The Irish News
The Irish News is a compact daily newspaper based in Belfast, Northern Ireland. It is Northern Ireland's largest selling morning newspaper and is available throughout Ireland.[2] It is broadly Irish nationalist in its viewpoint, though it also features unionist columnists.
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| Type | Daily newspaper |
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| Format | Originally Broadsheet, then Berliner but Compact since 2005 |
| Owner(s) | Fitzpatrick family |
| Founder(s) | Bishop Patrick MacAlister |
| Editor | Noel Doran |
| Founded | 15 August 1891 |
| Political alignment | Centre-left Irish nationalism (with Liberal Unionist columnists) |
| Language | English, Irish |
| Headquarters | 113–117 Donegall Street Belfast, Northern Ireland |
| Circulation | 32,315[1] |
| Website | irishnews.com |
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History
The Irish News is the only independently owned daily newspaper based in Northern Ireland, and has been so since its launch on 15 August 1891 as an anti-Parnell newspaper by Patrick MacAlister.[3] It merged with the Belfast Morning News in August 1892, and the full title of the paper has since been The Irish News and Belfast Morning News.[4][5]
The Irish News saw a dramatic growth in its circulation with the beginning of The Troubles in 1969;[2] this peaked around the time of the peak in violence in 1971, and declined thereafter.
In June 1982 the paper came under the control of the company's present owners.[2][6]
Circulation
| Year (period) | Average circulation per issue |
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| 2002 (June to December)[7] | 52,066 |
| 2007 (January to June)[8] | 48,613 |
| 2008 (January to June)[8] | 47,911 |
| 2011 (July to December)[9] | 41,932 |
| 2013 (January to June)[10] | 40,842 |
| 2017 (July to December)[11][12] | 34,082 |
| 2018 (July to December)[1] | 32,315 |
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References
- "Irish News Morning July to December 2018" (PDF). ABC.
- "About the Irish News". The Irish News.
- Ambrose Macaulay. Patrick McAlister Bishop of Down and Connor 1886-1895. Four Courts Press Ltd, Dublin, Ireland 2006
- "Belfast Morning News". National Library of Ireland.
- "Irish News". National Library of Ireland.
- "Jim Fitzpatrick". The Irish Times. 20 October 1997.(subscription required)
- "Northern Ireland: Will the press still flourish in peacetime?". Press Gazette. 11 May 2006.
- "Circulation of 'Irish Times' increases". The Irish Times. 22 August 2008.(subscription required)
- Meban, Alan (1 March 2012). "Dead tree circulation continues to decline – Belfast Telegraph dropping at nearly twice rate of News Letter & Irish News". Slugger O'Toole.
- Cunninghmam, Simon (23 August 2013). "Irish News comes out tops in latest circulation". The Irish News.(subscription required)
- "JP dailies post circulation rises as ABC figures unveiled". HoldTheFrontPage. UK.
- JP dailies post circulation rises as ABC figures unveiled Hold the Front Page, 1 March 2018.