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August 11, 2017

New weekly newspaper for Dungannon launches to plug local news gap in Northern Ireland

By Rose James

The Dungannon Herald in Northern Ireland published its first edition yesterday, plugging a local news gap left behind by paper closures.

The new weekly’s launch follows the closure of the Dungannon Observer in April, along with 10 other Observer Newspaper NI titles.

The group said at the time that a “steady decline” in advertising and readership had left them “struggling” to sustain the publications.

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