Comments on: Irish Times removes paywall from Monday

By: A Paywall to Tara Street is under construction (again)

A Paywall to Tara Street is under construction (again) — Mon, 08 Nov 2010 05:02:30 +0000

[...] hearing that a paywall of sorts is going to go up at the Irish Times again. (They took the last wall down in 2008). Pressure to monetise the online content is coming from losses in 2009 of €27.9m. [...]

By: Keeping up with The Times

Keeping up with The Times — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 22:19:27 +0000

[...] was something that Damien Mulley predicted in January and announced last week on his blog. His initial reaction is here. I’m quoting him [...]

By: Irish Times goes free at Gavin’s Blog

Irish Times goes free at Gavin’s Blog — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 20:12:52 +0000

[...] remain in existence as a separate entity, but it simply redirects to IrishTimes.com. As Damien pointed out, it would be a tad ridiculous to split the brand and traffic up between two websites. Maybe they [...]

By: kirstie

kirstie — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 19:25:50 +0000

haha, I never saw that particular prediction! The year is half over and they haven’t bought us yet – they’d best get their skates on, is all I can say, or we might have to start considering those Daily Mail offers*.

*that’s a complete and utter total made-up lie, by the way

By: Brendan

Brendan — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 15:08:08 +0000

Just goes to prove what everyone already knew – people won’t pay for content online, especially if an equivalent is freely available elsewhere. I wonder will they continue to charge for email -that was such a shame as I liked having an ireland.com email address, but certainly wasn’t prepared to pay.

By: Irish Times & the Guardian | Newspaper News at David Maybury | Blog

Sun, 29 Jun 2008 12:16:27 +0000

[...] is going free from tomorrow (crumbling to the might of the Jazz Biscuit Paywall campaign?) Eoin and Damien posted about it yesterday with some reactions in the [...]

By: One More Reason For Damien To… | Search Engine Optimisation & Online Marketing Ireland .:. Red Cardinal

Sun, 29 Jun 2008 08:26:28 +0000

[...] it hasn’t been such a successful strategy – Grandad took the mickey out of the distro list, Damien used his usual down-to-earth language in describing the PR, the other 3 blogs haven’t carried anything yet, and I’m being me [...]

By: Mike

Mike — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 06:38:51 +0000

Finally!

By: Richard

Richard — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 03:54:38 +0000

So who else was lucky enough to get the shitty press release?

The one attached to the email with all the recipients in the To: field.

Yep, also the one with nothing in the email other than the signature footer.

From the agency that use yahoo.co.uk for their email.

@Damien – if you don’t start a business and show these people how it should be done I’m going to shoot you

By: Bock the Robber

Bock the Robber — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 00:50:00 +0000

I could never understand why they used ireland.com in the first place when they had the possibility to be at irishtimes dot whatever.