Type Weekly newspaper Owner(s) Paddy Cowan Headquarters North London | Format Tabloid Founded 1987 | |
Political alignment Irish community in Britain | ||
The Irish World is a weekly newspaper for Irish people in Britain and their families. It was established in 1987 by Paddy Cowan and is edited by Bernard Purcell. Its office is located at 934 North Circular Road, in London.
It is a full colour tabloid, usually between 40 and 56 pages, published 51 weeks a year each Wednesday. It has a circulation of just under 20,000 copies a week across the UK and Ireland.
It puts particular emphasis on sports including GAA Hurling and Football, music – notably, country music but also traditional Irish music - and Irish dancing, as well as local business and news. It is independent and not aligned to any political party in the UK or Ireland.
The Irish World is the official media partner for London GAA.
Its main subscriber base is in the nearby local communities of Brent, Barnet, Westminster, Ealing, Hammersmith and Fulham, Shepherds Bush, Harrow, Finchley, Barnet, Acton, Chiswick, Wembley and Hertfordshire, Surrey, Essex and Kent. It is also has additional subscriber bases in Liverpool, Manchester, Birmingham and Leeds, Belfast, Derry, Kerry and Galway.
It hosted the Irish World Awards until the closure of The Galtymore dance hall in Cricklewood in 2008. Those awards were revived at the Novotel Hotel in Hammersmith, for a once-off special 25th anniversary event in 2012.