This Newspaper Is Copping A Serious Spray For Its Questionable Ad Placement

Working on a daily newspaper must be an absolute whirlwind of ever-changing stories, ads being sold and then unsold and breaking news throwing best laid plans out the window.

But one Irish paper is copping an absolute spray for a very inappropriate ad fail that somehow slipped past every designer and editor on the staff.

In Monday's edition of the Irish Herald, the top half of page nine was dedicated to a pretty horrible story about a young woman who had allegedly been murdered by her husband and kept in a wardrobe in a flat in Dublin.

Unfortunately the remainder of the page was covered by an advertisement for a sale on... wardrobes.

A photo of the fail tweeted out by social media user Tony Groves is already gaining traction online, with close to 6,000 retweets and plenty of comments admonishing the paper.

While the Irish Herald have yet to comment on the faux pas, another Irish journalist, Andrea Smith, has leapt to the publication's defence.

"It was dreadfully inappropriate but it was clearly an error, and to suggest that someone did it on purpose or should lose a job is desperately unfair," Smith tweeted. "Things move at breakneck speed and ads are dropping in and out the whole time and stories are moved around the place as breaking news comes in.

"Those involved will undoubtedly be mortified and upset by this very clear oversight."