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The Irish Independent is an Irish daily newspaper and online publication which is owned by Independent News & Media (INM), a subsidiary of Mediahuis. The newspaper version often includes glossy magazines. [2] Traditionally a broadsheet newspaper, it introduced an additional compact size in 2004.
Irish Taoiseach Simon Harris and UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer in July 2024. Since at least 1542, England and later Great Britain and Ireland have been connected politically, reaching a height in 1801 with the creation of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
This is a list of members of the House of Commons of the United Kingdom who were elected as independents or as a member of a minor political party.. Excluded are the speaker, who traditionally stands for re-election without party affiliation, and MPs who were elected representing a major party but then defected or had the whip removed during a parliamentary term.
Many Irish republicans blamed the British establishment for the sectarian divisions in Ireland, and believed that Ulster Unionist defiance would fade once British rule was ended. [44] In an attempt to bring about the secession of Ireland from the UK, the Irish War of Independence began on 21 January 1919 with the Soloheadbeg ambush.
This treaty created a division in Irish nationalism and resulted in the Irish Civil War between the Provisional Government of Ireland and the Anti-Treaty faction of the Irish Republican Army. The union of Great Britain with most of Ulster was renamed the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland in 1927, and is known by this name to ...
The group launched Independent Colleges, which has its base on Dublin's Dawson Street, in 2007, and sold its education division in 2014. The Irish Daily Star, formerly 50% owned by INM, was sold to Reach plc, parent of the Daily Star in the UK, in 2020. In 2022, the Fingal Independent was closed. [30]
Many English-language newspapers have Irish-language columns, including: An Phoblacht; Irish Independent – on Wednesdays includes the newspaper Seachtain; Connaught Telegraph; Evening Echo – weekly Irish-language segment; Irish Echo; Irish Daily Star (column on Saturdays) Irish News; The Irish Times
Most of Ireland gained independence from the United Kingdom following the Anglo-Irish War in the early 20th century. Initially formed as a Dominion called the Irish Free State in 1922, the Republic of Ireland became a fully independent nation state following the passage of the Statute of Westminster in 1931.