The ''Connacht Tribune'' (''An Curadh Connachtach'') is a newspaper circulating chiefly in

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for County Galway, 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 was over 150,000.

History

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. Since then, the ''Connacht Tribune'' has focused mainly on news relating to County 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. As of 2004, former hurler John McIntyre was sports editor of the ''Connacht Tribune''. In 2006 the newspaper purchased Galway's local radio station,

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. The last broadsheet-size ''

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'' was published on Friday 11 October 2013 and, on 18 October 2013, it moved to tabloid. On Thursday 27 March 2014, the last big ''Connacht Tribune'' hit the shops - reduced to tabloid on Thursday 3 April 2014. In 2014, the final edition of the ''Connacht Sentinel'' was published. The ''Tribune''s archives are available online to view any issue of the ''Connacht Tribune'' since its inception in 1909.

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