Mr. Gerry O'Regan:

As I said in my opening statement - I think I speak for anybody who has ever edited a newspaper - my predominant fixation was optimising the sales of the paper. Newspapers, obviously, reflect the ever-changing panorama which is human life. During some years when I was there, obviously, the property boom and economic growth and the subsequent economic collapse were key issues which we needed to cover. We covered them and tried to reflect them, as I said, with the ultimate and primary objective of optimising sales, in the same way as we would cover the drama, the changes, the ups and downs, the victories and defeats in areas such as sport, politics, economics in this case, and the changing lifestyle patterns in the country. We were trying to hold a mirror up to Irish life.