Shane Cassells (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

How many journalists are there? Their numbers are diminishing. I walked into a newsroom 20 odd years ago when I interned in the Meath Chronicle. There was a full-time copy reader. That post would not exist in national newspapers let alone at provincial level. I worked for a relatively small newspaper and we still had seven full-time journalists. That newspaper went out of existence before Christmas on the day that the VAT cut was announced. I am aware of the irony of that. How many journalists are employed across the three titles?