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THE SUN ON Sunday newspaper has been launched in Britain and Ireland.
The Irish edition of the newpaper – the Irish Sun on Sunday – is on sale for €1 and leads today with singer Brian Kennedy’s criticism of pop duo Jedward as they prepare for their second attempt at winning the Eurovision contest.
The paper also includes columns from TV star Jennifer Maguire, model Glenda Gilson, crime writer Paul Williams and former Republic of Ireland captain Roy Keane.
The paper’s launch follows the closure of owner News International’s Sunday titles the News of The World and Irish News of The World last summer over the ongoing phone hacking scandal in the UK.
BBC News reports that the British edition of the newspaper has had a print run of three million copies and hopes to sell two million copies in its first week. It leads with an interview with Britain’s Got Talent judge Amanda Holden.
The paper includes a column from model Katie Price – once known as Jordan – who pays tribute to the Sunday Times foreign correspondent Marie Colvin who was killed in Syria this week. ”She was just the sort of woman who impresses me – utterly fearless,” she writes.
Celebrity chef Heston Blumenthal and the ex-partner of former England manager Sven Goran Eriksson, Nancy Dell’Olio, also pen columns for the paper today.
Meanwhile, the Scottish edition of the newspaper – The Scottish Sun on Sunday – claims to have a ‘world exclusive’ as it names the date of the referendum on Scottish independence as Saturday, 18 October 2014.
The paper’s proprietor and News Corporation chairman Rupert Murdoch, who has been overseeing the launch in London in recent days, tweeted yesterday to thank staff for their “fantastic achievement” in producing the paper.
The launch of the Sunday edition of the tabloid, the best-selling paper in Britain, is not universally welcomed however.
Liverpool and Cardiff City football fans will protest against the launch at the Carling Cup final in London today. Supporters plan to hold up posters urging a boycott of the paper prior to the clash at Wembley stadium.
Liverpool fans have boycotted the paper for the past 23 years after it printed false allegations about supporters following the Hillsborough disaster in 1989. Cardiff fans recently launched a boycott of the newspaper in response to its coverage of the death of supporter Mike Dye last year.
Both sets of supporters say they will extend their boycott to the Sunday edition.
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Respect yourself, don’t buy this rag. JUSTICE!
Exactly.
But I need to know why Brian Kennedy is blasting Jedward.
YNWA!
I’ll wait till tomorrow and get it free in the local newsagent. It’s an ideal medium for helping house train the dog. Hopefully there’ll be as much shite on it as there is in it …
This is just the NEWS OF THE WORLD under a different guise.
If this rag survives it is a testimony to the rank stupidity of homo sapiens. Don’t buy it and it will go away.
Booooooooooooooooooooooooooo.
uuuuuuuuurns.
You would want to be off your game to buy that rag!
Don’t buy the Sun any day! The sooner it dies the better. Gutter journalism at its worst!
Journalism is one thing but tv has entered the race to the bottom with reality tv shows about air heads,skobies , z list so called celebs and assorted spoofers
I would not read this if it was the last tabloid on earth……
justice……..
for the Italians at Hysel?
Why bring up hysel when it has nothing to do with the sun boycott. You are looking for a reaction and it’s the lowest form of trolling
I think I will continue to use Andrex. #DontBuyTheS*n
Brilliant
Rubbish paper
I see they are scraping the barrell with some of these journalists Katie price ? Next she will be giving relationship advice
You do realize that by associating Katie Price with the word “journalist” you have insulted the world’s journalists.
Surely calling them journalists is insulting enough regardless!!
My apologies for associating journalists with this paper it looks like Murdock got a new pack of crayons and gave them to the idiots
http://dontbuythesun.co.uk read this and you will not look at that rag the same again!
Hardly relaxant if you don’t support Liverscum!! Still what they wrote about Hillsborough was disgusting, my boycott is over what they did to the miners that stood up to Maggie the milk snatcher
Relavent even, fuckin iPhone predictive!
Mind you Joseph, if you do accidentally take a bowl relaxant, I can think of no better mopper upper!!!
Didn’t realise the Sun was classed as a ‘Newspaper’…
I wouldn’t wipe my arse with it!
Well ya don’t want an imprint of Kennedy on our arse!!!!! ;-)
Dave, are yourself and Damien Siamese twins or what? “our holes”??
In all seriousness though that tank top is to die for
very hurt about the tank top remark, i know it makes my chest and shoulders huge ;-)
Great paper. Tells it how it is. Unless you prefer to fool yourself by reading the Indo.
Obviously your speaking from past experience of reading this newly launched rag!
Stop winding people up will ya. Ha ha.
Good on ya liz well said ;-)
ehh – think your sarcasm went over the heads of all the negative commenters and thumbs-downers there Liz :-)
Cant remember the last time i bought a paper..any news you want you can have at a click of button
Sun = burn..
So burn it
I see that the sun paper will cost a euro in Ireland that is about 84 pence sterling. So the tax take here is quite high. A difference of about 34 pence sterling.It will be interesting to see how well it will do. Many people like to keep to therte usual sunday paper. Mabye today they will get the sun as it is a first edition on Sunday.
