What Newspaper do you read?

wendell borton

Was just wondering what national papers ye get if any?

phasers

I get my news from After Hours.

Cork boy 55

I don't read the news, I make it

Mint Sauce

Irish-Times Weekend Edition

Local Weeklys

Sligo Champion
Donegal News or Donegal Democrat.

mikemac1

Cork Examiner

Ghandee

Pretty much none since getting a smart phone a few years ago.

SteppingStone

None. There depressing.

Doc Ruby

Two free local papers, the indo and times on the internet for free, BBC for free to get a good international perspective, thinking of adding Al-Jaz to that list, and a few quality blogs/forums like the Irish economy one. Just run the lot of them straight into my email inbox and polish them off with my morning coffee, its great.

joshrogan

Guardian/observer as well as the weekend Irish times/indo.

John_Rambo

I know it's very fashionable to hate the Indo amongst certain folk, but I got it on Saturday. The magazine had some great stuff, particularly a story about the Kerry babies. Amazing story revisited. I miss the Tribune for that sort of stuff. Scanail on RTE is brilliant for it.

HOS 1997

Irish Times.

Cookie_Monster

NZ Herald

benway

Mung bean eating, sandal wearing, bearded Guardianista right here.

Tesco Massacre

The Irish Sun, of course.

Nudity, celebrities doing stuff (Kim Kardashian walking! On the street!), stories about squirrels water skiing, celeb diet tips, horoscopes, soap opera gossip, sports.

You get it all in The Irish Sun.

Mint Sauce

Mistake on your Poll OP. The Mirror, The Mail, and The Sun are foriegn tabloids. Sticking irish in the title, or a picture of a z list irish celeb instead of an english z list celeb in the cover, does not make them any more irish.

John Doe1

Readinz fir gayz

DEFTLEFTHAND

Indo usually, an Evening herald sometimes. For local news The Midland Tribune which is published once a week. Also reading The Sun's website is a guilty pleasure of mine.

hondasam

Daily mail usually.

token101

The Irish Times. But it's the best of a bad, bad lot. The Examiner isn't too bad, but it's very Cork centric. And I'm from Cork!!!

But I much prefer the Guardian. Best paper going.

Celly Smunt

buy? news?

St.Spodo

The Guardian and The Examiner online. Used to be fond of the Tribune before it went.

GLaDOS

irish-stew wrote: »

Mistake on your Poll OP. The Mirror, The Mail, and The Sun are foriegn tabloids. Sticking irish in the title, or a picture of a z list irish celeb instead of an english z list celeb in the cover, does not make them any more irish.

Seems a bit generous to call them a newspaper too...

El Weirdo

On the rare occasion I do buy an actual newspaper, it's The Guardian or Observer. Used to buy the Irish Times but it's gone to fuck in the last few years.

Normally get my news from their website.

Edit: No option for Guardian/Observer in the poll. Fail.

G_R

Where's the Metro?

Surely such a quality Newspaper is worth of a spot on your poll!

bwatson

I get my national news exclusively from the internet now. Keep up with things back home with the Ballymena Times online too.

Being at university in London there are I think 4 different free papers to pick up too. Student papers which generally tell you to weep for Palestinians and hate the rampant sexist overtones of every tv show on ITV don't catch my interest any more.

One thing that has struck me since being on this website is how much Irish people use the British media. I'm not just talking about the Irish versions of papers but the fact that many seem to use the Telegraph, Guardian and Mail extensively even though they don't have a specifically Irish angle at all.

mikemac1

Years since I've seen An Phoblacht, I didn't know it was still going

On Fridays evenings in our town you'd be in the pub and some old man with a heavy jacket and cap would come in and sell it.
Bought it once, not a lot in it. There was a letter in it signed by P something, I forget the name

And that's it, haven't seen that paper since

Akarinn

Who needs a newspaper when you have Boards.ie???

policarp

No mention of the regional papers ?

The Clare Champion. . .

KeithAFC

An Phoblacht. Keep an eye on the latest going ons.

grindle

bwatson wrote: »

One thing that has struck me since being on this website is how much Irish people use the British media. I'm not just talking about the Irish versions of papers but the fact that many seem to use the Telegraph, Guardian and Mail extensively even though they don't have a specifically Irish angle at all.

