The Irish News

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The Irish News
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The Irish News, 23 February 2007
TypeDaily newspaper
FormatOriginally Broadsheet, then Berliner but Compact since 2005
Owner(s)Fitzpatrick family
Founder(s) Bishop Patrick MacAlister
PublisherThe Irish News Ltd [1]
EditorNoel Doran
Founded15 August 1891
Political alignment CentreCentre-left
Irish nationalism
(with Liberal Unionist columnists)
Language English, Irish
HeadquartersFountain Centre, College Street
Belfast, Northern Ireland
Circulation 23,615(as of 2023) [2]
Website www.irishnews.com OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg

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. [3] It is broadly Irish nationalist in its viewpoint, though it also features unionist columnists.

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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. [4] 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. [5] [6] T.P. Campbell was editor from 1895 until 1906, when he was succeeded by Tim McCarthy, who served as editor until 1928. Appointed in 1999, Noel Doran is the current editor.

The Irish News saw a dramatic growth in its circulation with the beginning of The Troubles in 1969; [3] this peaked around the time of the peak in violence in 1971, and declined thereafter.[ citation needed ]

In June 1982, the paper came under the control of the company's present owners, with Martin O'Brien as Editor. [3] [7]

In May 2023, the newspaper relocated from its premises at 113-117 Donegall Street, its home for more than a century, to modern offices on College Street. The Irish News's departure from Donegall Street marks the end of the street's association with print journalism, which earned it the nickname of Belfast's Fleet Street. The Donegall Street building was sold to Ulster University. [8]

In September 2023, the newspaper got its first new look since March 2005.

Circulation

Year (period)Average circulation per issue
2002 (June to December) [9]
52,066
2007 (January to June) [10]
48,613
2008 (January to June) [10]
47,911
2011 (July to December) [11]
41,932
2013 (January to June) [12]
40,842
2017 (July to December) [13]
34,082
2018 (July to December) [14]
32,315

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