No ‘Examiner’ publication for first time since 1972

The lack of a print edition of the Irish Examiner yesterday was one of the very rare occasions in the newspaper’s history not to print.

While online and digital services continued during Storm Emma on Thursday and Friday, the decision not to print was taken in anticipation of the dangerous road conditions facing drivers distributing the Irish Examiner and its sister paper, Cork’s Evening Echo.

In November 1972, journalists at both papers took part in a 24-hour stoppage in protest around the jailing of RTÉ journalist Kevin O’Kelly. He spent two nights in jail after being found in contempt of court for refusing to answer questions about the tape of his radio interview with IRA chief Seán Mac Stíofáin, and staff on daily newspapers in Dublin also went out in solidarity.