Holly Carpenter...whoever you are...

The King of Moo

The King of Moo wrote: »

"(Left) Holly Carpenter: (Right) Danny O'Reilly"

That's my favourite part.

Well done sir!

I thought I had mined all the fun out of it once I read it for the third time. And yet I had missed that gem!

c_man

I kinda want to watch Mean Girls after reading that.

Apparently the jealousy is killing us, folks...

http://www.goss.ie/2016/01/actress-doireann-garrihy-defends-holly-carpenter-article-about-danny-oreilly-youre-all-jealous/56287/

Indestructable

[Deleted User] wrote: »

Apparently the jealousy is killing us, folks...

http://www.goss.ie/2016/01/actress-doireann-garrihy-defends-holly-carpenter-article-about-danny-oreilly-youre-all-jealous/56287/

That's actually mildly infuriating.

Barry Badrinath

[Deleted User] wrote: »

Apparently the jealousy is killing us, folks...

http://www.goss.ie/2016/01/actress-doireann-garrihy-defends-holly-carpenter-article-about-danny-oreilly-youre-all-jealous/56287/

"The Romeo and Juliet of our times"?!

Get fffccccuuuukkkkeeeddd! She's as bad!

Irelands "celebrity" youth are annoying, oxygen thieves! Social media has been dumbing down the average person and it seems to be acceptable.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

Likewise, Roisin Ingle in the Irish Times writes pieces like primary school essays.
It's just not good enough.

Larry the Logster

The King of Moo wrote: »

"(Left) Holly Carpenter: (Right) Danny O'Reilly"

That's my favourite part.

You know that's probably there for screen readers, right? See the alt attribute of the image tag, the same text, so this text was probably appended automatically based on the alt text. So blind people get a short summary of the image (they can't see).

I'll say this much, Ding Dong Denny O'Reilly did well for himself.

iDave

You're all missing the real tragedy here people.
Holly Carpenter is claiming to have a boyfriend and it's not me!

Buttercake

http://m.independent.ie/entertainment/festivals/fun-ruined-by-theft-of-my-possessions-29472370.html

Some Indo journos are still putting their lives back together....

Larry the Logster

Randy Creamy Tomahawk wrote: »

Likewise, Roisin Ingle in the Irish Times writes pieces like primary school essays.
It's just not good enough.

Yeah, but it isn't fashionable to ridicule the Irish Times (the 'paper of record' ) or it's 'journalists'. The same 'article' in the Irish Times wouldn't draw the same ridicule, it would probably be praised.

Both newspapers are tripe, for somewhat different reasons.

AndyBoBandy

Ally Dick wrote: »

Drinks Corona apparently

Comment of 2016 winner for me.

Larry the Logster

Buttercake wrote: »

http://m.independent.ie/entertainment/festivals/fun-ruined-by-theft-of-my-possessions-29472370.html

Some Indo journos are still putting their lives back together....

At least she isn't telling us about an abortion that no one forced her to have à la Ingle.

IsMiseMyself

The bit I don't get is that an editor commissioned and edited this piece. It's literally written like it's by 'Holly aged 8 and a half'. Surely her editor could have at least broken up that monster sentence about the dresses and added something extra?

For Forks Sake

Randy Creamy Tomahawk wrote: »

Likewise, Roisin Ingle in the Irish Times writes pieces like primary school essays.
It's just not good enough.

That woman has been robbing a living for years.

Barry Badrinath

[Deleted User] wrote: »

I'll say this much, Ding Dong Denny O'Reilly did well for himself.

He did though.

I'm sure he doesn't give a fiddlers about her article submission skills.

I'd say the Indo are delighted with the response too. They probably think this tactic of using accepted colloquialisms among the youth of today will secure or heighten readership.

