Irish Central
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Type of site
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News & blogging |
|---|---|
| Available in | English, |
| Founded | March 2009 |
| Headquarters | New York City, New York, U.S. |
| Area served | Irish diaspora worldwide |
| Owner | Niall O'Dowd |
| Founder(s) | Niall O'Dowd |
| Key people | Niall O'Dowd, Founder> |
| Employees | 8 |
| Website | www.irishcentral.com |
| Alexa rank |
 15,506 (April 2014[update]) |
| Registration | Optional |
| Launched | March 15, 2009 |
| Current status | Active |
IrishCentral.com is the sister website to the Irish-American publications Irish Voice newspaper and Irish America magazine. It went live on Sunday, March 15, 2009 after a launch in New York City which was attended by the New York Times, Irish Taoiseach Brian Cowen and others.
The website markets itself as a website for the global Irish diaspora.Niall O'Dowd, at the website's launch, said that the purpose of the website was to: “[Call] out to the global Irish, wherever they may be, to come home to this very special place. On IrishCentral.com, our worldwide audience will be able to discover or rediscover their Irishness, to connect again to their special and wondrous heritage. We are hoping to do what has never been done before: use the power of the Internet to create a home for the global Irish."
The website mixes original content with content reproduced from the Irish Voice newspaper, Irish America magazine and Home and Away (newspaper)
The website covers a broad diversity of areas. Most news on the site has a connection to Irish-America, or Irish-American celebrities, politics, history, travel, and genealogy.
The website also contains online reproductions of online articles from the Irish Voice newspaper and Irish America magazine.
The website is run out of the offices of the Irish Voice in downtown Manhattan, New York. Reporters with the Irish Voice sometimes write for the website; the website also has its own dedicated writing and editorial team.
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