The Irish Rover is an independent,[3][4] conservative,[5][6] Catholic[7] biweekly[8] student newspaper[9] serving the University of Notre Dame community.

[8] In 2009, The Irish Rover joined with a coalition of other student organizations to oppose the invitation of then-President Barack Obama to deliver Notre Dame's 2009 Commencement address, writing that they pledged "to acts of witness that will be characterized by respect, prayerfulness, outspoken fidelity to the Church and true concern for the good of our University".

[12] On December 4, 2017, the editorial staff of The Irish Rover published an open letter[13] criticizing the decision of University of Notre Dame President Rev.

[3] The university had previously sued the Obama administration to obtain an exemption from the mandate that would require them to do so, leading editorial staff to write, that Jenkins's "reversal has left many dumbfounded — shocked that after a long and costly lawsuit in which Notre Dame asserted that it was against its Catholic values to play any part in providing contraceptives and abortifacients to employees and students, it would abruptly reverse course and willingly participate in such action[s].

"[3] In 2019, The Irish Rover was subjected to an on-campus protest involving a sign placed on campus that contained clippings from articles published by The Irish Rover and fellow student newspaper The Observer with the names of the student journalists and others circled in "blood-red" paint, implicating them for the deaths of people who identify as queer.