Northern Ireland Media and the GAA

[Feckitt]

On Sunday the wife landed home with the Sunday Mirror,  yes, yes I know it's an English paper, but it is the NI edition and it is a paper with a big circulation.  How much coverage did it give to the days big sporting event, All Ireland Champions Donegal v Tyrone.  None, nada, nil, zilch.  It managed a full two pages for NI soccer featuring Coleraine v somebody.  The Sunday Mirror does usually cover the gaa, but on a part time basis, and puts it at the very end of the sports pages along side, snooker, darts, bowls, pigeons. 

I have lots of other examples of this, but I could be typing here all day.

Gaa supporters should vote with their feet, but I also think the Ulster Council need to take a hefty share of the blame for not demanding fair coverage of our games.

[Billys Boots]

Do we really have to do this again?

[Nally Stand]

Do we really have to do this again?

As long as the problem exists, then yes!

[deiseach]

The Sunday Mirror is not the BBC, it has no public service obligation. If you don't like it, don't buy it or read it (eyeballs matter).

[Denn Forever]

Buy the Sunday World or the Sunday Independent.  Buy Irish (?).

[Billys Boots]

Do we really have to do this again?

As long as the problem exists, then yes!

Well I hope it works better for ye this time than the last twenty times - best of luck with that!

[Nally Stand]

Buy the Sunday World or the Sunday Independent.  Buy Irish (?).

I think I'd nearly rather buy the Sunday Mirror.

[Nally Stand]

Do we really have to do this again?

As long as the problem exists, then yes!

Well I hope it works better for ye this time than the last twenty times - best of luck with that!

It's the squeaky wheel gets the oil!

[nifan]

Gaa supporters should vote with their feet, but I also think the Ulster Council need to take a hefty share of the blame for not demanding fair coverage of our games.

How would the Ulster Council demand anything from a private newspaper? Unless they are advertising in it i doubt they would have much sway.
The paper obviously thinks its coverage reflects its readership - if it wasn't they would change.

[deiseach]

How would the Ulster Council demand anything from a private newspaper? Unless they are advertising in it i doubt they would have much sway.
The paper obviously thinks its coverage reflects its readership - if it wasn't they would change.

Are you suggesting a newspaper would be swayed in its editorial output by base commercial considerations? I'm outraged, I tells you, OUTRAGED.

[nifan]

Are you suggesting a newspaper would be swayed in its editorial output by base commercial considerations? I'm outraged, I tells you, OUTRAGED.

I am sure it would be subconsciously only of course.

[ziggysego]

Buy a newspaper that has the contents you want to read. Don't buy a newspaper that doesn't and then complain.

As deiseach said, it's a very different matter to the BBC.

[Eamonnca1]

That's like picking up the Newsletter and complaining about whiny unionist editorials.

[Itchy]

The Sunday indo is excellent for rolling up in balls and stuffing into your mucky wet boots. Outside of that no good for anything.

[dillinger]

Think that was the Shankill Road edition of the Mirror you were reading by mistake.