Down Recorder
The Down Recorder is a weekly tabloid newspaper sold in Downpatrick and central County Down, from Comber on Strangford Lough to Newcastle, inland as far as Lisburn to the west, and in the Ards Peninsula.
It’s published by independent publishers W Y Crichton & Co Ltd, from offices in Downpatrick that were formerly the town’s main post office and are reputedly haunted. It was founded in 1836 by Conway Pilson as the Downpatrick Recorder (it adopted its present title in 1878) and, remarkably, has had only seven editors so far and has never missed an issue even in wartime. It switched from broadsheet format to tabloid in 1983.
It comes out on Wednesdays. An e-edition’s also available by paid subscription.
- Website:
- http://www.thedownrecorder.co.uk/
- Address:
- Down Recorder
2-4 Church Street
DOWNPATRICK
BT30 6EJ
- Tel:
- 028 4461 3711
- Fax:
- 028 4461 4624