Deaglán de Bréadún

Deaglán de Bréadún, Irish journalist and author.

Education
Deaglán de Bréadún was educated at Synge Street CBS, University College Dublin, Tulsa University in Oklahoma and, more recently, Trinity College Dublin.

Work
An award-winning journalist who worked for many years with The Irish Times 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, as well as three books in the Irish language. 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.

Publications

 * The Far Side of Revenge: Making Peace in Northern Ireland (2001, second edition 2008)
 * Power Play: The Rise of Modern Sinn Féin (2015)
 * Sceallóga (Chips, 1990, a collection of short stories)
 * Cinnlínte: Saol an Iriseora (Headlines: The Journalist's Life, 2016, a memoir)
 * Scéalta Nuachta (News Stories, 2016, a collection of articles in Irish).