Heroditas

Love howHolly Carpenter says her figure is down to all her healthy eating regimes yet one of the photos shows her with a fag in one hand.
I bet that helps as an appetite suppressant... Some "role model"

For Forks Sake

Deleted User wrote: »

Apparently the jealousy is killing us, folks...

http://www.goss.ie/2016/01/actress-doireann-garrihy-defends-holly-carpenter-article-about-danny-oreilly-youre-all-jealous/56287/

How pathetic is ones existence when the best you can be described as is:

Doireann, who is the younger sister of Fair City star Aoibhinn Garrihy

??

She's got me checking up her boyfriends music. It's actually quite funny...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0PLHO6XknSo

Falthyron

Our very own Padraiggg can produce material far surpassing that tripe in quality; why isn't he being given a couple of inches in the Independent? The next Roddy Doyle in the making!

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=98035257&postcount=654

A Quiet Pint

Click click! Went a noise. Click click again! It was the same noise! Well not exactly the same noise it wasn't a time travelling click but it was sonically similar enough to the other one that it was probably coming from the same source. Trent manoeuvred his eyelids to the closed position. This was bad. Click click! It was the sound of the noise again and now trent had decided it was one of three things probably. 1. Someone was loading a loaded shotgun at his head. 2. Someone had just broken his neck four times. 3. A grasshopper, genus African Big, was on the bar somewhere and performing a sub par mating ritual. He turned his head and scanned the bar for randy inverterberates. No grasshopper. Also his top shirt button had pinged off under the muscle strain of his head movement. No broken neck. That left only one thing... Trent turned round as slowly as he could (extremely quickly) and he was suddenly staring not down the barrel of a gun but up the barrel of a gun because the man holding it was a terrible shot and also he was dead!! Click! Click! Click! Click! The noise was making a sound again! Trebt looked past the not a grasshopper using his not broken neck and through the barrel of a shotgun that wasn't down but up and saw a pen. UNLICENSED TRACHEOTOMY! Trent had put the pen through the throat of the bad guy without even realising it and was doing a crossword on the other side of his head and clicking the pen! OTOLARYNGOLOGIST! Shouted trent as he suddenly filled in 9 down which related to ear nose and throat doctors.

antodeco

Larry the Logster wrote: »

So blind people get a short summary of the image (they can't see).

Did you just explain what is meant by being blind?

colm_mcm

Which one of the Coronas is that on the left?

steddyeddy

For me the funniest line of the link has to be "continue reading below".

steddyeddy

What did she mean by "my boyfriend is obviously playing with the Coronas"? It's not obvious to all reading.

Larry the Logster

antodeco wrote: »

Did you just explain what is meant by being blind?

Yeah, I thought that particular poster might need it. :cool:

smurgen

Larry the Logster wrote: »

Yeah, I thought that particular poster might need it. :cool:

The coronas aren't even an international band.she might aswell be going out with one of the sawdoctors

padd b1975

Heroditas wrote: »

Love howHolly Carpenter says her figure is down to all her healthy eating regimes yet one of the photos shows her with a fag in one hand.
I bet that helps as an appetite suppressant... Some "role model"

That's the railings behind her.

circadian

That article done my hangover no favours.

cerastes

DeanAustin wrote: »

Jesus, that is embarrassing.

My dad is 78 and buys the Indo daily because that's what his father did back when the Indo was a newspaper. I'll have to have a word with him if that's now the standard of writing.

It's sad that 90% of people on this site could write better than that. That's without considering all the media graduates struggling for work.

Guess it helps to be pretty, have Terri Keane in the family and be shagging a Corona. Says much about the people of Ireland that there is a market for this garbage.

TerrorFirmer wrote: »

I don't see the issue. It's the 'celebrity' section of the online website, it's not like it's being pushed as headline news! A huge number of online media sources have sections devoted to this sort of stuff - no-one is forcing you to read it.

Not a huge fan of the Irish Independent, but it's generally pretty OK and using an explicitly labelled 'Celebrity/Society' section of their website as an example of why it's apparently a dreadful newspaper is just incredibly childish.

Also, please consider that thousands of additional people may have read that article now since it's been linked here - I know I now have, and certainly wouldn't have otherwise.

