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THE IRISH POST newspaper has been bought as a going concern by London-based Irish businessman Elgin Loane for an undisclosed sum.
The Post had been bought by Thomas Crosbie Holdings eight years ago but the group said in late August that it could no longer sustain “persistent trading losses” and would close the paper. Its circulation had reportedly fallen from 31,400 eight years ago to 17,100.
The weekly newspaper has served the Irish community in England for 40 years and employed 12 people at the time of its going into liquidation last month.
According to a group campaigning for the newspaper’s survival, Loane issued a statement today saying that that although it is too early to set out a detailed plan for the Irish Post, the publication will be available through newsagents again “very soon”.
Loane and his father Nelson Loane bought the Buy and Sell classified ads publication two years ago.
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They really were just expecting Ireland to just comply and make things easy for Britain. They got quite the shock. And if they think the negotiations are difficult now, I don’t think they’ve seen anything yet.
@JJ O Riordan: isn’t it great.
“want Britain to leave the single market and customs union, and see the Irish government’s attempts to avoid a hard border as denying them the kind of Brexit they want for the UK.”
They can blame themselves and the DUP for that. Isn’t it ironic that it is the six counties in the north that will ultimately deny them a hard border and they will be someway tied into the customs union and single market because of the north. It will hinder them as they are bound to the GFA. The North will be a headache for them. Karma I would say for occupying a part of a country that never belonged to them in the first place. On our side, all parties are united, calm and composed, on the british side, chaos.
And the DUP’s Nelson McCausland in an RTÉ interview referring to Enda Kennedy :)
@Stephen Duffy: he’s been called worse down here
Brexiteers were like kids who were let into a sweet shop and started crying because they got sick tummies when nobody came to drag them home. Now they are home alone with no dinner. What will they do next..
I wouldn’t pay a blind bit of notice to these things, a sure sign of childish behavior is to misspell a name or things like that – it normally exposes a weak position or as a defense mechanism . I did say it would be February before British politics sorts itself out but the DUP mentality will never again dominate the politics of our two islands like it did before in tone or in content but to be fair to them, they have opened up the influences of regional differences are more important than the weal Labour opposition.
So why all this sabre rattling from the Irish government when all it resulted in was the British government agreeing to not put in a hard border (which they never wanted to do in the first place) and affirming that there’d be no “special status” outside the UK for NI (which they’d left unsaid previously)?
Just a young leader who surprised the EU and UK with sudden unnecessary demands at the whims of the people who do his twitter account?
@Damocles: come on, you’re an intelligent enough fellow to realise what the last few days actually mean in the grand scheme of things. Ireland and the EU have been very firm in what they expect and the British have been scrambling around trying to ensure it’s complied to.
Whilst the wording is vague, at best, it’s set the tone and shown the UK how the negotiations will be played out
@John Flynn: yes. The UK has always offered a soft border to Ireland and Ireland has shown that it’ll bleat like a wounded sheep to get what was always being offered to it as if it wasn’t, wasting everyone’s time in the process. That’s beyond clear.
@John Flynn: Not intelligent at all, he merely spins a perspective while having no foresight and that becomes tedious. In the absence of a strong UK opposition, it turns out that the UK regions including London have discovered they have to do the job in the coming months. The fact that the DUP won’t represent the majority of their electorate speaks for itself but the had better start.
@Damocles: I think we have every right to push for what suits us as a country. Why shouldn’t we come out strong? We have every right to be suspicious of the British considering our history. I know things have moved on and we need to acknowledge that but we don’t need to be fools either.
I just wish we had represented ourselves like this during the troika years. I cant see anyone patting Varadkar or Coveney on the head like a pet poodle.
@Ser Barristan Selmy: You sound like a Unionist but then again you follow the scientific version of the brexiteers who make things up as they go along.
@Jane: what you were pushing for as a country was what was being offered in all May’s speeches on this subject. From her initial speech all the way through to Florence.
@Damocles: as we well know, what’s said and what’s written can be two very different things. Don’t be so naive
@John Flynn: so you got the UK to write down what it had always been saying in the report it would have been written in anyway. But with an additional commitment to not separate NI out from the rest of the UK.
Wow. That’s really standing up for yourselves.
@Damocles: so we should have accepted that? And when they changed their minds, caved to pressure, couldn’t find a way or left the EU without a deal, what then? Could we have gone to them licking our wounds crying ‘but you promised’. Considering what’s at stake I think that would be foolhardy in the extreme.
