BreakingNews.ie
BreakingNews.ie is an Irish online news portal operated by the Irish Examiner's parent group, based in Cork. It offers fast-updating national, world, sport and business coverage in a straightforward wire-style format for a general audience.
BreakingNews.ie at a glance
- Country
- Ireland
- Region
- Northern Europe · Europe
- Kind of outlet
- News portal
- Editorial leaning
- Centrist
- Website
- breakingnews.ie ↗
- Preview
- Renders inside Crosswire's comparison panes (last checked 2026-10-12).
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How Crosswire groups BreakingNews.ie
Crosswire groups BreakingNews.ie as Centrist for comparisons within Ireland's directory. Center includes both centrist outlets and outlets for which the directory has no confident classification. It is not evidence that this outlet is neutral or more accurate. In Ireland, The Irish Times and The Journal are listed as Left-leaning, while Irish Independent is listed as Right-leaning — so you can open BreakingNews.ie beside a title of a different orientation and compare the same day's front pages directly.
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Where BreakingNews.ie sits in Ireland's press
BreakingNews.ie is one of 6 outlets tracked in Ireland and the only news portal tracked there. By outlets tracked, Ireland ranks ninth of the 45 countries on Crosswire's Europe hub, which lists 264 outlets in all.
Across Europe, Crosswire tracks 39 of the 80 news portals in the directory. The nearest counterparts to BreakingNews.ie outside Ireland, starting with Northern Europe, are lie:zeit (Liechtenstein), Protothema (Greece), in-cyprus (Cyprus) and 24ur (Slovenia). Opening one of them beside BreakingNews.ie is the quickest way to see what is a house style and what is a national one.
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