Irish Examiner at 180: Support strong, independent media

Front page covering Golfgate, August 22, 2020.

Although this newspaper’s offices were twice ransacked, once by British troops and once by anti-treaty forces, and although the spectre of becoming obituary fodder has been very real since the internet hosted its very first cut-and-paste news site, all newspapers are now more threatened than ever. 

This is also the reality faced by established television and radio services. Evolving technologies and shifting commercial opportunity are partially behind this but the main driver is political — just as it was when John Francis Maguire first published The Cork Examiner 180 years ago. His intent was entirely political and our independence made that intent real.