{{Short description|Newspaper in Limerick, Ireland}} {{Use dmy dates|date=January 2022}} {{Use Hiberno-English|date=March 2020}} {{Infobox newspaper | name = Limerick Leader | school = | logo = | logo_size = | logo_alt = | 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 = {{URL|limerickleader.ie}} | publishing_country = Ireland | publishing_city = Limerick }} thumb|upright|''Limerick Leader'' offices, O'Connell Street The '''''Limerick Leader''''' is a weekly local newspaper in Limerick, Ireland. It was founded in 1889.<ref name="examiner">{{cite web|last=Keane |first=Conor |title=Limerick Leader sold for €23m |publisher=Irish Examiner |date=2002-12-05 |url=http://archives.tcm.ie/irishexaminer/2002/12/05/story697933530.asp |access-date=2008-07-17 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090326074639/http://archives.tcm.ie/irishexaminer/2002/12/05/story697933530.asp |archive-date=2009-03-26 }}</ref> 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.{{citation needed|date=January 2022}}
In the 1950s, the ''Limerick Leader'' bought a rival newspaper the ''Limerick Chronicle''. The ''Limerick Chronicle'' was founded in 1768 by John Ferrar <ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/making-the-papers-an-irishman-s-diary-on-250-years-of-the-limerick-chronicle-1.3449392|title=Making the papers – An Irishman's Diary on 250 years of the 'Limerick Chronicle'|newspaper=The Irish Times|first=Denis|last=O’Shaughnessy|date=2018-04-04|url-access=subscription}}</ref> 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''.{{citation needed|date=January 2022}}
The paper is owned by Iconic Newspapers, which acquired Johnston Press's titles in the Republic of Ireland in 2014.<ref>{{cite web | title = Johnston Press sells its 14 titles in the Republic | work = The Irish Times | access-date = 2014-08-22 | url = https://www.irishtimes.com/business/sectors/media-and-marketing/johnston-press-sells-its-14-titles-in-the-republic-1.1745888 }}</ref>
== 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'.<ref>First lady of the Estuary, Martin Byrnes, Limerick Leader, 28 March 1998, p8</ref><ref>Slater, S (2022). 100 Women of Limerick. Ormston House. p206-207.</ref>
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==External links== *{{official website|https://www.limerickleader.ie/}}
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