@Damocles: you’re really showing your naivety now. How’s that 350 million a week working out for the Brits? Face it, Brexit was a bunch of lies perpetuated by xenophobic fools trying to hark back to the imperial days and you expect us to take their word for it? I take back my comment above describing your level of intelligence
@Jane: nothing is agreed until everything is agreed. If there is no deal then this is not actually binding. But the UK will abide by it. Because, contrary to what you people seem to think, the UK is not actually out to “get” Ireland.
@Damocles: England giving rhetoric about a soft border and having a written agreement are very different things. Nobody wants a return to the troubles and nobody wants an invading army on our Island, but if British boots make a return it will be inevitable the troubles will begin again. And with a Country full of dissillousioned youth that cant get work, that have been shafted and discriminated agsinst by FG & Labour. The pickings are ripe for a return to the 80′s
@John Flynn: I’m glad I never made any suggestions regarding your intelligence given the paucity thereof in your latest remarks.
@Damocles: you’ve got it the wrong way round. All we wanted was an assurance that the UK government would stick to its word regarding no hard border, an assurance they could not immediately give us. Had they just given the assurance from the start then there’d be no need for all this nonsense.
@Damocles: the U.K. will abide by it now because of the agreement they have come to. If all of this was promised already and the British were always going to abide by it then why did it take them so long to agree it? You are saying the Irish made a big deal out of something that was a forgone conclusion, if that’s the case what was the problem on the British side? Why wasn’t this agreed weeks, months ago?
@Jane: as far as the UK was concerned it was agreed months ago. The sabre rattling at the 11th hour from Ireland took everyone by surprise.
Dublin: “Promise not to impose a border.”
London: “OK, we promise.”
Dublin: “Now promise that we won’t impose one either.”
London: “But that’s up to you, surely?”
Dublin: “Why are you being so difficult?”
Brussels: “Yeah! Show some flexibility!”
@Damocles: pushing further lies. That isn’t what happened and you know it.
Honestly folks, you’re wasting your time with someone like this
@John Flynn: mute
@Damocles: nope
Britian: We promise no hard border
Ireland: Great can we have that in writing?
Britian: No need for that, trust us, would we lie? Is there anything we have ever done that could make you doubt us?
Ireland: We’ll just get that in writing, thanks.
@Damocles: Ireland has long experience of UK not keeping its word.
The present border was supposed to be temporary and its final shape was supposed to be determined by a boundary commission. We have been waiting for that since 1922 and there is still no sign of it happening. There is a reason that Britain is known as “Perfidious Albion”.
@Damocles: Idiot troll.
@Kian: And, historically, treaties or agreements with the British state have always caused chaos. Pakistan, Israel, N.I.
@Jane: it would have been in writing in the progress report anyway.
@Nick Caffrey: mute.
@John Flynn: He’s an idiotic troll, don’t mind him.
@Jane: Nice! Love it.
@Damocles: http://www.thejournal.ie/brexit-ireland-9-3730804-Dec2017/
You regurgitated the same rubbish before the deal was struck but it turned out even better than expected when the UK regions showed themselves to look for the conditions the DUP didn’t want.
@Damocles: so you think a mention in a report is the same as an agreement signed by 2 sides?
@Kevin Barry: if you don’t trust the UK regardless why even bother with trying to make an agreement at all?
@Jane: that’s what you got. The whole thing has been specified in the progress report.
@Damocles: muting those who prove you wrong…that’s one way to stay ignorant I suppose
@Damocles: Nope. Not sabre rattling. Demanding competently written policy. And we succeeded in getting that and effecting a change in said policy. Please do correct me if you disagree.
@Damocles: It’s hard when you lose, but you can always take lessons from the experience .
@Ser Barristan Selmy: I’m sure he’s very hurt by that insult as it comes from someone who doesn’t even have the courage to stand over their own opinion.
@Damocles: Speeches and aspirations are not enough. It is reasonable for us to expect competently written policy. We got it. We then effected changes to it. We succeeded in our aims and will continue in the same manner going forward.
@Nick Caffrey: He’s muted me for stating the good things I like about British people. It’s funny behaviour isn’t it? Getting up early on a Saturday to anonymously taunt responses from possibly thousands of people and then be annoyed when get those responses.
I don’t know what the world is coming to.
@Kian: no. Muting people who resort to personal abuse.
