The Irish News ✓
@irish_news · joined 28 Dec 2009
We are the UK and Ireland’s top selling regional daily newspaper. We've been telling the full story since 1891. Subscribe: https://t.co/eQX9Ad9gz4
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"While this spot is certainly popular with locals, I think those from further afield should consider making the journey to The Barn and Country Kitchen in Saul - with its tasty and affordable dishes in beautiful surroundings, it’s certainly worth it."
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A process has started on the long road to the potential canonisation of two priests shot dead in separate massacres in Belfast in the 1970s.
Read more: https://t.co/W7OeTEh2fx https://t.co/sUWrqKVNWl
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"Political violence is not unknown in our times, but in 16th-century England it was an everyday, brutal fact of life. Being ambitious to reach the top could cost you your life, and family connections were no saviour.
"Historians Dan Snow and Suzannah Lipscomb present this Disney
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Book lovers in Belfast have been dealt another blow with news that one of the last remaining bookshops in the city centre is to close its doors for good.
Confirmation of the closure comes as plans continue for a major redevelopment in that corner of the city centre.
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The front page of today’s Irish News. https://t.co/dqRtZge5Zs
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@irish_news Can she not just fade into obscurity? Talk about main character syndrome.
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@irish_news Woke witch syndrome
No fuckung cure
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A new multi-shot Taser that can fire up to 50,000 volts over long distances carries ”significant new risks”, Amnesty International has claimed.
The claim was made after the PSNI said it plans to increase the number of officers who can carry the potentially deadly device.
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@irish_news McAleese is 'regrettable and offensive' on a regular basis.
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The head of the GAA has described comments made by Mary McAleese, following her resignation as chair of the body tasked to bring about integration, as “regrettable” and “offensive”.
Read more: https://t.co/jIEyzT19qi https://t.co/p6Gff8uJdx
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GAA chief hits out at former Irish president’s comments, and behind the offences committed by NI taxi drivers who kept their licences after conviction.
Read Wednesday's Evening briefing: https://t.co/arFYHmG9np https://t.co/Edo4pFUWTr
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Take two and let the madness resume...
County champions Loughmacrory and Dungannon meet again on Thursday evening to settle a Tyrone SFC first round tie that ended in goal blitz mayhem at Plunkett Park, Pomeroy last weekend.
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The front page of today’s Irish News. https://t.co/9yfrCWBg7w
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@irish_news Why are there 5 Health Boards with 5 boards full of senior executives for an area the size of Yorkshire which manages it with one? That's £50 million quid + that should be spent on front line services!!
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@irish_news Call me old fashioned but why are their pay awards not tied to goals and performance? Something like that could save the tax payers a fortune
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@irish_news Its the same everywhere...looking out for themselves and no one else
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Against accounts of the same size
16 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 100K–1M follower range. below its peers on both reach and engagement.
Median views1 478this account6 454median for 100K–1M
Reach, %0.96%this account1.88%median for 100K–1M
Engagement, %0.39%this account1.14%median for 100K–1M
| Metric | This account | Median for 100K–1M | Ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median views per post | 1 478 | 6 454 | 0.23× |
| Reach (views ÷ followers) | 0.96% | 1.88% | 0.51× |
| Engagement rate | 0.39% | 1.14% | 0.34× |
Others in this range → Compare with another account → How these benchmarks are built →
Growth & engagement
How the posts we collected actually performed: views and reaction rate post by post, what the audience did with them, and where the follower count goes.
Views per post
51112 Aug
6.7K9 Sep
1.4K
1.3K
1.7K
65
910
41
47
3.7K12 Sep
3.8K
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Last 14 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.
Engagement rate per post
1.96%12 Aug
0.14%9 Sep
0.07%
0.08%
0.46%
6.15%
0.00%
2.44%
6.38%
0.43%12 Sep
0.13%
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0.12%
Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 100K–1M accounts is 1.14%.
What the audience does
Likes66.7%70 in total
Reposts14.3%15 in total
Replies14.3%15 in total
Bookmarks4.8%5 in total
Share of every reaction we collected for this account. Replies mean argument, reposts mean endorsement, bookmarks mean the post was worth keeping.
Followers by day
10 Sep
Daily snapshots since 10 Sep 2026; the dashed line is the starting count.
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