The paper was alone among Irish newspapers at the time, to come out strongly against the invasion of Iraq, Murray's editorial predicting, accurately, that the invasion was akin to opening Pandora's Box. Even around this time of relatively improved readership, the future of the newspaper was believed to be uncertain. It continued to survive in the increasingly competitive Irish newspaper for several more years, in part helped by the collapse of the "Irish Press" group, which removed its highly popular "Sunday Press" from the market. Though many of its readers would not necessarily have been politically close to the "Sunday Tribune", they were closer to it than the main alternative, the "Sunday Independent".