After 36 years as a weekly newspaper, the Irish Voice has announced that it is ceasing its print edition.
Irish Voice content has been featured for some time on the Irish Central website and this will continue.
The end of the 36 year print run was announced on Irish Central by Irish Voice founding publisher Niall O'Dowd.
The Voice first saw the light of a newsstand in December, 1987. It was born amid the flow of young Irish westward across the Atlantic to an America that was not legally prepared to take them in.
The result was a new phenomenon, one that was shocking to established Irish America: the Undocumented Irish.
The Voice focused much of its early days energy on the plight of the undocumented, as well as the situation in Northern Ireland and Irish America's growing role in the search for progress and a just peace.
The Voice would broaden the reach and scope of Irish American journalism even as the Irish Echo was going through significant changes of its own.
"The Voice and Echo," or the Echo and Voice," would become a familiar verbal combination in the Irish America of the 1990s, and in the years thus far in the new century.
Irish Echo publisher Máirtín Ó Muilleoir, reacting to the news, said: "The Irish Voice was a tremendous community newspaper. It had an amazing run and its longevity is a tribute to publisher Niall O'Dowd, editor Debbie McGoldrick, and the entire team. I'm looking forward to keeping in touch via Irish Central.
Mr. Ó Muilleoir is a shareholder in Irish Central.
