El Ideal Gallego was first published in A Coruña on 1 April 1917. Its founder was José Toubes Pego. The paper was fined 10,000 pesetas in 1971 for
not obeying by the law of press and printing.[1]
In 1999, El Ideal Gallego acquired El Diario de Ferrol becoming its editor and moving their headquarters to the City Port and Naval Station of Ferrol, which like A Coruña, also lies in Galicia.