Inspired by the Chipwrapper website, I’ve built a custom Google search engine which searchs though the websites of all the Irish news sources I can find online. So far, I have the Times (paywall blocks reading most of the stories returned, sadly), RTE, the Indo stable of papers, the Examiner, the Star (kind of), the Sunday Business Post and the bits of Magill and Village magazine which are searchable online. Let me know if I’ve missed anyone.
Feel free to see if anyone in the newsy world has been talking about you. Or, if you think you’re more likely to make the news next week, set an alert for yourself to be told when they do. Here’s the main Search Page. But I’ll let you try it out here too.
Also, as the first pair of what will be a wider range of rss feeds, also based on the Chipwrapper code, here are two links. One gives you the top headlines from all the national newspapers and RTE. The other gives you a range of top sport stories from all sources.
2 Comments
It doesn’t quite work
I was reading about the newbridge schools via google alerts or the regular google news
I get this
http://news.google.ie/news?q=newbridge%20schools&sourceid=navclient-ff&ie=UTF-8&rlz=1B3GGGL_enIE236IE236&oe=UTF-8&um=1&sa=N&tab=wn
but your search engine
http://www.google.com/custom?cx=018024107826255413697%3Aw_qxpnghmvi&q=newbridge+schools&sa=Search&cof=AH%3Aleft%3BCX%3ATuppenceworth%2527s%2520Irish%2520News%3BDIV%3A%23cccccc%3BFORID%3A1%3BGFNT%3A%23666666%3BL%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Etuppenceworth%2Eie%2Fimages%2F2psmall%2Ejpg%3BLH%3A100%3BLP%3A1%3BS%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Etuppenceworth%2Eie%2Fblog%3B&adkw=AELymgUj_YQeDG8qJ2Drd-dPw9dWHDgd1FT-BrZGwjslSsPEA4kMVHkZ468Wr7L1b3mgfDmJFKLY2WsPcYN0TPSdSqBz8BlJrgR2e3Lv_r7E7INYRtiGmrv12hT2OjzL9Ru0VKGFc1QX4dw6dkLuvBnqHovVyC5V7DIDXA7yssPPxQaoEQVphCJOtMUnw6FyZBhR1F65QJi4q-7LgXJwWSfzNTVoswWg7uirh_e-roAO7PLkMJmjp8k&hl=en&client=pub-9116290197484533&channel=5686314498
doesn’t see them I presume kildare nationalist is a unison paper?
you could add the people local papers…
although it could be useful to see the Irish take on world events
http://www.google.com/custom?hl=en&safe=off&client=pub-9116290197484533&channel=5686314498&cof=FORID%3A1%3BAH%3Aleft%3BS%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.tuppenceworth.ie%2Fblog%3BCX%3ATuppenceworth%2527s%2520Irish%2520News%3BL%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.tuppenceworth.ie%2Fimages%2F2psmall.jpg%3BLH%3A100%3BLP%3A1%3BGFNT%3A%23666666%3BDIV%3A%23cccccc%3B&adkw=AELymgUj_YQeDG8qJ2Drd-dPw9dWHDgd1FT-BrZGwjslSsPEA4kMVHkZ468Wr7L1b3mgfDmJFKLY2WsPcYN0TPSdSqBz8BlJrgR2e3Lv_r7E7INYRtiGmrv12hT2OjzL9Ru0VKGFc1QX4dw6dkLuvBnqHovVyC5V7DIDXA7yssPPxQaoEQVphCJOtMUnw6FyZBhR1F65QJi4q-7LgXJwWSfzNTVoswWg7uirh_e-roAO7PLkMJmjp8k&q=iran&btnG=Search&cx=018024107826255413697%3Aw_qxpnghmvi
although searching Iran mostly give (jingoistic) wire pieces
and there no ability to search by date
Thanks for the excellent feedback. I’ve added the Kildare Nationalist, which is a TC paper (the Examiner’s home group) as well as a further 10 independent local papers. If anyone comes across any other missing papers, leave a comment and I’ll add it to the engine.