We had 15 fallers and 10 climbers this month, the fallers in the Sunday department in the main. The Sundays are back 12,000 which, in comparison to other months, it’s a hefty fall.
The biggest faller was the News of the World, followed by its companions The Sun and the News of the World. Not insignificant in this figure would be that fact that Dunnes Stores decided during last month that it didn’t like the terms and conditions set by News Int and stopped stocking the three papers. You would have to suggest that the decreases in the three titles are related to this move by Dunnes. The Sunday Times lost 3,000 copies and is down to a year low. The Sun dipped into the 80’s, a parish it hasn’t visited since the late 90’s. The News of the World is down a good 8,000, bringing it into territory not visited in over a decade.
Some of the ‘indigenous’ print businesses have, all too often, used the expression ‘foreign newspapers’ aimed at particular titles in the market. Is it to, in some way, distance themselves from them or make themselves more appealing to the Irish newspapers populous? These much maligned titles employ a huge number of people here and contribute in terms of VAT and Corporation tax.
With Dunnes refusing to stock the titles coupled with the fact that Dunnes Newspaper buyers seemingly did not go elsewhere for the titles means that almost €1.5m has taken flight for the newspaper business. At a time when the industry is at it weakest in decades, decisions in that glass palace in Stephen Street are having very negative effect on the business. “Better because we’re Irish” is the Dunnes advertising sting– better then if you supported Irish Businesses and safeguarded their jobs perhaps. Any other Business: well, some of the papers still strewn around the shelves of Dunnes obviously made hay.
The Daily and Sunday Star got a lift, more particularly the Sunday. The Record and Sunday Mail obviously didn’t issue an A.P.B. on their ‘missing’ copies and they are still at large. The prediction for the December figures – The People will break through the 20’s barrier!
Title | Oct | Nov |
Daily Mirror | 62,876 | 60,381 |
Daily Record | 833 | 793 |
Irish Daily Star | 97,113 | 97,506 |
The Sun | 90,274 | 88,657 |
Daily Express | 3,113 | 3,116 |
Irish Daily Mail | 48,177 | 50,501 |
The Daily Telegraph | 2,971 | 2,782 |
Financial Times | 3,812 | 3,855 |
The Guardian | 4,097 | 4,050 |
The Independent | 1,142 | 1,192 |
The Times | 2,629 | 2,545 |
Morning Market | 317,037 | 315,378 |
Daily Star – Sunday | 54,574 | 61,379 |
News of the World | 134,782 | 126,497 |
Sunday Mail | 2,307 | 2,084 |
Sunday Mirror | 38,481 | 35,218 |
The People | 21,349 | 20,293 |
Sunday Express | 4,434 | 4,240 |
Sunday Post | 829 | 803 |
The Mail on Sunday | 126,221 | 122,701 |
Independent on Sunday | 1,512 | 1,624 |
The Observer | 9,189 | 9,405 |
The Sunday Telegraph | 2,520 | 2,414 |
The Sunday Times | 116,923 | 113,660 |
Racing Post | 6,686 | 7,065 |
Sunday Market | 519,807 | 507,383 |
Total Market | 836,844 | 822,761 |