List of newspapers in the Republic of Ireland
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Below is a list of newspapers published in Ireland.
For the list of newspapers published in Northern Ireland, see List of newspapers in Northern Ireland.
Daily national newspapers
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Title | Market type | Publisher | Ownership | Location | Format | Circulation (avg. paid single copies) |
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The Irish Sun | National – tabloid | News UK | United Kingdom | Dublin | Tabloid | 44,074 [1] |
Irish Daily Star | National – tabloid | Reach plc | United Kingdom | Dublin | Tabloid | 32,629 [2] |
Irish Daily Mail | National – tabloid | DMG Media | United Kingdom | Dublin | Tabloid | 25,110 [3] |
Irish Daily Mirror | National – tabloid | Reach plc | United Kingdom | Dublin | Tabloid | 25,231 [4] |
Irish Examiner | National – quality | The Irish Times | Ireland | Cork | Broadsheet | No longer audited |
Irish Independent | National – quality | Mediahuis | Belgium | Dublin | Tabloid | No longer audited |
The Herald (Ireland) | National – tabloid | Mediahuis | Belgium | Dublin | Tabloid | No longer audited |
The Irish Times | National – quality | The Irish Times | Ireland | Dublin | Broadsheet | No longer audited |
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Sunday national newspapers
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Title | Market type | Publisher | Ownership | Location | Format | Circulation (avg. paid single copies) |
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The Sunday Times | National – quality | News UK | United Kingdom | Dublin | Broadsheet | 65,985 [5] |
Irish Mail on Sunday | National – tabloid | DMG Media | United Kingdom | Dublin | Tabloid | 54,952 [5] |
The Irish Sun on Sunday | National – tabloid | News UK | United Kingdom | Dublin | Tabloid | 42,689 [5] |
The Irish Sunday Mirror | National – tabloid | Reach plc | United Kingdom | Dublin | Tabloid | 18,750 [5] |
Sunday Independent | National – quality | Mediahuis | Belgium | Dublin | Broadsheet | No longer audited |
Sunday World | National – tabloid | Mediahuis | Belgium | Dublin | Tabloid | No longer audited |
Business Post | National – quality | Kilcullen Kapital Partners | Ireland | Dublin | Broadsheet | No longer audited |
Daily Star Sunday | National – tabloid | Reach plc | United Kingdom | London | Tabloid | 7,181 |
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Carlow
- Carlow People (free newspaper published by Voice Media [6])
- The Nationalist (Owned by The Irish Times [7])
Cavan
- The Anglo-Celt (owned by Celtic Media Group[8]).
Clare
- The Clare Champion (owned by the Galvin family [9])[10]
- The Clare Echo [11][10]
- The Clare County Express Est. 1979
Cork
- The Avondhu[12] – north-east Cork and neighbouring areas of Limerick, Tipperary, Waterford
- Ballincollig News[13] – Free tabloid monthly newspaper for Ballincollig, County Cork, sister publication of Bishopstown News
- Bishopstown News[14] – Free monthly newspaper for the Western Suburbs (mainly Bishopstown and Wilton) of Cork City
- The Carrigdhoun – Carrigaline and south-east Cork [15]
- Cork Independent – free Cork city- and county-based weekly newspaper
- The Cork News – free Cork city based weekly newspaper, launched 18 September 2009[16]
- The Corkman (owned by Mediahuis[17])
- The Douglas Post – weekly magazine for Douglas, Cork [18]
- The Echo (owned by The Irish Times)
- The Mallow Star (owned by VSO Publications[19])
- Midleton News[20] – A4 size fortnightly newspaper for Midleton County Cork, sister publication of Youghal News, originally free, now retails for one euro
- The Muskerry News[21] – free 40-page A4 monthly newspaper for the Ballincollig and Blarney area
- The North City News[22] – free 40-page A4 monthly newspaper for the northside suburbs of the city of Cork
- The Opinion (formerly The Bandon Opinion) – monthly magazine for West Cork[23]
- The Southern Star[24] – primarily West Cork circulation
- The Vale Star (owned by VSO Publications[19])
- West Cork People[25] – free monthly newspaper for West Cork, 9,000 copies [26]
- Youghal News[27] – free A4 size fortnightly newspaper for Youghal County Cork
Donegal
- Derry People/Donegal News (owned by North West of Ireland Printing and Publishing Company [28])
- The Donegal Democrat (owned by Iconic Newspapers[28])
- Donegal People’s Press (owned by Iconic Newspapers[28])
- Donegal Post (owned by Iconic Newspapers[28])
- Finn Valley Post (owned by Iconic Newspapers[28])
- Finn Valley Voice[29]
- Inish Times (owned by Iconic Newspapers[28])
- Inishowen Independent [30]
- Tirconaill Tribune [31]
- Letterkenny People (owned by Iconic Newspapers[28])
- Letterkenny Post (owned by Iconic Newspapers[28])
Dublin
- Northside People and Southside People - Dublin People Media Group.
