According to the Audit Bureau of Circulations, the paper had an average circulation of 10,080 for the first six months of 2006. In contrast the "Irish Independent" had a circulation of approximately 160,000 and "the Irish Times" a circulation of 117,000. They are not universally available in Northern Ireland and so have their principal market in the Republic of Ireland, unlike "Daily Ireland" which was intended to be an all-Ireland newspaper. "The Irish News", which is largely restricted to Northern Ireland, has a circulation of over 50,000. Though new newspapers regularly start at a low base and lose money for their first couple of years, no Irish national newspaper in recent years which started at such a low base has survived, with newspapers such as the "Stars on Sunday", "Daily News" and "Dublin Daily", attracting higher initial base circulations in smaller markets (the former two in the Republic, the latter in Dublin) before folding.