Irish Independent
Dublin
181 000
The Irish Independent has been holding its own against cutthroat competition from British papers like The Times or The Daily Mail that have been printing “made-in-Ireland” editions for a few years now: it’s still the most widely read “home-grown” national newspaper in the country. Keeping close to its readers’ concerns, it publishes a weekly supplement on Irish farming news. Tony O'Reilly, ex-CEO of the International News and Media Group that owns the paper, in 1998 became the first Irishman to buy a British daily, viz. London-based The Independent. Like the latter, it is printed partly in tabloid format.