Sunday World
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| Type | Sunday newspaper |
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| Format | Tabloid |
| Owner(s) | Independent News and Media |
| Editor | Colm MacGinty |
| Founded | 1970s |
| Political alignment | Right wing populism |
| Headquarters | Talbot Street, Dublin |
| Website | www.sundayworld.com |
The Sunday World is an Irish newspaper published by Sunday Newspapers Limited, a division of Independent News & Media. It is the second largest selling "popular" newspaper in the Republic of Ireland and is also sold in Northern Ireland (where a modified edition with more stories relevant to that region is produced).
In 2012, a voluntary redundancy scheme was put in place, which was oversubscribed. In early 2013, it was announced that The Irish Daily Star and the Sunday World will start to share some functions.
In 2014, another redundancy scheme was announced. The redundancy scheme was due to the sharing of functions with the Herald.
Instead of the normal Sunday World on Sunday for the issue of December 25, 2016 a special Christmas edition will be published on Saturday December 24 with an early deadline of 2.00 p.m. on Friday December 23 for copy. As always the case when Sunday is Christmas Day.
The Sunday World was Ireland's first tabloid newspaper. It was launched in 1973 by Hugh McLaughlin and Gerry McGuinness. It broke new ground in terms of layout, content, agenda, columnists, and use of sexual imagery. It is currently the biggest selling tabloid newspaper in Ireland with combined sales north and south of around 210,000 copies each week. Its readership on the island is over one million people.
In 2001, a journalist working for the paper in Northern Ireland, Martin O'Hagan, was killed by Loyalist paramilitaries in Lurgan, Co Armagh. O'Hagan was the first journalist to draw attention to the activities of Billy Wright. Wright lived only a few miles from O'Hagan in north Armagh, and had attempted to have the journalist murdered in 1992. The threat was sufficient to cause O'Hagan to temporarily move to the Sunday World office in Dublin, and then to Cork. He continued working for the newspaper, returning to his family in Lurgan in the late 1990s. When killed, O'Hagan became the first reporter covering the Northern Ireland conflict to be killed by paramilitaries.
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