More F**kin’ Trouble!
The Journal is where its at for me!
To paraphrase that great American newspaper man H L Mencken ” Nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the ( American ) public”.
A truism is a truism the world over.
Oh dear the daily scum on a Sunday too, can add that to the mail, express, star and indo as papers to avoid this morning then!
I must tread it for Katie Price’s insights into foreign war reporting…she has been in more make up war than most
Forget what you’d do with it, why is it 5op in England and €1 here ????? More rip off
In the UK, there is no VAT on newspapers. Plus UK consumer businesses like to rip us off on the exchange rates.
There goes more precious trees for more utter garbage!
I will NOT be buying this crap ever!
It’s shit but to be fair it is shit printed on recycled paper!!!
Don’t buy the sun! 7 days a week. JFT96!
If it was made of soft paper I wouldn’t wipe me hole with it. I reckon you loose brain cells when you read it
Lose.
Slightly off topic but I like it to known…I’d DO Beth off Dog the Bounty Hunter.
50p in england..wonder how much it will cost over here…..welcome back sun..
The price is in the article …€1!
It tells you how much it is, in the article. Or do you just look at the pictures?
Eh..€1 RTFA
€1 is worth every brown cent to read Jordans musings
Rupert Murdoch is a reptilian monster illuminati scum bucket.
I’m living in oz now. They just released a daily version of the shit rag over here.
Jordan, Jennifer Maguire & Gilson. I would need to be paid to read anything those 3 stooges have to say, rather than the other way around.
I’m off to buy it now. Nancy del’olio is mighty for the insight into current affairs and how to combat crime. The article says rupert Murdoch flew in to oversee its final publication!Are you kidding me?!Unfortunately Murdoch only thinks in numbers and not about reporting factual information. Id say he could not give a crap if jedward were singers or afghan suicide bombers as long as it sells a rag. But major respect, he could sell snow to the Alaskans Murdoch.
Only if the Alaskans are as thick as the gobshites that will buy it here and across the pond… Who in there right mind gives a shite about Glenda gilsenan and that drama queen Kennedy ( no offence to the gay community) …. I can already see the 1030 pub brigade outside there locals waiting by the side door with that rag under there smelly armpits.
Nice tank top dave, no smelly armpits for you
Jimmy I am absolutely traumatised by your comments about my Rab C Nesbitt look, I know it makes my chest and shoulders look huge and I feel it maybe time to put it away , well till the summer ;-)))
Same tits, different day.
Excellent news The Sun is a fantastic publication.
@ Dave O’Shea – No offence taken! Ya see I was’nt entirely sure the gays had a community, and if they do well I am sure thats where you’ll find Kennedy!
And just because he’s gay (Kennedy) Dave, don’t ever think you have to apologise for your own opinion because you fear a backlash. I am sure that gay community that exists are not an army! So never fear retaliation! ;-)
PS:
I’m gay myself, and I don’t beleive we have a community.. a dog eat dog scene maybe!
Typical stupid football fans.
What channel did ye all watch the match on today? Hope it wasn’t Rupert Murdoch’s Sky? Hypocrites.
Liverpool were playing on BBC1 dumbass.
Match was on both bbc and sky ‘dumbass’. No matter what channel you watched yesterday’s bs on, most Irish liverpool fans at least, watch liverpool on sky regularly…so lose the boycott the sun campaign because it’s a load of hypocritical nonsense! Anyway you would have been a lot better off watching a real sport yesterday, France and Scotland showed how sport is meant to be played. Professional athletes playing for reasonably financial reward, no diving, no fucking the ref and no scumbag fans. Soccer should be banned!
haha yeah Jimmy, lets ban the working mans sport for the posh mans jolly day out watching 8 fat men lie on an egg for nearly 80 minutes, booooooooooring!!
i mean they dont even let their 7 fast skillfull lads have the egg all that often, such a dull game, can tell private school boys invented it from the scrum alone
Wonder why its not on sale in N Ireland ??
Papers are all the same, you want to know what’s happened in the world today? Then read tomorrows papers cause only after it’s actually happened is it real news
Jordan has been brave herself in the past…..the amount of dodgy yokes she’s safely disposed of..
You are quite correct Jimmy it was on both BBC1 and Sky and I bet Sky had the higher ratings. Tell me Garren Bellend have you ever watched Sky 1, Sky 2, Sky Sports 1, 2, 3 or 4, Sky Sports News? Do you have Sky Digital installed? Drop this charade, you Liverpool fans are all hypocrites. The Carling Cup becomes important to ye when ye win it. I remember not so long ago when Steven Gerard handed in a transfer request, he was hated, sent death threats by Liverpool fans and look at you now, you have him as your profile picture. Well done
no sky couldnt possibly have had the better ratings, they as a subsciption service cant reach every house in the same way a terrestrial broadcaster can, they do however have a lack of alan shearer going for them
I read the Sun in the barbers shop and only buy it when I am in it with an Elvis story.
Had a good one this week but the Irish media appears to be Boycotting me. :-)
See for yourselves http://irelandtoo.blogspot.com
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