Thank you for trusting us

At The Southern Star, we truly appreciate the support of our readers, digital subscribers, advertisers and newsagents and the trust you place in us to bring you accurate and informed news and sport from across West Cork.

However, we don’t take this support and trust for granted, because:

• We’re passionate about life in West Cork, so every newspaper sale, subscription and advertisement helps us to keep our readers informed, connect our advertisers with the biggest newspaper, web and social media audience in the region and produce the best quality content for West Cork every day, every week, every year.

• We're an independent, locally-owned business. We're not part of some big national or internationally-owned media group.

• We employ local people and many freelance reporters, correspondents, photographers and videographers who live in West Cork and are well-known locally.

• We sell our newspaper via 200 local newsagents and retailers, and we value the relationship we have with them as they sell The Southern Star and our readers support their shops.

• We’re aware of the cost of living pressures that exist for some of our readers, so we continue to be one of the lowest-priced local newspapers in the country, even though our operating costs have risen significantly.

• Your support helps us to fund quality, trusted news and sports journalism, lifestyle coverage, special magazines/supplements, develop our extensive digital operations and deliver our local business, farming and sports awards programmes.

Thank you West Cork, for trusting The Southern Star for the last 134 years.

It's our privilege to serve you today and into the future.