The Irish Times: financial difficulty

[Middleaged]

Good God! Does Leinster even have a rugby team any more? :

Regards...jmcc

Leinster never had a Rugby Team,

[drbob1972]

Leinster never had a Rugby Team,

best not mention that to the Magners league or the ERC then, might cause some confusion

[mollox]

A FREE Martyn Turner calendar with today's Irish Times. With such largesse it's no wonder they're losing money.
Turner's cartoons alone would often be worth the €1.80 cover price.

While I buy the Times every day, I rarely read the editorials and am selective about the opinion pieces I bother with (I never read Myers when he was with the Times- though I could often track his topics via the letters page).

It's a paper for those who can read alternative opinions/views and make up their own mind. If you only want to be exposed to what you already believe, join Sinn Fein, Coir and/or Libertas.

[Twin Towers]

Why not a newspaper license fee paid by people who by other papers so that the Irish Times can continue on its merry way.

RTE have it so why not the Irish Times? Why should "right-minded" people have to support their own media. Let the peasants pick up the tab as usual.

A newspaper license fee for newspaper readers, now there's an idea, with all revenue going to the IT whether you take it or not. Enforced by inspectors visiting your home searching for evidence of newspaper reading.

[LowIQ]

A FREE Martyn Turner calendar with today's Irish Times. With such largesse it's no wonder they're losing money.
Turner's cartoons alone would often be worth the €1.80 cover price.

While I buy the Times every day, I rarely read the editorials and am selective about the opinion pieces I bother with (I never read Myers when he was with the Times- though I could often track his topics via the letters page).

It's a paper for those who can read alternative opinions/views and make up their own mind. If you only want to be exposed to what you already believe, join Sinn Fein, Coir and/or Libertas.

I would say the Oirish Times is nothing of the sort. They occasionally print articles from "Sinn Fein, Coir and/or Libertas." But that is tokenism.

[Factorem]

I would say the Oirish Times is nothing of the sort. They occasionally print articles from "Sinn Fein, Coir and/or Libertas." But that is tokenism.

Is a new helmsman required?

[lostexpectation]

ah now i think steyn and krauthammer, shouldn't be there because they don't reflect the well know left bias of realism.

all the opinion writers should pitch and write articles and justify their inches in the paper each week.

[McDave]

ah now i think steyn and krauthammer, shouldn't be there because they don't reflect the well know left bias of realism.
all the opinion writers shouldn't pitch and write articles and justify their inches in the paper each week.

You can read neanderthal Steyn and Krauthammer-type sh1te in the Telegraph or the New York Times any time. If the IT wants to syndicate (entertaining) US Republican-style stuff, please give something like PJ O'Rourke a chance.

[mollox]

The opinion pages are a joke now (with only the occasional exception)

The "jokes" are the writers you disagree with, the exceptions are the ones you agree with - right?
Sounds balanced to me.