| Connacht Tribune - Galway City Tribune | |
| Type: | Weekly newspaper |
| Format: | Original Broadsheet but Tabloid since 2014. |
| Owners: | --> |
| Founders: | --> Tom 'Cork' Kenny |
| Language: | English |
| Headquarters: | 21 Liosbán Business Park, Tuam Road, Galway |
| Publishing Country: | Ireland |
| Publishing City: | Galway |
The Connacht Tribune (An Curadh Connachtach) is a newspaper circulating chiefly in County Galway, Ireland.
The main regional newspaper for the county, the Tribune Group prints two titles every week - the Connacht Tribune on Thursday and the Galway City Tribune on Friday. Connacht Tribune Group newspapers are circulated in every district of the City and every town and village in the County. its weekly readership is over 150,000.
In 1925, the Connacht Tribune stable began publishing the Connacht Sentinel, which was joined in 1984 by the Galway City Tribune. The Connacht Sentinel ceased publication in 2014.[1] [2] Since then, the Connacht Tribune has focused mainly on news relating to the county of Galway. In addition to a number of staff journalists, the paper also employs a number of reporters around the county for specific regional coverage.
John Cunningham was editor from 1984 to 2007.[3]
As of 2004, former hurler John McIntyre was sports editor of the Connacht Tribune.[4]
In 2006 the newspaper purchased Galway's local radio station, Galway Bay FM.[5]
On Friday October 11, 2013, was the last broadsheet-size Galway City Tribune; on October 18 it moved to tabloid. On Thursday March 27, 2014, the last big Connacht Tribune hit the shops reduced on Thursday April 3.
In 2014, the final edition of the Connacht Sentinel was published. [6]
The Tribunes archives are available online to view any issue of the Connacht Tribune since its inception in 1909. The archive is free of charge for the first two visits here.
On February 29, 2024, the paper will publish Leap year birthdays.
The editor of the Connacht Tribune is Dave O'Connell and the Galway City Tribunes editor is Enda Cunningham. The Chairman is Peter Allen.