Irish edition of The Sun drops topless Page 3 girls
The Irish edition of The Sun, part of media mogul Rupert Murdoch's News Corp, has dropped photos of topless women from its infamous Page 3, the newspaper's editor said.
The Irish edition of The Sun, part of media mogul Rupert Murdoch's News Corp, has dropped photos of topless women from its infamous Page 3, the newspaper's editor said.
Earlier this year Murdoch indicated that it may be time for a change.
This week, the Irish edition has featured celebrities on Page 3 including former Miss World Rosanna Davison and Dutch model Sylvie van der Vaart in swimwear rather than the usual photos.
"Page 3 is a hugely popular pillar of The Sun in the UK," editor Paul Clarkson said. "In The Irish Sun we strive to share the qualities that make the paper great in print and digital, but we also strive to cater for our own readers' needs and reflect the cultural differences in Ireland."
There have been perennial campaigns against Page 3, with women's groups criticising its pictures as degrading and in return regularly being vilified by the paper as dour and bitter.