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The Irish Catholic is an Irish weekly Catholic newspaper, providing news and commentary about the Roman Catholic Church. The 24-page tabloid paper is delivered worldwide.
   The newspaper is managed by a Private Limited Company and is independent of the Catholic hierarchy in Ireland. The Irish Catholic was founded in 1888 by Timothy Daniel Sullivan, a former Lord Mayor of Dublin and an Irish Parliamentary Party MP at Westminster. A number of the paper's early staff, including Patrick Fogarty, had worked at The Nation newspaper.
   William Francis Dennehy, who ran the paper from 1888 until his death in 1917, is often regarded as the founder. Dennehy was an outspoken anti-Parnellite and supporter of TM Healy; an editorial which he published on the death of Charles Stewart Parnell, implying that the dead man had probably gone to Hell, was widely criticised. Dennehy was a close associate of William Martin Murphy.
   Leo Fogarty, Patrick’s son, was managing director of The Irish Catholic from 1936 until 1977.
   John Ryan was editor from 1936 until 1981, the longest-serving editor in the history of the publication.

Recent events

When David Quinn resigned in 2003 to work for the Irish Independent, Simon Rowe, a member of Opus Dei, was appointed as editor. Simon Rowe resigned after only nine months with the newspaper, over the publication of an article that criticised the Irish bishops' conference. Following Rowe's departure, Hermann Kelly edited the paper from June 2004 to January 1, 2005, and during this time weekly cirulation increased from an average of 26,128 to 27,177 copies-Irish Catholic, December 2, 2004, page 24-. As someone who had previously written for "The Sunday Business Post" and "Magill" Magazine, before he came to The Irish Catholic, Kelly entered into public debate with prominent national figures, and took a different stance from the Irish bishops on the matter of the EU and the Citizenship referendum. The Board of Directors then appointed Garry O'Sullivan as editor, and he took up his post in January 2005. He is a former reporter with the paper and communications manager with the Jesuits in Ireland

Polish content

In July 2006 the newspaper added a section in Polish to cater for the massive influx of Polish migrants into Ireland.

Sale

According to a report in The Irish Independent' on Friday March 2, 2007, The Irish Farmers' Journal is about to buy The Irish Catholic. http://www.unison.ie/irish_independent/stories.php3?ca=184&si=1786588&issue_id=15321
According to The Irish Independent of March 29, 2007, The takeover of The Irish Catholic by the Irish Farmers Journal is complete. http://www.unison.ie/irish_independent/stories.php3?ca=9&si=1801640&issue_id=15420
Trivia
The Irish Catholic has only failed to appear on one occasion, during the 1916 Easter Rising against British rule in Ireland during which Dublin was in chaos.

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