Hopefully it informs them of the vapid nonesense propagated by the indo, and reminds them it is a waste of paper and ink.

PowerToWait wrote: »

Yes, she seems to have risen without a trace.

That was meant to be "I must have missed her rise to fame" autocorrect, and I had never heard of her, I don't know any, but there must be some more capable writers than her, whether a graduate of journalism or media or not.
In the least I haven't written I the style of "I like school holidays, on my school holidays I went to Disney world, my favourite colour is blue" and then had that published by my family's friends in a national newspaper.

Indestructable wrote: »

That's actually mildly infuriating.

They row in to defend her with that, these people are deluded.

Wolf Hanssen wrote: »

He did though.

I'm sure he doesn't give a fiddlers about her article submission skills.

I'd say the Indo are delighted with the response too. They probably think this tactic of using accepted colloquialisms among the youth of today will secure or heighten readership.

I used to buy the indo every now and again, then infrequently and now never. I didn't really notice what tosh most it was until after I came across someone criticising it, that was already after I'd stopped buying it more regularily, probably around the time some other fake hack was getting laid into over her musings on an apartment she bought. It was like a habit buying it, at least the herald doesn't purport to be something its not. That said, I consider it's even worse now than it was before. I'm sure most of the potential market for this will get their updates on social media and have no long-term interest in reading the paper.

smurgen

She's retard but hot.therefore she's allllllriiight.

MRnotlob606

What is this criticism ? This is one of the most powerful pieces of journalism I have ever read. Hunter S Thompson would be be proud. I think it's incredible how she immerses herself into the 3Arena,at possibly the greatest concert to headline the 3Arena.I think she is a disciple of gonzo journalism, I wonder does she count Louis theroux as one of her influences ?


I felt like my mind had left my body and I had been transported to another place in time. It was moment of self transcendence. Holly should receive the pulizer prize for her outstanding contribution to her field.

Heroditas

padd b1975 wrote: »

That's the railings behind her.

I'm referring to the picture of her on the boat (think it might be the other article linked to that one. The one where she's in Dubai)

Ruu

She is not alone in this to be fair. Just look at the RTE.ie "entertainment" section, with lots of Irish "stars" showing off.

MRnotlob606

smurgen wrote: »

She's retard but hot.therefore she's allllllriiight.

Not really, Anybody who comes across as so naive, self-righteous and "above the rest" really annoy me.
Her Boyfriend, Danny O'Reilly is an insufferable prick and would not be in show business if it wasn't for his already famous mother who gave him a shortcut into the business.

cerastes

Buttercake wrote: »

http://m.independent.ie/entertainment/festivals/fun-ruined-by-theft-of-my-possessions-29472370.html

Some Indo journos are still putting their lives back together....

Sweet Jesus, how will she manage? I missed this one.
Her fun was ruined, welcome to a less insulated world than you thought existed.

MRnotlob606 wrote: »

Not really, Anybody who comes across as so naive, self-righteous and "above the rest" really annoy me.
Her Boyfriend, Danny O'Reilly is an insufferable prick and would not be in show business if it wasn't for his already famous mother who gave him a shortcut into the business.

Didn't know this and had to Google him to see who the mother was.

colm_mcm

smurgen wrote: »

She's retard but hot.therefore she's allllllriiight.

Is she really that hot though?

housetypeb

Still, a better love story than twilight.
Obviously.

Custardpi

I know this is just an entertainment piece & therefore can't be fairly measured against more "serious" journalism but even by the standards of celebrity fluff this is poor. It makes Barry Egan's output look like that of Robert Fisk by comparison.

Dtp1979

[Deleted User] wrote: »

Apparently the jealousy is killing us, folks...

http://www.goss.ie/2016/01/actress-doireann-garrihy-defends-holly-carpenter-article-about-danny-oreilly-youre-all-jealous/56287/

Yes, Romeo and Juliet were privileged spoilt brats. FFS.
One Airhead backing up the other. Their main ambition in life is to Loike, who can bag the richest kid on the block. Uuuu rosanna, your Loike my hero

Torricelli

Just another airhead who indirectly opens her legs for a living. You see her type on Twitter all the time, tweeting all the Irish rugby players, jersey pulling if you will. Pathetic.

