Dublin Daily

[Groucho]

anyone spot the anorak connection with Dublin Daily's new premises??

[TheGoldenMaverick]

Dublin Daily
18 Fairview
Dublin 3

What's the anorak connection?

I've just read through the first issue and it's a shoddy Evening Herald i.e. even shoddier than the Evening Herald which purports to be a newspaper. It uses the same fonts and typeface as the Herald. It's Dublin Gaelic notes are an exact copy of the Herald but the Daily have managed to get several club names wrong. There's yet another picture of a non-smiling Dr Robin O Reilly who is apparently a social columnist now. It's good to see that she's putting her qualifications to good use.

It's TV pages are all over the shop with the sport squeezed between it and the small ads.
The biggest and most pertinent racing festival on these islands is taking place in Cheltenham and it only warrants about one third of a page.

This paper is absolute muck. I wish I could say it wasn't but it is. I read the asst editor's blurb saying that it was going to be broadsheet in content but tabloid in size. It would be better if it was toilet paper sized and came on a roll and had nothing printed on it and even then I would still have serious reservations about using it to wipe my posterior. Mr Hayes should stick to punditry on Gaelic football and leave the world of print journalism.

The GM

[Darker]

Seen it this morning, but didn’t buy it. It’s lead story was with the cost of staging the arrival of the Queen of England, (there has been talk of this for years)- what a way to kick start it’s first publication, with stale news! I see it’s at a special price of €1 for the next while; I hate to think what the real price will be. It seems to be smaller in size than The Star and less content.

DM

[Dane Bowers]

Yea, I picked up a copy yesterday morning. Gotta say I wasn't to impressed. For the first issue I thought it would be a lot jazzier. It seemed to be full of articles that could have been written up to 5 or 6 months ago. Their main target market is females and I think they are attempting to combine a magazine with a newspaper. It's neither.

[DeargDoom]

Agree with the lovely Dane. The font/layout looks like something the Tallaght Echo would've rejected (what is it with those damned wide margins?!). Stories were so generic as to be unreal - esp. one "funny" story which failed to mention the town, county, or COUNTRY of orgin.

Its all filler material.

I'm no fan of the Herald (or the Heinz O Reilly fella!) and as much as the Herald gets on my tits with bores like Peter Howick and Ian "take the opposing view to everything" O Doherty it is still a (slightly) better read than the Dublin Empty.

DD

p.s..I'm not a print journalist, so all you newshounds feel free to have a go!

[Katy Lied]

Tallaght Echo meets Buy and Sell? What a heap of s****

[DeargDoom]

lol

Don't be slagging the Echo (or d' ecko as its known in the catchment area!) its a great paper full of informative articles like "Murphys Garden Sheds - 30 years of providing South West Dublin with all its shed needs". That and the scathing music reviews done by some angry FAS trainee (making Donal Dineens music taste sound like S Club Juniors).

As for the Buy and Sell, c'mon wouldn't we all love to know why someone would go through the hassle of advertising "2 country and western tapes for sale. 3 Euro each".

DD

[JamesDeane]

The Dublin Daily is also for sale down the Country, I got it yesterday, absolute shite.

TV3/Newstalk in the afternoon on paper.

More target for D4's, it s not out there, cant see it surviving.

[DeargDoom]

Wouldn't say its aimed at D4 at all. Its seems to be aimed at women who have difficulty understanding the big words in the Star.


DD

[Katy Lied]

Hey Dearg - I hope that's not directed at me? Well, at least I'm not blonde. Saw a guy on the bus yesteday whose lips were moving while reading, wait for it; The Star, I nearly p***** myself laughing.

Byee

[Darker]

lol, nice one Dearg !!

[DeargDoom]

hi Katy! Not aimed at you - unless you are an avid reader of Heat, think that You're a Star is what you should pay your licence fee for, you cause traffic mayhem every afternoon by bringing home your lumps from their fee paying school in your family car, and you own all of Enriques CDs.

(Which I'm guessing is the demo for the Dublin Daily)!

[Katy Lied]

Here - what's wrong with Enrique? How long do y'all think it will last - is there a time scale as to when circulation figures are revealed?

[shecaughtthekaty]

So far I think that it has been a disappointing read. As someone pointed out it is too focused on wimmins issues. When my wife finished reading it, even she said that it was too girly. It’s clearly done in the mould of the London Metro free sheet and if Dublin Daily were free then there would be few complaints. What worries me is that there is little in there is little in the line of real stories, it’s mostly crammed with features.

Is anyone really going to shell out €1.20 for something that doesn’t inform them? Also with the strong possibility that Associated Newspapers will start producing an Irish version of the bilgefest that is the Daily Mail how long can Dublin Daily last. In much the same way that Associated Newspapers drove Robert Maxwell out of the London evening newspaper market in 1985, there is a pretty good chance that the Irish daily paper from Associated will cut cover prices in an effort to up sales and drive the weakest competitor out of the market.

Liam Hayes better start putting better hard news stories in there or else he’ll be dusting off the CV.

[father_ted9t9.]

Oi Jamesdeane,

What the hell do ya mean tv3/newstalk in the afternoon on a paper! Its so much worse. How can you put down newstalk, having some of the best journalists working for it? and as for TV3, well its described as people at tv3 as an alternative to RTE, which it is. Dont go knocking things without backing up your statements!