- Dublin Gazette[32][33]
- The Dublin Voice[34]
- Dublin Inquirer[35] (monthly print edition [36])
- The Echo
- Liffey Champion – south-west Dublin
- Newsgroup (Tallaght News, Clondalkin News, Lucan News, and Rathcoole & Saggart News)[37]
- Northside News[38]
- Southside News[38]
Galway
- Connacht Telegraph (owned by Celtic Media Group[39])
- The Connacht Tribune/Galway City Tribune (owned by Connacht Tribune Media Group[40])
- The Galway Advertiser[41]
- The Tuam Herald[42]
Kerry
- Kenmare News[43] – free 40-page A4 monthly newspaper for the Kenmare area
- The Kerryman (owned by Mediahuis[17])
- Kerry's Eye[44]
- Killarney Advertiser - www.killarneyadvertiser.ie, weekly community news magazine since 1973
Kildare
- Kildare Nationalist (owned by The Irish Times[7])
- Kildare Post (owned by Iconic Newspapers[28])
- Leinster Leader (owned by Iconic Newspapers[28])
- Liffey Champion – north Kildare and west Dublin
Kilkenny
- The Kilkenny People (owned by Iconic Newspapers[28])
- The Kilkenny Reporter (free sheet, owned by Iconic Newspapers, not connected with closed newspaper of the similar name Kilkenny Reporter).[45]
- The Kilkenny Observer (free sheet, owned by Amici Sempre Ltd)[45]
Laois
- Laois Nationalist (owned by The Irish Times [7])
- The Leinster Express (owned by Iconic Newspapers[28])
Leitrim
- Leitrim Observer (owned by Iconic Newspapers[28])
Limerick
- Limerick Leader (owned by Iconic Newspapers[28])
- Limerick Post – free paper
- Vale Star (published by VSO Publications [46])
- Weekly Observer (published by VSO Publications [46])
Longford
- Longford Leader (owned by Iconic Newspapers [28])
Louth
- The Argus (owned by Mediahuis[17])
- The Drogheda Independent (owned by Mediahuis[17])
- Drogheda Leader [47]
- The Dundalk Democrat (owned by Iconic Newspapers[28])
- The Dundalk Leader [47]
Mayo
- Connaught Telegraph (owned by Celtic Media Group)
- Mayo Advertiser[48]
- The Mayo News
- Western People (owned by The Irish Times[49])
Meath
- The Meath Chronicle (owned by Celtic Media Group[39])
- The Meath Topic
Monaghan
- The Northern Standard
Offaly
- The Offaly Topic
- The Midland Tribune (owned by Iconic Newspapers[50])
- The Offaly Independent (owned by Celtic Media Group[39])
- Tullamore Tribune (owned by Iconic Newspapers[50])
Roscommon
- Athlone Advertiser (variant of Galway Advertiser)
- Roscommon Herald (owned by The Irish Times[49])
- Roscommon People[51]
Sligo
- The Northwest Express
- The Sligo Champion (owned by Mediahuis[17])
- Sligo Weekender (owned by Dorothy Crean)
Tipperary
- The Midland Tribune (owned by Iconic Newspapers[28])
- The Nationalist (owned by Iconic Newspapers[28])
- The Nenagh Guardian
- The Tipperary Star (owned by Iconic Newspapers [28])
Waterford
- The Dungarvan Leader[52]
- The Dungarvan Observer
- The Munster Express[53]
- Waterford News & Star (Owned by The Irish Times[49])
- Waterford Today[54] (free newspaper, owned by Voice Media [6])
Westmeath
- Athlone Advertiser[55]
- The Athlone Topic
- Westmeath Examiner (owned by Celtic Media Group[39])
- Westmeath Independent (owned by Celtic Media Group[39])
- Westmeath Topic
Wexford
- The County Wexford Free Press
- The Enniscorthy Guardian (owned by Mediahuis[17])
- The Gorey Guardian (owned by Mediahuis[17])
- The New Ross Standard (owned by Mediahuis[17])
- The Wexford People (owned by Mediahuis[17])
Wicklow
- An Phoblacht – irregular magazine politically aligned to Sinn Féin
- Irish Republican News – online weekly newspaper
- LookLeft - bi-monthly political magazine produced by the Workers' Party.
