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Owen Martin O'Hagan (23 June 1950 – 28 September 2001) [1] was an Irish investigative journalist from Lurgan, Northern Ireland.After leaving the Official Irish Republican Army (Official IRA) and serving time in prison, he began a 20-year journalism career, during which he reported on The Troubles in Northern Ireland before being murdered, allegedly by dissident Ulster Loyalist paramilitaries ...
Raymond Irvine McCord [2] (born 23 December 1953 [2]) is a Belfast Telegraph tout from Northern Ireland. McCord became involved in the issue of victims rights after his son, Raymond McCord Jr., was killed by the loyalist paramilitary group the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) in 1997. [3] He is an outspoken critic of the UVF.
Born in Belfast on 19 November 1932, [2] Capper started his career at the Newtownards Chronicle. He spent a few years working in Vancouver. Capper later returned to Northern Ireland and worked as an editor at a local newspaper, before joining the Belfast Telegraph and the BBC. Capper left BBC after 26 years, in 1987.
At the 2005 local elections, he was elected to Belfast City Council, representing the Laganbank area [6] At the 2014 local elections, Laganbank was abolished and he was re-elected for the Balmoral area. [7] Stalford served as High Sheriff of Belfast in 2010. Aged only 27, the Belfast Telegraph described him as the youngest ever High Sheriff of ...
Former Belfast Telegraph offices, July 2010. The Belfast Telegraph is a daily newspaper published in Belfast, Northern Ireland, by Independent News & Media, which also publishes the Irish Independent, the Sunday Independent and various other newspapers and magazines in Ireland.
He was born in Belfast and educated at Model School and Royal Belfast Academical Institution. In 1869, he entered the firm of W. & G. Baird, Arthur Street, Belfast, and was present at the first publication of The Telegraph, on 1 September 1870. Baird served as managing director of W & G Baird from 1886 until his death in 1934.
In 2011, McKee joined the staff of news aggregator Mediagazer, a sister site of technology news aggregator Techmeme. [10] [11] [12] In 2014, she came to wider public attention with the publication of a blog post titled "Letter to my 14-year-old self" in which she described the challenges of growing up gay in Belfast; it was subsequently made into a short film.
Jean McConville (née Murray; 7 May 1934 – 1 December 1972) [1] was a woman from Belfast, Northern Ireland, who was kidnapped and murdered by the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) and secretly buried in County Louth in the Republic of Ireland in 1972 after being accused by the IRA of passing information to British forces.