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THE TWO LARGEST websites catering for the diaspora will merge into the one site, it was confirmed today.
WorldIrish.com and Irishcentral.com, which have over 2 million unique users a month between them, will now be known as IrishCentral.com
The combined site will have offices in New York and Dublin and will go live on 15 September.
Irish Central founder Niall O’Dowd said that the merger would allow the creation of an Irish “super-site”.
“We are delighted to join with John McColgan and the team at World Irish,” O’Dowd said. ” We believe the potential to create a super site worldwide for the Irish is very real.”
McColgan will become a director of the new site, as well as an ad advisor. He says that the merger offers World Irish an “exciting opportunity”.
“In a relatively short period World Irish has established a successful platform and this merger is a logical development to achieve greater global traction for the Irish diaspora.”
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The comments on Irish central are no worse than most of the comments found here.
The Irish diaspora also includes recent immigrants who were born and raised in Ireland. Many of them know just as much about Ireland as some of the blockheads living here. The great thing about digital media is that it’s easily accessible wherever you are. And aren’t people here always discussing American politics and domestic issues despite never once setting foot in the country?
Dagda, irish people including our emmigrants read Irish papers and look at Irish websites. Irish central is not high on the list of sites that irish people look at. If you check out the comments on that site the vast majority of posters are Americans who have never set foot in Ireland. Irish born and bred are worlds apart from yanks with irish grannies.
The globe is affected by American politics and policy. Thats why people comment.
I couldn’t care less about Irish Central. I rarely look at it but I have no problem whatsoever with people who claim Irish ancestry having a website where they can discuss Irish issues and write about their perspective on them. If it’s a website for “yanks with Irish grannies” and you hate it then why are you bothering to visit?
I find it kinda funny that you are using the comments section of the journal to criticise the calibre of comments posted on another site. We’re hardly swimming in ocean of reason and well thought out debate here. If your problem is their supposed stereotypical view of Ireland then maybe you should ask our government to stop using that stereotype to market our country abroad.
Oh you can be sure I havent looked at that site in a number of months. The reason being the vitriol most of the posters on there have for unmarried Irish mothers, migrants to Ireland, Irish people having English friends, jaysis some of them even issues with us having electricity and cars. Nonsense Paddywhackery perpetuated by dumb yanks who think we are some sort of theme park to pander to their every mystical Oirish whim.
Dumb Yanks? You need to be careful with your foolish slurs and ignorant generalizations.. It’s not so long since “thick paddies” and “dumb micks” were the accepted characterizations of the Irish in the UK and US.
@Tommy, Irish like you are very quick to forget how Irish people came to America to send money back to their hungry and poor families. I’m not talking about the 19th century either, I’m talking about up until the 1970′s. Irish like you annoy me with you’re anti-American tripe. I was born in the US to Irish PARENTS, and I’ve spent time living in Ireland, AND I’m an Irish citizen. I guess I’m still not Irish enough in your eyes. Headcase.
Irishcentral.com is a waste of time. Paddywhackery and shamrockery with some news.
Sparkling with leprechauns and laughter: http://postimg.org/image/xk1if0iwj/ <
Both their ideas of “irish” seem clichéd in the extreme to me. Still waiting for a contemporary Irish website that doesn’t come with rose tinted glasses and shamrock wallpaper.
Big fan of Irish Central. Hope this merger goes well.
One of our authors asked Irish Central to review her new Irish thriller. Her contact told her if she wanted it reviewed she’d have to pay €50…”We’re not a charity” she told the author. The contact then went on to tell the author that it was in her best intetest to pay. Talk about bullying tactics.
Corned beef and cabbage, green beer, “the luck of the Irish” which originally was a racial slur from the gold rush days in California is stupid and certainly not Irish. It is also true that those who stayed and those who left had different experiences. It might do well for those who did not emigrate to learn of the history and hardship of the early Irish emigrants who like many now did not want to leave. It would help you understand and be less judgemental towards the romantic view that third generation emigrant Irish have towards this country.
An honest question: Is a young lass born in Chicago/Boston (made in America of Irish parts), descended from ancient Irish families, learning to speak Irish, learning customs, dance, and music less Irish than the child of a polish emigrant born in Dublin? Ireland has a unique history in that its greatest export is its people. Those who stayed behind and did not have to leave everything/everyone they knew may have a hard time understanding the spiritual implications and longings to understand their Irish roots. Too bad the Irish government has to take advantage of this by promoting leprechauns.
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