Below is a list of newspapers published in Ireland.

National titles – currently published – English language

Daily national newspapers

Title Market type Publisher Ownership Location Format Circulation (avg. paid single copies) Irish Daily Star National – tabloid Reach plc United Kingdom Dublin Tabloid 16,874 (May 2025) Irish Daily Mirror National – tabloid Reach plc United Kingdom Dublin Tabloid 14,661 (May 2025) Irish Daily Mail National – tabloid DMG Media United Kingdom Dublin Tabloid 14,285 (May 2025) The Irish Sun National – tabloid News UK United Kingdom Dublin Tabloid Unknown Irish Examiner National – quality The Irish Times Ireland Cork Broadsheet No longer audited Irish Independent National – quality Mediahuis Belgium Dublin Compact 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

Sunday national newspapers

Title Market type Publisher Ownership Location Format Circulation (avg. paid single copies) Irish Mail on Sunday National – tabloid DMG Media United Kingdom Dublin Tabloid 32,707 (May 2025) The Irish Sunday Mirror National – tabloid Reach plc United Kingdom Dublin Tabloid 11,501 (May 2025) Daily Star Sunday National – tabloid Reach plc United Kingdom London Tabloid 4,099 (May 2025) The Sunday Times National – quality News UK United Kingdom Dublin Broadsheet Unknown The Irish Sun on Sunday National – tabloid News UK United Kingdom Dublin Tabloid Unknown 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

Regional titles – currently published – English language

Carlow

  • Carlow People (free newspaper published by Voice Media )
  • The Nationalist (Owned by The Irish Times )

Cavan

Clare

  • The Clare Champion (owned by the Galvin family )
  • The Clare Echo
  • The Clare County Express Est. 1979

Cork

  • The Avondhu – north-east Cork and neighbouring areas of Limerick, Tipperary, Waterford
  • Ballincollig News – Free tabloid monthly newspaper for Ballincollig, County Cork, sister publication of Bishopstown News
  • Bishopstown News – Free monthly newspaper for the Western Suburbs (mainly Bishopstown and Wilton) of Cork City
  • The Carrigdhoun – Carrigaline and south-east Cork
  • Cork Independent – free Cork city- and county-based weekly newspaper
  • The Cork News – free Cork city based weekly newspaper, launched 18 September 2009
  • The Corkman (owned by Mediahuis)
  • The Douglas Post – weekly magazine for Douglas, Cork
  • The Echo (owned by The Irish Times)
  • The Mallow Star (owned by VSO Publications)
  • Midleton News – A4 size fortnightly newspaper for Midleton County Cork, sister publication of Youghal News, originally free, now retails for one euro
  • The Muskerry News – free 40-page A4 monthly newspaper for the Ballincollig and Blarney area
  • The North City News – 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
  • The Southern Star – primarily West Cork circulation
  • The Vale Star (owned by VSO Publications)
  • West Cork People – free monthly newspaper for West Cork, 9,000 copies
  • Youghal News – free A4 size fortnightly newspaper for Youghal County Cork

Donegal

Dublin

  • Northside People and Southside People - Dublin People Media Group.
  • Dublin Gazette
  • The Dublin Voice
  • Dublin Inquirer (monthly print edition )
  • The Echo
  • Liffey Champion – south-west Dublin
  • Newsgroup (Tallaght News, Clondalkin News, Lucan News, and Rathcoole & Saggart News)
  • Northside News
  • Southside News

Galway

Kerry

  • Kenmare News – free 40-page A4 monthly newspaper for the Kenmare area
  • The Kerryman (owned by Mediahuis)
  • Kerry's Eye
  • Killarney Advertiser - www.killarneyadvertiser.ie, weekly community news magazine since 1973

Kildare

  • Kildare Nationalist (owned by The Irish Times)
  • Kildare Post (owned by Iconic Newspapers)
  • Leinster Leader (owned by Iconic Newspapers)
  • Liffey Champion – north Kildare and west Dublin