We're a very shallow nation.

steddyeddy

I think Juliet's vocabulary may have been slightly larger than Holly's.

Custardpi

Custardpi wrote: »

I know this is just an entertainment piece & therefore can't be fairly measured against more "serious" journalism.

It's role as an entertainment piece makes it even less acceptable, I think. Whatever we think of them, Holly and Danny ('Dolly") both have relatively glamorous careers. Any article detailing their exploits should zip along with interesting stories and anecdotes. Instead, this was a turgid death-march towards the abyss.

Deep Six

I sometimes wonder who classes these people as "celebrities", and even more bafflingly, thinks anybody gives a single microscopic **** about them or their lives.

DivingDuck

I have no idea who this girl is, or her boyfriend, and I can't be bothered to even google because I have no interest in either of them. However, the level of vitriol aimed at her here and elsewhere for writing this article certainly does resemble jealousy. Why else would anyone get so worked up and make such cruel comments over something so trivial?

More importantly, why is everyone directing their criticism at the author of the article, a young woman with no editorial power and below-average writing skills, and not at those responsible for providing her with a platform-- those who by all rights should have both? The majority of twenty-something girls would jump at the chance to make a few bob and get their name and face in a national paper. This is not unusual, or harmful, and shouldn't make someone a target for such nastiness.

If anyone should be criticised for this, it should be whoever gave her the gig to begin with, and then published her article after they'd read it. Newspapers will publish anything they think will drive traffic. Do you think the person(s) who allowed this to be published didn't realise that it was bad? Or do you think they realised it was, and were prepared to throw this girl under the bus because they knew it would bring them attention and consequently ad revenue?

There are three groups who should be brought to task over this: the general public for having an interest in this crap, the people who read things like this to get annoyed about them, and the content publishers who are getting rich off the back of both. Aiming your ire at the single individual who happened to pen the piece is both cruel and missing the bigger picture.

Hammer89

This girl is getting a bit of a raw deal here, whereas the editor, the person who made the decision to hire her and publish this, has emerged without so much as a mention.

I actually think she deserves a bit of credit because she has clearly overachieved here. And you know what? I suspect she'll be hired again, because page views translates to money in online media, and a lot of you will click to open her next piece just to see how stupid it is. Who's the stupid one though?

Deep Six

Deep Six wrote: »

I sometimes wonder who classes these people as "celebrities", and even more bafflingly, thinks anybody gives a single microscopic **** about them or their lives.

Some people do care though. They may not frequent this site, but they are out there

Azalea

The indo/sindo/herald are muck but I think there's a bit of overboard stuff being said here, like "She's a retard", "She indirectly opens her legs for money".

Worse than anything she wrote.

Laugh at it and move on. It's getting loads of attention by people who "don't care".

5starpool

trixiebust wrote: »

Here's another future classic...

http://www.independent.ie/style/voices/holly-carpenters-dublin-diary-my-prechristmas-trip-to-dubai-with-the-coronas-34298504.html

I love the way that in this article she is obsessed with being healthy and sends photos of her meals to her personal trainer, but she says all this just above a photo of her having a cigarette.

Azalea

Azalea wrote: »

The indo/sindo/herald are muck but I think there's a bit of overboard stuff being said here, like "She's a retard", "She indirectly opens her legs for money".

Worse than anything she wrote.

Laugh at it and move on. It's getting loads of attention by people who "don't care".

I agree. Critique the piece , not the author . What's happening now is that some posters have gone too far with the personal vitriol, which legitimises preachy posts like the one earlier ("who's really the stupid one?")

padd b1975

Heroditas wrote: »

I'm referring to the picture of her on the boat (think it might be the other article linked to that one. The one where she's in Dubai)

The one where she's posing with a bottle of Jaegermeister?