Daily Mail and was more populist in tone and more concise in its coverage than its rivals. The planned issue was 100,000 copies but the print run on the first day was 397,215 and additional printing facilities had to be acquired to sustain a circulation which rose to 500,000 in 1899. Lord Salisbury, 19th-century Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, dismissed the "Daily Mail" as "a newspaper produced by office boys for office boys." By 1902, at the end of the Boer Wars, the circulation was over a million, making it the largest in the world. With Harold running the business side
The Boys in Green The Boys in Green "The Boys in Green" is a song by Michael Carwood a journalist with The Irish Press. The song was written for Ireland's 1988 European Championship. Credited to the "Republic of Ireland Soccer Squad", it spent four weeks at #1 in the Irish charts in June / July 1988, prior to the tournament the Irish Soccer team and management performed the song with Gay Byrne, on The Late Late Show. The song was reworked by the Dublin City Ramblers on their album Home and away, for the Italy 90, World Cup, with the word "Italy" use instead