The Irish Daily Star (formerly known simply as The Star) is a tabloid newspaper published in Ireland by the Independent Star Limited. Independent Star Limited is a joint venture between Richard Desmond's UK based Express Newspapers Limited, which owns the British Daily Star, and Irish news magnate Denis O'Brien's Independent News & Media.

Its current editor is Michael O'Kane, who took over from Gerard Colleran on November 25, 2011. Gerard Colleran is now the Star's Managing Director.

The Irish Daily Star has become known for its comprehensive in-depth coverage of and thorough focus on crime, often featuring sensational coverage. It also focuses on celebrity matters, and has a large sports section. Between 2003 and 2011, a Sunday edition was published, as Irish Daily Star Sunday.

It was first published on 29 February 1988. Nominally it is the Irish version of the UK tabloid Daily Star. It does however contain more Irish content than any similar Irish editions of the UK national newspapers. The paper has strong nationalist leanings, claiming on its slogan that it is "Better... because we're Irish".

The Daily Star is a popular daily tabloid newspaper published in the United Kingdom. It first published on 2 November 1978, and was the first new national paper to be launched since the Daily Worker in 1930 (now Morning Star). For many years it published Monday to Saturday but on 15 September 2002 a sister Sunday edition, the Daily Star Sunday, was launched with a separate staff. On 31 October 2009 the paper published its 10,000th issue.

The paper was launched from Manchester and initially circulated only in the North and Midlands. It was conceived by the then-owners of Express Newspapers, Trafalgar House, to take on the strength of the Daily Mirror and Sun in the north. It was also intended to utilise the under-capacity of the Great Ancoats Street presses in Manchester as the Daily Express was losing circulation. The Daily Star sold out its first night print of 1,400,000. Its cover price has decreased over the years in order to compete with its rival The Sun.

The Daily Star is published by Express Newspapers, which also publishes the Daily Express and Sunday Express. The group is now owned by Richard Desmond's Northern and Shell company. The paper predominately focuses on stories largely revolving around celebrities, sport, and news and gossip about popular television programmes, such as soap operas and reality TV shows.

Patrick Dolan (born 20 September 1967 in Dagenham, England) is a former football player, manager, and executive. He is a soccer analyst on Setanta Sports Ireland.

Dolan, and his twin Eamonn Dolan, were born to Irish parents and both began life as trainee footballers. Eamon signed with West Ham United and Pat signed for Arsenal. They both played for the Republic of Ireland at the 1985 FIFA World Youth Championship [1] and Under 21 level.

Dolan signed YTS forms with Arsenal when he turned sixteen and made numerous appearances for both the youth and reserve team. In 1988 he was loaned out to Walsall to gain experience and soon made the move permanent. The following year, having failed to make the impact expected of him, he was loaned out to League of Ireland side St. Patrick's Athletic. He made his League of Ireland debut at Richmond Park on the 28th of February 1988.

After a handful of appearances he returned to Walsall but was promptly released. He joined Galway United, the home town team of his father, before moving to Shamrock Rovers. He was an unused substitute in the 1991 FAI Cup Final when Rovers lost to Galway United. After 3 goals in 23 appearances for Rovers he joined St Patrick's Athletic on a full time deal in 1992.

Paul Anthony Lennon (born 8 October 1955) is an Australian Labor Party politician. He was Premier of Tasmania from 21 March 2004 until his resignation on 26 May 2008. He was member of the Tasmanian House of Assembly for the seat of Franklin from 1990 until officially resigning on 27 May 2008. He left office abruptly after his preferred premier rating fell to 17%, largely as a result of perceptions of corruption in his government's fast-tracked approval of the Gunns Bell Bay Pulp Mill proposal, which had effectively bypassed normal planning procedure.

Born in Hobart, he attended St Virgil's College, then worked as a storeman and clerk before becoming an organiser with the Storemen and Packers Union in 1978. He did not attend university.

In 1980 he became Tasmanian State Secretary of the Storeman and Packers Union, and from 1982 he was Senior Vice President of the national union. In 1984 Lennon became Secretary of the Tasmanian Trades & Labor Council, and also a member of the Executive of the Australian Council of Trade Unions.

Gerard Colleran is an Irish journalist, the editor of the Irish Daily Star since 1999. In 2009, Village listed him as one of Ireland's 100 most influential people. He is a native of Mayo, County Mayo, grew up in Quin, County Clare, and was educated at the University of London and the University of Limerick. Prior to his work at the Daily Star he was the editor of The Kerryman.