[1] The Longford Leader was founded, as The Longford Leader and Roscommon, Leitrim and Westmeath News,[2] as a local newspaper with a Nationalist perspective, in 1897, by local activist and M.P., J. P. Farrell, and fellow M.P., Jasper Tully; it was one of a range of Nationalist projects on which they partnered.

[2] As of 2002, the Leader was owned by four shareholders, local businessmen Eugene McGee (holding 47%) and Padraic Gearty, and Patricia Murray and Michael Dolan.

SRH's policy was not to interfere in operations, and it left the editor and managing director, Eugene McGee, in place.

[7] While data on individual newspapers' performance is not released, the holding company for the Irish regional titles remained profitable as of 2018.

[5] According to ABC, circulation declined to 7,167 for the period July 2012 to December 2012; this represented a fall of 7% year-on-year.