Daily Ireland - gone

The Rooster

Staff told this morning that they're folding.

Not a huge surprise I suppose.

DMC

On MediaGrauniad now.

mike65

Quell surprise, I shall resist cheap cracks about keeping it afloat with money from the Northern Bank

Managing director Mairtin O Muilleoir blamed lack of British government advertising as a factor in the title’s closure

Now thats funny!

Mike.

Tha Gopher

Wait, they wanted British government advertising?

I only ever saw its front pages, it looked like a more "Easons agree to sell this" version of An Poblacht.

flogen

Tha Gopher wrote:

Wait, they wanted British government advertising?

I only ever saw its front pages, it looked like a more "Easons agree to sell this" version of An Poblacht.

Well the British Government is required to print its ads in a certain amount of newspapers (or the most popular ones, the ones that cover each minority readership etc. or something like that) and DI said they were being discriminated against because the Government weren't printing the ads in them. Like every aspect of the NI economy the Government plays an important role in providing income.
There is a certain irony in them wanting the British government to keep them afloat but no more than the irony that exists when Sinn Fein cash their Westminster payments.

Jackie laughlin

At last the British have done something positive for Ireland. By refusing to give money to a SF/IRA rag, they have caused it to close.

Now, next step before it is too late (Indeed it may already be too late.): Britain, stop giving money and political support to SF/IRA and if you have any fond feelings for Ireland, then contribute to constitutional Irish politics and to Irish cultural nationalism.

Sand

Schadenfreude was coined for news like this.

Given their need for British advertising to stay afloat, it makes you wonder what their business plan was going to be in the dreamt of United Ireland...

Fenian

I only ever saw its front pages, it looked like a more "Easons agree to sell this" version of An Poblacht.

An Phoblacht

r3nu4l

Dailiy Ireland gone, thank goodness for that! Propoganda of the worst kind. I do feel for anyone that loses a job but a rag like that should never have been published in the first place. An Phoblacht-lite is all it was.

And by the way, just for the record, I think the Evening Herald, The Irish Sun, The Daily Mail and all tabloids (including the Indo) are also rags too The Irish Times ftw

Fenian

Dailiy Ireland gone, thank goodness for that! Propoganda of the worst kind

I know, it's terrible, actually promoting an Unitied Ireland. The cheek of them.....

r3nu4l

I'm all for a united Ireland trough peaceful actions and dialogue, not incitement or republican propoganda. I'm a real Irish republican in that I completely reject the IRA and all it's splinter groups and the political movements that back them no matter how obliquely. End of story much like the end of Daily Ireland

Fenian

It takes more than rejecting the IRA and wanting a unitied Ireland to be a Republican. Or maybe thats what makes a Fianna Fail Republican? Wanting a unitied Ireland but willing to do nothing about it.

I'm sad to see Daily Ireland gone, I think it was much better than An Phoblacht, which to be fair, is only a mouth piece for Sinn Fein, though I do enjoy Remembering The Past .

flogen

Let's not get into an idealogical debate about what it means to be a Republican here, we're discussing the Daily Ireland and that is all.

r3nu4l

flogen wrote:

Let's not get into an idealogical debate about what it means to be a Republican here, we're discussing the Daily Ireland and that is all.

Oops, apologies flogen, it would be a shame to have to move this thread to the politics forum

Okay back on topic, it is sad to see a newspaper that does not belong to Independent Newspapers close down as this only further strengthens the stranglehold that that particular Media group have in Ireland.

I may not agree with the policies of Daily Ireland but at least it was something different and slightly less rabid than An Phoblacht.

mike65

The editor has taken to the blogosphere I hear.

Mike.

Firetrap

Can't say I'm sorry to learn this.