The Irish News is a compact daily newspaper based in Belfast, Northern Ireland.

[3] It is broadly Irish nationalist in its viewpoint, though it also features unionist columnists.

The Irish News is the only independently owned daily newspaper based in Northern Ireland, and has been so since its launch on 15 August 1891 as an anti-Parnell newspaper by Patrick MacAlister.

Appointed in 1999, Noel Doran served as editor until 2024 when he was succeeded by Chris Sherrard.

[citation needed] In June 1982, the paper came under the control of the company's present owners, with Martin O'Brien as Editor.