The Irish Daily Star (formerly known simply as The Star) is a tabloid newspaper published in Ireland by the Independent Star Limited. Independent Star Limited is a joint venture between Richard Desmond's UK based Express Newspapers Limited, which owns the British Daily Star, and Irish news magnate Denis O'Brien's Independent News & Media.
The Irish Daily Star has become known for its comprehensive in-depth coverage of and thorough focus on crime, often featuring sensational coverage. It also focuses on celebrity matters, and has a large sports section. Between 2003 and 2011, a Sunday edition was published, as Irish Daily Star Sunday.
It was first published on 29 February 1988. Nominally it is the Irish version of the UK tabloid Daily Star. It does however contain more Irish content than any similar Irish editions of the UK national newspapers. The paper has strong nationalist leanings, claiming on its slogan that it is "Better... because we're Irish".
The newspaper's offices were located in Terenure, Dublin 6W, until November 2010. They are now located in Building 4 of the Dundrum Town Centre complex. The Star employs around 100 full-time staff. The controlling editor of the paper is Ger Colleran, who often appears on television.
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Like its British sister paper, the Irish Daily Star has a red-top mast head.
However, while the Daily Star focuses almost exclusively on celebrity content, the Irish Star includes coverage of Irish issues. In this sense, it has more in common with the Daily Mail and General Trust "celtified" title, Ireland on Sunday than The Irish Sun, despite the strong visual similarities between the two.
In Northern Ireland, The Irish Star features a green masthead, in order to distinguish it from the UK version which is also sold there. It also differs from the Irish Daily Star in that it features more news about Northern Ireland.
Starplus.ie is a new entertainment website, created by the Irish Daily Star in partnership with Click Media and Muzu.tv. Run by showbiz-loving journalists, it brings its readers news on music, movies, games and gadgets — with a fresh blast of OK TV! and their red carpet showbiz for good measure. Starplus.ie prides itself on publishing content that cannot for legal reasons be featured in the Irish Daily Star. Hence the name, Starplus.ie.
A tipping and betting news website launched in 2010 by the Irish Daily Star. The site offers daily horse racing tips and football tips as well as covering a range of other sports including gaelic football, hurling, tennis, golf and darts.
Authors such as Donn McCleann, Gary O'Brien and Derek Foley feature on the website.