TheJournal.ie News App Reviews

Ive seen this a few times now, companies force you to download their app to get to their website when on your cell phone. Its bull, and it shouldnt be a problem. Stop forcing people to download an app, especially when nobody has ever heard of you.

This app is awesome for Irish nationals living abroad who live abroad and want to keep up with what is happening in the old country.

I kept clicking to read article instead of redirect and it still kept redirecting me here! I dont want to download a junk app just to use one time.

Awesome app serious articles with a easy attitude

Informative, convenient, sometimes hilarious way to keep up with affairs back home

Topic: App, Server, And Stories Are Weak This wouldnt be an entirely bad news service app, if only it didnt make it hard to actually use the service to read. I often dread opening the app, because I know what a multitude of pains I will have to endure when simply trying to read. Then, there are the issues of the news aggregators or superiors having an agenda and showing bias. More articles on tea are preferable to being lectured about some pet preference or new fangled cause of the moment. The best parts, though, are the Irish humor, history, culture, food, and the reader comments. However, articles all too often are un-inquisitive, incurious, uninformative, and leave out the basics. The news aggregators lack perspective on the needs of the readers for context and clarity, by delivering content which is vague and obtuse. For example, the news aggregators lazily use acronyms or shortened terms, while never bothering to give the full version. This is particularly egregious when a given acronym has more than one meaning (such as AIB). Even school kids know the first rule for acronyms: spell it out upon their first occurrence. I sometimes learn more from the comments than the articles. The app frequently crashes, resets to the first article if the user multitasks and goes to another app for a minute, constantly loses its place, goes back to the top of the list while reading farther down the list, often refuses to load the next 30 articles at all unless the user closes the app and starts afresh, opens pages slowly, stalls when scrolling down a page, renders page content slowly, sometimes wont load comments, and otherwise makes it hard to access articles to read. So, half or more of the users time is spent just navigating. The app is decidedly unfriendly to impaired users. It actually discriminates against the vision impaired, because the app blocks the standard ability to highlight text. This matters to impaired users for two reasons: 1) It is not possible to use the text-to-speach function by the vision impaired. 2) Disallows highlighting even a single word at a time, when want to use the Define function. If the user copies an articles URL and wants to read it in a regular or internal browser, the app chooses to launch itself instead. Only by opening the URL two or three times in a row will the app stop interfering. That is very obnoxious, wastes time, and messes with the users workflow. Thus, the app and servers need a serious overhaul, to improve the speed of content access. If there is an editor, please teach the newer writers the trade.

I read it daily or twice a day every day. The Irish news is interesting, but the world and European coverage are even better. Add to that the special humor or Irish culture/landscape/history bits and, well I already said it - fantastic

This app is barely usable. They require mobile phone verification for comments. Im not handing over my phone number to a stranger.

This keeps me informed of all the current news at home and around the world,with lots of interesting topics thrown in as well.

Great reviews, tells you whats going on and has some very funny sides as well

This app is a front for advertising masquerading as news and the owners are engaging in censorship of comments only showing news that is not critical of their owner. Avoid.

This is a news aggregator thats quick and fun to peruse. Of course there is some advertising ...... even the Times has advertising. The advertising is easy to spot (and avoid if desired). Comments are generally not worth reading.

Its a great read and between the serious news there are fun stories. Brings back memories of me ol home.. Thanks

This app is great for giving you all news from Ireland with sports and around the world. Use it all the time. Keep up the good work.

I live in the states and pull this app up every day. It does a wonderful job of covering the news in Ireland and the world. Thorough and professional.