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Petition to boycott The Sun Newspaper on University of Limerick Campus

Petition to boycott The Sun Newspaper on University of Limerick Campus

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Started by Anonymous 14 years, 4 months ago
We the undersigned petition University of Limerick Student's Union, O'Mahony's Booksellers, and the University of Limerick to support us in a boycott of The Irish Sun newspaper. A UL student partaking in a charity event was portrayed in an extraordinarily negative light by the newspaper with little to no regard for the individuals reputation. There was also no mention of the real and positive nature of the event that the student was involved in nor the fundraising that the student had done. The article and accompanying photograph implied that the student had been involved in the drunken vandalism that was the subject of the report. Yours etc,

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March 3, 2012

The Sun continues to ignore the harm caused to our fellow student so we must increase the pressure on O'Mahony's Booksellers to pull the paper from their shelves. Call their office today and demand that they stop stocking this publication in our bookstore. Tell them that we are watching how they handle this situation.

March 3, 2012

The momentum behind this boycott shows that students refuse to accept these hit pieces as normal. Post this link on your Facebook wall today to make sure our message reaches the entire campus. Contact the University of Limerick Student's Union to demand they pull this paper immediately.

Reached 100 supporters

March 3, 2012

6 Comments

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Ciaran Gibson
14 years ago Featured

Bout time we stop selling that rag in the SU shop. Complete lies.

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Liam Lyons
14 years ago Featured

The Sun is absolute trash anyway. Happy to see this happening on campus.

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Sarah Abbott
14 years ago Featured

Disgusting journalism. They really ruined that guys reputation for a cheap headline. Well done UL.

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Mark Ellis
14 years ago Featured

TOTAL LIES. shame on them.

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Aoife Harvey
14 years ago Featured

It was so unfair what they did. He was doing something good for charity and they just wanted to sell papers by making him look bad. Get it off campus.

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Niamh Rodriguez
14 years ago Featured

Glad to see people standing up for the student. That newspaper has no business being sold and supported in a university.

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