Al McConnell - Dublin Institute of Technology

Irish Independent Tabloid-Business supplement*
Monday, 4 May 2015
Page:
3
TH€PUNT
Extra, Extra:
new web paper
WEB-BASED
newspaper is due
to hit the streets
soon with the launch of
the ‘Dublin Inquirer’. The
start-up has been scouting
for young hacks
whom it hopes to
pay minimum wage
in return for the
prestige of seeing
their name online.
The
“alternative
newspaper”
has been
founded by
Lois Kapila
and A1
McConnell.
Kapila’s
A
website reveals that she
graduated from Oxford
University with a degree
in modern and medieval
Russian, and came to
Ireland in 2013 having
travelled extensively. A1
McConnell is a researcher
on RTE Radio and a former
editor of ‘The Edition’, the
college paper of the Dublin
Institute of Technology.
The ‘Dublin Inquirer’
has already got some
backing - Boston-based
Joel Tranum has stumped
up €18,550 in cash for
the newspaper venture.
Liberties Press managing
editor Sam Tranum is also
helping the ‘Inquirer’. He
has worked with Kapila
over the past few years on a
few books.
The news website is due
to launch in June.
Circulation:
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