{{short description|Irish newspaper}} {{Use Hiberno-English|date=March 2020}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2018}} {{More citations needed|talk=y|date=August 2008}} {{Infobox newspaper | logo = Sw logo.JPG | logo_size = 100px | image = | type = Sunday newspaper | format = Tabloid | founded = 1973 | owners = Independent News and Media who are a subsidiary of Mediahuis<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.irishtimes.com/business/media-and-marketing/the-page-turns-at-inm-as-it-ponders-a-digital-future-1.3974231 |title=The page turns at INM as it ponders a digital future|newspaper=The Irish Times }}</ref> | political_position = | circulation = 75,000 <ref name="Some Newspaper Sales update">{{cite web | url=https://ilevel.ie/print/some-newspaper-sales-update/ | title=Some Newspaper Sales update | date=27 June 2023 }}</ref> | headquarters = Talbot Street, Dublin | editor = Brian Farrell | ISSN = | website = {{URL|https://www.sundayworld.com/|sundayworld.com}} }} The '''''Sunday World''''' is an Irish newspaper published by Independent News & Media.<ref>{{cite web|title=Independent News & Media (INM)|url=https://www.mediahuis.ie/inm/|access-date=2021-08-12|website=Mediahuis|language=en-US}}</ref> It is the second largest selling "popular" newspaper in the Republic of Ireland,<ref>{{cite web|date=2019-02-22|title=Irish Newspaper Circulation July-Dec 2018 Island of Ireland Report|url=https://ilevel.ie/print/irish-newspaper-circulation-july-dec-2018-island-of-ireland-report/|access-date=2021-08-12|website=ilevel Media, Marketing and Development|language=en-GB}}</ref> and is also sold in Northern Ireland where a modified edition with more stories relevant to that region is produced. It was first published on 25 March 1973.<ref>{{cite web|title=Sunday World Cover – Issue 1 – March 1973 – Brand New Retro|date=12 February 2012 |url=https://brandnewretro.ie/2012/02/12/sunday-world-cover-issue-1-march-1973/|access-date=2021-08-12|language=en-GB}}</ref> Until 25 December 1988 all editions were printed in Dublin but since 1 January 1989 a Northern Ireland edition has been published and an English edition has been printed in London since March 1992.
==Origins== The ''Sunday World'' was Ireland's first tabloid newspaper. Hugh McLaughlin and Gerry McGuinness launched it on 25 March 1973.{{citation needed|date=June 2020}} It broke new ground in layout, content, agenda, columnists and use of sexual imagery.
In 1976 and 1982 it was the only newspaper in the country published on Saint Stephen's Day.{{citation needed|date=June 2020}}
The title also publishes a separate Northern Ireland newspaper edition.
It is owned by Independent News & Media, a subsidiary of Mediahuis.<ref>{{cite web|title=Sunday World - Mediahuis|url=https://www.mediahuis.be/en/media/sunday-world/}}</ref>
==Developments== In 2012, a voluntary redundancy scheme was put in place, which was oversubscribed.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/finance/2013/0111/1224328669944.html |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130216072854/http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/finance/2013/0111/1224328669944.html|title=INM takes sole responsibility for 'Irish Daily Star' |url-status=dead |last=Slattery |first=Laura |date=11 January 2013 |newspaper=The Irish Times |archive-date=16 February 2013 }}</ref> In early 2013, it was announced that the ''Irish Daily Star'' and the ''Sunday World'' would start to share some functions.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.businesspost.ie/#!story/Home/Media+And+Marketing/Star+and+Sunday+World+to+share+functions/id/19410615-5218-50ef-0060-6b7f41643990|title=The Business Post}}</ref>
In 2014, another redundancy scheme was announced. The redundancy scheme was due to the sharing of functions with the ''Evening Herald''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.rte.ie/news/business/2014/0813/636911-inm-merging-editorial-functions-of-herald-world/|title=INM merging functions of Herald and Sunday World|date=13 August 2014|publisher=RTE}}</ref>
In March 2017, it was announced that INM are merging the ''Sunday World'' and ''The Herald'' newsrooms.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.irishtimes.com/business/media-and-marketing/inm-to-merge-herald-and-sunday-world-newsrooms-1.3005857?mode=sample&auth-failed=1&pw-origin=http://www.irishtimes.com/business/media-and-marketing/inm-to-merge-herald-and-sunday-world-newsrooms-1.3005857|title=INM to merge 'Herald' and 'Sunday World' newsrooms|last=Hancock|first=Ciarán|date=11 March 2017|newspaper=The Irish Times}}</ref> Later in 2017, INM announced that they were closing the ''Sunday World'' website.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.irishtimes.com/business/media-and-marketing/inm-ends-online-access-to-sunday-world-1.3225637|title=INM ends online access to 'Sunday World'|last=Slattery|first=Laura|date=19 September 2017|newspaper=The Irish Times}}</ref>
Issues from 14 June 1987 to 2006 are online at the British Newspaper Archive, Newspaper.com has issues (2002-now) and 2018 to date on the Irish News Archives.
