The appearance of another journal in the field on Irish politics demands a brief explanation from its projectors. It will be asked: Where is the room for this new competitor for public favour?
Is there any definite set of opinions which is not already represented in the Irish Press ? From the silly Radicalism of the Phoenix Club to the dense Toryism of the Orange lodge, what doctrine lacks an exponent, what party an organ?
If no deficiency be felt is the multiplication of newspapers a good, per se, that the proprietors of the Irish Times think fit to add one voice more to the existing Babel?
The Irish Times, March 29th, 1859.
