Newspapers and Magazines
The most widely read papers in the Republic are the heavyweight Irish Times and the lighter Irish Independent . High-quality but remarkably slim papers, they really bring home just how small the population is. The Times is the more upmarket, a liberal newspaper with comparatively good foreign-news coverage and plenty of feature material on home news and sport. A newcomer on the national scene, The Irish Examiner (formerly The Cork Examiner ), is, in its former provincial incarnation, the oldest daily published newspaper in the country; it has a softer focus with excellent local sports coverage. The Star is Ireland's tabloid, though the Sun and the Mirror both have an Irish edition. Sunday newspapers include the Times and Independent equivalents, the liberal Sunday Tribune and the more sensational Sunday World . British newspapers are generally available the same day in Dublin and other cities. Mostly conservative and varying widely in quality, there's a local daily paper in every county; some of the best are The Kerryman, The Donegal Democrat and The Kilkenny People . In the North , all the main British papers are sold. Of the newspapers produced in Northern Ireland, the biggest seller is the evening paper, the Belfast Telegraph, which has a soft unionist stance while the morning papers are the Irish News , read by the Nationalist community, and the Unionist tabloid News Letter .
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