Daily Irish Independent

The party had split following the revelation that Parnell had been involved in a long-running relationship with Katharine O'Shea, the wife of a fellow MP, and was the father of most of her children.

[2] The leading Irish nationalist newspaper, the Freeman's Journal, sided with the majority anti-Parnellite side.

The Daily Irish Independent was launched to promote the cause of the deposed IPP leader.

In 1900, the IPP's factions made peace.

Following a change of ownership to William Martin Murphy,[3] and in the belief that the healing of wounds removed the need for pro- and anti-Parnellite papers, the paper was reinvented as the Irish Independent,[4] with Tim Harrington as editor.