@Damocles: ah you dont believe thats what happened really ?? The irish position was to -rightly- force clarity during Phase 1 of the talks on the border position. This effectively meant that the trade talks couldn’t get to a stage further down the road (very possible ) where the 500bn trade deal between the Uk and EU was being concluded and a hard border ended up feasted on us – theres no telling what the Brits /EU would marginalise such a small player for the so called greater good down the road !!! THATS why the negotiation tactic of getting this as a floor at this stage was so important – trying to claim it as as a nothing burger is just dead wrong mate
The photograph showing the EU and British teams at negotiating table. David Davis arrogant smile/demeanour says it all about how the British see themselves. That after being ripped apart at the House if Commons select committee. Now they have to learn about Irish politics.
Why is this relevant?
This country needs to take a good long hard look at itself and it’s OWN MISTAKES before jibing at the UK. God knows Ireland has made plenty of them over the years.
@Pat Butler: Great point. Every country has it’s own problems and Ireland has it’s fair share of politicians stating ill-informed opinions.
@Pat Butler: Yeah, God forbid that anyone would suggest that Britain engage in a little introspection. You can take down the Union Jack now, there’s a good man.
@Pat Butler: Really? The people in charge of the UK don’t know what they’re talking about and we should look at ourselves?
Yeah Pat, we will.
What have England done to Ireland over 800 years…did their utmost to destroy our language,culture,starved our people,murdered the innocent…the list goes on and on. …and they call us troublesome
They’re not that terribly keen on us Scots either: https://twitter.com/snapdragon6469/status/856461895334842368
Typical brits, that’s the mentality that wants to close their borders shining through. They don’t give a toss about anything except their own comfort.
Is there no end to the constant self-obsession about what England thinks of Ireland so we can play the victim card. Is there even the slightest recognition of the positive aspects of our relationship with Britain. Since independence Britain has continued to treat Irish people as de facto citizens in Britain. After we left the UK & long before the EU existed we were able to go to Britain for work have equal access to social housing, health service, equal voting rights etc. but we only ever focus on the negatives & past injustices.Many in Ireland insecurely seek approval from Britain whilst at the same time bashing Britain at every opportunity. It is utterly tedious at this stage.
http://ardevine.blogspot.ie/2017/07/what-have-british-ever-done-for-us.html?m=1
@AR Devine: well in the interests of balance…..look closely at the history between the two nations , for hundreds of years the UK has a pretty shabby track record in terms of how it mistreated Ireland – the act of union /penal laws / famine / wars sectarianism / cromwell/occupation / plundering of resources unto the more recent century of botching home rule ,the north , treatment of catholics as second class citizens and the fact so many irish fought and served in the British military services – its not simply that we only focus on the negatives – its that the irish history with the UK has been so overwhelmingly negative for Ireland in the relationship that it doesn’t really cut it to say we should be more positive because its tedious…the more you learn about the real history -tedious is not really a word that best describes it – sad , tragic -maybe , not tedious.
I’m going to make a very unpopular prediction There will eventually be a hard border and it will be imposed not by the Brits but by the Republic when South American meat, cheap booze and cheap Chinese goods start flooding in from N.I. Before the single market the border was on this side, it will happen again.
@John Mc Donagh: doubt to hat , the one thing that has become clear from the negotiations so far , that the UK are actually keen on keeping trade and markets to mirror as close as possible to the existing EU single market , thats why they have moved on any issues so far , even as far as openly suggesting that the status applied to trade for NI /EU/ ire would be similar for all the UK , so I think Brexit is going to end up looking very Brexit light , very similar trade deal as single market , called or labeled something else but almost identical – and the only noticeable differentiator will be their UK desire to limit immigration / not get cheaper booze and South American meat -even the US have said they wont do any trade agreement of there is risk the UK market is a gateway for poor quality food etc – so I dont agree with your predictions
It’s not their fault that they where been denied the right to leave the EU by a country where the people are not capable of living together in a civilised way . We can’t have a hard border because the Irish might end up killing one another again . The Scots , Welsh and English seem to be capable of sharing an island together but us Irish don’t .
@Tommy Whelan: The cause of the strife has always been British interference in Ireland. Primary school children could tell you that ffs.
@Tommy Whelan: They’re not being denied the right to leave my anonymous coward friend. They want to negotiate a “deep and special” relationship while they are doing it and they have just realised we are not beholden to give them any deal.
If they just dropped that expectation they could have left ages ago.
Once again: not our problem, not our circus, not our monkeys.
BBC still calls us the Irish Republic.
Get Farage to negotiate for them, oh wait their champion of Brexit is missing and laughing at the stupidity of the British for following him. Don’t think he would do much better on knowledge of Irish history or politics. Long live the Empire!!!!
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