The Journal.ie

**Saoirse go Deo** · 20-04-2012, 09:58 PM

With all the discussion recently about who owns what paper and the debate over media ownership, (I had no idea so many are controlled by one man) I was wondering who or what controls the journal.ie?

I ask cause it's my main (Irish) news site these days.

**PaddyJoe** · 20-04-2012, 10:08 PM

Originally Posted by Saoirse go Deo

With all the discussion recently about who owns what paper and the debate over media ownership, (I had no idea so many are controlled by one man) I was wondering who or what controls the journal.ie?

I ask cause it's my main (Irish) news site these days.

Eamon and Brian Fallon who were the founders of daft.ie. They also have a majority stake in boards.ie.

**Dr. FIVE** · 20-04-2012, 10:12 PM

two kids who set up Daft.ie as a transition year project and made millions. They have stakes in boards.ie and adverts.ie. And own the journal and its sister news sites.
There was a phoenix profile a while back, il dig it out.

**PaddyJoe** · 20-04-2012, 10:15 PM

Originally Posted by Dr. FIVE

two kids who set up Daft.ie as a transition year project and made millions. They have stakes in boards.ie and adverts.ie. And own the journal and its sister news sites.
There was a phoenix profile a while back, il dig it out.

November 4, 2011

**Dr. FIVE** · 20-04-2012, 10:41 PM

Eamonn (34) and Brian Fallon (29) are best known as the boys behind the propertyrelated website, Daft.ie. In 2008, the Sunday Times estimated that they were worth €16m and put them at 16th place in a list of Irish millionaires aged 30 and under. (Earlier this year, that list put Brian in ninth position, estimating that he is worth €8m.) In 2008, the brothers sold a 25% stake in Daft.ie to a US hedge fund called Tiger Global, making them multimillionaires. Now the boys have turned their attention to other projects, including The Journal, with the help of all that lolly they made in the Tiger Global sale. The Journal was Brian Fallon’s idea and a company called Distilled Media Ltd, which was incorporated in April 2010,

Phoenix November 4, 2011

**Saoirse go Deo** · 24-04-2012, 07:20 PM

Do you reckon these guys have an agenda that thejournal.ie may be used to further?

**Dr. FIVE** · 24-04-2012, 08:03 PM

Money I reckon. Why have you spotted something?

**unspecific** · 24-04-2012, 09:10 PM

Originally Posted by Saoirse go Deo

Do you reckon these guys have an agenda that thejournal.ie may be used to further?

Just a money-making project, not for the good of journalism or reporting. With the rise of social media, twitter etc they saw a few bucks to be made. Definitely has a reactionary/middle-class/clueless-Celtic Tiger-cub slant to it. They have editorials attacking public sector workers regular as clock work about once a month.

That said, the comments section has gotten very popular. The more popular it has gotten, it has gotten a bit more progressive. Often more informed than the articles themselves.

**Dr. FIVE** · 24-04-2012, 09:39 PM

Been some great opinion pieces on there to be fair though that's down to the contributors of course

**fluffybiscuits** · 24-04-2012, 11:25 PM

Originally Posted by unspecific715

Just a money-making project, not for the good of journalism or reporting. With the rise of social media, twitter etc they saw a few bucks to be made. Definitely has a reactionary/middle-class/clueless-Celtic Tiger-cub slant to it. They have editorials attacking public sector workers regular as clock work about once a month.

That said, the comments section has gotten very popular. The more popular it has gotten, it has gotten a bit more progressive. Often more informed than the articles themselves.

They have a big lick arse posse. Someone makes a smart or satirical comment and it gets thumbs down. Still they had some hilarious pro lifers waffling on about the Claire Daly motion. I read it for a hoot. Some complete knob ends on the comments section, makes for a "I despair of the youth of today" thinking moment...