How stuck for news is 'De Leader'?

panda100

https://www.limerickleader.ie/news/home/297283/limerick-dishwasher-man-presented-with-10-year-supply-of-tablets.html

This gives me all the LOLs :pac:

panda100

https://www.limerickleader.ie/news/home/297887/scaredy-cat-frightened-feline-stranded-on-top-of-30ft-esb-pole.html

Poor, even by The Leaders standards.

Reputable Rog

panda100 wrote: »

https://www.limerickleader.ie/news/home/297887/scaredy-cat-frightened-feline-stranded-on-top-of-30ft-esb-pole.html

Poor, even by The Leaders standards.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1akPFNW1c6c

Vanquished

Desperate stuff!

https://www.limerickleader.ie/news/home/298959/delays-on-limerick-road-due-to-loose-dogs.html

kilburn

Ffs this stuff is brutal

panda100

Vanquished wrote: »

Desperate stuff!

https://www.limerickleader.ie/news/home/298959/delays-on-limerick-road-due-to-loose-dogs.html

:eek: A new low.

I wonder how much interest do you think there would be in Limerick to crowdsource a decent publication or a newspaper that people would pay a subscription for, something like The Dublin inquirer?

Poxyshamrock

panda100 wrote: »

Vanquished wrote: »

Desperate stuff!

https://www.limerickleader.ie/news/home/298959/delays-on-limerick-road-due-to-loose-dogs.html

:eek: A new low.

I wonder how much interest do you think there would be in Limerick to crowdsource a decent publication or a newspaper that people would pay a subscription for, something like The Dublin inquirer?

Slim chance I reckon!

panda100

Poxyshamrock wrote: »

Slim chance I reckon!

Really? Do you not think there is an appetite for decent local reporting and analysis? I reckon I would pay to subscribe to something that paid for local reporters to do some decent investigative journalism.

Mc Love

panda100 wrote: »

Really? Do you not think there is an appetite for decent local reporting and analysis? I reckon I would pay to subscribe to something that paid for local reporters to do some decent investigative journalism.

You'd probably run out of stories then!

panda100

Mc Love wrote: »

You'd probably run out of stories then!

I don't think so. There are heaps of interesting goings-on in the city and county. You could easily do a monthly publication and it wouldn't be for click bait so no need for nonsense articles about dogs holding up traffic on the dock road :rolleyes: Anywho I reckon it will happen soon enough so watch this space......

Mc Love

panda100 wrote: »

I don't think so. There are heaps of interesting goings-on in the city and county. You could easily do a monthly publication and it wouldn't be for click bait so no need for nonsense articles about dogs holding up traffic on the dock road :rolleyes: Anywho I reckon it will happen soon enough so watch this space......

Is monthly enough? The leader is an almost daily newspaper.

jbkenn

People are jumping up and down about the Leader running "man bites dog" stories, yet, when they run a real news story about how €322,000,000 of taxpayers money has been flushed down the toilet of Regeneration, nobody bats an eyelid, go figure.
https://www.limerickleader.ie/news/home/298817/limerick-regeneration-tallies-up-322m-bill-and-221homes-in-10-years.html

osarusan

As long as the Leader covers the stories that should be covered, I couldn't care less about the fluff it also puts on its website (which is still accessible for free if you whitelist it).

For me, criticism should be about the stories they don't cover, that should be covered.

johnnyryan89

jbkenn wrote: »

People are jumping up and down about the Leader running "man bites dog" stories, yet, when they run a real news story about how €322,000,000 of taxpayers money has been flushed down the toilet of Regeneration, nobody bats an eyelid, go figure.
https://www.limerickleader.ie/news/home/298817/limerick-regeneration-tallies-up-322m-bill-and-221homes-in-10-years.html

The biggest load of bollocks ever it is. Ten years later and places are worse off than what they were when it started. A lot of people gained well from working with the regeneration.

tototoe

johnnyryan89 wrote: »

The biggest load of bollocks ever it is. Ten years later and places are worse off than what they were when it started. A lot of people gained well from working with the regeneration.

TBH with the nonsense going on with the government paying national and local media for positive spin and dressing it up as real news, (which are really advertorials) I wouldn't pay much attention to anything regarding regeneration or the 2040 plan in any paper at the moment.

(not saying this is the case with the Leader, but I'd take anything to do with 2040 etc with a fairly large pinch of salt for now in any publication)

johnnyryan89

tototoe wrote: »

TBH with the nonsense going on with the government paying national and local media for positive spin and dressing it up as real news, (which are really advertorials) I wouldn't pay much attention to anything regarding regeneration or the 2040 plan in any paper at the moment.

I live in St Mary's Park, have all my life. As bad of a reputation that it had there was never any boarded up houses, burnt out houses and the place didn't look like a kip. Even though it didn't look great they've come in and completely ruined the place.

They wasted 100's of thousands on knocking houses down here to come along and spend even more money to build up the same houses again in their place all the while letting houses that won't be replaced stand idle for years for kids to wreck, set fire too, used to stash drugs in and junkies squatting in them. As for the contractors they hired to do some of the work, biggest cowboys I've ever seen in my life.

tototoe

johnnyryan89 wrote: »

I live in St Mary's Park, have all my life. As bad of a reputation that it had there was never any boarded up houses, burnt out houses and the place didn't look like a kip. Even though it didn't look great they've come in and completely ruined the place.

