Metro Herald (Ireland)
The Dublin freesheet Metro Herald is similar in layout and content to its British counterpart, as Associated Metro provides much of the content. It merged with its main competitor Herald AM (published by Independent News and Media's Evening Herald) to form the Metro Herald.
Metro Ireland was launched on 10 October 2005, as was Herald AM. Both titles were loss making, despite a circulation of 145,000 between them in the greater Dublin area. The merger of the two titles faced scrutiny by the Competition Authority as the resulting match up drew together IN&M (publishers of the Irish Independent) and The Irish Times (the two Dublin-based broadsheets). On Thursday 2 July 2009, it was announced that the two freesheets were to merge, and by 2010 this merger was complete.
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