The Sunday Life is a tabloid newspaper in Northern Ireland and has been published since 23 October 1988.

[3] The Sunday Life was born on 20 April 1988, at that time the Belfast Telegraph was owned by the Thomson International Organisation.

He booked the small Drumnagreagh Hotel near Ballygally on the Antrim coast and there the blueprint for the Sunday Life was created.

With so many executives away from the Belfast Telegraph HQ rumours were rife in media circles that something was being planned so Crane decided that a statement had to be issued to clarify the position.

Ed Curran and Roy Lilley, the Belfast Telegraph's editor, were asked to draft a press release.