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Limerick Leader

Newspaper in Limerick, Ireland

Field	Value
name	Limerick Leader
image	Limerick Leader.jpg
type	Weekly newspaper
owner	Iconic Newspapers
editor	Aine Fitzgerald
news_editor	Jerome O'Connell
custom_label	Advertising
custom_data	Gary Toohey
founded	1889
language	English
headquarters	29 Glentworth St, Limerick
ISSN	1649-8992
website
publishing_country	Ireland
publishing_city	Limerick

''Limerick Leader'' offices, O'Connell Street

The Limerick Leader is a weekly local newspaper in Limerick, Ireland. It was founded in 1889. The newspaper is headquartered on Glentworth Street in the City.

The broadsheet paper currently is distributed in three editions, City, County and West, with a small selection of content differing between the three. The newspaper also has a Monday tabloid paper, City based, with a cover price of 1 euro.

In the 1950s, the Limerick Leader bought a rival newspaper the Limerick Chronicle. The Limerick Chronicle was founded in 1768 by John Ferrar who was a prominent bookseller and printer in Limerick. The Limerick Chronicle is the longest running newspaper in Ireland. In 2018, the Limerick Chronicle went from a stand alone newspaper published on a Tuesday to a supplement in the weekend edition of the Limerick Leader.

The paper is owned by Iconic Newspapers, which acquired Johnston Press's titles in the Republic of Ireland in 2014.

Notable contributors

Margaret Moloney, hailed as Ireland's first and oldest serving harbour master, was a journalist and contributed local news from Glin, Co Limerick as 'Our Glin Correspondent'.

References

Keane, Conor. (2002-12-05). "Limerick Leader sold for €23m". [[Irish Examiner]].
O’Shaughnessy, Denis. (2018-04-04). "Making the papers – An Irishman's Diary on 250 years of the 'Limerick Chronicle'". [[The Irish Times]].
"Johnston Press sells its 14 titles in the Republic". The Irish Times.
First lady of the Estuary, Martin Byrnes, Limerick Leader, 28 March 1998, p8
Slater, S (2022). 100 Women of Limerick. Ormston House. p206-207.

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