Dublin Inquirer Ltd.

The Dublin Inquirer Limited is the owner of the independent media outlet owned by. Editor Lois Kapila is the single largest shareholder with 83.28% of the shares.

The Dublin Inquirer is transparent regarding its finances. Detailed breakdowns of its income and expenditure are available via the website and the editors go so far as to proactively tweet this information. This transparency extends to articles detailing the paper’s policy on accepting gifts from other businesses (namely, politely returning them).

The company does not sell advertisements online or print publications. Income is solely generated by subscriptions.

The Dublin Inquirer is structured as a workers co-operative. Thus voting rights related to share ownership do not in practice determine where decision-making power lies within the outlet.

Key Facts

Business Form	Commercial / For-profit
Legal Form	Private Limited Company

Ownership

Individual Owner	Lois Kapila 83.28
Group / Individual Owner	Mukesh Kapila Father of Lois Kapila. Born in India, he is a medical doctor, author and emeritus professor for Global Health and Humanitarian Affairs at the University of Manchester. 6.29 Brian Timothy Flanagan 10.05

Media Outlets

TheDublinInquirer.ie
ONLINE

Other Media Outlets

Other Print Outlets	The Dublin Inquirer

Facts

Founding Year	2005
Founder	Lois Kapila Editor-in-chief and owner. She founded the Dublin Inquirer in 2015 together with Sam Tranum.
Contact	Parkview House 65 Crumlin Road Dublin 12
Tax / ID Number	CRO 559820

Revenue	€179,400 (2022)
Advertising (in % of total funding)	0. The Dublin Inquirer took an active position not to seek or accept advertising revenue. Thus subscriptions account for approximately 95% of total revenues.

Data Publicly Available	ownership data is easily available from other sources, e. g. public registries etc.
Meta Data	The annual revenue is according to data freely made public by the Dublin Inquirer via Twitter/X, AND on the paper’s own website (€179,400 in 2022). The Dublin Inquirer’s website does not explicitly state who the shareholders of the Dublin Inquirer Limited are but the information is readily available on request.
Sources	About Us, Dublin Inquirer, Accessed on 6 October 2023 Dublin Inquirer journalist shortlisted for international award, Irish Times (2019), Accessed on 3 September 2023 Foreign spouses: ‘When in love you don’t even think about visas’, Irish Times (2016), Accessed on 3 September 2023 Three new kids on the block: Irish media startups now making waves, Independent (2018), Accessed on 4 September 2023 Dublin Inquirer Limited, MediaOwnership.ie (2022), Accessed on 6 October 2023

Data Publicly Available

ownership data is easily available from other sources, e. g. public registries etc.

Meta Data

The annual revenue is according to data freely made public by the Dublin Inquirer via Twitter/X, AND on the paper’s own website (€179,400 in 2022).

The Dublin Inquirer’s website does not explicitly state who the shareholders of the Dublin Inquirer Limited are but the information is readily available on request.

Sources