Home and Away (newspaper)

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Home and Away (newspaper)
Editor April Drew
FrequencyWeekly
Publisher Niall O'Dowd
First issue2003
CountryUSA
Based inNew York
LanguageEnglish
Website irishcentral.com

Home and Away is a weekly Irish emigrant newspaper printed and distributed in New York City, USA.

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The paper was founded in 2003 by Fergus Hannah but was bought out by Irish Voice and Irish America publisher Niall O'Dowd in June 2007 for an undisclosed sum.

The paper is available mostly in Irish pubs around the city of New York and has a weekly circulation of about 12,000. [1]

The paper contains sections on Irish news, a round-up of Irish news by county, sports, as well as other sections. The bartender interview is one of its more popular sections. Its main readership is the Irish emigrant community in New York.

Some of the newspaper's content appears on website Irish Central, particularly the county news roundup.

In 2012, following publisher O'Dowd's purchase of The Irish Emigrant, Home & Away and the Emigrant were folded into a new free-distribution weekly, Irish Central.

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  1. Nicola Cooke (2007-06-10). "O'Dowd buys out his main New York rival". Sunday Business Post. Retrieved 2010-06-30.[ permanent dead link ]