The Irish Times

The only half decent daily Irish Newspaper, the rest are either tabloid thrash for morons who’s idea of news is Kerry Katonas sex life (Sun, Star, Mirror) or reactionary bile (Daily Mail, Independent), though its not a patch on The Guardian or The London Independent.

The Irish Times is known in Ireland as the paper of record. Or something like that! I always get it on Saturday as I love the magazine that comes with it. It always has great articles, along with the TV guide for the week ahead. I’m also a big fan of the two crosswords in the main paper — the Simplex and the Crosaire. Mind you, the ‘Simplex’ is not exactly what you’d call simple some days. The Crosaire is the cryptic one, which I always attempt but have never, ever finished. I live in hope though.

I’m often between two minds when it comes to the irish Times. On the one hand Ilike that it’s one of the few papers left with a sense of journalistic ethics (yes, they exist) and some great supplements about Irish life. On the other hand I feel that the Times is so pretentious that they’d only truly be satisfied if Descartes and Tom Waits were its only readers. I like a lot of their stuff, but so much of it is complete and utter wank. Which is a shame, cos ifit just came down to earth a little, it would be a great paper as opposed to a good one.

Yep im a Times Man… always have been and always will be… i may disagree with it a lot… i may find it weighs me down in College… but i will only ever give it my full attention over any of its compeditors… it is my favourite paper by a long shot!

I think the Irish Times is a complete snooze fest. I know that’s a bit of a controversial thing to say as it is a very high regarded newspaper, but I’d never read it by choice.
It’s just very fuddy duddy and boring and it makes me want to fall asleep frankly!

Irish Times is my broadsheet of choice. At the risk of sticking my neck out, I’d also say it’s Ireland’s most well-​respected and credible broadsheet.
The reporting by established journalists such as Lara Marlowe, is accurate and readable, the commentary is intelligent, incisive and observant. The daily crosswords are challenging yet doable. The website is well laid-​out and easy to navigate. My one criticism would be that the Saturday magazine got a little lost somewhere in D4 and forgot that its readership weren’t all Butler’s Pantry/​Avoca devotees. Think it may now be finding its way back to more diverse demographic.
Also, by its very nature as a broadsheet, it’s pretty difficult to manœuvre on a bus or DART without poking and paper-​flapping the poor unfortunate beside you.

Sign of the times when right opposite the Irish Times Newspaper building is the ever growing dole queue. But it lends time to admire the surrounding buildings as the long winding line shuffles slowly into bottomless bureaucy.
It is Ireland’s oldest paper and it also has the most number of columnists located abroad. It is a viewed as a very liberal paper. I recently went to a lecture in DIT to listen to Fintan O’ Toole, the deputy editor speak, and he remarked that the Irish Times tends to publish stories that some people would find boring but it does not have any commercial or vest interested so it can. As opposed to other Irish newspapers which are primarily made up of press releases which most readers are unaware of.
Personally I love their weekend paper, crammed full of articles and they always are on the pulse with the creative goings on in the country.

The best broadsheet in Ireland by a mile. Maybe two. The Irish Times is without a shadow of a doubt the top of the league. It has refused the temptation to bow to tabloid pressure (á la the Indo), nor has it sacrificed its quality for sensation. In the ongoing debate of the Independent vs the Times, I’m a Times girl through and through.
However, that’s not to say that it doesn’t have its flaws. The manic obsession with bad news that seems to be an Irish trait is continued within its writings, as its wholly Irish-​biased reporting (in that the ‘World’ section has maybe 2 pages dedicated to it, in comparison to the 10ish pages given over to more parochial news). Not a bad thing per se, but certainly not where to go for a world-​wide perspective.
On the other hand, they do have some very interesting staff writers, my favourite of which, Ruadhán MacCormaic, gets some interesting assignments.

The Irish Times is a big paper for big minds, or at least that is what I always think when I hear the name or see all the suits reading it on the Luas to working, thinking they are all on the New York Subway on their way to Wall Street! Why can’t they make a fit in your hand easy to read paper? Don’t they know that it is not the size that counts but what you do with it?

The Irish Times is by far Ireland’s best newspaper. Unlike some of the other papers that use sensationalism to sell more copies, this paper rarely trivializes news and doesn’t use offensive front page images. It also has varied coverage. You’ll find everything in this print medium: local events, international news, a good lifestyle, arts section and sports of course. The articles are well-​written and not too opinionated.
My main complaint about the Times is the format of the paper. It’s ridiculously large which makes it inconvenient to read in the bus or cramped areas. They should consider adopting a small page size.