Cork Independent (newspaper)

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Cork Independent
Type Weekly newspaper
Format broadsheet

Owner(s) Independent Free Newspaper Group
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Headquarters Blackpool, Cork.
Editor Michael Carr

Website www.corkindependent.com

The Cork Independent is the largest circulated Free Newspaper in Cork, Ireland. It quotes its circulation at 70,000 which is ABC & VFD audited. The paper contains local news, business, education, social events, entertainment, motoring, property and sport.

The Cork Independent is circulated to 30,000 houses door-to-door. Also delivered to shops/pubs/hotels in the Cork Region.

The Editor of the Cork Independent is Michael Carr. Other contributors include Neil Prendeville, Finbar Cullen, Kieran McCarthy. Sports writers include Damien Richardson, Donogh O'Herlihy, Finbarr McCarthy, Bob Honohan and Eddie Goggin.

The Cork Independent is part of the IFN Group (Independent Free Newspaper Group). The IFN Group also publish the Galway Independent and Limerick Independent Newspapers reaching over 525,000 readers in Cork Galway and Limerick every week.

The paper's main competitor is The Irish Examiner

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