THE Evening News, a new colour, tabloid newspaper, will be on the streets on Monday, about a year after the last edition of the Evening Press.
The Evening News will be distributed nationally and will be edited by Mr Dick O'Riordan, former editor of the Evening Press.
The Evening News will cost £1.25 million to launch. It will have an initial print run of 80,000 copies, and it is hoped that sales will settle at about 40,000.
The main shareholder is the Midland Tribune Group, which is printing the newspaper in Birr, Cot Offaly. It will sell at 60p, 5p less than its main rival, the Evening Herald.
Thirty of the 60 staff are former Irish Press employees including the former editor of the Irish Press, Mr Hugh Lambert, who is the production editor.
News editor Mr Colm Kerr, sports editor Mr Michael Carwood and features editor Mr Eoghan Corry, are all former Irish Press journalists.
The Evening News will have two editions, at midday and at 3.30 p.m.
The Evening Press had a circulation of about 52,000 when the group collapsed. Its circulation, however, had been falling dramatically, from 117,441 in 1988, when it was ahead of the Evening Herald.
Meanwhile, the weekly newspaper, the Echo, was published yesterday as the Dublin Evening News The editor, Mr David Kennedy, said the title had been registered and the publication was simply defending its investment.