I see you on Ross in the Indo and raise you Una Mullally, SF's woman in the Irish Times.
Which newspaper subscriptions?
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I get all my news from the Daily Mail Online. I find it to be the most honest, balanced media out there.
Brexit was a really great idea. It just failed because of all the immigrants arriving by boat and infiltrating UK society that the UK hasn't seen the benefits...
And their coverage of Harry and Megan was top notch. Unlike the FT which barely mentioned it because it didn't suit their agenda....
Brexit was a really great idea. It just failed because of all the immigrants arriving by boat and infiltrating UK society that the UK hasn't seen the benefits...
And their coverage of Harry and Megan was top notch. Unlike the FT which barely mentioned it because it didn't suit their agenda....
If I wrote here what I though of her, Brendan would (quite rightly!) ban me for life!
(Furthermore, I'm piggybacking on my sister's Irish Times sub - I have some standards!)
Ah, you are a cute little Koala. Your behaviour had led me to believe that you were a Tasmanian Devil.
I am an altruist.
She doesn't have time to read the Sports Supplement, so I read it for her - free of charge, as a favour - so that I can bring anything important that I may see there to her attention.
It used to be a very good paper back in the day.
Nowadays, as far as I know, it's a fully online newspaper, so I assume that it funds itself purely by means of advertising.
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Pressreader is a very good app if you are a member of your local library, you can read digital copies of papers from all over the world, including the likes of the Washington Post, Baltimore Sun etc etc. Also lots of magazine and it's free.
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 centrist
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.
Not unlike Una Mullally.
I read her the odd time just to see what the country will be like when she's the Government Press Officer.
I presume I'm already on a list somewhere and will be classified as an enemy of the people when we are again run by a UK based political party.
I like Ireland’s Own since my days working in Bedfordshire making the M1 a safer place to drive. I haven’t missed an edition since. Mrs Lep gave me a Christmas present of a year’s subscription to Newsweek although I asked for TIME magazine. Both subscriptions are hard copy rather than on-line and good value.
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.
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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.
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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 secure
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 now
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 secure
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 now
I agree that "Returning Georgian buildings to housing and incentivising companies to leave buildings with conversion potential for new, purpose-built office blocks, and creating affordable housing within older buildings, where practical, makes more sense." That can be done by increasing commercial rates on commercial properties which are suitable for housing and reducing them on offices that are purpose built.