Sunday newspapers outside churches..

thesandeman

Does anywhere keep up the tradition of selling the papers after mass anymore?
Back in the day it was part of the Sunday routine, mass>paper>pub>dinner>pub.
I remember when the Sunday World came out, if there was anything risqué on the front page a brick used to be placed over the offending em.. article.

Olishi4

My brother worked on one. He stopped after it got robbed a couple of times.

At the time, the shops were not opened on Sundays so I'd say that's why they were popular.

I wouldn't mind if the shops closed on Sundays again. I was out shopping yesterday and it just makes the day such a rush. It makes the weekend go to fast.

whisky_galore

Was it the Irish Catholic newspaper had a kids' column featuring some idiot that was barely able to spell...for 'comic' effect?

Local church that I never darken the doors of anymore had a wooden booth, gone for years now, selling 'approved' newspapers and the usual Catholic kitsch.

crosstownk

Papers are still sold on a Sunday morning outside my local parish church and also outside the church in the neighbouring parish.

Del.Monte

Olishi4 wrote: »

My brother worked on one. He stopped after it got robbed a couple of times.

At the time, the shops were not opened on Sundays so I'd say that's why they were popular.

I wouldn't mind if the shops closed on Sundays again. I was out shopping yesterday and it just makes the day such a rush. It makes the weekend go to fast.

Newsagents were always open on Sundays - it was simply handy for mass goers to pick up the paper outside the church before hitting the pub.

Olishi4

Del.Monte wrote: »

Newsagents were always open on Sundays - it was simply handy for mass goers to pick up the paper outside the church before hitting the pub.

Yea you are right. It wasn't worth the hassle of going all the way into the shopping centre to just get the paper but now a lot of people do their weekly shopping on Sundays so it's probably just handier for them to pick one up then.

chocksaway

Our local church had a man with a van selling papers, bread, milk and apple tarts. Blocks of ice cream in the summer too. Fierce enterprising altogether!

darkdubh

whisky_galore wrote: »

Was it the Irish Catholic newspaper had a kids' column featuring some idiot that was barely able to spell...for 'comic' effect?

Local church that I never darken the doors of anymore had a wooden booth, gone for years now, selling 'approved' newspapers and the usual Catholic kitsch.

Pudsy Ryan.I think he was in some catholic magazine aimed at kids,I can picture it now and the drawing of him that used to illustrate the columns but can't remember what magazine it was.

colm_mcm

That was in the Far East magazine

L1011

Local catholic church had a car (illegally, as its on a junction) parked up selling the papers out of the boot - and yes, the bricks that were there to hold down the top copy would occasionally cover stuff; and the weekends with the big child abuse scandals in the church did seem to lead to some papers being missing - whether snapped up by eager readers or bought en masse by the priest I don't know!

A shopping centre across the road with an Easons killed it off.

It used to be the only place that sold 'the English papers' - the Fr. Ted bit about that is probably lost on younger generations now.