It was traditional Catholic in outlook, supporting the Tridentine Mass and critical of the European Union.
In its first years it was run by Dick Hogan, a Mullingar-based local newspaper proprietor and Catholic activist.
It was strongly hostile to European integration and supported attempts to establish an independent Catholic political party.
Editor until early 2006 was Gerry McGeough, an IRA activist who until 2003 was on the Sinn Féin executive, and who had spent a number of years in prison for various arms offences.
[citation needed] He was followed as editor by Lorcan Mac Mathuna, who had previously been associated with the anti-abortion movement Youth Defence.