''The Irish News'' is a compact

daily newspaper A newspaper is a periodical publication containing written information about current events and is often typed in black ink with a white or gray background. Newspapers can cover a wide variety of fields such as politics, business, sports ...

based in

Belfast Belfast ( , ; from ga, Béal Feirste , meaning 'mouth of the sand-bank ford') is the capital and largest city of Northern Ireland, standing on the banks of the River Lagan on the east coast. It is the 12th-largest city in the United Kingdom ...

Northern Ireland Northern Ireland ( ga, Tuaisceart Éireann ; sco, label= Ulster-Scots, Norlin Airlann) is a part of the United Kingdom, situated in the north-east of the island of Ireland, that is variously described as a country, province or region. Nort ...

. It is Northern Ireland's largest selling morning newspaper and is available throughout Ireland. It is broadly

Irish nationalist Irish nationalism is a nationalist political movement which, in its broadest sense, asserts that the people of Ireland should govern Ireland as a sovereign state. Since the mid-19th century, Irish nationalism has largely taken the form of c ...

in its viewpoint, though it also features unionist columnists.

History

''The Irish News'' is the only independently owned daily newspaper based in

, and has been so since its launch on 15 August 1891 as an anti- Parnell newspaper by

Patrick MacAlister Patrick McAlister (1826–1895) was an Irish Roman Catholic Prelate and 24th Lord Bishop of Down and Connor. Education and Priestly Ministry McAlister was born in Bonecastle, parish of Down, and was baptised by Fr Cornelius Denvir (afterwards ...

. It merged with the ''

Belfast Morning News The ''Belfast Morning News'' (from 1882 the ''Morning News'' and, for a brief period (1882–83) the ''Morning News and Examiner'') was a daily newspaper in Ireland from 1855 until it merged with the ''Irish News'' in August 1892. It was publishe ...

'' in August 1892, and the full title of the paper has since been ''The Irish News and Belfast Morning News''. 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 The Troubles ( ga, Na Trioblóidí) were an ethno-nationalist conflict in Northern Ireland that lasted about 30 years from the late 1960s to 1998. Also known internationally as the Northern Ireland conflict, it is sometimes described as an " ...

in 1969; 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.

Circulation

References

External links

''The Irish News'' online
Daily newspapers published in the United Kingdom Grade B1 listed buildings Mass media in Belfast Newspapers published in Northern Ireland Publications established in 1891 {{Ireland-newspaper-stub