The Irish News
Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Template:Use Hiberno-English Template:Infobox newspaper 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.<ref name="about">Template:Cite web</ref> It is broadly Irish nationalist in its viewpoint, though it also features unionist columnists.
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.<ref>Ambrose Macaulay. Patrick McAlister Bishop of Down and Connor 1886-1895. Four Courts Press Ltd, Dublin, Ireland 2006</ref> 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.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref> 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 served as editor until 2024 when he was succeeded by Chris Sherrard.
The Irish News saw a dramatic growth in its circulation with the beginning of The Troubles in 1969;<ref name="about"/> this peaked around the time of the peak in violence in 1971, and declined thereafter.Template:Citation needed
In June 1982, the paper came under the control of the company's present owners, with Martin O'Brien as Editor.<ref name="about"/><ref>Template:Cite newsTemplate:Subscription required</ref>
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 NewsTemplate:'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.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
In September 2023, the newspaper got its first new look since March 2005.
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