abouttobebanned wrote: »

The staff at the munster have said its going to Birr (saying this since Monday) - where do rumours of Belfast come from?!!

From staff

deisechick

Prepress, or design of the paper, is being outsourced to Belfast.

Trick of the Tail

Why is this? Who owns the paper now?

I fear the time that The Muster was feared, respected and a 'must read' is gone. It failed to move with the times - even 20 years ago when it was all of the above it was dated.

Since then the quality of journalism has never improved (press releases printed verbatim, for example, with 'stories' veering from first to third party and back again), proofing is awful and therefore the finished product contains many errors.

Its a pity, really, that it has really lost its way, and is in fact, no longer a 'Waterford' newspaper.

A.