Experience

The Irish Times

• Ireland
• Newspaper Publishing
• 300 - 400 Employee

• Northern Editor

  • Oct 2021 - Present

  Northern Ireland

• Northern Correspondent

  • Jul 2019 - Oct 2021

  Northern Ireland

• Freelance news journalist

  • Feb 2017 - Jul 2019

  Dublin Freelance news journalist with The Irish Times writing news. features and analysis in the Derry/north west and across Northern Ireland.

• Freelance arts journalist

  • Jul 2006 - Jul 2019

  Dublin Literary reviewer as well as books/arts features journalist for The Irish Times books and culture pages. Occasional columnist, An Irishwoman's Diary.



Self-employed

• Writer

  • Sep 2016 - Dec 2021

  Derry Self-employed writer. The Children of the Troubles by Freya McClements and Joe Duffy, which tells the stories of all the children who died as a result of the Troubles, will be published by Hachette Ireland in autumn 2019. My first collection of short stories, The Dangerous Edge of Things, was published by Guildhall Press in 2012.



North West Regional College (NWRC)

• United Kingdom
• Higher Education
• 300 - 400 Employee

• Lecturer in Journalism

  • Sep 2014 - Jun 2019

  Derry Lecturer on the Broadcast Journalism module of the NCTJ course as well as selected radio and print modules on the HNC/D in Creative Media Production (Journalism).



BBC

• United Kingdom
• Broadcast Media Production and Distribution
• 700 & Above Employee

• Broadcast Journalist, Producer and Documentary-Maker

  • Jul 2007 - Aug 2016

  BBC Radio Foyle, Derry Broadcast journalist, producer and documentary-maker, BBC Radio Foyle/Ulster



Derry Journal

• Reporter

  • Jul 2005 - Jul 2007

  Derry Reporter with the Derry Journal newspaper