Hayes launches new local paper to target Lucan

LIAM HAYES, the founder of The Title and the now defunct Dublin Daily News, has launched a new newspaper to serve the Dublin suburb of Lucan.

The Lucan Gazette went on sale yesterday and expects to sell 7,000 copies a week in the area, which has a population of 40,000 and growing. Mr Hayes said this massive area of the city was still expanding and that its community was not being served by the national press.

The paper plans to build its market shares to around 75% in the next couple of weeks. The figure is in line with the market share held by other papers in Leinster.