Irish Herald’s headline fail

Oh dear. We’re only two months into 2018 and already the winner for ‘headline fail of the year’ appears to have been found. The Irish Herald today publishes a report on a man who ‘lived’ in a flat with his ‘dead wife’s body in a wardrobe for 48 hours’.

Rather unfortunately the accompanying half page advert is for… discount wardrobes:

And the winner of the 2018 most inappropriate product placement in a newspaper goes to the @Herald_ie pic.twitter.com/85qJUgqNSQ

— Tony – Pod Guy – Groves (@Trickstersworld) February 19, 2018

Mr S hopes that this wasn’t advertising selling against the story…