Time for a cheaper Irish broadsheet newspaper to enter the market

[fluffybiscuits]

Good news gathering and journalism is expensive.
Waffle and "commentary" is cheap. (This and moronic management is what nearly killed the Irish Times.)

Ireland is a small market.
A newspaper would be targeting a very small market.
A magazine would be targeting a very, very small market.

Now I might be an arrogant f*cker when I consider that most people in the Irish media are not that smart but it is a reality. What passes for the Irish media is, for the most part, an extended gossip column where village idiots compete for a mention.
Regards...jmcc

There is a few names that come to mind

[Maximus]

What I'm sick of is the tabloid papers. There's so many of them in the Irish market. Nothing but junk. I mean The Irish Daily Mirror has front pages about how much Jedward are worth or some story concerning One Direction....who gives a feck!

Saying that I am a regular reader of The Irish Daily Mail. It is not as celeb or gossip heavy as The Sun, The Star or The Mirror and I just ignore the celeb or gossip columns anyway. Good price at €1 too.

[Baron von Biffo]

Am I a rare breed in picking up the paper in the morning and reading it on my breaks?

The disregard for truth and accuracy in the media had me buying fewer and fewer papers. The coverage of Liam Lawlor's death and the fact that no journalist or editor resigned despite publishing a totally untrue account of it was the final straw. I don't buy any papers now.

[Count Bobulescu]

If you salvaged the scraps from all the tabloids combined you still wouldn’t have the makings of a decent paper.

As others have said it’s the economics/business model in a crowded marketplace. There’s a gap in the market, but no market in the gap. Get online fast, the choices are so much better.

[Holly]

If The Irish News made a better effort to be truly islandwide in its coverage, it could fill the bill.

[Andrew49]

I believe it's time for a cheaper Irish broadsheet to be set up. The only national broadsheets we have in the Republic of Ireland are The Irish Times, The Irish Independent and The Irish Examiner and they are priced nearly €2 whereas English broadsheets are priced closer to €1 and in my opinion the English broadsheets are not only better in value but also in quality.

Perhaps a new low cost broadsheet could be the Lidl or Aldi of the broadsheet market and forced The Irish Times, The Irish Independent and The Irish Examiner to bring their prices down. I mean how do they justify charging so much compared to broadsheets in other countries?

For a new news newspaper to work it would have to be a parody of all three broadsheets [Call it the Independent Examining Times of Ireland]

We probably do need a lower-priced broadsheet but we're more in need of a newspaper (broadsheet, tabloid or interweb page) with an alternative view of the news; sources outside the establishment, stories that wouldn't be touched by the named three papers. Stories that would pique the interest of (rather than pander to) the reader.

Forget it, the interwebs have deaded the print media, you're watching the death throes.

.. and they're not going down in glory!

[Dr. FIVE]

lol Andrew

The Irish Times, and the Sundays need to get over themselves and switch to Berliner.
So many people are reading off a four inch LCD now anyway, they can let it go

[Maximus]

If The Irish News made a better effort to be truly islandwide in its coverage, it could fill the bill.

Now that's intriguing.

[Maximus]

The Irish Times is now €2. Up 10 cent. Disgraceful!

[Holly]

The Irish Times is now €2. Up 10 cent. Disgraceful!

The Times 90 cents (England)
Eleftheros Typos €1 (Greece)
El País €1.20 (Spain)
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung €2.00 (Germany)
Libération €2.00 (France)
Morgenavisen Jyllands-Posten Kr. 25 [€3.35] (Denmark)