Holly Carpenter...whoever you are...

Harry Palmr

She is no Glenda Slagg.

MEGA BRO WOLF 5000

So this is who wrote those Ann and Barry books we read as children.

Subcomandante Marcos

Andre 3000 wrote: »

We're all human FFS, even bodybuilders who're insanely health conscious have the occasional pig out.

Body Builders aren't health concious, they are astehtically concious, there's a massive difference. A ridiculous percentage of them abuse the feck out of their bodies to look a certain way and take years off of their lives in the process.

Sheeps

LMAO that's so bad its good.

Dtp1979

Galwayguy35 wrote: »

Romeo and juliet of our times, that is a load of bollix in fairness.

Ye but in fairness it was one idiot backing up another

Sheeps

Not sure if it's been posted yet, but the examiner have picked up on how bad it is.

http://www.irishexaminer.com/breakingnews/entertainment/holly-carpenter-gets-slammed-for-writing-article-about-boyfriend-danny-oreilly-713834.html

NIMAN

Sheeps wrote: »

Not sure if it's been posted yet, but the examiner have picked up on how bad it is.

http://www.irishexaminer.com/breakingnews/entertainment/holly-carpenter-gets-slammed-for-writing-article-about-boyfriend-danny-oreilly-713834.html

So the Examiner are making a news story out of this thread?

Thats equally shoddy journalism.

Wabbit Ears

Regarding the Doireann Garrihy's romeo and Juliet comment, did she ever read past the prologue?

Shes basically saying she wants them to die in a double suicide as a result of godawful advice from a drug dealing priest.

Custardpi

Sheeps wrote: »

Not sure if it's been posted yet, but the examiner have picked up on how bad it is.

http://www.irishexaminer.com/breakingnews/entertainment/holly-carpenter-gets-slammed-for-writing-article-about-boyfriend-danny-oreilly-713834.html

Sadly they haven't done that. The article is actually a (sym)pathetic one about the "hate" & "abuse" which Carpenter has apparently suffered. Strangely it's accompanied by several screengrabs of tweets which contain neither. Presumably there'll be a follow up article in the Indo soon detailling how her life has been "destroyed" by the "online mob" or some such drivel.

Muahahaha

At least when Holly's granny Terry Keane was opening her legs for Charlie Haughey and writing about it weekly in the Sindo she actually knew how to write. This Carpenter chick needs to go back to 4th class and learn about how to write proper sentences.

Anyway that article gave me a right laugh, I look forward to more of Holly's musings in de Herald.

Zimmey

NIMAN wrote: »

I have been visiting the Independent website for several years now, and the dumbing down of it has been obvious over the last few years.

I think they see the success of the likes of the Daily Mail website, and are trying to do a version with Irish celebs, as few as we have compared to the UK.

It is not really a quality newspaper any more, and I visit it rarely now.

I'd say the dumbing down is working for them if they are persisting with it. o_O

Liamario

We should expect to see her on the Late Late show next weekend, the home of all Ireland's greatest celebrities.

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/

I'm not convinced that this tweet wasn't sarcastic.

Hammer89

Liamario wrote: »

We should expect to see her on the Late Late show next weekend, the home of all Ireland's greatest celebrities.

Let's all get tickets and throw batteries at her because she isn't Shakespeare.

Nodin

Galwayguy35 wrote: »

Romeo and juliet of our times, that is a load of bollix in fairness.

Romeo and Juliet were in their early teens and probably more literate for starters.

Azalea

The best was the one on the sindo where the woman used her daughter's boyfriend's death from cancer to promote her shop and her daughter's modelling career. That deserved the savaging it got.

NIMAN

Zimmey wrote: »

I'd say the dumbing down is working for them if they are persisting with it. o_O

I do think many people underestimate how popular these trivial 'news' type articles and celeb gossip is.

The Daily Mail is one of the most popular sites in the UK, and its full of nonsense too. I would say there are more people in the UK and Ireland interested in tabloid type news than 'real' news stories.

Nodin

NIMAN wrote: »

So the Examiner are making a news story out of this thread?

.

Nay, similar remarks on twitter. We rarely get credited when we're the source.

Liamario

Hammer89 wrote: »

Let's all get tickets and throw batteries at her because she isn't Shakespeare.

I wouldn't even watch the show, much less get tickets for it.

Nodin

NIMAN wrote: »

I do think many people underestimate how popular these trivial 'news' type articles and celeb gossip is.

The Daily Mail is one of the most popular sites in the UK, and its full of nonsense too. I would say there are more people in the UK and Ireland interested in tabloid type news than 'real' news stories.

While that may be true, this is really, really cringeworthy stuff even when you apply the low standards of celeb articles.

Nodin

Azalea wrote: »

The best was the one on the sindo where the woman used her daughter's boyfriend's death from cancer to promote her shop and her daughter's modelling career. That deserved the savaging it got.

Yeah, way back in August 2015.......

Custardpi

Hammer89 wrote: »

Let's all get tickets and throw batteries at her because she isn't Shakespeare.

Oh get over yourself! Nobody has advocated violence here, except you. While a couple of comments have been a bit mean the victimhood angle you're trying to suggest here really doesn't fly.

Azalea

I did a Google - it was 2011.

Liamario

NIMAN wrote: »

I do think many people underestimate how popular these trivial 'news' type articles and celeb gossip is.

The Daily Mail is one of the most popular sites in the UK, and its full of nonsense too. I would say there are more people in the UK and Ireland interested in tabloid type news than 'real' news stories.

I don't think it's the topic of her essay, but more to do with how badly written it is.

KERSPLAT!

Mod

Criticise the editor, the publisher, the writer, fair enough but the abuse stops now, thanks.

