6-609: 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. It is broadly Irish nationalist in its viewpoint, though it also features unionist columnists. 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 . It merged with
12-520: Is a broadsheet -quality newspaper printed in a tabloid format, especially one in the United Kingdom . The term as used for this size came into use after The Independent began producing a smaller format edition in 2003 for London's commuters , designed to be easier to read when using mass transit . Readers from other parts of the country liked the new format, and The Independent introduced it nationally. The Times and The Scotsman copied
18-541: The Belfast Morning News 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 in 1969; this peaked around
24-409: 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 . In September 2023, the newspaper got its first new look since March 2005. This Ireland newspaper–related article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Compact (newspaper) A compact newspaper
30-476: The format as The Independent increased in sales. The Times and The Scotsman are now printed exclusively in compact format following trial periods during which both broadsheet and compact version were produced simultaneously. The Independent published its last paper edition on 20 March 2016 and now appears online only. This journalism -related article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This United Kingdom newspaper–related article
36-399: 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, with Martin O'Brien as Editor. 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
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