(S)Indo watch

[Maguire01]

It does have the best (free) iphone newspaper app that i've come across though.

[muppet]

Why do youse read it if it is so appalling? Just to whinge?

I don't go to mass much either. But like it or not the Church and IN&M are both powerful organizations in our country and cannot be ignored.

[deiseach]

They've been doing this very well for years now on the Cedar Lounge Revolution.

[whiskeysteve]

Give me the Newsletter any day ahead of that rag. At least they are honest in pandering to their Unionist readership.

[Capt Pat]

The Editors nephew Dion Fanning gets to write a full page article on the premier league every week with big cartoon characitures of the managers etc. when I last read the paper.

[seafoid]

the sindo does a great line in fawning over NAMA debtors while at the same time moaning about budget cuts.

[deiseach]

The Editors nephew Dion Fanning gets to write a full page article on the premier league every week with big cartoon characitures of the managers etc. when I last read the paper.

Nephew? He's the editor's son. The nepotism in that paper would make a Borgia blush.

[Main Street]

Headline in the Sunday Independent

Lemass interviews reveal he held racist views

The actual relevant info in the article
'According to a former Dublin hotelier, Dermot Ryan, who is now based in London and regarded Lemass as a "hero", the former Taoiseach was often forthright and certainly not 'politically correct' in his views.'

http://www.independent.ie/national-news/lemass-interviews-reveal-he-held-racist-views-2989313.html

[AZOffaly]

Is Brendan Fanning, the guy that does the rugby at the indo, a relation as well?

[Gallybander]

Is Brendan Fanning, the guy that does the rugby at the indo, a relation as well?

Aengus Fanning has just died.
I think Brendan was his nephew.

His wife was Ann Harris who used to be married to Eoghan. Their daughter Constance sometimes writes for the paper too.

http://www.independent.ie/national-news/sunday-independent-editor-aengus-fanning-dies-2990591.html

[Tubberman]

Is Brendan Fanning, the guy that does the rugby at the indo, a relation as well?

Aengus Fanning has just died.
I think Brendan was his nephew.

His wife was Ann Harris who used to be married to Eoghan. Their daughter Constance sometimes writes for the paper too.

http://www.independent.ie/national-news/sunday-independent-editor-aengus-fanning-dies-2990591.html

Just heard that on the news. After a short illness it said - hadn't heard he was ill.
I wonder will it lead to a noticeable difference in the slant the paper puts on the stories it covers, or does that direction come from higher powers (i.e. the O'Reillys).

[muppet]

An Spailpín is back on track (despite ludicrously suggesting the fragrant but dreadful claire Byrne for the Late Late Show) with a look at the usual annual story about the Heineken Cup affecting Gaa attendances.

http://spailpin.blogspot.com/

[deiseach]

An Spailpín is back on track (despite ludicrously suggesting the fragrant but dreadful claire Byrne for the Late Late Show) with a look at the usual annual story about the Heineken Cup affecting Gaa attendances.

http://spailpin.blogspot.com/

God love him, you can never accuse Spailpín of trying to split the difference on any subject. His way will work, everything else will fail, e.g. Five Reason Why Sarah Palin Will Elect President John McCain. A lesser man would have waited to see if she was an utter dummy before saying the utter dummy wasn't an utter dummy

[dec]

An Spailpín is back on track (despite ludicrously suggesting the fragrant but dreadful claire Byrne for the Late Late Show) with a look at the usual annual story about the Heineken Cup affecting Gaa attendances.

http://spailpin.blogspot.com/

God love him, you can never accuse Spailpín of trying to split the difference on any subject. His way will work, everything else will fail, e.g. Five Reason Why Sarah Palin Will Elect President John McCain. A lesser man would have waited to see if she was an utter dummy before saying the utter dummy wasn't an utter dummy

What an amazingly stupid article. And further down the front page is this bit about Connacht.

This Saturday, Connacht have to travel to Toulouse, which is the equivalent of playing Kerry in Tralee in high summer. If Connacht get less of a beating than the Huguenots suffered on Saint Bartholomew's Day they can consider themselves very lucky. A seventy-point pasting could be on the cards, and the -26 available on the rouge et noir looks a gimme to your correspondent.