The Irish News

The Irish News
The Irish News, 23 February 2007
TypeDaily newspaper
FormatOriginally Broadsheet, then Berliner but Compact since 2005
OwnerFitzpatrick family
FounderBishop Patrick MacAlister
PublisherThe Irish News Ltd
EditorChris Sherrard
Founded15 August 1891
LanguageEnglish, Irish
HeadquartersFountain Centre, College Street
Belfast, Northern Ireland
Circulation20,857 (as of August 2025)
Websitewww.irishnews.com

The Irish News is a compact daily newspaper based in Belfast, Northern Ireland. It is Northern Ireland's largest-selling morning newspaper and is available throughout Ireland. It is broadly Irish nationalist in its viewpoint, though it also features unionist columnists.