==Investigative journalism== In 2001, a journalist working for the paper in Northern Ireland, Martin O'Hagan, was killed by Loyalist paramilitaries in Lurgan, Co Armagh. O'Hagan was the first journalist to draw attention to the activities of Billy Wright. Wright lived only a few miles from O'Hagan in north Armagh, and had attempted to have the journalist murdered in 1992. The threat was sufficient to cause O'Hagan to temporarily move to the ''Sunday World'' office in Dublin, and then to Cork. He continued working for the newspaper, returning to his family in Lurgan in the late 1990s. When killed, O'Hagan became the first reporter covering the Northern Ireland conflict to be killed by paramilitaries.<ref>McDonald, Henry. [https://www.theguardian.com/Northern_Ireland/Story/0,,560928,00.html "RUC chief blames loyalists for murder"]. ''The Guardian''. 1 October 2001</ref><ref>Cusack, Jim. [https://www.theguardian.com/obituaries/story/0,3604,560952,00.html "Obituary: Martin O'Hagan"]. ''The Guardian''. 1 October 2001</ref>
In 2005 the paper was sued by a well known Dublin criminal figure Martin "the Viper" Foley after it reported that he was a leading figure in gang related crime and had links with the IRA elements.{{citation needed|date=August 2008}} Foley argued that the report placed his life in jeopardy and sought to gag the paper. The attempt failed as the High Court rejected his allegations and refused to prevent further reporting.<ref>[http://www.rte.ie/news/2005/0128/foleym.html "Foley loses legal bid over newspaper articles"]. ''RTÉ News''. 28 January 2005.</ref>
In 2010 the paper won a landmark legal ruling when a privacy and defamation case taken by Ruth Hickey was dismissed by the President of the High Court Mr Justice Nicholas Kearns. The ruling copperfastened the importance of freedom of expression in Irish law and stated that it can only be outweighed by the right to privacy in limited circumstances. Mr Justice Kearns also defended the right of the newspaper to publish information that was clearly in the public domain on the internet (in this case the infamous "zip up your mickey" telephone voicemail rant by Twink whose husband had left her for Ms Hickey).
On 19 March 2006, ''Sunday World'' reporter Hugh Jordan tracked down former Sinn Féin official and MI5 and PSNI informant Denis Donaldson at a remote, rustic cottage in County Donegal.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2006/apr/10/mondaymediasection1 |title=Dispatches | Media |work=The Guardian |date=10 April 2006 |access-date=3 May 2010 |location=London}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/this-britain/the-execution-how-an-ira-man-turned-british-spy-met-his-brutal-end-472848.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121103220938/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/this-britain/the-execution-how-an-ira-man-turned-british-spy-met-his-brutal-end-472848.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=3 November 2012 |title=The Execution: How an IRA man turned British spy met his brutal end |work=The Independent |date=5 April 2006 |access-date=3 May 2010 |location=London |first=David |last=McKittrick}}</ref> Sixteen days later, Donaldson was murdered there, and the paper was heavily criticised for identifying and showing a photo of the location. In 2009 the Real IRA claimed responsibility for the killing.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.tribune.ie/news/home-news/article/2009/apr/12/how-real-ira-killed-denis-donaldson |title=Tribune News article, 2009 |work=Tribune.ie |date=12 April 2009 |access-date=3 May 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100203233806/http://www.tribune.ie/news/home-news/article/2009/apr/12/how-real-ira-killed-denis-donaldson/ |archive-date=3 February 2010 |df=dmy-all}}</ref>
On 1 November 2009, Northern Editor Jim McDowell attracted complaints to the Press Complaints Commission after the paper published on the front page the photograph of a man hanging from a bridge, having killed himself under the headline "Halloween Horror".<ref>{{cite news |last=Greenslade |first=Roy |url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/greenslade/2009/nov/02/local-newspapers-newspapers1 |title=Roy Greenslade: 50 complaints to PCC over Sunday World suicide picture |work=The Guardian |date=2 November 2009 |access-date=3 May 2010 |location=London}}</ref> McDowell claimed on Stephen Nolan's BBC Radio Ulster show on 2 November that it was meant to dissuade individuals thinking about suicide but the decision to publish was condemned by suicide awareness and support groups.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/8336911.stm |title=PSNI chief 'shocked' by picture |publisher=BBC News |date=2 November 2009 |access-date=3 May 2010}}</ref>
