Type	Daily newspaper
Format	tabloid
Owner(s)	Andersonstown News
Founded	January 2005
Political position	Irish Republican
Headquarters	Teach Basil, Belfast
Editor	Colin O'Carroll
Website	www.dailyireland.com

Daily Ireland was an Irish daily newspaper which existed from January 2005 to September 2006 to cover news stories from an Irish republican viewpoint. It was linked to the Belfast local newspaper, the Andersonstown News. In September 2006, the newspaper announced it was ceasing publication, with the 475th and last issue published on 7 September. Image File history File links DailyIreland. ... Image File history File linksMetadata DailyIreland. ... Newspaper sizes in August 2005. ... The Andersonstown News is a Republican tabloid, published twice-weekly on Monday and Thursday, in Belfast, Ireland. ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Irish Republicanism is an ideology based on the Irish nationalist belief that all of Ireland should be a united independent republic. ... WGS-84 (GPS) Coordinates: 54. ... The Andersonstown News is a Republican tabloid, published twice-weekly on Monday and Thursday, in Belfast, Ireland. ... September 7 is the 250th day of the year (251st in leap years). ...

Positioning

Its supporters regarded the paper as the first mass market Irish republican newspaper. Critics accused it of being overly supportive of the politics of Sinn Féin, the biggest nationalist party in Northern Ireland. Some supporters and opponents compared it to the defunct Irish Press newspaper, which was strongly associated with, and supportive of, Fianna Fáil, Ireland's largest party. Sinn Féin (pronounced in English, in Irish) is a name used by a series of Irish political movements of the 20th century, each of which claimed sole descent from the original party established by Arthur Griffith in 1905. ... Motto: (French for God and my right)2 Anthem: UK: God Save the Queen Regional: (De facto) Londonderry Air Capital Belfast Largest city Belfast Official language(s) English (De facto), Irish, Ulster Scots 3 Government Constitutional monarchy  - Queen Queen Elizabeth II  - Prime Minister Tony Blair MP  - First Minister Office suspended... The Irish Press was an Irish newspaper published by Irish Press plc between 1931 and 1995. ... Fianna Fáil - The Republican Party (IPA ; commonly translated roughly into English as Soldiers of Destiny (though the more literal translation is Soldiers [Fianna] of Ireland),¹ is currently the largest political party in Ireland with 55,000 members. ...

A comment by the Republic's Minister for Justice, Michael McDowell on RTÉ's Questions and Answers live television debate programme, in which he claimed the newspaper was backed by the Provisional IRA and compared it to the Nazi party newspaper the Völkischer Beobachter, led to a threat of legal action for libel by the publishers of the papers. The publishers denied his allegation and demanded its withdrawal. As some Sinn Féin supporters have been killed or threatened by loyalists, staff at Daily Ireland contend that McDowell's comments put them in danger. A member of the paper's management was later told by the Police Service of Northern Ireland that he was at risk of attack by loyalist paramilitaries. McDowell to date has refused to withdraw his comments, and told Daily Ireland he would see them in court. When they brought a suit against him in Belfast, his defence team declared that as Minister of Justice, McDowell has sovereign immunity. The case continues. The Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform is the senior minister at the Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform (An Roinn Dlí agus Cirt, Comhionannais agus Athchóirithe Dlí) in the Irish Government. ... Michael McDowell Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform Michael McDowell (born May, 1951, Ireland) is the leader of the Progressive Democrats. ... Radio Telefís Éireann (RTÉ; Irish for Radio and Television of Ireland) is the national publicly-funded broadcaster of Ireland. ... Questions and Answers is a topical debate television programme in the Republic of Ireland. ... The Provisional Irish Republican Army (PIRA) is a paramilitary group which aimed, through the use of violence, to achieve three goals: (i) British withdrawal from Ireland, (ii) the political unification of Ireland through the merger of Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland , and (iii) the creation of an all... The National Socialist German Workers Party (German: Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei; NSDAP), generally known in English as the Nazi Party, was a political party in Germany between 1920 and 1945. ... One of the last editions of the Völkischer Beobachter (April 20, 1945) hails Adolf Hitler as man of the century on the occasion of his 56th birthday, ten days before his suicide. ... In general, a loyalist is an individual who is loyal to the powers that be or The Establishment. ... The Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) is the police service that covers Northern Ireland. ... The term Ulster Loyalist is used to describe militant unionists from Northern Ireland. ... WGS-84 (GPS) Coordinates: 54. ... Sovereign immunity or crown immunity is a type of immunity that, in common law jurisdictions traces its origins from early English law. ...

