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14 unusual facts about Irish Independent


Arkle Challenge Trophy

It was backed by Guinness from 1994 to 1999, and from 2000 to 2011 it was sponsored by the Irish Independent newspaper.

Audrey Carville

In 2011, Kim Bielenberg said in the Irish Independent that Carville would be a natural replacement for Miriam O'Callaghan at RTÉ.

Conor McAnally

McAnally joined Independent Newspapers in Dublin in 1970 as a junior reporter and worked for the daily Irish Independent, Evening Herald and the weekly Sunday Independent.

Declan Cassidy

In 2005 Cassidy teamed up with three-time ESB Media Award winning journalist Bill Tyson of the Irish Independent to establish Timesnap, a film production company.

Denis Cotter

On 7 March 2009, the Irish Independent listed Cotter, alongside Neven Maguire of the MacNean Restaurant, Brian McCann of Shu and Martin Shanahan of Fishy Fishy Cafe, as a chef whom many would be surprised to learn has no Michelin stars to his name and never has had.

Iona National Airways

Iona was on the front line, even the ever-upsetting images of the Stardust Disco tragedy from the air, which have never been forgotten, and have been immortalised in the recent Irish Independent "100 Years Of" magazine; were taken from an Iona aircraft.

Miriam Lord

She previously worked for rival broadsheet, the Irish Independent.

New York Dog

He then set up the New York Dog magazine, which he promoted on The Late Late Show, and a New York City-based website, blogorrah.com, which was described by the Irish Independent as "a sort of Phoenix without portfolio".

Parker Green

Parker Green's Gerard O'Hare was in third position in an Irish Independent list of the "Top Twenty Irish property tycoons".

Ryan McHugh

A former county minor, Colm Keys of the Irish Independent named him as the third of his "ten young guns aiming to fire in the league" ahead of the 2013 National Football League.

Senan Molony

He has also been Deputy Political Editor for the Irish Independent.

Shaun Doherty

In 2011, Kim Bielenberg said in the Irish Independent that Doherty would be a natural replacement for Joe Duffy on RTÉ Radio 1's Liveline.

Stan Gebler Davies

Stanley Gebler Davies (Dublin, 16 July 1943 - Dalkey, Ireland, 23 June 1994) was a journalist with the Irish Independent as well as with various British magazines (including Punch, The Evening Standard, The Daily Telegraph and The Spectator).

The Empty Family

Bryan Lynch wrote in the Irish Independent that the "stories are always intensely interesting and sometimes profoundly provocative", noting that the sexually frank depictions required great courage.


Dylan McGrath

Whilst promoting Guerrilla Gourmet, he appeared on the television chat show Tubridy Tonight and sparked off a row with his rival chef Kevin Dundon over his mistreatment of staff in his Pressure Cooker show, an argument which was described by the Irish Independent as being serious enough to "achieve the rare feat of having that show discussed at water coolers days later".

JFK in Ireland

The Irish Independent newspaper published two supplements based on Tubridy's research alongside input from historians Tim Pat Coogan and Diarmaid Ferriter on the day of the launch and the following day.

Neven Maguire

John Masterson, writing in the Irish Independent, accused Liveline of "manufacturing" the fight, called the radio show a "kangaroo-court" and questioned why football manager Giovanni Trapattoni ("who had one more model than Neven in the same paper") was not equally guilty according to the feminists.

Patrick McKeown

In 1997, shortly after graduating from Trinity College in Dublin with a Master Degree in Economics, Political Science and Social Studies, came across a publication in The Irish Independent, which was describing experimental breathing technique discovered in Russia by a Moscow physiologist Konstantin Buteyko.

Tony Connelly

Connelly has written for other agencies and publications, including Time, United Press International and the Irish Independent.