Figures show rural dwellers face longer treks to everyday services
Who knew ? I am reluctant to even categorise this as journalism
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Finger on the pulse there.
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Its disgraceful.
The rest of the article is pretty good. He fillets Arsenal culture.
You could have made that circle a bit wider. The following paragraph is worse. Ljungberg is “a sort of bald Freud”
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Who wrote that? Early??
That was a freudian slip
Arsenal putting an underwear model in as their manager, interim or not, kinda sums them up a wee bit.
he’s a bit too jung to remember freud
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My latest frustration with the Athletic. This isn’t woeful probably but it’s still irksome. Daniel Taylor is probably one of their better writers but this sort of backstory introduction to his articles is maddeningly repetitive.
Mourinho:
Leeds:
Keane:
Or his other intro is the one about the surrounding area:
Everton:
Fleetwood:
You can log them here mate. I can widen the criteria to cater for the fact that while they are, unlike some of the finer examples, somewhat relevant to the story they are still completely tangential to the article itself, other than to convey on the reader the idea that the writer is somehow more knowing than them
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Fuck that’s exactly where they belong alright. I’ll copy them in there.
[quote]
All over America, people proclaimed “I am an immigrant.” And that’s what I was there…
But what am I here?[/quote]
A fucking whinging snowflake
The photo of the pictured woman here is accompanied in the Irish Times piece with this:
Doireann McMahon: ‘I’ve lived in London for 16 years and I will be voting Labour’
Then we don’t even hear from her in the actual article itself
One of the “Irish” voting Tory in the article is in fact Australian
Another Irish Tory voter has lived in England for 58 years
An utterly bizarre choice of headline
Fucking appalling stuff from the Times. They must have no proofreaders left at all.
The Irish Independent ran with this nothing story this morning.
The new Chair of the FAI, Roy Barrett, got a €80k interest free loan from his employers Goodbody Stockbrokers says the headline. It mentions in the article that the COTY 2019 Mr Delaney provided a loan to the FAI, in a pathetic attempt to link the two, even though they are completely different.
Goodbodys overpaid a bonus to Barrett and it was agreed that he would pay back the difference in the form of a loan. Obviously an administrative error where Barrett behaved quite honourably in my view - certainly no need for interest to be applied. The loan is being paid back at a reasonable pace and it is all fully disclosed in the accounts as required.
The FAI has enough challenges without a national media outlet trying to piggy back off the topical scandal in the organisation to try and get some readers. Even the way this story was uncovered - they reviewed Goodbody’s accounts which they probably got online and tried to twist a story out of it.
There are some right wankers out there.
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Doesn’t say a lot for Goodbody’s financial controls
Why didn’t he just give it back?