- Saoirse Irish Freedom – monthly newspaper aligned to Republican Sinn Féin
- The Socialist – monthly newspaper politically aligned to the Socialist Party
- Socialist Voice – monthly newspaper published by the Communist Party of Ireland
- Socialist Worker – bi-weekly newspaper aligned to the Socialist Workers Party
- The Sovereign Nation - bi-monthly newspaper aligned to the 32 County Sovereignty Movement
- The Starry Plough – bi-monthly newspaper politically aligned to the Irish Republican Socialist Party
- Forward - sporadically published newspaper by the Connolly Youth Movement
Pan-regional
- The Avondhu – covers North East Cork, West Waterford, South Limerick and South Tipperary
- The Munster Express – covers the South East
- The Nationalist & Munster Advertiser
- Northwest Express – covers the 8 Northwest counties
University newspapers
Cork
- UCC Express[58] – University College Cork
Dublin
Galway
Limerick
Minority newspapers
- Metro Éireann – multicultural paper for immigrants and ethnic minorities
- (See also below in Foreign-language newspapers)
Online
Other
- Iris Oifigiúil – official state gazette
- The Irish Catholic, weekly newspaper
- The Church of Ireland Gazette, monthly publication
- Methodist Newsletter - monthly
- Presbyterian Herald - monthly official publication of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland.
- Irish Farmers Journal
- The Irish Field
Daily newspapers
- Tuairisc.ie (online)
- NÓS.ie (online)
Weekly newspapers
Monthly newspapers
- Saol – Irish language monthly newspaper based in Dublin
Defunct
In the past there was one daily newspaper:
- Lá Nua, based in Belfast
There were two weekly newspapers:
- Gaelscéal – previously available every Friday
- Foinse – was distributed Wednesdays with the Irish Independent, replaced by Seachtain
College newspapers with columns in Irish
- The University Times[63] (Trinity College Dublin student newspaper)
- UCC Express (University College Cork student newspaper)
- The College Tribune (University College Dublin Student Newspaper) – Irish Section
- The Edition (Dublin Institute of Technology student newspaper)
- An Focal (University of Limerick student newspaper)
- The College View (Dublin City University student newspaper)
Many English-language newspapers have Irish-language columns, including:
- An Phoblacht
- Irish Independent – on Wednesdays includes the newspaper Seachtain
- Connaught Telegraph
- Evening Echo – weekly Irish-language segment
- Irish Echo
- Irish Daily Star (column on Saturdays)
- Irish News
- The Irish Times
- Metro Éireann
Catalan
- Diari Liffey[64] – news from Ireland in Catalan
Russian
- Наша Газета (Nasha Gazeta)[65] – paper targeted at speakers of the Russian language
Polish
- Nasz Glos[66]
- Polska Gazeta[67]
- Polski Express[68]
- Polski Herald – special Polish edition of every Friday's Evening Herald
- StrefaÉire – Polish language newspaper for the Polish community in Ireland
Daily
- An Claidheamh Soluis – "The Sword of Light", see Gaelic League
- Cork Constitution – renamed 1873, ceased publication 1922
- Cork Free Press – founded 1910, ceased publication 1916
- The Clare Courier
- Daily Express – founded 1851, ceased general publication 1921
- Daily Ireland – launched in January 2005, ceased in September 2006
- The Daily News – opened and closed in 1982
- The Dublin Evening Mail – renamed the Evening Mail, closed in the 1960s
- The Evening News – opened in May 1996 and closed in September of the same year
- The Evening Press – closed in 1995
- The Evening Telegraph – closed 1924
- The Freeman's Journal – merged with the Irish Independent in 1924
- Irish Bulletin – official Irish Republic gazette; closed 1922
- The Irish Press – closed in 1995
- Limerick Standard[69]
- Lá – the first Irish Gaelic medium daily paper, renamed Lá Nua, closed in 2008
Sunday and weekly
- Anois – closed in 1996
- Inniú – closed in 1984
