Mick Fealty

Mick Fealty (born 1959) is a journalist and the founding editor of the acclaimed Northern Ireland-based blog Slugger O'Toole.

Fealty was born in Belfast and grew up in Holywood, County Down, but now lives in Dorset, England. He writes on a freelance basis for The Daily Telegraph, a right-wing British newspaper and is a frequent contributor to the left-wing Guardian newspaper's Comment is Free site.

He has also written for The Irish Times, The Financial Times, The Observer, Prospect Magazine, the Sunday Independent and Belfast Telegraph. He was a visiting research fellow at the Institute of Governance at Queen's University Belfast between December 2004 and August 2008.

He works as a consultant on online engagement and works with a range of public, voluntary and private sector organisations. He has given talks for London-based Editorial Intelligence, Tomorrow's Company, the Reuters Institute at Oxford University, and the Northern Ireland Assembly.

Publications include: A Long Peace: the future of Unionism in Northern Ireland (2003); Public Diplomacy, Cultural Interventions & the Peace Process in Northern Ireland, Annenburg School of Communication, University of Southern California (2009).

Awards

• "Best Political Blog" in the Galway at the Irish Blog Awards in 2010.^[1]
• