Phoenix magazine closing down after more than 40 years
James Cox
Current affairs magazine The Phoenix is set to close down after more than 40 years.
The owners had hoped to keep the magazine open after struggles with the digital world, and attempts to find new investors.
According to The Irish Times, no edition will appear at the end of this week and contributors have been contacted to say the magazine is going into voluntary liquidation.
The Phoenix website had previously said it was not in a position to accept new subcriptions, either for the online or print magazine.
The Phoenix, loosely inpisred by Private Eye in Britain, did not include bylines. Irish media, business and politics were specialties at The Phoenix.
The magazine is run by Penfield Holdings, whose managing director is Aengus Mulcahy. He is the son of veteran Irish publisher John Mulcahy.
John Mulcahy published the first edition of the magazine in 1983.
