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Mark Devenport – BBC Northern Ireland Political Editor

Mark Devenport is BBC Northern Ireland's Political Editor and Chair of the Stormont Correspondents' Association. Mark has reported in various capacities for BBC Northern Ireland since the mid 1980s, covering events such as the IRA ceasefire of 1994, the Good Friday Agreement and the Omagh bombing.

During the 1990s, Mark was the BBC's Ireland Correspondent reporting on developments in Ireland for its national and international audiences. Between 1999 and 2001 he was the BBC's United Nations Correspondent, based in New York. Mark is the author of two books, "Man of War, Man of Peace" a biography of Gerry Adams which he wrote together with the Times correspondent David Sharrock and "Flash Frames", an ancedotal account of reporting from Belfast.

 
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