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Clodagh is a freelance broadcast journalist currently finishing a Master's in Journalism. She has undertaken work-experience at the Press Association and the BBC. She currently works at Citybeat FM.1 Articles
Born on 9th May 1988, Sean Smyth lived in Loughinisland with his parents Adrian and Christine and younger brother Philip until June 1997 before the family moved to Downpatrick. In March 1998, Sean’s life took a turn when he was knocked down as he was crossing the road, suffering a serious head injury and left paralysed, but forces enabled him to return to Primary 7 in Loughinisland after discharge in August and he transferred to St Colmcille’s High School in Crossgar the following year. Hospitalised for a four-month period in his final GCSE year, Sean sat only two of his GCSEs and transferred to St Malachy’s High School in Castlewellan to achieve his Maths and English as well as a GNVQ in Business to boost his GCSE grades. Unsatisfactory grades in the ICT and Double Business A-Levels that followed led him to sit a HND in Computing, before enrolling to a Computer Science degree in Queen’s University Belfast. Finding that his interests lay more in politics than computers, Sean attempted unsuccessfully to transfer to politics after failing exam re-sits and is now intent on sitting an A-Level on the subject. Prior to his accident, Sean was learning to play the guitar. Since then he has played various sports including wheelchair tennis, archery, canoeing and skiing. He has been playing wheelchair rugby in Dublin over the past year and is involved in setting up and publicising a new club in Antrim called the Ulster Warriors Wheelchair Rugby Club. This is set to launch in October.1 Articles
Conall McDevitt is the SDLP MLA for South Belfast. He is the SDLP's Party's Health spokesperson, sitting on the Health committee, and he is also a member of the Policing Board. Born in Dublin he spent his formative years in Malaga, Spain. He was Director of Communications for the SDLP in Northern Ireland from 1996 to 1999 a time that included the negotiations running up to the Good Friday Agreement, subsequent referendum and Assembly elections. He served as a Special Adviser in the first Power Sharing Executive in the North of Ireland, advising the Minister for Agriculture and Rural Development. He is a former Managing Director of Weber Shandwick and also a former Chairperson of the Chartered Institute of Public Relations.1 Articles
Michael Delaney is an aspiring journalist currently studying the NCTJ (National Council for the Training of Journalists) course at Belfast Metropolitan College. He is a graduate of Queen's University Belfast where he studied Modern History and Politics.1 Articles