Not sure why anyone'd read the Telegraph (business & politics, maybe?) or the Daily Mail (like feeling bad/hate life?), but the Guardian, the [British] Independent and Private Eye feature genuine journalism, where news is found rather than made, and it's not just tawdry pseudo-journalist opinion pieces that flip at the drop of a coin like we have in Ireland's 'premium' papers.
Despite getting flak for being the toilet-read of liberal middle-class hipsters, they're the only papers I've read that go for everyone's throat, no favouritism.
It's a pity, but our journalism courses have either failed miserably, resulting in stylish twaddle-merchants without the balls to actually observe, never mind research, or they've done such a good job that all the great graduates left for pastures greener to be taken seriously, lest they have their names browned here, or have to compromise their standards/abilities.
I'll gladly skim past the Neo-Hippy elements of Brit papers if it means I get to read articles that don't depend so heavily on smart-arsed colloquialisms-as-journalism. You know... With information.

TL;DR

Pyoor b hatin' Irish newspaprz lyk. Contint sux, bai.
(Obviously a couple of exceptions to the rule)

K-9

bwatson wrote: »

I get my national news exclusively from the internet now. Keep up with things back home with the Ballymena Times online too.

Being at university in London there are I think 4 different free papers to pick up too. Student papers which generally tell you to weep for Palestinians and hate the rampant sexist overtones of every tv show on ITV don't catch my interest any more.

One thing that has struck me since being on this website is how much Irish people use the British media. I'm not just talking about the Irish versions of papers but the fact that many seem to use the Telegraph, Guardian and Mail extensively even though they don't have a specifically Irish angle at all.

That's a bit like wondering why a Ballymena man and a student in London reads and posts on Boards.ie!

Telegraph has a decent soccer section, wouldn't buy it because it is so obviously Euroskeptic, the Mail actually has a fair bit of Irish content, Irish news, GAA, TV etc. and the Guardian is well, the Guardian, a respected paper of international renown. I like the English Independent myself.

The Irish Times, the Indo for GAA coverage and miss the Tribune, it went downhill before it closed but that is a general trend.

Don't buy local papers, just read the free one.

Buy the Phoenix the odd time.

kelle

The Irish Catholic
































NEVER

But is it still in publication? My neighbour used to give us her copy every week, right up until she died in 1994. My Dad reckoned it was great for lighting the fire!

latenia

I buy the guardian 6 days a week since I was 18-it was only 10p in college and they got me hooked like liberal crack dealers. I usually end up buying a Sunday rag like the World or Indo when I'm in the newsagents pissed on a Saturday night and they have the early editions in so I have something to read while I'm eating my taco fries.

lividduck

mikemac1 wrote: »

Cork Examiner

No longer exists!
The Irish Examiner however does exist.:D





I know, I'm a pedantic git...:D

Biggins

The Times (England)
Irish Times

(Magazines: Time, Newsweek, Monocle)

...To name a few quickly.

TwoShedsJackson

Alive! I get all my news and commentary there.

boobar

Irish Time online

--Kaiser--

The Sunday Times
A wide variety of articles and some of my favourite writers (AA Gill, Bryan Appleyard, Andrew Sullivan, Paul Anthony McDermott, Jeremy Clarkson)

CrazyRabbit

None. Why would I want to read a newspaper that only tells me about stuff that happened yesterday?

I use an Android phone app which displays news stories based on custom search words/terms & news stories for various categories that interest me. Instant news that is of interest to me.

Shryke

The Guardian.

44leto

I buy the Sunday times and during the week I get my news from the internet and go ould RTE.

Capt'n Midnight

Where is the option for the Metro / free papers ?

Formation

Do ye buy newspapers much these days or use the websites to get your news?

If you do buy a paper which one would you buy the most?

Gloomtastic!

I love Newspapers! I have great difficullty passing one without having a quick browse.

Used to buy one every day now restrict myself to a Sunday and if I'm lucky a Saturday as well. Sunday Times and Independent respectively.

stimpson

Formation wrote: »

If you do buy a paper which one would you buy the most?

Toilet paper.

danniemcq

The Sunday Times when i'm having one of those lazy weekends.

Apart from that I get most of my news from sources on twitter and google +. I'd still buy magazines though, I find that with working from morning to evening by the time i'd get a paper to read it would all be old news in this day and age.

toexpress

Indo on a Saturday that's it

Mint Sauce

Irish Times Weekend Edition

Donegal News or Donegal Democrat (weekly)

Everything else I get online, usally bbc.co.uk and thisislondon.com (london evening stanard)

RachaelVO

Internet all the way...

Just never buy papers anymore!

Sunnyisland

Mostly I get the news from the Internet, Sometimes I might buy a paper,Irish times. but then again depends what is going on,Do I want scandel and gossip or news :-)

Run_to_da_hills

Poll

This was done a few years back.

Irish Times on Saturday or of there is an interesting topic during week (Hard copy)
Herald or Indo if something interesting pops up. (Hard Copy and on line)

Daily Fail on line only.