Described as "a violent weekly journal" by A.A. Campbell. 

Referred to as "our only Catholic journal in Ulster." 

In his essay on "Dublin Newspapers," Stephen J. Brown writes that the first proprietor of the journal, Denis Holland, departed for America in 1866, when the paper was taken over by Richard Pigott. Brown calls Pigott "of unhappy memory", and it is claimed that Pigott embezzled money from the paper and covered his tracks by not keeping written records.