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Leinster Leader Newspaper Information

The Leinster Leader is a newspaper published in Naas, Co. Kildare, Ireland. It is owned by Johnston Press (Ireland) who bought the Leinster Leader Group in 2005. The Leinster Leader Group, as well as publishing the Naas-based Leinster Leader also published The Dundalk Democrat, Leinster Express(Port Laoise), Limerick Leader, Offaly Express and the Tallaght Echo.

The paper was founded as the Leinster Leader and Central Counties Commercial and Agricultural Adviser, by Patrick Cahill, LLB, who was its first editor in August 1880. Patrick Cahill was an Irish Nationalist, Land League Activist and supporter of Home Rule, he was jailed under the Coercion Act of 1881.