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 and broadcaster on political issues 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 as well as an award for his journalism in Irish. He has had two books published in English: The Far Side of Revenge, published in two editions in 2001 and 2008, a comprehensive 450-page account of the negotiations leading to the historic Belfast/Good Friday Agreement which ended the troubles in Northern Ireland, as well as Power Play, which describes the rise of Sinn Féin as a political party in the aftermath of the Good Friday pact,[3] along with three books in the Irish language, listed below.[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 also a graduate student at Tulsa University in Oklahoma. 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.