The machinery of the Irish People was bought by John O'Donnell MP and moved to Galway, where he set up the Connaught Champion (1904–1911).

[3] The Irish People (30 September 1905 – 27 March 1909) was re-published in Cork after O'Brien's return to public life in 1904, its editor John Herlihy.

[4] The Irish People, O'Brien's prime political media, propagated from 1906 the cottage building programmes won under the 1906 Labourer (Ireland) Act.

The Irish People ceased publication finally in March 1909 when O'Brien travelled abroad to recover from the December 1908 Baton Convention sickened by Devlinite thuggery and corruption, but not before it praised Sinn Féin as honest youngsters, who could yet be won over by a great new national movement.

[7] The League held its public inaugural meeting in March, and from July all issues had one central theme, to promote the conciliatory principles of the League in achieving Home Rule, with extensive coverage of election meetings in preparation for the December elections.

He unsuccessfully sued for unfair dismissal, was then active as a journalist in London and in the mid-1930s, one year editor of the Irish Press.

[9] The December 1910 general election saw the League victorious in Cork, returning eight MPs, but elsewhere succumbed to clerical opposition.

[9] After the Rising in 1916, Gallagher contacted O'Brien in London to discuss the attitude of the Cork Free Press to it.

[9] Though the paper continued to point out the lesson that physical force had been proved useless and that what was needed was a united constitutionalism.

The editorials took on a distinctly heroic view of the rebels and damned Redmond and the Irish MPs for their anti- Sinn Féin utterances.

[17] The paper suffered closure because soon after the appointment of Lord Decies as Chief Press Censor for Ireland.

[18] Finally, when in December 1916, O'Brien ceased publication of the Cork Free Press, he lost the last effective link with his constituents.