The band took to Twitter to voice their displeasure with the article. On Thursday (30 November), the news broke that Irish music legend Shane MacGowan had passed away at the age of 65 – sparking a massive wave of tributes online to honour the Pogues’ frontman. However, one particular piece of writing about MacGowan published […]

2 years ago

Fans of the legendary Irish singer have hit out against the obit. As a huge number of people have taken to social media to pay touching tributes to Sinéad O’Connor after the announcement of her passing on Wednesday (26 July), one Guardian obituary to the legendary Irish singer and musician has come under fire. The […]

2 years ago

The paper has apologised for saying David Cameron had only felt “privileged pain” over the death of his son. The Guardian has apologised for an editorial about David Cameron in which comments were made about the death of his  son. Following the release of his memoirs, The Guardian published an editorial, included in which were […]

7 years ago

Put a few minutes aside for this. “Let’s forget Brexit and enjoy our last Christmas with running water…” Never one to mince his words, especially not when there’s a politician that can be ground up into mincemeat instead, Frankie Boyle has contributed his final piece of 2018 to The Guardian, and it might be his […]

7 years ago

The Irish Language Act angered the Guardian, made a man threaten a sign and could bring direct rule back to Northern Ireland. Irish Twitter users have been calling out British newspaper The Guardian over an editorial in which it was claimed that Northern Irish Gaelic speakers were only using the language “to antagonise unionists.” Reacting to […]

8 years ago

The Emerald Isle is apparently not as green as we would have thought. In an in-depth article published on The Guardian, it is claimed that despite all of the noise that Ireland has made lately in tackling the issue of climate change, we as a nation will still fail to hit our 2020 emissions target. […]

9 years ago