We don’t have to tell you that it’s been a year like no other!

Despite the lockdowns associated with the coronavirus, the loss of our printer for many decades, Turner’s Printing, which went into liquidation on Friday 13 March, with a loss of 50 jobs (we knew most of those wonderful people), and our distributors having to close their doors for a fortnight due to a COVID-19 case, the Gazette team kept the magazine on track throughout it all, while working remotely.

576 pages of the glorious Gazette!

Since mid-March, we have produced eight magazines, remotely – that’s a total of 576 pages of the glorious Gazette.

In addition, members can view the interactive, “all-singing, all-dancing digital magazine” (to quote our designer).

Our journalist Mary Hallissey with the assistance of freelance journalist Andrew Fanning have, between them, produced a total of 1,000 articles since the lockdown in March – all at your fingertips on gazette.ie.

Circulation up

The magazine’s circulation continues to increase, year on year, with a print run of 14,200 (readership of 42,600). In all, there were 12,793 downloads of the Gazette magazine in PDF format in 2020.

Visitors to Gazette.ie have been growing at a significant rate. The following 2020 figures tell the story best:

• 724,898 – annual unique page view,
• 891,690 – total number of page views,
• 350,405 – total users,
• 74,308 – Average monthly pageviews, and
• 47,164 – the highest number of readers of Gazette.ie in a single month (October 2020). 

The Gazette continues to innovate and, from the start of 2020, we introduced bio-wraps as an alternative to polybags when distributing the magazine.

100% recyclable

The publication has been 100% recyclable for the past three years, uses environmentally-friendly paper, inks and varnishes – and the bio-wraps are 100% compostable.

Our sincere thanks to all our readers – whether hard-copy, soft-copy or web – for supporting us throughout the past year.

We look forward to bringing you the most important legal stories in 2021 – and wish you and your families a very happy and peaceful Christmas, as well as a healthy, fulfilling and prosperous New Year! 

Fascinating facts about Gazette.ie

Readership – top five countries

• Ireland: 223,357 (73%)
• UK: 26,646 (8%)
• US: 19,342 (6%)
• Norway: 4,634 (2%)
• Netherlands: 2,644 (1%)

How readers access the Gazette online:

• Mobile: 51%
• Desktop: 44%
• Tablet: 5%