Independent.ie is an Irish news website that delivers the latest news, sport, entertainment and lifestyle stories. It offers readers an up to date source of information on a range of topics including politics, health, business, travel, arts and culture. The website also has a comprehensive coverage of Irish and international news with an emphasis on delivering the latest breaking news. Independent.ie also includes a wide range of opinion pieces and commentaries on the most topical issues. There is something for everyone on the website, with a wide range of features and stories, from sport, lifestyle and entertainment to business, technology and world affairs.

In review, the Irish Independent reports local news with minimal bias in wording such as this Body of teen discovered in car in Dublin. This story like most do not contain hyperlinked sourcing.mediabiasfactcheck.comThe Irish Independent is considered a conservative newspaper of Ireland. For example, during the 1997 general election, it endorsed Fianna Fáil with its editorial, titled “It’s Payback Time”.

Such a war would be ironic because the Irish Independent (1905) was modelled on Alfred Harmsworth's Daily Mail (1896). Each demands a different logistical and visual grammar.irishtimes.comBy having a tabloid edition, the Irish Independent would have, as the cliché goes, "got its retaliation in first" in what could be a gruelling and defining newspaper war within the Irish industry.

The group's British Independent was failing anyway and needed a radical makeover. That it has been followed by the once imperious and still powerful Times may have hurt O'Reilly's British paper.irishtimes.comBut it has helped to smooth the path for the Irish Independent by further respectabilising the fashion for the broadsheet as tabloid.