We're not exactly reinventing journalism here at Balls.ie Towers, but we take heart every time someone sends us links to stories in real newspapers written by real journalists getting paid serious wages that we covered ages ago. Case in point: on April 4th, we informed the world the very frightening news that neither James McClean nor James McCarthy had been included in the Irish Panini sticker team for the Euros.
Check out Mary Hannigan's big story today. We're not saying Hannigan shouldn't have bothered with her story - she also investigates the Italian sticker roster 0 just that it took 15 days do it.