irish Independent

I've just noticed that the Irish Independent,my favourite newspaper for the past 40 years has increased its price to €1.70,I must somehow have missed that headline....
This increase comes very close to the perceived change in editorial policy in relation to the Taoiseach and his party .This policy seems to have slipped from a balanced journalistic approach,to a pro Bertie/F.F. one.

This is a newspaper which once upon a time, boldly, challenged the greed of the National Toll Roads Company for their sneaky increases.Of course the public have an easier choice as far as the greed of Independent Newspapers is concerned...instead of having to take the long way around,as we would have to do in the case of N.T.R., let us simply stop buying the Indo.;borrow someone elses,buy it once or twice a week or (as a last resort) revert to getting the (cheaper,and much more pretentious),publication known as the Irish Times.....