==Awards== In 2008, the newspaper won the prize for the Newspaper of the Year (Sunday) at the annual Chartered Institute of Public Relations Press and Broadcast Awards for Northern Ireland.<ref>{{cite web|title=Irish News crowned daily newspaper of the year |work=Hold the Front Page (29 April 2008) |url=http://www.holdthefrontpage.co.uk/awards/080429ciprawards.shtml |access-date=19 June 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080513052557/http://www.holdthefrontpage.co.uk/awards/080429ciprawards.shtml |archive-date=13 May 2008 |df=dmy}}</ref> The ''Sunday World'' Investigations Editor Nicola Tallant was named the Crime Reporter of the Year by the National Newspapers of Ireland three times, in 2012, 2016 and 2019.<ref>{{cite web|title=Newsbrands Ireland annual Journalism Awards winners|url=http://journalismawards.ie/previous-winners/}}</ref>
In 2016, The Sunday World won the prize for 'Scoop of the year' at the Newsbrands Ireland Journalist of the Year awards for its exclusive coverage of the Regency Hotel gangland murder.<ref>{{cite news|title=Full list of winners of NewsBrands Ireland journalism awards|newspaper=The Irish Times |url=https://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/full-list-of-winners-of-newsbrands-ireland-journalism-awards-1.2853557}}</ref>
Paddy Murray - Columnist of the Year (Popular) - 2016
Pat O'Connell – News reporter of the year – 2016<ref>{{cite news|title=INM reporters shortlisted for media awards|work=The Irish Independent|url=https://www.independent.ie/business/media/inm-reporters-shortlisted-for-media-awards-36222722.html}}</ref>
Eddie Rowley – Showbiz journalist of the year – 2019<ref name=":0">{{cite news|title=Independent News & Media scoop seven awards at 2019 Newsbrands Ireland Journalism event|work=Irish Independent|url=https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/news/independent-news-media-scoop-seven-awards-at-2019-newsbrands-ireland-journalism-event-38693137.html}}</ref>
Nicola Tallant – Crime journalist of the year – 2012,2016, 2019
Roy Curtis – Sport journalist of the year – 2013, 2019<ref name=":0" />
Alan Sherry – Crime story of the year – 2016<ref>{{cite news|title=Full list of winners of NewsBrands Ireland journalism awards|newspaper=The Irish Times|url=https://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/full-list-of-winners-of-newsbrands-ireland-journalism-awards-1.2853557}}</ref>
==Circulation== {{Bar chart | title = | table_width = 35 | label_type = Year (period) | data_type = Average circulation per issue | data1 = 308,848 | label1 = 1999 (January to June)<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.irishtimes.com/business/good-times-begin-to-roll-for-hard-pressed-newspaper-sector-1.217485|title=Good times begin to roll for hard-pressed newspaper sector|newspaper=The Irish Times }}</ref> | data2 = 311,000 | label2 = 2000<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.finfacts.ie/comment/vincentbrownevillage.htm|title = Vincent Browne, Village, Irish Politics, Current Affairs, Corruption, Magill, Government, Magazine, Investigation, Financial Times FT Magazine, John Lloyd, Investigations : Comment Finfacts Ireland}}</ref> | data3 = 285,214 | label3 = 2008 (July to December)<ref name="ilevel.ie">{{cite web|url=http://www.ilevel.ie/media-blog/print/10237-irish-sunday-newspaper-circulation-2009|title=Irish Sunday Newspaper Circulation 2009 - Media and Marketing Consulting, PPC, SEO Ireland, Search Engine Optimisation|website=www.ilevel.ie}}</ref> | data4 = 270,453 | label4 = 2009 (July to December)<ref name="ilevel.ie"/> | data5 = 250,667 | label5 = 2011 (January to December)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ilevel.ie/media-blog/print/sunday-newspaper-circulation-circulations-july-dec-2011/|title = Sunday Newspaper Circulation Circulations July Dec 