The ''Tirconaill Tribune'' is an Irish weekly newspaper. Its editor is John McAteer. The newspaper's headquarters is in

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. It is distributed to shops across north

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. The ''Tirconaill Tribune'' is printed on Wednesday evenings. It circulates each Thursday.

History

First printed in 1991, by October 2022 it had gone through about 1,600 issues.

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's book ''No News at Throat Lake'' (Penguin: 2000) is a memoir about his year-long stay in

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from late 1998, playing for the local Gaelic football club and working at the ''Tirconaill Tribune''. The book also chronicles the "eccentric ways" of editor John McAteer. In 2008, the ''Tribune'' published the Government's decision to end disability allowances for teenagers between the age of 16 and 18. The paper reported that

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Mary Coughlan had met with concerned constituents and that the Down Syndrome Association had received confirmation of the change.

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brought a copy of the newspaper to

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to inform his leader

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.Miriam Lord's Week - Coughlan lets cat out of bag
''The Irish Times''. 1 November 2008. In October 2022, editor John McAteer described the edition of the ''Tirconaill Tribune'' published after the

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as "probably the most important" ever.

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''Tirconaill Tribune'' an approved newspaper

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