Bought, Then Closed, By The Irish Times
The mail was bought by The Irish Times in its final few years. Having failed to turn the newspaper around (it had hoped to turn it into its own evening paper to rival the Irish Independent/Evening Herald and the Irish Press/Evening Press relationships, the Irish Times controversially closed the paper on 10 July 1962. Some of its staff and columns transferred directly over to the Irish Times.
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