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The Sunday World.

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  • #52
    Pawwed Rig
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    Was there a guy called something Ekin? Des maybe?

    Also they used to post Dr Ruth agony aunt section which presumably they bought on the cheap from the States where she would advise all sorts of perverts


  • #53
    Hangdogroad
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    Pawwed Rig wrote: »
    Was there a guy called something Ekin? Des maybe?

    Also they used to post Dr Ruth agony aunt section which presumably they bought on the cheap from the States where she would advise all sorts of perverts

    Yeah he was the political correspondent in the Sunday World.
    I'd forgotten that they used to post that Dr Ruth column.


  • #54
    Hangdogroad
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    I remember another moral panic story they did around the same time about those bubblegum stickers the Garbage Pail Kids.

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garbage_Pail_Kids


  • #55
    Hangdogroad
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    RTE piece on the Sunday World in 1987. Among the montage of lurid headlines is the one about Kevin Sharkeys gay porn magazine photos. I remember those billboard adverts about "pushers". You don't hear that term anymore in relation to drug dealers, at least in Ireland. Its a term I always associate with Today Tonight and 80s tabloid headlines.


    https://www.rte.ie/archives/2017/0815/897524-sunday-world-tops-sales/?fbclid=IwAR0KaBAB5St0vowyYPHC50CMJqGzTtFYoCEe5XtlGImMbnYDoIuB8Nf6zzs



  • #56
    Hangdogroad
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    Its a shame that the Irish News Archives only has back issues of the Sunday World from 2019 onwards. Very hard to come across 70's, 80's or 90's SW material online. This is from the Evening Herald , 1986.

    Evening Herald 1891-current, Friday, June 27, 1986 - Page 31.png




  • #57
    L1011
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121575519#Comment_121575519

    British Newspaper Archives has 1987-2019

    My suspicion is that INM/Mediahuis don't have good quality copies of pre 87 so would need to be digitised from the National Library. I'm not sure when they bought it, it was independent (Creation Publishing) originally



  • #58
    L1011
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    INM bought a controlling stake in 1978, if anyone else ever wonders about that question.



  • #59
    NewbridgeIR
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121576593#Comment_121576593

    British Newspaper Archives has a few local papers too - New Ross Standard being one which is great for fact-checking stuff from my youth.



  • #60
    Hangdogroad
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    I remember the cover of Winters Reign "the Mini Album" being the subject of a Sunday World outrage story "down with this sort of thing, but really an excuse to show our readers some semi naked women with nice legs". Ten year old me wasn't complaining.

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  • #61
    George White
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    The Sunday World's '    Real Irish Sunday' thing always confused me. Were Sundays always associated with gangland crime and murder and reading up on clerical child abuse (i.e. tonight's program on Bishop Casey), or was this something Williams helped invent? Who decided that drug deals were as much a part of an Irish Sunday as Glenroe and mass?



  • #62
    Hangdogroad
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122409918#Comment_122409918

    I can remember content about criminals and drug dealing etc in the 80's and early 90's but it was really when Williams came on boards that they went all out with it. It was him who popularized the thing of giving gangsters stupid nicknames.



  • #63
    L1011
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    Sunday scandal rags were already a UK thing; and were devoured here - natural market for a domestic one.



  • #64
    Pawwed Rig
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122410763#Comment_122410763

    That was mainly because he wasn't allowed name them



  • #65
    Shakyfan
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    For anyone who doesn't want to fork out on a subscription for the British Newspaper Archive you can still access some of it for free but with limits. If you click onto the page of any title it will give you access to a random copy of the paper from that date in history - eg today would throw up an issue dated 23rd July. As I say it's completely random but if you refresh the page you'll get a different date.



  • #66
    Atlantic Dawn
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    I remember Spot The Ball on it, you had a photo of a football match with the ball airbrushed out, you had to place an X where you thought the ball was, closest won. I think it was 25p per guess, winner got something like £25k or something. They must have made a fortune on it.



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  • #67
    George White
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122410771#Comment_122410771

    Yeah, but that's a UK THING. There's hardly anything 'real Irish' about it, is there?



  • #68
    Ger Roe
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    I remember the early days of Sunday World…. Kevin Marron was its editor and a columnist. He died tragically in 1984 in a plane crash. He was with a group of 9, mostly journalists travelling to France to bring back bottles of Beaujolais Noveau (Wine) to Ireland. There was a race each year to be the first Irish restaurant to have it in stock but the light plane with the Irish journalists and restaurant owners crashed in Eastbourne, England. Also on the flight were Pat Gibbons, owner of The Sands Hotel Portmarnock and his general manager Francois Schelbaum. The pirate radio station Sunshine Radio was based in the hotel and I remember its owner and presenter Robbie Robbinson (Dale) signing on that morning in tears as he confirmed the death of his friends in the crash. There was some debate as to how the Sunday World would survive following the loss of its founding editor.

    https://www.independent.ie/regionals/herald/30-years-on-the-night-herald-lost-four-great-men/30740650.html



  • #69
    Hangdogroad
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    I remember the classified ads section in the Sunday World would run this hair restorer ad, or slight variations on it, for years, well into the 90s. It always had the "before and after" stock photos featured here of baldy Willy Thorne lookalike and smiling poundshop Tom Selleck on the right. The one in the middle doesn't ring a bell, probably all the same guy anyway but the low res pictures make it difficult to tell for sure.

    There was sometimes another, older bearded guy whose after picture was of him in swimming trunks, drying off his new "hair" with a towel.

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  • #70
    SuperBowserWorld
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122418143#Comment_122418143

    Wow, I'd forgotten completely about that. I wonder who had to verify all those manually to see who'd won or they just picked a random one that looked right.



  • #71
    thesandeman
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122714348#Comment_122714348

    They probably used AI 😂.



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  • #72
    L1011
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    They basically pulled the first one out of a box and decided if it looked reasonable; it won. There was no way to decide what was closest, and the entire rules of it are that its down to the judges decision of where the ball is; not where it actually was

    Back then you could buy ink stampers with a grid of Xs on them to stamp on multiple guesses at once. Kind of tat sold by mail order in the back of the same papers that ran the competitions!



  • #73
    cml387
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122717029#Comment_122717029

    Really? I thought that they had a dedicated team, maybe ex players, and retired referees who studied all the entries and decided the winner that way.

    Or maybe that was the pools panel..



  • #74
    L1011
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122719022#Comment_122719022

    They claimed to. I doubt they had more than one person checking.



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