The Fingal Independent will shut down next month after almost four decades serving news to Swords, Balbriggan, Lusk, Rush, Skerries, Malahide, Portmarnock and Balrothery.
Mediahuis, which publishes the local newspaper, said a structural decrease in revenues combined with a strong increase in costs meant the paper was no longer profitable. The final issue of the weekly newspaper will be appear on October 26 - almost 40 years after it was first published in 1983.
Green Councillor for Swords Ian Carey said it is "bad news" the paper is ceasing production as the Fingal area is "already starved of local news" with no radio station and now no paper. Mediahuis, which also publishes the Irish Independent, said they plan to transition readers of the paper to "alternative online offerings".
