The Ballymun Concrete News was officially launched in October 2001, the Concrete News was a one-man-operated free newspaper that circulated to 20,000 homes on the Northside

Northside (Dublin)

The Northside is the area in County Dublin, Ireland bounded to the south by the River Liffey to the east by Dublin Bay, to the north and west by the boundaries of County Dublin.- Introduction :...

 of Dublin City. Designed to spread only good news stories about Ballymun

Ballymun

Ballymun is an area on Dublin's Northside close to Dublin Airport, Ireland. It is infamous for the Ballymun flats, which became a symbol of poverty, drugs, alienation from the state and social problems in Ireland from the 1970s...

, the paper ceased trading in 2006 due to poor advertising revenue, which according to Seamus Kelly (Editor and Owner) was exacerbated by the delay in the delivery of the promised new local shopping centre.