User:Mark McFadden

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Mark McFadden is a television journalist from Ireland. He is currently a senior correspondent for the Irish television channel UTV, which is affiliated to the British independent television network ITV

He is regularly featured on 'UTV Live', the flagship evening news programme on UTV.

Mark was born in Derry and after education at Saint Columb's College (also attended by Nobel prize winners John Hume and Seamus Heaney) and Queen's University Belfast he returned to Derry to begin his news career with the Derry Journal, the world's second oldest English-language newspaper.

He has contributed to London broadsheet newspapers The Guardian and the Daily Telegraph.

He switched to television journalism in April 1994 as Ireland started the move from conflict to peace. He has reported on major news stories including the IRA's ceasefire, the Omagh Bombing which claimed 31 lives, and visits by United States President Bill Clinton.

Mark works mainly on news reports, but also produces material for the sports and features departments.

He has been UTV's regular correspondent throughout the entire course of the Bloody Sunday Inquiry. This Tribunal of Inquiry, chaired by Lord Saville of Newdigate, sat at the Guildhall in Derry and at Methodist Central Hall in London. It is the longest and most expensive Inquiry in UK legal history.

His hobbies include cookery, playing piano and guitar, and hiking.