Sunday Independent (Ireland)
Sunday Independent Masthead
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| Type | Sunday newspaper |
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| Format | Broadsheet |
| Owner(s) | Independent News & Media |
| Editor | Cormac Bourke |
| Founded | 1906 |
| Political alignment |
Conservative Populist |
| Headquarters | Talbot Street, Dublin |
| Circulation | 199,210 (as of January–June 2016)) |
| Readership | 992,000 (27.6% of market) |
| Website | www |
The Sunday Independent is an Irish populist Sunday newspaper broadsheet published by Independent News & Media plc, under the control of Denis O'Brien.
It is the Sunday edition of the Irish Independent, and maintains an editorial position midway between magazine and tabloid.
The Sunday Independent was first published in 1905 as the Sunday edition of the Irish Independent. Following the creation of the Irish Free State, the Sunday Independent followed its daily counterpart's political line by supporting Cumann na nGaedheal and its successor Fine Gael.
From the 1940s until 1970, the paper was run by Hector Legge (1901–1994). Legge's time at the paper was notable for the Sunday Independent in 1948 leaking the news that the Irish government were going to leave the British Commonwealth by repealing the External Relations Act. Legge also published a series of articles by the writer Frank O'Connor (under the pseudonym "Ben Mayo") in the paper.
In the 1970s, under the editorship of Conor O'Brien, the Sunday Independent became known for a series of investigations by journalist Joe MacAnthony into the activities of the Irish Sweepstakes.
O'Brien was succeeded as editor in 1976 by Michael Hand. Aengus Fanning became editor following Hand's departure in 1984.
Anne Harris succeeded her husband Aengus Fanning after his death in January 2012.
On 20 December 2014, Harris ended her tenure as the Sunday Independent's editor; at her going-away party, the marketing department of Independent News and Media gave her a painting of the number "30%" to commemorate the fact Harris had raised the newspaper's circulation to 30% of the Irish market.
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