Type of site News & blogging Key people Niall O'Dowd, Founder> Alexa rank 15,506 (April 2014) Founded March 2009 Number of employees 8 | Available in English, Website www.irishcentral.com Founder Niall O'Dowd Owner Niall O'Dowd | |
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Area served Irish diaspora worldwide Headquarters New York City, New York, United States Profiles | ||
IrishCentral.com is the sister website to the Irish-American publications Irish Voice newspaper and Irish America magazine. It went live on Sunday, March 15, 2009 after a launch in New York City which was attended by the New York Times, Irish Taoiseach Brian Cowen and others.
Contents
The website markets itself as a website for the global Irish diaspora. Niall O'Dowd, at the website's launch, said that the purpose of the website was to: “[Call] out to the global Irish, wherever they may be, to come home to this very special place. On IrishCentral.com, our worldwide audience will be able to discover or rediscover their Irishness, to connect again to their special and wondrous heritage. We are hoping to do what has never been done before: use the power of the Internet to create a home for the global Irish."
The website mixes original content with content reproduced from the Irish Voice newspaper, Irish America magazine and Home and Away (newspaper)
Coverage
The website covers a broad diversity of areas. Most news on the site has a connection to Irish-America, or Irish-American celebrities, politics, history, travel, and genealogy.
The website also contains online reproductions of online articles from the Irish Voice newspaper and Irish America magazine.
Team
The website is run out of the offices of the Irish Voice in downtown Manhattan, New York. Reporters with the Irish Voice sometimes write for the website; the website also has its own dedicated writing and editorial team.