Established in 1994 the Finn Valley Voice is one of the two oldest
independent newspapers in the county, the other being the Tirconaill
Tribune. It is also unique in being one of the few, if only, Irish
newspapers to be owned and directed by an all-female group. We're the oldest
paper with the

st directors.

Local papers like ours are strong on good news, light on lurid news, and
only bearers of bad news when people need to hear it. You'll know people in
our paper. Almost every one of the Finn/Deele Valley's 15,000-odd faces has
appeared or will appear in our pages.

Win a medal, start school, attend a dinner, cheer a football team, turn 100
years old, give birth to triplets, graduate, marry, celebrate an
anniversary, shave your head for charity, cycle to Dublin, find a coin in
the attic, lose your dog, dance, work in Africa, catch the biggest fish,
search for your roots, swim on New Year's Day, or just smile at us and we¹ll
show the other 15,000 how well you looked.

We¹ll also tell you what's going to happen, no matter how small the event,
and keep you posted on what's changed and changing. And we'll try to find
out, and print, what you feel needs saying, and what valuable memories are
out there.

Over the past 12 years , we have managed to amass what amounts to a social,
factual, and community-based history of the Finn and Deele Valleys. The When
We Were Young series, the Home From Home series, the First World War series,
and hundreds of one-off interviews with people who may since have passed
away now form an irreplaceable archive. Fascinating histories which would
have died with  their narrators are in the public domain.

We are also a forum for the