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 perceived as being broadly Irish nationalist in its viewpoint, though it also features unionist columnists.
| Type | Daily newspaper |
|---|---|
| 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 | 32,313[1] |
| Website | irishnews.com |
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 Dr 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 1968; 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.[6]
Circulation
| Year (period) | Average circulation per issue |
|---|---|
| 2002 (June to December)[7] | 52,066 |
| 2007 (January to June)[8] | 48,613 |
| 2008 (January to June)[9] | 47,911 |
| 2011 (July to December)[10] | 41,932 |
| 2013 (January to June)[11] | 40,842 |
| 2017 (July to December)[12] | 34,082 |
| 2018 (July to December)[13] | 32,313 |
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References
- JP dailies post circulation rises as ABC figures unveiled Hold the Front Page, 1 March July 2018
- http://www.irishnews.com/aboutus
- Ambrose Macaulay. Patrick McAlister Bishop of Down and Connor 1886-1895. Four Courts Press Ltd, Dublin, Ireland 2006
- National Library of Ireland: Belfast Morning News
- National Library of Ireland: Irish News
- https://www.irishtimes.com/news/jim-fitzpatrick-1.117330
- https://www.pressgazette.co.uk/northern-ireland-will-the-press-still-flourish-in-peacetime/
- https://www.irishtimes.com/business/circulation-of-irish-times-increases-1.933379
- https://www.irishtimes.com/business/circulation-of-irish-times-increases-1.933379
- https://sluggerotoole.com/2012/03/01/dead-tree-circulation-continues-to-decline-belfast-telegraph-dropping-at-nearly-twice-rate-of-news-letter-irish-news/
- http://www.irishnews.com/business/2013/08/23/news/irish-news-comes-out-tops-in-latest-circulation-figures-68275/
- "JP dailies post circulation rises as ABC figures unveiled". HoldTheFrontPage. UK.
- https://www.abc.org.uk/Certificates/49250844.pdf