Examining the Examiner

Instead of focusing on a specific article I have decided to discuss a particular news source in Ireland, the Irish Examiner. When you first log onto the Irish Examiner site, to get strictly news about Ireland you click on the Ireland tab but the part I find interesting is that there are only two sections, crime and politics. I believe that in itself tells a lot about the country or what information is actually available about the country. There are other tabs on the home page such as sports, business and the world however, you have to search in order to get news that is informational rather than just pure entertainment. Out of the top 6 stories that are covered under the breaking news tab 5 of them have to do with either crime or politics. Yes, it is important to give the public news updates on who is being busted for drugs, who is killing who, what gangs reek havoc and so on but why are we not seeing other things like health related topics, articles on education or other things that make a country run? I am not sure if it is because Ireland does not have any other problems besides drugs and killings but somehow I feel there might be more going on over there that is just not publicly available to the world.