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 Front page of the Evening Press, 1 September 1954 | |
| Type | Evening newspaper |
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| Format | broadsheet |
| Owner | Irish Press Ltd. |
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| Founded | 1954 (1954) |
| Ceased publication | 1995 (1995) |
| Political alignment | |
| Headquarters | Burgh Quay, Dublin |
TheEvening Press was an Irish newspaper which was printed from 1954 until 1995. It was set up byÉamon de Valera'sIrish Press group, and was originally edited byDouglas Gageby.[1] Its principal competitor was theEvening Herald, which had been operating in Dublin as the one of only two evening papers since the demise of theEvening Telegraph in 1924.
TheEvening Press was an instant success, and contributed to the financial losses and eventual closure of theEvening Mail in 1962. TheEvening Press heavily outsold theEvening Herald for most of its life also, particularly outside Dublin. It peaked at sales of 175,000 copies a day.
The poor performance ofThe Irish Press, particularly after its unsuccessful relaunch in 1988, was a severe drain on the whole Irish Press Group, and probably damaged theEvening Press brand, although it continued to perform better in the evening newspaper market than its sister paper did in the morning market. It retained a loyal following due in part to the popularity of columnists such as sports writerCon Houlihan, although it struggled to generate advertising revenue. It also featured the prolific cartoonist,Till (George O'Callaghan) who published nearly 10,000 cartoons in the paper between 1956 and 1992.
Other journalists who worked for the paper were the award-winning journalist and authorClare Boylan,Seán Cronin (sub editor), Matt Farrell (deputy editor) who also went under the pseudonym Sir Ivor with racing tips,Ed Moloney, the financial journalist Des Crowley, Sean McCann, former senatorJohn Horgan andVincent Browne.
The collapse of Irish Press Newspapers in 1995, however, led immediately to the closure of all three newspapers in the group.
Editors includedDouglas Gageby (1954–1959),[2] Conor O'Brien (1959–1970), Sean Ward (1970–1992) and Richard O'Riordan who was the newspaper's final editor.
With the demise of theEvening Press in the 1990s, theEvening Herald became the only nationwide Irish evening newspaper. It later changed its name toThe Herald, dropping its status as an evening paper.
The newspaper was made online viaIrish Newspaper Archives on July 29, 2020.
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