Liffey Champion
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The Liffey Champion is a local newspaper for North Kildare and the Liffey Valley area of south Dublin. It is based in Leixlip.
Published weekly, the paper has a respectable circulation. It is in a tabloid format, and is 64 pages long, with approximately 1/8th of the pages being printed in colour.
The paper relies on advertising for its income, and 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.
As of March 2006 the paper runs a vox-pop written by Aisling O'Donnell, a 21 year old trainee journalist from the town. This section has proven to be popular with readers and was continued after Aisling's departure by Ciarán McCabe, a new additon to the paper from the local town of Lucan. The vox 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]. None of the other newspapers in its circulation area are members of the ABC either, so comparisons are impossible to make.
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