Forgot about Duggan, he’s an excellent writer.
He is a raving lunatic on a sideline but he is Hurling man through & through and i highly respect his opinions Horse.
Met him up in Ennis at the Clooney Quin fundraiser night earlier this year and i was mighty impressed by him. He doesn’t pander to the so called big wigs around the Association and for that his opinions alone are worth reading imo.
It was more the fact that you read the Star mate-thought that would be more for casual labourer sorts like TASE and not respected professionals like yourself.
:lol: :lol: :lol: Professional, fuck off kid :lol:
I have a habit of keeping Monday papers after Championship games involving Tipperary lad so always grab The Star.
Looking forward to adding some reports around here once the W C games and league start back in January.
Has Niall Scully of the Heddild been mentioned yet? Possibly the worst writer I’ve ever read, though I admire thoroughly the fact he’ll go to watch and report and preview any kind of Dublin GAA game and also stoop to covering Pitch and Putt and the like. He’s not some lazy sod churning out 1000 words a week, but by jaysis he’s a desperate writer and then some.
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Sid Lowe - ffs, if I thought Rocko’s standing on the forum couldn’t drop any further…
Jonathan Wilson, David Conn, Kevin McCarra at a stretch
Sean Moran and Keith Duggan with GGA. Christy O’Connor is decent too
Journalism is a tough trade these days but most of them fall between PR yes men for their respective sports (so as to guarantee access to players, managers etc) and shock jock types like Dunphy, Glendinning etc
As I only get online access to the Irish and UK papers these days (free version) I’m happy enough to supplement it with TFK and football weekly podcasts
David Hytner of the Guardian is good also, when Ireland are playing. I’m presuming he’s not a paddy, but he knows his stuff and it means he reports with a good degree of balance.
Breheny has a weekly Brian Cody love-in article too. To be fair it must be difficult enough to come up with fresh material when writing about it daily week in, week out, year in and year out but Breheny’s article are very poor I feel. Rarely criticises players or managers as he won’t get the cushy interviews if he does. Then again that applies to a lot of sports writers.
Gga correspondent Tom humphries. Something very gga about him that I just don’t trust.
Edgy
At the moment there are a number of quality journalists that arent in permanent employment with a mainstream Newspaper, TV or Radio. Are there openings for the young college graduates coming out???
Why should a journalist’s sexuality matter?
Newspapers as a medium are finished.
The Sunday Indo sells 900,000 copies each week. Hardly finished. The Tribune is a massive loss though, how was it doing financially??
How many of that 900k are freebies they hand out to hotels & cafe’s etc around the country?
It was losing money hand over fist and was totalling reliant on group support (INM) to keep going. Hence it didn’t.
Journalists without decent analytical or colourful writing skills are finished. The likes of Seán Moran or Emmet Malone at the Irish Times exist by telling us what happened at yesterday’s press conference (which a large and increasing portion of the country already know) and then they chronologically go through a match and tell us who scored, and maybe which foot they scored with. That sort of writing is dead.
Someone like Keith Duggan who can write a piece about a match that is interesting for people who’ve seen the match he’s writing about will survive much longer. I don’t like Gerry Thronley but in fairness to the guy he realised a long time ago that he needed to write about more than just a brief synopsis of the game in order to make himself relevant. Same applies to Neil Francis, despite his horrible personality. As a consequence they get involved in other media work as analysts etc because they have something worhtwhile to say.
Not true.
Moran writes a weekly column every week, or at least during the season anyway, where he writes about some facet of the game or the GAA as a whole or whatnot. His short match previews are excellent too, especialy if you’re having a punt. He’s far more than a mere match-facts reporter.
Malone usually adds in his own analysis after press-conferences (though it was Cummiskey today) and his occasional feature writing is good too. Humphries (used to be), Duggan, Clerkin, O’Riordan are there for the bulk of the feature writing. What would you have instead of match reports? How are they dead? When I pick up the paper (and I hope to god there will always be a paper to pick up) to read with my cup of tea will it just have features and then blank spaces where the match reports used to be? Because some lad on the internet was giving updates on it?
Just because one reader has seen the game does not mean that another has and the newspaper have to cater for that. To be honest I think there is a certain element of snobbery among certain elements of the readership. The same goes for TV punditry. The day of having the gas man on TV is something that is no longer wanted by some. Its almost as if people want academic style analysis. That is not everybodys cup of tea.
At the moment there is a lot of free content available to internet users and you will have read at least one match report on the day of a game. Will that information continue to be free if newspapers die on their feet??
And back to the original question, where are new Journalists going to find openings?