Slugger is reporting that Daily Ireland, the all-Ireland (but Ulster-focused) daily newspaper has folded.
The collapse comes as little surprise in reality; the NI newspaper market is already quite well served and a new newspaper that fails to target a unique niche was always going to be in difficulty. Outside of Ulster the newspaper tended to read as an ex-pat publication; something to keep travelling NI citizens up to date in their hometown. As it is both the Newsletter and the Irish News serve their communities quite well and the Sinn Fein connection didn’t help DI to endear itself to many people either; I’d imagine many people saw it as only slightly more credible than An Phoblacht, however fair that may be.
I wonder if MáirtÃn will keep blogging…
Update: RTÉ are confirming the story; 15 jobs to go with the last issue being published on Friday. Ó Muilleoir said the company had ‘run out of cash and run out of road’.