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Ireland on Sunday was a national Sunday newspaper published in Ireland from September 1997 until September 2006, when it was renamed the Irish Mail on Sunday.The newspaper was founded in 1996 as a sports-only newspaper called The Title, but was soon expanded into a general broadsheet Sunday newspaper with its founder, former County Meath Gaelic football player Liam Hayes, carrying on as editor.
Ireland on Sunday – replaced with Irish Mail on Sunday 2006; The Irish Citizen – closed 1920; Irish Daily Star Sunday – closed January 2011; The Irish Family – closed 2008; An Gaedheal – closed 1937; Metro Éireann - closed 2020; Irish News of the World – closed July 2011; The Sunday Journal; The Sunday Press – closed in 1995
Irish newspaper editors (2 C, 82 P) Evening newspapers published in Ireland (1 C, 5 P) J. ... Stars on Sunday (newspaper) The Irish Sun; The Sun (United Kingdom)
At the CIPR NI Media Awards in June 2016 the paper was awarded the Newspaper of the Year title, an award it had held in Northern Ireland for the previous two years. [5] In 2015 and 2017 Sunday Life was also awarded the UK Daily/Sunday Newspaper of the Year title (above 25,000) at the Society of Editors' Regional Press Awards in London.
The Sun is a British tabloid newspaper, published by the News Group Newspapers division of News UK, itself a wholly owned subsidiary of Lachlan Murdoch's News Corp. [ 9 ] [ 10 ] It was founded as a broadsheet in 1964 as a successor to the Daily Herald , and became a tabloid in 1969 after it was purchased by its current owner. [ 11 ]
Sport Newspapers was the British publishing firm responsible for the Daily Sport, Sunday Sport newspapers and a number of mid shelf and top shelf magazine titles, such as Adult Sport, Sport Babes, Sport Reader's Wives and Ladsmag. It was founded in 1986 by David Sullivan, to launch the newspaper Sunday Sport.
In 1926, RTÉ broadcast the first field game in Europe. The GAA match was broadcast live on the radio station 2RN, RTÉ's predecessor. RTÉ Sport is probably the second most significant of the categories since often hundreds of thousands would watch The Sunday Game, with probably more than a million watching on the day of the All-Ireland Final.
Discouragement of recreation on Sunday, the Christian Sabbath, was a feature of the Puritan Sabbatarianism of the 17th century, which influenced the Sunday Observance Act 1695 passed by the Parliament of Ireland, which made it illegal to take part in sports, stating, "by reason of tumultuous and disorderly meetings, which have been, and frequently are used on the Lord's-day, commonly called ...