Deaglán de Bréadún, Irish journalist and author.
Deaglán de Bréadún was educated at Synge Street CBS, University College Dublin, Tulsa University in Oklahoma and, more recently, Trinity College Dublin.[1]
An award-winning journalist who worked for many years with The Irish Times[2] where he held a range of positions including Northern (Ireland) Editor, Foreign Affairs Correspondent, Political Correspondent and Irish Language Editor, before taking early retirement from the paper at the end of 2012. Currently a contributor to the Sunday Independent, published in Dublin and the Belfast-based Irish News as well as being a regular broadcaster in English and Irish, he also worked in 2013-14 as Local Radio Correspondent at the Oireachtas (Republic of Ireland parliament) and in 2014-15 as Political Editor of The Irish Sun.
He won the Northern Ireland IPR/BT award for Daily News Journalist of the Year and has had two books published in English, one of them on the negotiations which led to the historic Belfast/Good Friday Agreement which ended the troubles in Northern Ireland and the other on Sinn Féin, the largest political party in both parts of the island of Ireland,[3] as well as three books in the Irish language.[4] A native of County Wexford, he has lived most of his life in Dublin where he attended Synge Street Christian Brothers School, University College Dublin and Trinity College. He was a member of the Press Council of Ireland from 2013 to 2019, nominated by the National Union of Journalists and serving the maximum period of two three-year terms. He is the membership secretary of the Dublin Freelance Branch of the NUJ and also serves on the advisory board of the union's magazine, The Journalist.