Sharon ni Bheoláin. A dreadful newsreader. I for one don’t think Sharon should replace Anne Doyle. Judging on competence alone, Sharon should be relegated to the radio. Judging on looks, as most people seem to do when it comes to female presenters, Sharon is nothing special. Is Brian Dobson going to be forced out by some young tanned Latino stud in briefs? Not likely.
Katie Holly, some dimwit with a bit too much time on her hands, has ‘immortalised’ Sharon in song. According to the Evening Herald, Katie’s bullshit song is a youtube hit. 2,339 views in little under two weeks. Two thousand. As much of a hit as buttered arse, it seems.
She’s the undisputed queen of the RTE newsroom — and now she’s been immortalised in song.
A ballad praising Six One newsreader Sharon Ni Bheolain has become a YouTube hit, but its lyrics are sure to raise eyebrows in the Montrose newsroom.
The Ballad of Sharon Ni Bheolain pays tribute to the blonde gaelgeoir, but also suggests that it is time she took the 9 o’clock anchorwoman crown from veteran Anne Doyle.
Songwriter Katie Holly certainly seems to think so. While describing Anne Doyle as “a fine woman for her age”, the song urges the Wexford native to “vacate her throne” in favour of her younger colleague.
The Herald can reveal the Cork singer-songwriter’s catchy song has attracted 2,339 views since it was uploaded on the video website on January 17.
You’re way off with this. Forget about the song, just look at how shit our newspapers have become. This is just another example of paper based media desperately leeching internet related content. Most of the crap I read in newspapers these days is based on what “them folk on the internet think”. If it weren’t for the Internet and Joe O’Reilly “brick to the head” styled killings, newspapers would be out of business.
Jean Byrne (MET Eireann) wore a satin dress on Christmas day and the Daily Mail are still going on about how it “caused a sensation on the web.” Even if the poor woman came out in a sack cloth they’d skill try and make something out of it: “Sexy Weather Girl, Byrne, leaves a stream of hot love-mucus along the floor of RTE”. And don’t get me started on what important “page 2″ articles they need to run on the headgear RTE reporters wear when it’s cold outside.
As for Sharon ni Bheoláin Vs. Anne Doyle Vs. Dobbo Vs. Ricky Martin; I really don’t give a fuck who reads the news. The news shouldn’t have sport in it either. I like bananas.
I agree with you, the newspapers are shit. They’re all shit. But most of them make some half-assed attempt to justify the column inches about internet material. This one was remarkable in that it’s a blatant falsehood, stating that it has been a youtube hit. It’s like they are trying to shift the bar even lower, if that’s possible. I don’t normally give a fuck who reads the news, but Sharon is woeful and she can ruddy well shag off. I read in a newspaper that Sharon and Peter Andre are now an item. I bet Katie Price will have something to say about this LOL!
I’m not surprised this made it into the Herald. I am surprised it made it onto here though. As far as the internet goes if Tindersticks’ cover of Townes Van Zandt’s Kathleen has only garnered six thousand views or so then two and a half thousand views for this shit is a ‘hit’. Or not. The important question here is who gives a fuck? I certainly don’t. If they want to write about the internet they should investigate 4chan or thefreekick.com. Now there’s an interesting story.
I hear you. I don’t give a fiddler’s fuck about the latest youtube (s)hits, but these lemons know it isn’t a hit under any circumstances; they are hoping the readers are too thick to notice (most of them are). I am still surprised it’s in the Herald, you wouldn’t see this type of thing in the shittiest college rag. Not even in the Daily Mail. I’m guessing the person who made the video is related to someone in Herald HQ. I like to think of the Herald as the last bastion of intelligent and cutting-edge news coverage. I point out this bullshit whenever I spot it, because if I didn’t, the country might well collapse. And that doesn’t bear thinking about. Amen.
See I think you may have it all backwards like. The Herald as you correctly identify remains the beating heart of journalistic integrity in our decadent society but in this context they are of course a dying cultural entity. The Internets by contrast, are serious businesses and are increasingly the sources of cultural phenomena upon which desperate commerical enterprises attempt to attach their fading hopes and dreams. Did the Herald ever produce a Pedobear? I fear not. As such the wild and uncontrollable internets are supremely reportable. In principle therefore the Herald is correct, although not on Sharon ni Beaubablann.
I was wondering, would you have any idea where to find some pornography on the web? I heard somewhere that there is a site on the internet with some pornography but I can’t seem to find it. I’d like to have a look at this material and see what all the fuss is about.
I too have heard these rumours but am unaware as to the whereabouts of this ‘porn’ as I am only twelve years old and would most likely be traumatised or killed.