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focusing on Irish politics, culture and society. It was founded in October 2009 and had almost 40,000 readers as of 31 October 2009. The website's last post was in 2018.

Editors and contributors

''forth'' was edited by Irish journalist Jason Walsh. Walsh has contributed to the ''

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'', '' Magill'', ''Village'', '' Business and Finance'', ''Wired'', ''Mute'', '' Rising East'' and the ''Dubliner''.forth: forward thinking from ireland
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and Gerard Casey.

Content

''forth'' took a partisan left-

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stance on current affairs that was described as "sometimes offbeat, often original" by Irish journalist Gerard Cunnigham. The magazine criticized the 'lynching' of

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, a stance noted by ''

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'' and criticized by ''

'' newspapers. The magazine has also criticized Ireland's trade unions as timid and in decline, and argued that

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should be demolished, prompting a response from

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David Norris.forth: forward thinking from ireland
Forth.ie (29 October 2009). Retrieved 20 October 2011. Alongside its traditional material, ''forth'' published a series of correspondences on various subjects called 'Back and Forth'.

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