A new newspaper for the growing immigrant community in Ireland has been launched, featuring articles in seven languages, including Bulgarian, the Irish Independent reported.
The free fortnightly newspaper will be issued in Polish, Nigerian, Bulgarian, Russian, Latvian, Lithuanian and Irish and will offer English translations of each article.
Its main target is the immigrant community, who now account for 10 % of the 4.2 million population.
"As an immigrant myself, I was interested in having a message for everybody," says publisher Giovanni Molinari, an Italian businessman who lost his job when a multi-national company collapsed.
"The purpose is to understand better where immigrants are coming from, why they are here and what they are looking for."
The Italian-born businessman previously worked as a buyer for Trachtech, a multi-national company which assembled traction products at its factory in Sligo.
The first 5,000 copies of the 16-page Multi-News Ireland were printed earlier this week by the Connacht Tribune in Galway.