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The Irish Times is due to start rolling out an extensive revamp tomorrow, but the move appears to be far short of a total redesign.

It will include a brush-up of the main section of the newspaper, an extra daily comment page, new supplements, and a redesign of current supplements. Extra pull-outs include a travel section and a weekly pictures supplement.

According to the Sunday Business Post, the makeover will cost €5 million. Readers will be asked to cough up an extra 10c on weekdays and 20c on Saturdays.

The revamp was handled by the Scottish newspaper design firm Palmer Watson. They have recently worked with the Irish Times on a redesign of the Ticket entertainment supplement and the design of the paper’s Innovation monthly business magizine. 

With Irish newspaper, Palmer Watson have previously introduced a complete redesign of the Sunday Independent, worked on a relaunch of Galway City Tribune, on the now ill-fated Dublin Daily, and also with the Irish Independent injecting more colour into the paper.

From the Gazette Group’s website:

"Our Dun Laoghaire Gazette was launched in December 2007, and GGN will be unveiling three additional new Gazette titles in suburban Dublin over the next four months, which means that there will be eight Gazette titles serving the fastest-growing communities in Ireland."

The Cleraun media forum continues next Monday, February 25, at 8pm to 9.30pm with Damien Kiberd chairing a session which will ask if financial journalists are too close to business.

Kiberd, who presents Down to Business on Newstalk, was a founder and former editor of the Sunday Business Post. He also currently writes a business column for the Irish edition of the Sunday Times.

The forums are free to attend and informal affairs. They are held near UCD at the Cleraun University Centre, 90 Foster Avenue, Mount Merrion. Cleraun is run by Opus Dei. For more see: www.cleraun.com.

CORRECTION: For a short time this post first said the above event was on ‘tonight’ rather then correctly saying ‘next Monday, February 25′. We are sorry for any inconvenience caused.

The latest TNS mrbi Joint National Listenership Research results, covering the whole of 2007, into radio in Ireland have been released. The can be viewed here (pdf).