Liffey Champion

The Liffey Champion is a local newspaper for north Kildare and the Lucan area of west Dublin. It is based in Leixlip.

The first edition of the Liffey Champion was printed on 17 May 1991 and has, over the past 21 years, established an important presence in the north Kildare and Lucan community.

Published weekly, the paper has a respectable circulation. It is in a tabloid format, and varies in length, averaging about 72 pages long, with approximately half of its pages being printed in full colour.

The paper is currently priced at €1.90 but also carries lots of advertising.

Its journalists cover local authority meetings - South Dublin County Council and Kildare County Council, courts and various meetings in the local communities as well as major happenings, both news and sport. Also stories of human interest dominate its pages.

The paper has seen a lot of competition come and go over the last 21 years as the Dublin West/Kildare North area bloomed in Ireland's Tiger economy.

One of its regular features is the popular 'Nitebytes' page, which featured for several years the nightclub scene photographs of Morgan Treacy and in more recent times the excellent pictures of Gillian Pringle.

The 'vox-pop' page, which was first written by Petrina Vousden and later years by Eithne Dunne, Jean Crampton and Aisling O'Donnell. This section has proven to be popular with readers. The Vox Pop 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 (free registration required). None of the other newspapers in its circulation area are members of the ABC either, so comparisons are impossible to make. It does not have a functional online presence.