- Ireland on Sunday – replaced with Irish Mail on Sunday 2006
- The Irish Citizen – closed 1920
- Irish Daily Star Sunday – closed January 2011
- The Irish Family – closed 2008
- An Gaedheal – closed 1937
- Irish News of the World – closed July 2011
- The Sunday Journal
- The Sunday Press – closed in 1995
- Sunday Review – published in Dublin 1957–1963
- The Sunday Tribune – closed February 2011
- The United Irishman – founded 1899; closed 1906
Regional
- Athlone Voice (Now closed [70])
- Ballymun Concrete News
- The Cashel Advertiser
- The Cashel Gazette
- The Cavan Echo
- The Cavan Voice
- The Clare People[10]
- The Clonmel Chronicle
- The Clonmel Herald
- The Clonmel Journal
- Connemara View – ceased publication in December 2010[71]
- The Cork on Sunday – short-lived (late 1990s) Sunday newspaper for Metropolitan Cork
- The Cork Weekly[72] – a free weekly paper for Metropolitan Cork incorporating the Douglas Weekly, ceased July 2009
- The Corkonian
- Donegal on Sunday
- Donegal Times (Closed in 2017 [73])
- The Dublin Daily – renamed the Dublin Evening, a daily paper started in 2003 that ran for four months before running out of money
- Dublin Penny Journal
- The Dungarvan People and The Waterford People – sister papers, existed in 2008
- The East Cork Express
- East Cork Journal[74] – launched September 2007. Ceased publication in 2020 during pandemic lockdown.
- The East Cork News – discontinued in 1991 after several years, was a sister publication of the Waterford News and Star (owned by Examiner/TCH)
- The East Cork Post – short-lived Youghal based newspaper in the mid-1980s
- The East Galway Democrat
- The Enniscorthy Echo
- Fingal Independent (owned by Independent News and Media [17])
- The Flying Post - First regular Dublin newspaper from 1699, mainly a reprint of a similar London newspaper[75][76]
- The Galway Vindicator
- Galway First
- Galway Voice
- Galway Independent[77]
- The Gorey Echo’’
- Herald AM
- Imokilly Monthly – a monthly newspaper in East Cork which appeared during 2009, a descendant of a previous publication, the Imokilly People
- Imokilly People[78] – circulated in East Cork and South-West Waterford. Previously existed 1989 – July 2007 and reappeared briefly under new ownership in late 2008
- The Kildare Voice
- Kilkenny Advertiser[79] – free newspaper
- The Kilkenny Voice
- The Kingdom[80]
- The Leitrim Echo
- Letterkenny Leader – became the Letterkenny Post in 2005
- The Liffey Voice
- The Limerick Reporter
- Limerick Chronicle
- Limerick Independent[81]
- Longford News (Now closed [70])
- The Meath Echo
- The Meath Post
- The Meath Telegraph
- The Meath Weekender
- Metro
- Midleton Post[82] – existed from February until sometime in 2008
- Monaghan Post
- The Monaghan Voice
- The Mullingar Advertiser[83]
- The Muskerry Herald – Ballincollig, County Cork
- North County Leader (Closed in 2017 [84])
- The Naas Voice
- The New Ross Echo
- The Offaly Express
- Roscommon Champion (Now closed) [70]
- The Democrat (Roscommon)(Newspaper stopped/disrupted by court action [85][86][87])
- The Roscrea People
- The Skibbereen Eagle – incorporated into The Southern Star
- The Sligo Independent – published in Sligo 1855–1921; changed name to Sligo Independent and West of Ireland Advertiser 1921–1961
- The Sligo Journal – sister paper of the Western Journal, published for Sligo 1977–1983
- The Sligo Post
- The Northside People (49.9% owned by Celtic Media Group[39])[88]
- The Southside People (49.9% owned by Celtic Media Group[39]) [88]
- Tallaght Voice
- The Tipperary Advocate
- The Tipperary Free Press
- The Tipperary Leader
- The Tipperary Vindicator
- The Tipperary Voice
- The Tipperaryman
- The Waterford Chronicle (1804–1872)
- The Waterford People and The Dungarvan People – sister papers, existed in 2008
- The Western Journal
- The Wexford Echo
- The Youghal Tribune – sister newspaper of the Dungarvan Observer
- The Cavan Times[89]