Personality clash that led to the Indo’s long goodbye

INM’s acquisition by Mediahuis is a sad end for a company with more than a century of history behind it

The board of Independent News & Media at its egm last June PIc: Fergal Phillips

And so, after more than 100 years of history, Independent News & Media’s life as an Irish-owned newspaper company came to an unglamorous and anti-climatic end in a nondescript hotel just past Dublin Airport last Wednesday morning. There are a few more technical hurdles to overcome, but that is pretty much the last we’ll see of INM as a public company. Towards the end of the year, it will pass into the hands ...