The Irish Times

The Irish Times is Ireland's "newspaper of record", launched in the late 1850s. The current editor is Geraldine Kennedy, who succeeded Conor Brady in 2002. Its main daily rival is the Irish Independent newspaper, currently Ireland's best-selling broadsheet newspaper.

Content

The Irish Times publishes its residential property supplement every Thursday, being the main printed residential property listing for the Dublin area.

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On Fridays, The Irish Times publishes a Business supplement, and an entertainment supplement, The Ticket.

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On Saturdays it publishes a Weekend section, rounding-up the week's news and featuring highly-regarded book reviews. It also has a Magazine supplement, which was launched in 2000.

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There are two crosswords in The Irish Times, the Simplex and the Crosaire. Finishing the cryptic crossword is generally acknowledged to be fairly difficult.

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In 2005, the newspaper added three Sudoku puzzles to each issue.

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The Letters page is famous as a forum for debate on any number of topics.

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The Irish Times features the political cartoons of Martyn Turner.

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