Connacht Tribune

Connacht Tribune - Galway City Tribune
TypeWeekly newspaper
FormatOriginal broadsheet but tabloid since 2014.
Founder(s)Tom 'Cork' Kenny
LanguageEnglish
HeadquartersLiosban Business Park, Tuam Road, Galway
CityGalway
CountryIreland
Websiteconnachttribune.ie

The Connacht Tribune (An Curadh Connachtach) is a newspaper circulating chiefly in County Galway, Ireland.

Published as a regional newspaper for County Galway, the Tribune Group prints two titles every week - the Connacht Tribune on Thursday and the Galway City Tribune on Friday. Connacht Tribune Group newspapers are circulated in every district of the city and every town and village in the county. As of January 2007, its weekly readership was over 150,000.

History

In 1925, the Connacht Tribune stable began publishing the Connacht Sentinel, which was joined in 1984 by the Galway City Tribune.[citation needed] The Connacht Sentinel ceased publication in 2014.[1][2] Since then, the Connacht Tribune has focused mainly on news relating to County Galway. In addition to a number of staff journalists, the paper also employs a number of reporters around the county for specific regional coverage.[citation needed]

John Cunningham was editor from 1984 to 2007.[3]

As of 2004, former hurler John McIntyre was sports editor of the Connacht Tribune.[4]

In 2006 the newspaper purchased Galway's local radio station, Galway Bay FM.[5]

The last broadsheet-size Galway City Tribune was published on Friday 11 October 2013 and, on 18 October 2013, it moved to tabloid. On Thursday 27 March 2014, the last big Connacht Tribune hit the shops - reduced to tabloid on Thursday 3 April 2014.[citation needed] In 2014, the final edition of the Connacht Sentinel was published.[6]

The Tribune's archives are available online to view any issue of the Connacht Tribune since its inception in 1909.

References

  1. ^ "Final edition of Connacht Sentinel published". 25 November 2014.
  2. ^ "Connacht Sentinel Irish Historical Newspapers Archive for Genealogy Research". www.irishnewsarchive.com. Retrieved 19 July 2024.
  3. ^ "Journalist John Cunningham dies aged 66". RTÉ News. RTÉ. 9 February 2012. Archived from the original on 15 June 2012. Retrieved 9 February 2012.
  4. ^ Breheny, Martin (9 November 2004). "McIntyre in line for Offaly return". Irish Independent.
  5. ^ "Connacht Trib buys Bay FM". Irish Independent. 22 April 2006. Retrieved 5 March 2009.
  6. ^ "Final edition of Connacht Sentinel published". rte.ie. 25 November 2014. Retrieved 17 May 2019.