Circulation

In May 2005 the management of the paper denied media reports that Daily Ireland was experiencing poor circulation and was about to lay off many of its staff. This was confirmed by the paper on 14 May 2005 when it claimed that poor advertising revenue was being caused by the decision of the British government not to place advertisements in it (as it is obliged to do with papers that have reached a certain circulation), and that 30 jobs were in danger as a result. Government policy at the time was not to advertise in publications for which audited circulation figures were not available and as a new publication, these figures were yet to be published for the Daily Ireland. May 14 is the 134th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (135th in leap years). ... The United Kingdom is a unitary state and a democratic constitutional monarchy. ...

Circulation & Readership of
Circulation	10,080
Readership	-
Dates	January–June 2006
Source	Audit Bureau of Circulations

According to the Audit Bureau of Circulations, the paper had an average circulation of 10,080 for the first six months of 2006 [1]. In contrast the Irish Independent had a circulation of approximately 160,000 and the Irish Times a circulation of 117,000. They are not universally available in Northern Ireland and so have their principal market in the Republic of Ireland, unlike Daily Ireland which was intended to be an all-Ireland newspaper. The Irish News, which is largely restricted to Northern Ireland, has a circulation of over 50,000. Though new newspapers regularly start at a low base and lose money for their first couple of years, no Irish national newspaper in recent years which started at such a low base has survived, with newspapers such as the Stars on Sunday, Daily News and Dublin Daily, attracting higher initial base circulations in smaller markets (the former two in the Republic, the latter in Dublin) before folding. Image File history File links DailyIreland. ... The Audit Bureau of Circulations is one of the several organizations of the same name operating in different parts of the world. ... Best-selling English language daily newspapers as of 2002, with circulation: The Sun 3,541,002 United Kingdom (tabloid) The Daily Mail 2,342,982 United Kingdom (tabloid) The Daily Mirror 2,148,058 United Kingdom (tabloid) The Times of India 2,144,842 India USA Today 2,120,357... The Irish Independents header consists of its name and a green harp The Irish Independent is Irelands best-selling broadsheet newspaper. ... The Irish Times is Irelands newspaper of record, launched in the late 1850s. ... The Irish News is a Berliner-sized newspaper based in Belfast, Northern Ireland. ... WGS-84 (GPS) Coordinates: 53. ...

Ceasing publication

On 7 September 2006, Daily Ireland managing director Mairtin Ó Muilleoir announced that the paper would cease publishing, with the last issue published on 7 September 2006. According to Ó Muilleoir, "the British government's refusal to allow Daily Ireland to tender for advertisements was a major factor in its collapse". His claim was dismissed by critics, with the Sunday Independent questioning why the British government would want to advertise in a newspaper with only 10,000 readers throughout the entire island, the smallest readership of any national newspaper in Ireland. (The Sunday Independent in the same period recorded a circulation of over one million, while the Irish Times recorded a circulation of in excess of one hundred thousand. Even the smaller read British tabloids had a circulation in Ireland of many times the Daily Ireland circulation.) September 7 is the 250th day of the year (251st in leap years). ... September 7 is the 250th day of the year (251st in leap years). ...

External links

• Daily Ireland Online — the newspaper's website
• Paper to sue over minister's IRA claim — The Guardian article on the libel controversy
• Daily Ireland to cease printing — BBC News article, 7 September 2006
• Bye-Bye Daily Lies — The Blanket " Critical Review"

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