Liffey Champion

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The Liffey Champion is a local newspaper for north Kildare and the Lucan area of west Dublin. It is based in Leixlip.

The first edition of the Liffey Champion was printed on 17th May 1991 and has, over the past 16 years, established an important presence in the north Kildare and Lucan community. Its editor, as of 2008, is Vincent Sutton.

Published weekly, the paper has a respectable circulation. It is in a tabloid format, and varies in length, averaging about 72 pages long, with approximately 1/8th of the pages being printed in colour.

The paper is currently priced at €1.75 but also carries lots of advertising. It often presents advertising features that look vaguely like an article, including bylines for their regular authors, but which are paid adverts, although they do place the words Advertising Feature across the top of the page.

Its journalists cover local authority meetings - South Dublin County Council and Kildare County Council, courts and various meetings in the local communities as well as major happenings, both news and sport. Also stories of human interest dominate its pages.

One of its regular features is the popular 'Nitebytes' page, which featured for several years the nightclub scene photographs of Morgan Treacy and in more recent times the excellent pics of Peter Shaughnessy.

The 'vox-pop' page, which was first written by Petrina Vousden and later years by Eithne Dunne, Jean Crampton and Aisling O'Donnell, a 21 year old trainee journalist from Leixlip, is another regular feature. This section has proven to be popular with readers. The Vox Pop consists of a contemporary issue put to locals of the town.

The newspaper is not a member of the Audit Bureau of Circulations Irish division, and as such, no official circulation figures exist. The publisher supplies figures of 7,500 [1] (free registration required). None of the other newspapers in its circulation area are members of the ABC either, so comparisons are impossible to make. It does not have an online presence, unlike