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Daily Ireland In Soapy Bubble?
Slugger O'Toole noticed last Friday that the Daily Ireland has laid off ¼ of it's staff! While the thought of people losing their jobs is sad, I can't help but be satisfied that this pro-IRA piece of trash is failing and my symptathy drains somewhat when you read the sort of stuff they publish (eg an article called Is it safe for the IRA to go away?).
Official records of sales seem to be a long time coming but Daily Ireland chief Marty "we have a market crying out for this product" Miller is sure sales figures due to be published soon will show his fish and chip wrapper beating 10,000. That said, industry insiders have speculated it may be closer to 7,000. Unfortunately the non-sectarian paper started 2 months later, called the Daily View, folded after just a single month as initial sales of 5,000 slumped to 2,000. To be honest, I don't think it was very good but at least it was just bad, as distinct from a bad and nakedly sectarian piece of crap attempting to excuse Sinn Fein/IRA murder of thousands of people by blaming everything on 'the Brits'.
Follow up:
The paper was born in March this year and from the start has shown traits very typical of it's Irish Republican ethos, including, but not limited to "Gimme, gimme, gimme" and "Claim!! Claim!!", with MOPEry unparalleled in the national press. The paper's parent group, the Andersonstown News Group wanted large amounts of government funding to get the paper off the ground, even though it had backing from Irish and American investors (bloody Yanks at it again!). Why the British government should fund a paper designed to wage a propaganda war against them on behalf of the IRA is beyond me!
Mairtin O'Muilleoir (to give him his preferred gaelicised name), true to form, blames the Brits for all his paper's financial woes apparently. It has nothing to do with the fact that nobody's buying it (and I don't just mean that literally). Apparently he wants the British government to advertise in his paper now as well, despite the fact it hadn't (at the time of the request) been going long enough to make it into the ABC circulation records. Apparently this amounts to a "government ad ban" which Marty has no qualms in MOPEing about at every possible opportunity. He even suggests that by not advertising in his paper, the British government are discriminating against.. someone - I'm not even sure who!! Then again what sort of Republican would he be if everything wasn't the Brits' fault?
The last thing the government should be doing is actively encouraging the victim mentality that is taking over the UK, but is particularly strong in this corner of it (and even there, particularly visible in republicanism). Hopefully it won't be long until the Andersonstown News Group give up the DI ghost completely!