I see you on Ross in the Indo and raise you Una Mullally, SF's woman in the Irish Times.
I see you on Ross in the Indo and raise you Una Mullally, SF's woman in the Irish Times.I deeply regret taking out a one year Indo sub (including the wonders of the Sunday World, the Herald, some regional papers and, I think some newspaper from Northern Ireland?) - and I will not be renewing it next month; it is a bitter, petty, bilious rag. In my defence, I took it out mainly for the rugby coverage, but I'm still ashamed of my reckless decision. Reading Shane Ross's weekly dose of unadulterated bilge makes me want to jump out of a window, but unfortunately I live in a bungalow. (And Ross is by no means the worst donkey in the Indo's stable!)
I also subscribe to the Business Post, the Times of London (another rag - but the sub costs only €5 a year which I can just about tolerate), the Irish Times (meh) and The Spectator. I ended my Phoenix subscription some years ago, when, following the death of John Mulcahy, it slumped from being tolerably interesting to becoming little more than a rag mag for illiterate students.
I see you on Ross in the Indo and raise you Una Mullally, SF's woman in the Irish Times.
Ah, you are a cute little Koala. Your behaviour had led me to believe that you were a Tasmanian Devil.I'm piggybacking on my sister's Irish Times sub
Ah, you are a cute little Koala. Your behaviour had led me to believe that you were a Tasmanian Devil.
Anyone have experience of the UK Independent? I get occasional emails.
Occasionally buy physical papers of...
S Indo Centralist-populist
Indo Centralist-populist
Irish Times Pseudo-left wing-populist with no editorial integrity
.. and rarely... Sunday Times Oirish edition of little-englander rag. Haven't read it since their appallingly anti-Irish comments about our then Taoiseach
Online...
The Journal Just Populist and really bad quality
The Guardian Pseudo-left wing-populist
.... well balanced ...
They are hardly right wing, despite having a few token conservatives, just like let Michael McDowell writing for the Irish Times doesn't make them anything other than left wing and pseudo-socialist.S Indo is centristA bit further to the right, i would have thought, now they have D Quinn on-board.....
I should try the Daily Mail maybe...
Roisín Ingle is a sublimely talented writer, in terms of putting words down one after another so that I want to read on there is no one like her. Unfortunately she rarely uses this talent to say anything worthwhile.Or the equally dreadful Rosin Ingle (shudders)
Not unlike Una Mullally.Roisín Ingle is a sublimely talented writer, in terms of putting words down one after another so that I want to read on there is no one like her. Unfortunately she rarely uses this talent to say anything worthwhile.
I read her the odd time just to see what the country will be like when she's the Government Press Officer.Una Mullally is the ONLY columnist at the Irish Times that I have never taken even the briefest of moments to consider reading. Her hard Left diatribes against what she perceives as the Establishment, is classic hurler-on-the-ditch Sinn Feinery.
I read her piece on office vacancies as well. It's hardly news but she's certainly not alone in her complete failure to put our housing issues in an international context in any of the other pieces she's written on the topic.Una Mullally is the anti-Fintan O Toole.
O Toole writing on a topic he knows is awesome, read anything he has written on theatre. Reading his review I know I have seen the same play, but he saw it in much greater complexity than I did, his was a much richer viewing, and he can share that in his review.
However, he often strays into territory where his lack of understanding of the basics leads him into embarrassing errors, in his most recent piece he says that if the West is to win (in Ukraine against Russia) 'it has to commit huge resources into military industries for many decades to come'. Whereas in fact the US has resourced Ukraine to date with less that 5% of US military spending. €50bn over 18 months out of an annual military budget of €750bn. The financial cost of the war in Ukraine is peanuts to the US if it wishes to achieve a generational shift in geopolitics.
Fintan O’Toole: The West must help Ukraine to define victory differently
If Putin died tomorrow, there’s no chance a democratic peacenik would replace him. The war has reshaped Russian society in ways that make autocracy even more securewww.irishtimes.com
Una Mullally on the other hand writes uninformed drivel on her core topics. She is often accused of being an SF mouth piece, but really all she does is look at the surface of whatever hot topic attracts her attention that week and reflect it through her own narrow worldview. Her prejudices are much more visible than her intellect.
This week however she has a piece on the future of commercial property prices in Dublin. I read it for a laugh, but it is not at all bad. Probably because she recognised that she had no expertise she made an effort to do some research, and the resulting article highlights several relevant factors for the future of the office market. Many finance correspondents have produced worse.
Una Mullally: It looks like a commercial property crash is looming for Dublin
If workers were going to return to offices five days a week they would have done so by nowwww.irishtimes.com
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