A great compromise between retaining the exact look of the print version, which helps readers to browse and rate priorities, along with expansion of articles to individual documents and an excellent word search engine. Puts the Guardian online to shame, which is irritatingly laid out as a few pictures and headers on the entry screen and which lacks a handy search engine. Hoping your readership is carrying the cost of continued journalism and that your international base has grown accordingly. I seem to have written this review at least several months ago and perhaps it was not sent. My sentiments remain as before. I think the Guardian may now be worried about its format and it proposes a return to a more traditional newspaper presentation, probably not unlike the Irish Times. Donal Costigan

The Irish Times is part of my dna - my father read it every morning and would comment to my mother on the news of the day; and I would go to school and relay what I remembered to my school teacher and friends!Thus a habit of a lifetime was established! I now read the paper on line; and then do the Crosaire crossword - I think I started doing cryptic crosswords before I went to college.For a while I lived in Australia and the UK so no Irish Times nor any newspaper which I trusted to give me a balanced view of what was going on. So now in my 80s I feel confident that ‘my’ newspaper is among the best in the world!

Am now 80 years of age and wherever I am, whatever I’m doing, I never miss reading the Irish Times. My father came home in the middle of the day from the office with that paper for his dinner - that was his time to read it, calling out snippets to us or our mum. She had her turn when we’d gone back to school or office. She tackled the crossword in the evening. When I got married the paper was bought each day and my love of crosswords began and of course photos of engagements and weddings appeared as well as deaths. Do people still call it hatched, matched and despatched?There was a special family history and attachment as mygreat-grandfather came from Scotland to be managing editor and the family became Irish from there on. He even got a mention in Ulysses and a front page for his funeral .We lived in USA for a couple of years and mother unfailingly posted the Saturday edition rolled up with a letter each week.I now read it online and share it with a daughter,a grandson (in NZ and Australia), and my sister .Thankyou to all the staff of the IrishTimes for keeping me informed.

The Irish Times has been part of my life for nearly 80 years. Firstly I remember sitting on my grandfather’s knee while he taught me to read using the IT to show me the letters.My next memory is of my father in fits of laughter reading Myles Na Gopaleen. Dad always brought the ‘paper’ home with him and as children we would read the headlines and I learned to trust the news in it.Many years later when there is so much false news and mis information I trust the integrity of the Irish Times - a nd find a balanced and truthful account of events which is very reassuring.