The Village

Village is a politics and current affairs magazine known for its investigative reporting, which was founded by Irish journalist Vincent Brown in 2004, who served as the editor in chief until 2008. In 2008, after difficulties keeping the publication financially viable, the magazine was sold to Ormond Quay Publishing Ltd., who relaunched it under the ownership and editorial supervision of Michael Smith. During this time, the magazine switched from a weekly format, to publishing 10 issues per year, with a circulation of ~17,500 copies per issue.

Village is a left-leaning publication, who in their About Us state “Village promotes in its columns the fair distribution of resources, welfare, respect and opportunity by the investigation and analysis of inequalities, unsustainable development and corruption, and the media’s role in their perpetuation; and by acute cultural analysis”.

The publication is also notable for having broken a number of high-profile stories, including a redacted version of the Ansbacher dossier published in 2014. This dossier was the basis for a 2002 investigation alleging a long-standing cover up of ownership of offshore bank accounts by senior public figures and politicians. In 2020, Village published an article alleging that Tánaiste Leo Varadkar had leaked controversial documents, in violation of the Criminal Justice (Corruption Offences) Act 2018, the Official Secrets Act 1963, which lead to an investigation by the Director of Public Prosecutions, calls for his resignation, and the hashtags #LeoGate and #LeoTheLeak trending on social media.

More recently, on 17 July 2021 Village, published the name of "Soldier F", the British Army soldier accused by the Saville Inquiry of shooting multiple unarmed civilians during Bloody Sunday (1972).