They wasted 100's of thousands on knocking houses down here to come along and spend even more money to build up the same houses again in their place all the while letting houses that won't be replaced stand idle for years for kids to wreck, set fire too, used to stash drugs in and junkies squatting in them. As for the contractors they hired to do some of the work, biggest cowboys I've ever seen in my life.

I hear ya, just saying be aware that reports around money spent, money to be spent, projects to be completed etc should all be taken with a very large grain of salt. Varadkars communication team are in overdrive mode and it's quite scary that they can have this type of influence in national and local media.

LimerickCity

How much did taxpayers pay for this full page fake news government sponsored propaganda in the Leader.
Question: Didn’t Hitler have a propaganda MACHINE to convince ordinary citizens that what he was doing was right and we all know that it was totally WRONG. Dangerous things those propaganda MACHINES. How stuck are the Leader for a few bob

chicorytip

johnnyryan89 wrote:

The biggest load of bollocks ever it is. Ten years later and places are worse off than what they were when it started. A lot of people gained well from working with the regeneration.

johnnyryan89 wrote:

They wasted 100's of thousands on knocking houses down here to come along and spend even more money to build up the same houses again in their place all the while letting houses that won't be replaced stand idle for years for kids to wreck, set fire too, used to stash drugs in and junkies squatting in them. As for the contractors they hired to do some of the work, biggest cowboys I've ever seen in my life.

220 new homes have been constructed during the regeneration process. That is, at least, progress of sorts even if the figure represents about one fifth of the total number of units required to accommodate those who can't afford to provide their own housing in Limerick City.

banie01

chicorytip wrote: »

220 new homes have been constructed during the regeneration process. That is, at least, progress of sorts even if the figure represents about one fifth of the total number of units required to accommodate those who can't afford to provide their own housing in Limerick City.

And those 220 units are merely partially replacing housing stock that was demolished during the regeneration process.
There was no increase in actual housing units available, and the actual number of council housing units available as a result of the regeneration process is less than was available prior to any demolition and regeneration took place.

The last accurate demolition numbers I can find confirm that 1039 units were demolished, with a total of 241 new units being completed under the auspices of regeneration.
Thats a reduction of @850 in the originally available housing stock.

The original regeneration plans called for 3000 housing units, and now after the expenditure of hundreds of millions of Euro, we are left with a deficit of at least 2150 units versus the originally proposed plans and their LRFIP replacement.

Reputable Rog

https://www.limerickleader.ie/news/home/302027/limerick-woman-would-pay-three-parking-fines-to-watch-second-half-again.html

osarusan

Here's a good one.

https://www.limerickleader.ie/news/home/301849/ban-for-drunk-driver-who-was-directing-traffic-after-accident.html

Final line of that article:
Reconnaissance was fixed in the event of an appeal.

panda100

Reputable Rog wrote: »

https://www.limerickleader.ie/news/home/302027/limerick-woman-would-pay-three-parking-fines-to-watch-second-half-again.html

Saw Des Cahill had retweeted that. G'wan Limerick!

Mc Love

It's a joke - if she had parked properly she wouldnt have received a fine. Plenty of supporters will park anywhere and often block pedestrians/people with children from using footpaths. Hope the Gardai catch up with her and make her pay the three times.

Vanquished

I think this beats all. This was actually on the front page of the county edition last week!!

https://www.limerickleader.ie/news/home/301669/priest-boardsquad-bike-in-limerick-to-administer-communion-in-the-snowstorm.html

Mc Love

Vanquished wrote: »

I think this beats all. This was actually on the front page of the county edition last week!!

https://www.limerickleader.ie/news/home/301669/priest-boardsquad-bike-in-limerick-to-administer-communion-in-the-snowstorm.html

Father Dick Browne - have met him, he is actually a legend in Cappamore. He goes around to all the old people in the parish to make sure they are all ok, and did so during the bad weather.

panda100

Mc Love wrote: »

Father Dick Browne

Well that is just a name straight from Father Ted :pac:

The Specialist

I think the Limerick leader just redefined "slow news day". Whoever approved this non story needs to find another job...

https://www.limerickleader.ie/news/home/310021/limerick-fire-breather-admitted-to-a-e-in-bahamas-after-burning-eyes-with-chilli-crisp-fingers.html

A LIMERICK cruise ship worker and entertainer had to be admitted to an A&E in the exotic Bahamas this week after he inadvertently rubbed his itchy eyes after eating a packet of chilli crisps.

RhubarbCrumble

The Specialist wrote: »

I think the Limerick leader just redefined "slow news day". Whoever approved this non story needs to find another job...

https://www.limerickleader.ie/news/home/310021/limerick-fire-breather-admitted-to-a-e-in-bahamas-after-burning-eyes-with-chilli-crisp-fingers.html

I saw that earlier on and thought I was on Waterford Whispers for a minute!

panda100

“I had a nice almond chocolate bar and these spicy chili crisps. Happy out with myself munching away, I got an itch in my eye. Like any good itch it needs a good scratch. Scratched away not knowing I had some bits of chili on the back of my hand. Chilli plus eye equals not a fun adventure.”

Can boards please give us a facepalm emoji for this thread please