The
Evening Echo was first published in 1892. The presses used by the
Examiner and
Echo printed the First National Loan for the Sinn Féin Finance Minister
Michael Collins in
1919, leading to the British authorities' briefly shutting down the paper. The I.R.A damaged the printing presses in 1920, and they were destroyed by the anti-Treaty I.R.A. in
1922. who were poor and often homeless children that sold the newspaper. The title was sold in July 2018, along with other assets of
Landmark Media Investments, to
The Irish Times group. In January 2019, it was announced that in March 2019 the
Evening Echo would rebrand as
The Echo and change from an evening newspaper to a morning newspaper. ==Affiliations==