Release of new Irish Newspaper Archives platform

From the Irish Newspaper Archives (www.irishnewsarchive.com):

Dear Members,

Our online resource encountered a number of issues over the weekend which resulted in the archive becoming inaccessible. We would like to apologies to all our customers for the inconvenience this outage caused. The Irish Newspaper Archives team should have alerted all of you to the fact work was due to take place.  

Why was work carried out?
We are carryout this work to release a new Irish Newspaper Archives platform. The new platform will offer a more user-friendly experience to new and existing customers. The new platform will also provide a more secure web site and provide far more self-service features to enable a more enjoyable experience while using the Irish Newspaper Archives website.

Will there be more downtime?
We require a number of hours estimated at 6 hours starting from 23:00 22.February.2021 to take down the existing site and deploy the newly developed Irish Newspaper Archives.

When will the work be complete?
From the 23rd of February you will see a new website which will be different in design. Please see the header image above showing the new homepage so that you are aware that it is still us!! For the coming week there maybe some adjustments made to the site however we do not envisage the requirement to take down the site at any point.

Once again please accept our apology for the inconvenience caused over the weekend and for the lack of communication provided.

We hope that you will enjoy our newly developed site as much as we do.  Thank you for your patience and continued membership to our online newspaper archives.

Yours Sincerely,

Irish Newspaper Archives - Team 

(With thanks to Andrew Martin)

Chris

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