The Sunday World is an Irish newspaper published by Independent News & Media. It is the second largest selling "popular" newspaper in the Republic of Ireland, and is also sold in Northern Ireland where a modified edition with more stories relevant to that region is produced. It was first published on 25 March 1973. Until 25 December 1988 all editions were printed in Dublin but since 1 January 1989 a Northern Ireland edition has been published and an English edition has been printed in London since March 1992. Origins The Sunday World was Ireland's first tabloid newspaper. Hugh McLaughlin and Gerry McGuinness launched it on 25 March 1973. It broke new ground in layout, content, agenda, columnists and use of sexual imagery. In 1976 and 1982 it was the only newspaper in the country published on St. Stephen's Day. The title also publishes a separate Northern Ireland newspaper edition. It is owned by Independent News & Media, a subsidiary of Mediahuis. Over the years it has gained a reputation for its hard-hitting crime reporting, special investigations, Irish showbiz and sport analysis and is home to award-winning journalists like Nicola Tallant, Patrick O’Connell, Eddie Rowley and Roy Curtis. On November 6, 2022 new look paper hit the shops for the first time some years. Developments In 2012, a voluntary redundancy scheme was put in place, which was oversubscribed. In early 2013, it was announced that the Irish Daily Star and the Sunday World would start to share some functions. In 2014, another redundancy scheme was announced. The redundancy scheme was due to the sharing of functions with the Evening Herald. In March 2017, it was announced that INM are merging the Sunday World and The Herald newsrooms. Later in 2017, INM announced that they were closing the Sunday World website. Digital archive Issues from 14 June 1987 to 2006 are online at the British Newspaper Archive. There plans for a full archive as far back as (1973–present) to mark the papers 50th anniversary in March 2023. In 2022 copies since 2018 were made on the Irish Newspaper Archive. Investigative journalism In 2001, a journalist working for the paper in Northern Ireland, Martin O'Hagan, was killed by Loyalist paramilitaries in Lurgan, Co Armagh. O'Hagan was the first journalist to draw attention to the activities of Billy Wright. Wright lived only a few miles from O'Hagan in north Armagh, and had attempted to