Leinster Express

{{Short description|Irish newspaper}}

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{{Use Irish English|date=March 2020}}

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| type = Weekly

| format = Tabloid

| foundation = 1831

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| owners = Iconic Newspapers

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| circulation = Unknown, no longer ABC audited {{Cite web|url=https://www.abc.org.uk/product/16885|title = Leinster Express - Data - ABC | Audit Bureau of Circulations}}

| headquarters = Portlaoise, County Laois
Ireland

| sister newspapers = Offaly Express

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| website = [http://www.leinsterexpress.ie www.leinsterexpress.ie]

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The Leinster Express is a regional newspaper in Ireland that serves County Laois.

The paper was part of the Leinster Leader Group, which was sold to Johnston Press in late 2005.{{cite news |author=Ian Guider |title=Johnston Press spends over €240m to become largest Irish regional publisher |url=http://archives.tcm.ie/irishexaminer/2005/09/17/story515950609.asp |work=Irish Examiner |date=17 September 2005 |access-date=2008-09-12 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070630112522/http://archives.tcm.ie/irishexaminer/2005/09/17/story515950609.asp |archive-date=30 June 2007 |url-status=dead }} The paper is currently owned by Iconic Newspapers, who acquired Johnston Press' titles in Ireland in 2014.{{Cite web | title = Johnston Press sells its 14 titles in the Republic | work = The Irish Times | access-date = 2014-08-22 | url = http://www.irishtimes.com/business/sectors/media-and-marketing/johnston-press-sells-its-14-titles-in-the-republic-1.1745888 }} The offices of the Leinster Express are based in Portlaoise.{{cite web |url=http://www.nca.ie/eng/Research_Zone/Reports/consumer_media.pdf |title=Consumer Media in Ireland |year=2004 |access-date=2008-09-12}}

The Leinster Express was originally published in Maryborough (renamed Portlaoise in 1929), Queen's County (renamed County Laois in 1922), Ireland in 1831 - an archive of its papers are available in Laois County Library in Portlaoise.{{citation needed|date=December 2020}}