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The Belfast-based newspaper Daily Ireland is to cease publication, managing director Mairtin O Muilleoir has said.The Belfast-based newspaper Daily Ireland is to cease publication, managing director Mairtin O Muilleoir has said.
The paper, launched in February 2005, reduced its daily coverage to five days earlier this year.The paper, launched in February 2005, reduced its daily coverage to five days earlier this year.
Mr O Muilleoir said the "British government's refusal to allow Daily Ireland to tender for advertisements was a major factor in its collapse".Mr O Muilleoir said the "British government's refusal to allow Daily Ireland to tender for advertisements was a major factor in its collapse".
The last edition of the newspaper will be published on Friday.The last edition of the newspaper will be published on Friday.
Paying tribute to staff, supporters and readers, Mr O Muilleoir said the newspaper had played a vital role in promoting the nationalist case "at a time when McCarthyism and anti-nationalist voices were in the ascendancy".
"We are very proud of the achievements of the Daily Ireland team over the past 20 months," he said.
Legal challenge
"We hope we have inspired others to take up where we have left off and that this is more a time-out than an ending."
Daily Ireland has lodged a legal challenge to what it claims is the refusal of the NIO to advertise in the paper.
It is understood, however, the NIO will "robustly defend" the case when it comes to hearing in the Autumn
Daily Ireland is the second Belfast-based newspaper to fold within 16 months.
In May last year, the Daily View collapsed with the loss of 17 journalists' jobs after publishing for just five weeks.
Daily View, produced by Local Press Ltd, had been heralded as a cross-commmunity newspaper.