Comments on: The Independent: Plagiarism or Coincidence? You Decide

By: » Reaction to Irish Independent post, and a little more - ValueIreland.com : Ireland's Only Truly Independent Consumer Watchdog

Sun, 28 Jun 2009 14:42:25 +0000

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By: Bock

Bock — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 22:07:26 +0000

Fuck off you spamming prick. Which spamming prick are you — Alastair Kay or Brian kay?

By: Dag

Dag — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 20:27:25 +0000

Great post, thanks for the info

By: The Limerick Blogger » Blog Archive » Broken News: Sindo story “wild speculation” - Garda chief

Wed, 23 Apr 2008 15:02:17 +0000

[...] Perhaps if enough people wrote accurate stuff about Limerick in blogs, it might appear in the independent in three or four years time, like all that ValueIreland stuff did. [...]

By: Ch-ch-change, not changes » Twenty Major - Still smoking in Dublin bars

Ch-ch-change, not changes » Twenty Major - Still smoking in Dublin bars — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 08:43:46 +0000

[...] Cock the Robber – Limerick blogger who will steal from you with his big, red helmet [...]

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Tuppenceworth.ie blog » Blogswipes, Law and the Indo — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 10:21:06 +0000

[...] a major source of shame in many Irish newspapers to have published plagiarised material. Indeed, as this tale suggests, the paper will sometimes react to the information by merely attempting to hide the [...]

By: Dickheads of the year, 2007 » Twenty Major - Still smoking in Dublin bars

Dickheads of the year, 2007 » Twenty Major - Still smoking in Dublin bars — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 00:03:31 +0000

[...] Plagiarising Irish bloggers, more than once [...]

By: one more hour :: Well, fancy that :: December :: 2007

one more hour :: Well, fancy that :: December :: 2007 — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 10:02:28 +0000

[...] been well covered that some Independent News & Media staffers are fond of appropriating bits of [...]

By: valueireland

valueireland — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 19:41:26 +0000

I can confirm the above. I wrote to the journalist in question requesting credit for this, and any other work that was used from Value Ireland. I have no problems with anyone using anything from the site, as long as reference and credit is provided.

Obviously, there was no response from said journalist and in the course of writing my original post last week discovered that the original article had been taken down, and republished under a different file name.

By: Jonathan Bailey

Jonathan Bailey — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 16:27:00 +0000

valueireland: That has to be the most unprofessional thing I’ve heard of. Any reputation the Independent had in my mind (which really wasn’t that much to start with) is gone now.

I might have to look into this deeper…