British-owned media group to secure Examiner’s regional titles

Iconic Newspapers, the media group owned by British tycoon Malcolm Denmark, is poised to snap up the regional titles owned by the Irish Examiner.

The Irish Examiner, controlled by Landmark Media, is expected to be sold in the next couple of weeks to the Irish Times. But as part of a wider shake-up of the debt-laden Landmark, it is understood the regional newspapers are to be hived off separately to Iconic.

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