‘Cultural differences’ behind move by newspaper to drop topless Page 3 girls

Topless Page 3 girls have been removed from the Irish edition of The Sun despite the decision of its British sister paper to retain the controversial concept.

The editor of The Irish Sun, Paul Clarkson, said subtle “cultural differences” between Britain and Ireland were behind the decision, and that topless women had been phased out from the newspaper in the past number of weeks.

“Ireland isn’t Britain. We like the same football teams, chocolate bars, TV shows, but we have different needs in a paper. Our own readers never really had a problem with page three.”