2011|date = 23 February 2012}}</ref> | data6 = 208,281 | label6 = 2013 (July to December)<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ilevel.ie/media-blog/print/abc-sunday-newspaper-circulation-july-december-2013 |title=ABC Sunday Newspaper Circulation July December 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160112222705/http://www.ilevel.ie/media-blog/print/abc-sunday-newspaper-circulation-july-december-2013 |archive-date=12 January 2016 |website=iLevel|date=20 February 2014 }}</ref> | data7 = 178,867 | label7 = 2015 (January to June)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ilevel.ie/media-blog/print/abc-circulation-jan-june-2015 |title=ABC Sunday Newspaper Circulation January-June 2015 |website=ilevel |access-date=20 August 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150906174223/http://www.ilevel.ie/media-blog/print/abc-circulation-jan-june-2015 |archive-date=6 September 2015 }}</ref> | data8 = 175,060 | label8 = 2015 (July to December)<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.abc.org.uk/Certificates/47671885.pdf |title=The Herald (Series) |work=Paid Newspapers. Republic of Ireland Circulation Certificate |date=July–December 2015 |publisher=Audit Bureau of Circulations}}</ref> | data9 = 162,938 | label9 = 2016 (January to June)<ref>{{cite web |url=http://abc.org.uk/Certificates/47920167.pdf|title=The Herald (Series) |work=Paid Newspapers. Republic of Ireland Circulation Certificate |date=January–June 2016 |publisher=Audit Bureau of Circulations}}</ref> | data10 = 149,652 | label10 = 2016 (July to December)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ilevel.ie/media-blog/print/102928-irish-newspaper-circulation-july-dec-2016-island-of-ireland-report|title=Irish Newspaper Circulation July-Dec 2016 Island of Ireland Report - Media and Marketing Consulting, PPC, SEO Ireland, Search Engine Optimisation|first=Conor|last=Doyle|website=www.ilevel.ie|access-date=18 February 2017|archive-date=18 February 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170218144303/http://www.ilevel.ie/media-blog/print/102928-irish-newspaper-circulation-july-dec-2016-island-of-ireland-report|url-status=dead}}</ref> | data11 = 143,503 | label11 = 2017 (January to June)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.abc.org.uk/Certificates/48554400.pdf |title=Sunday World (Series) |work=Paid Newspapers. Republic of Ireland Circulation Certificate |date=January–June 2017 |publisher=Audit Bureau of Circulations}}</ref> | data12 = 133,946 | label12 = 2017 (July to December)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ilevel.ie/media-blog/print/102971-irish-newspaper-circulation-july-dec-2017-island-of-ireland-report-2|title=Irish Newspaper Circulation July-Dec 2017 Island of Ireland Report - Media and Marketing Consulting, PPC, SEO Ireland, Search Engine Optimisation|first=Conor|last=Doyle|website=www.ilevel.ie|access-date=22 February 2018|archive-date=6 November 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181106215005/http://www.ilevel.ie/media-blog/print/102971-irish-newspaper-circulation-july-dec-2017-island-of-ireland-report-2|url-status=dead}}</ref> | data13 = 130,083 | label13 = 2018 (January to June)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.abc.org.uk/Certificates/49060889.pdf |title=Sunday World (Series) |work=Paid Newspapers. Republic of Ireland Circulation Certificate |date=January–June 2018 |publisher=Audit Bureau of Circulations}}</ref> | data14 = 123,095 | label14 = 2018 (July to December)<ref name="abc.org.uk">{{cite web |url=https://www.abc.org.uk/Certificates/49256244.pdf |title=Sunday World (Series) |work=Paid Newspapers. Republic of Ireland Circulation Certificate |date=July–December 2018 |publisher=Audit Bureau of Circulations}}</ref> | data15 = 75,000 | label15 = 2023 (March)<ref name="Some Newspaper Sales update">{{cite web | url=https://ilevel.ie/print/some-newspaper-sales-update/ | title=Some Newspaper Sales update | date=27 June 2023 }}</ref>
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==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== *[https://archive.today/20130202084403/http://news.scotsman.com/opinion.cfm?id=1819492005 Scotsman: ''Brave journalism reveals Northern Ireland's underbelly'']
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