Comments on: So pathetic: a newspaper run as a personal hobby-horse rather than as a service to readers

By: La Redoute

La Redoute — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 23:16:20 +0000

In reply to Beowulf. James Tyrell famously calls himself a 'tourist'. So, Tyrell, why are you still hiding behind a pseudonym?

By: Beowulf

Beowulf — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 10:58:00 +0000

In reply to James II.

So when a tourist comments on something said by queen Daphne it’s seen as ‘foreign interference.’ Wow! That’s interesting.

Private investigators working on my ‘future’??? Should I take that as a threat of some type? I suggest you check with Queen Daphne before you answer that one.

By: James II

James II — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 14:32:35 +0000

Tyrell, do you know we have private investigators in Malta working on your past, your present and your future? What’s all this foreign interference in our country’s affairs?

By: gorg

gorg — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 09:32:34 +0000

I gave up on Malta Today a long time ago. I cannot even be bothered to look at the on line edition.

By: D Kiss

D Kiss — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 06:44:59 +0000

What does Tyrell the sad Irish man know about life in Malta?

Tyrell, concentrate on northern Ireland. There are enough problems there.

By: Jozef

Jozef — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 02:35:07 +0000

Iccewwec, jew ahjar, cewcuh.

By: M.

M. — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 22:29:47 +0000

In reply to Beowulf.

“Get yourself a blow-up doll.” – He’d need to give it a red wig, too.

By: Beowulf

Beowulf — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 21:36:30 +0000

“That shows just what sort of an independent, investigative newspaper Malta Today has become.” Well actually no, what it shows is that like the most of the country they don’t actually consider anything that comes out of your mouth news.

“Their newspaper is a personal axe-grinding machine with standards only marginally higher than those of Maltastar, and that’s only because of the spelling.” That’s really funny! I mean don’t you use your silly little column in the Independent for exactly the same axe-grinding purposes?

[Daphne – James Tyrrell, why do you bother calling yourself Beowulf? You’re sad, strange, and ridiculous, and surely life in Northern Ireland is not so boring that you have to pursue your obsession with the minutiae of life in Malta and one columnist in particular. Get yourself a blow-up doll.]

By: Pippa

Pippa — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 21:07:59 +0000

In reply to Min Weber. Silly me. I thought he already had a horse.

By: M.

M. — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 21:07:07 +0000

It is not only Malta Today’s silence which is shocking (though expected), but also Maltastar’s (ditto).

Having said that, I don’t believe that The Times made an issue of the prosecution not contesting or challenging any of the salient points in your testimony of yesterday.