Nodin

Azalea wrote: »

I did a Google - it was 2011.

Was it now. Gas.

Hammer89

Custardpi wrote: »

Oh get over yourself! Nobody has advocated violence here, except you. While a couple of comments have been a bit mean the victimhood angle you're trying to suggest here really doesn't fly.

I was joking. I don't actually want to team up and throw batteries at her.

peckerhead

NIMAN wrote: »

I do think many people underestimate how popular these trivial 'news' type articles and celeb gossip is.

“No one in this world, so far as I know — and I have searched the records for years, and employed agents to help me — has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. Nor has anyone ever lost public office thereby.”

H. L. Mencken, US editor (1880-1956)

Custardpi

Hammer89 wrote: »

I was joking. I don't actually want to team up and throw batteries at her.

I understood that perfectly. I also understood that you were equating (for hyperbolic effect fair enough) those who poke some harmless fun at a crap article with those who engage in physical violence.

Custardpi

KERSPLAT! wrote: »

Mod

Criticise the editor, the publisher, the writer, fair enough but the abuse stops now, thanks.

Really not being funny but could you clarify by what you mean by "abuse"? Are you using the Examiner's definition? I think the vast majority of posts have been fair comment, though a couple do step over the mark I'd agree.

sabat

In fairness, if you'd asked me to write a piece about how I spent new year's eve the next day , it would have been a couple of hundred words of incomprehensible childish gibberish.

Hammer89

Custardpi wrote: »

I understood that perfectly. I also understood that you were equating (for hyperbolic effect fair enough) those who poke some harmless fun at a crap article with those who engage in physical violence.

Yes, so I was joking and meant absolutely nothing by it.

If I cared enough about this topic and wanted a serious back-and-forth debate I'd have responded to your initial comment, which was fair enough.

wendell borton

Hammer89 wrote: »

Let's all get tickets and throw batteries at her because she isn't Shakespeare.

9v ftw.

DuMorph

It's not her fault she's an air-head, but the Independent deserve every criticism it gets for publishing her.

Muahahaha

Azalea wrote: »

The best was the one on the sindo where the woman used her daughter's boyfriend's death from cancer to promote her shop and her daughter's modelling career. That deserved the savaging it got.

What one was that?

GFT

She makes Alison O'Riordan look like Shakespeare.

Zimmey

NIMAN wrote: »

I do think many people underestimate how popular these trivial 'news' type articles and celeb gossip is.

Absolutely, and I'm no angel myself in this regard. I'd love to say that I only read the New Yorker and the New York Review of Books, but I will also often have a tonne of DM tabs open and they nearly ALL get read. The DM has, IMO, shrewdly tapped into humans' primitive gossipy nature and our status as a highly social species like no other newspaper. They know exactly what they're doing.

I actually think the Indo is not doing too badly in this regard either albeit on a more local scale. Most people I know browse their site daily.

whiskeyman

The indo and Holly must be delighted at all the page views / shares and chatter about this though.
I wonder if they set out to do exactly this...


Well played

Zimmey

Muahahaha wrote: »

What one was that?

http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/chloes-burning-ambition-and-dedication-to-her-tragic-boyfriend-rory-26737425.html

GFT

whiskeyman wrote: »

The indo and Holly must be delighted at all the page views / shares and chatter about this though.
I wonder if they set out to do exactly this...


Well played

Yes thats right, makes me want to tune in next week to see what she had for breakfast.

Dtp1979

GFT wrote: »

Yes thats right, makes me want to tune in next week to see what she had for breakfast.

Rice krispies I'd say

ceegee

Amazing the number of people who dont realise the romeo and juliet tweet is a pisstake

Dtp1979

Zimmey wrote: »

http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/chloes-burning-ambition-and-dedication-to-her-tragic-boyfriend-rory-26737425.html

You can't be serious, is that actually real??

Zimmey

Dtp1979 wrote: »

You can't be serious, is that actually real??

Hey, don't point that finger at ME, I didn't write it!!!!!

And yes, sadly it is. Feel a bit sorry for the kiddo in the article too. There was a photo accompanying the original article. Yeah, she probably liked the attention but I'd say she could have gone on to regret it. She was so young. An adult should have stepped in there.

Brendan Flowers

NIMAN wrote: »

So the Examiner are making a news story out of this thread?

Thats equally shoddy journalism.

Nodin wrote: »

Nay, similar remarks on twitter. We rarely get credited when we're the source.

That Examiner article was written yesterday. This thread was only started today.

And it's been all over Facebook and Twitter for the past 24hrs or so...

BMMachine

Is being sh*t a good thing nowadays? If you are complete sh*t like this girl and Kat*e H*pkins does that mean you get to write for national newspapers? How do they make money?

Azalea

Muahahaha wrote: »

What one was that?

Found a thread here on it :pac:

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=72527693

PowerToWait

Zimmey wrote: »

http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/chloes-burning-ambition-and-dedication-to-her-tragic-boyfriend-rory-26737425.html

I must say, that is reprehensible. But strangely funny. Hope the shop burns down.

Xaracatz

Xaracatz wrote: »

Whatever about the "I went to the shops. I saw a red balloon. Ice cream is tasty." style..



What kind of unfortunate sentence is that? You could use all the coloured crayons and sparkles in the world, and it will wouldn't make it onto the fridge door.

It's not even just a run on sentence - it's genuinely really bad grammar.

Good lord

Canadel

nullzero wrote: »

Ireland is a fantastic country, if you're attractive

She's nearly as plain as her writing.

Quazzie

Zimmey wrote: »

http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/chloes-burning-ambition-and-dedication-to-her-tragic-boyfriend-rory-26737425.html

Can someone who lives in the locality please confirm that this shop has since closes down?