Irish Examiner
The Irish Examiner is a national daily newspaper founded in 1841 and based in Cork, owned since 2018 by The Irish Times Group. It is a centre-left broadsheet with strong coverage of Munster and national affairs.
Irish Examiner at a glance
- Country
- Ireland
- Region
- Northern Europe · Europe
- Kind of outlet
- Daily newspaper
- Editorial leaning
- Left-leaning
- Founded
- 1841
- Owner
- The Irish Times Group
- Published from
- Cork
- Website
- irishexaminer.com ↗
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Is Irish Examiner left-leaning, right-leaning or centrist?
Irish Examiner is generally regarded as left-leaning in its editorial orientation, according to widely cited media-bias assessments of Ireland's press. In Ireland, RTÉ News and BreakingNews.ie are listed as Centrist, while Irish Independent is listed as Right-leaning — so you can open Irish Examiner beside a title of a different orientation and compare the same day's front pages directly.
Read Irish Examiner beside another title from Ireland and the differences show up fastest in what leads the page. Two dailies from Ireland covering the same day will usually agree on the facts and differ on the ordering: which story is worth the top of the page, how the headline characterises it, and which follow-ups get space. Those are Irish Examiner's editorial choices, and they are easiest to see side by side. Because Irish Examiner is listed as left-leaning, the sharpest contrast is usually a right-leaning title from Ireland on the same morning: the facts rarely differ, but which consequence is treated as the story often does.
This is an approximate orientation, not a definitive judgement — and not a rating of quality or accuracy. Read how Crosswire classifies editorial leanings, including the sources behind each label. Directory last reviewed . Think this label is wrong? Suggest a correction.
Where Irish Examiner sits in Ireland's press
Irish Examiner was founded in 1841, is published from Cork and is owned by The Irish Times Group. It is one of 6 outlets tracked in Ireland, and one of 3 daily newspapers among them — the others being The Irish Times and Irish Independent. By outlets tracked, Ireland ranks ninth of the 45 countries on Crosswire's Europe hub, which lists 264 outlets in all.
Across Europe, Crosswire tracks 109 of the 396 daily newspapers in the directory. The nearest counterparts to Irish Examiner outside Ireland, starting with Northern Europe, are Politiken (Denmark), Helsingin Sanomat (Finland), Postimees (Estonia) and Diena (Latvia). Opening one of them beside Irish Examiner is the quickest way to see what is a house style and what is a national one.
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