Kilkenny

  • The Kilkenny People (owned by Iconic Newspapers)
  • The Kilkenny Reporter (free sheet, owned by Iconic Newspapers, not connected with closed newspaper of the similar name Kilkenny Reporter).
  • The Kilkenny Observer (free sheet, owned by Amici Sempre Ltd)

Laois

Leitrim

Limerick

  • Limerick Leader (owned by Iconic Newspapers)
  • Limerick Post
  • Vale Star (published by VSO Publications )
  • Weekly Observer (published by VSO Publications )

Longford

Louth

Mayo

Meath

Offaly

  • The Offaly Topic (owned by Topic Newspapers)
  • The Midland Tribune (owned by Iconic Newspapers)
  • The Offaly Independent (owned by Celtic Media Group)
  • Tullamore Tribune (owned by Iconic Newspapers)

Roscommon

  • Roscommon Herald (owned by The Irish Times)
  • Roscommon People

Sligo

Tipperary

Waterford

Westmeath

Wexford

Wicklow

Political newspapers

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

Dublin

Galway

Limerick

Minority newspapers

  • Metro Éireann – multicultural paper for immigrants and ethnic minorities

(See also below in Foreign-language newspapers)

Online

Other

Irish-language newspapers

Daily newspapers

Weekly newspapers

  • Seachtain – Irish language newspaper which eventually replaced Foinse, included with the Wednesday Irish Independent
  • Goitse – local weekly Irish language newspaper for the Gaeltacht parish of Gweedore.

Monthly newspapers

  • Saol – Irish language monthly newspaper based in Dublin

Defunct

In the past there was one daily newspaper:

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

English-language papers with regular Irish-language columns

Many English-language newspapers have Irish-language columns, including:

Other languages

Catalan

  • Diari Liffey – news from Ireland in Catalan

Russian

  • Наша Газета (Nasha Gazeta) – paper targeted at speakers of the Russian language

Polish

Closed newspapers, no longer published

Daily

Sunday and weekly

Regional

  • Athlone Advertiser (variant of Galway Advertiser)
  • Athlone Voice
  • Ballymun Concrete News
  • The Cashel Advertiser
  • The Cashel Gazette
  • The Cavan Echo
  • The Cavan Voice
  • The Clare People
  • The Clonmel Chronicle
  • The Clonmel Herald
  • The Clonmel Journal
  • Connemara View – ceased publication in December 2010
  • The Cork on Sunday – short-lived (late 1990s) Sunday newspaper for Metropolitan Cork
  • The Cork Weekly – a free weekly paper for Metropolitan Cork incorporating the Douglas Weekly, ceased July 2009
  • The Corkonian
  • Donegal on Sunday
  • Donegal Times (Closed in 2017 )
  • 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 – 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 )
  • The Flying Post - First regular Dublin newspaper from 1699, mainly a reprint of a similar London newspaper
  • The Galway Vindicator
  • Galway First
  • Galway Voice
  • Galway Independent
  • 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 – 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 – free newspaper
  • The Kilkenny Voice
  • The Kingdom
  • The Leitrim Echo
  • Letterkenny Leader – became the Letterkenny Post in 2005
  • The Liffey Voice
  • The Limerick Reporter
  • Limerick Chronicle
  • Limerick Independent
  • Longford News (Now closed )
  • Mayo Advertiser
  • The Meath Echo
  • The Meath Post
  • The Meath Telegraph
  • The Meath Weekender
  • The Northern Standard
  • Metro
  • Midleton Post – existed from February until sometime in 2008
  • Monaghan Post
  • The Monaghan Voice
  • The Mullingar Advertiser
  • The Muskerry Herald – Ballincollig, County Cork
  • North County Leader (Closed in 2017 )
  • The Naas Voice
  • The New Ross Echo
  • The Offaly Express
  • Roscommon Champion (Now closed)
  • The Democrat (Roscommon)(Newspaper stopped/disrupted by court action )
  • 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)
  • The Southside People (49.9% owned by Celtic Media Group)
  • 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

See also

External links

  • National Library of Ireland – Irish newspaper index and archives