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[Article] LimerickIndependent to launch in two weeks

  • 02-03-2006 2:07pm
    #1
    billy the squid
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,811 ✭✭✭✭


    http://www.galwayindependent.com/business/6586.html

    Can anyone from Cork or Galway tell us what the quality of their versions of this paper is like.

    If they are hoping to take on the likes of the Limerick Post they have an uphill battle ahead of them. Any new paper that started in Limerick went under fairly fast. the likes of the Limerick edition of the Cork evening echo, is a prime example.


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  • #2
    IronMan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 598 ✭✭✭IronMan


    The Galway Indendent is not a bad little paper, some current affair articles, a letters page, a short sport section, one or two opinion pieces, a large entertainment section, plenty of classifieds. The print quality is extremely good. Their is a large amount of advertising. Its the kind of newspaper you could get through over breakfast. It has thrived in Galway since its launch, and is competing in the same market as the Galway Advertiser, which is the definitive template of what a free newspaper can be.

    You can't really argue with free (unless it's the Herald AM).


  • #3
    thejuggler
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 884 ✭✭✭thejuggler


    The Cork Independent came about differently because they bought an existing title (Inside Cork) which was well known in the city as it was owned by the local radio station which gave it a lot of free advertising.
    It features several opinion pieces, reviews and reviews. The chnages I notice since the takeover are a major reduction in the amount of sport coverage (a good thing in my view) and the addiiton of a property section.

    Also they seem to distribute it on a door to door basis now - it comes in the letterbox most weeks which definitely increases the readership.


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