Alpha Newspaper Group is a

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, primarily involved in

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publishing and radio broadcasting, in

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. The company's headquarters are in Moygashel near

Dungannon Dungannon (, ) is a town in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland. It is the second-largest town in the county (after Omagh) and had a population of 16,282 at the United Kingdom Census 2011, 2021 Census. The Dungannon and South Tyrone Borough Counci ...

County Tyrone County Tyrone (; ) is one of the six counties of Northern Ireland, one of the nine counties of Ulster and one of the thirty-two traditional counties of Ireland. Its county town is Omagh. Adjoined to the south-west shore of Lough Neagh, the cou ...

Ownership

The group is partly owned, and chaired, by businessman and retired

Ulster Unionist The Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) is a unionist political party in Northern Ireland. The party was founded as the Ulster Unionist Council in 1905, emerging from the Irish Unionist Alliance in Ulster. Under Edward Carson, it led unionist oppositi ...

politician

John Taylor, Baron Kilclooney John David Taylor, Baron Kilclooney, PC (NI) (born 24 December 1937), is a Northern Irish unionist politician who was deputy leader of the Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) from 1995 to 2001, and the Member of Parliament (MP) for Strangford from ...

. Alpha Newspaper Group previously owned two newspapers in County Offaly (Tullamore and Midland Tribune) in the

Republic of Ireland Ireland ( ), also known as the Republic of Ireland (), is a country in Northwestern Europe, north-western Europe consisting of 26 of the 32 Counties of Ireland, counties of the island of Ireland, with a population of about 5.4 million. ...

. In April 2019, Alpha Newspapers sold these titles to

Iconic Newspapers Iconic Newspapers is a British-owned newspaper company that publishes over 20 regional newspapers in Ireland. Iconic Newspapers are owned by Mediaforce who are majority owned by British businessman Malcolm Denmark. Iconic Newspapers hold their n ...

subject to regulatory approval.

Titles published

Northern Ireland

Newspapers

* ''Ballyclare Gazette'' * ''Ballymena Guardian'' * '' Carrickfergus Advertiser'' * '' Larne Gazette'' * ''Northern Constitution'' * ''The Outlook'' * '' Strabane Weekly News and Donegal Reporter'' * '' Tyrone Constitution'' * '' Tyrone Courier'' * '' Ulster Gazette'' * '' Coleraine Chronicle'' * ''Ballymena Chronicle'' * ''Ballycastle Chronicle'' * ''Limavady Chronicle'' * ''Antrim Guardian'' * ''

Newry Democrat The ''Newry Democrat'' is a full colour newspaper serving Newry, County Down, Northern Ireland. It was published by Thomas Crosbie Holdings and in 2010 was acquired by the Alpha Newspaper Group, owned by John Taylor, Baron Kilclooney John ...

'' * The Ulster Unionist News

Radio stations

Alpha Newspapers, ''

The Irish News ''The Irish News'' is a Compact (newspaper), compact daily newspaper based in Belfast, Northern Ireland. It is Northern Ireland's largest-selling morning newspaper and is available throughout Ireland. It is broadly Irish nationalist in its viewp ...

'' and

River Media River Media is an Irish media group that was founded in 2005. It operated local newspapers and local news websites in County Donegal, County Londonderry and County Kildare. River Media was based in Letterkenny, County Donegal, but it also had ...

are part of the consortium Northern Media Group, which operates six radio stations in Northern Ireland: * Q Radio Belfast * Q Mid Antrim 107 * Q Mid Ulster 106 *

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* Q101.2 * Q97.2

Former Republic of Ireland

* ''Midland Tribune'' (Acquired from Midlands Tribune, sold to

) * ''Tullamore Tribune'' (Acquired from Midlands Tribune, sold to

) * Roscommon Champion (Closed) * Longford News (closed) * Athlone Voice (closed)

References

External links

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{{Northern Ireland newspapers Newspapers published in Northern Ireland Mass media companies of Northern Ireland Mass media in County Tyrone