Subscription fees at The Irish Times; a tweet from the editor of The Times Ireland edition Richie Oakley this morning

Oh, it’s on.

This morning.

Editor of The Times Ireland edition Richie Oakley announces that the monthly subscription fee for The Times Ireland edition and The Sunday Times Ireland edition is now €5, down from €21.

Both new and existing subscribers can avail of the offer.

Meanwhile, Karl Brophy, former Director of Corporate Affairs and Content Development at Independent News and Media, has tweeted his price drop thoughts:

The Times Ireland edition

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14 thoughts on “Paywall WAR!

    1. rotide

      Why would you bother doing that when you can do it from home for free (in a lot of cases)

      This is the problem newspapers (and libraries) face.

          1. anne

            Really? The people put me off..coughing & spluttering this time of year not using a tissue. Or just being generally annoying. Libraries seemed to be filled with snotty nosed teenagers anytime I go there.

  1. phil

    Since they introduced the pay wall , I havent read the I.T., must be years now, dont miss it one bit, I can read government press releases if I want to find out what they are up to ….

  2. Dub Spot

    17 cents a day to “read” that dross? No way dude, it’s still free in Centra.

    Monday is a brutal day – now who can we name publishes their column on a Monday….

  3. Ben Redmond

    Printed daily newspapers worldwide are trying to survive shrinking circulation. The internet with its instant news has rendered tomorrow’s printed paper stale. Editors of printed papers have to commission more and more background explanatory feature articles from staff writers and experts on specialist topics in academia, the sciences and elsewhere. Some of these ‘advocacy’ experts are better than others when trying to simplify complicated matters for the general reader. Passengers on long-haul jet flights and train and sea journeys will still enjoy passing their travel time reading printed papers and periodicals. Whether newspapers and magazines survive or not, one thing that concerns me about Irish newspapers is the sameness of editorial outlook and the mixing of daily reportage with advocacy of ideological point of view. We have a free press, but its promotion of sameness of view oddly mirrors the sameness that prevailed in the state-monitored media of the former Soviet bloc countries.

    1. username in use

      No, The Times/Sunday Times have an office in Ringsend. The Irish editions are produced there.

    2. Jibjob

      I read a few printed copies, but the daily Times is a weird mixture of Irish and UK content. Any article title mentioning “Government” or similar is ambiguous until you start reading the article to find out which government they actually mean.

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