Paul Harrison

Ireland

Reviews

Review of the Guardian


Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Death of a great newspaper

Death of a great newspaper ! No better than a tabloid desperately trying to get click bait. Like any AI algorithm it appeals to its readwership of not very bright PC intellectual snobs (these give a 5 star rating!) no better than the daily mail except for hippies with equal zero tolerance to other view points (BBC and Reuters have followed the same unfortunate path)

Once the great liberal (free thinking challenging all viewpoints) stalwart. Now a pathetic rag no better than a tabloid for people with superiority complexes

June 26, 2025
Unprompted review

Review of Boots Ireland


Rated 1 out of 5 stars

dispensing Staff in Tullamore…

dispensing Staff in Tullamore frequently get the pick and match order wrong (just repeat list of packets of drugs). Firstly cannot accept their errors or apologise for their mistakes . Humble Staff in Argos Amazon etc rarely get their orders wrong. However, fully qualified sloppy pharmacists ( less than humble ) usually get pick and match order wrong! Then insist you wait, and then take packets of drugs that you have already said you do not need this month! Terrible attitude assuming customers are fools

April 29, 2025
Unprompted review

Review of FamilySearch


Rated 4 out of 5 stars

the best thing about familyseach is its…

the best thing about familyseach is its shared tree and the worse thing its shared. tree! This means you get all the help of fellow tree builders. The later is more frequently helpful but you are at the mercy of their edits on the shared tree, the good, bad and dam right ugly! The bad reviews here are complaints of sharing and therefore losing ownership of your tree and its associated data.

My experience of above is predominately positive and considering its free that is is not bad at all.

Please note the shared tree is backed up by the biggest online set of online database. Usually most people part of the shared tree starts as family knowledge and then matures as firmer data by attaching online documents to back up the family knowledge to verified data. This works very well until the mid 1500s where these online documents such as birth, christening , marriage , death and burial documents finish and then the data becomes more speculative in terms of history books etc etc

The app could be considerably improved by aiding this process is instead of expecting the user to fit the app!

I have made a suggestion that each person background colour should be coded in the rainbow colours indicating how many of the vital key data points are back up with attached documents. Then other users would know not to edit {or only edit very carefully} those who have documents backing them up already.

November 7, 2023
Unprompted review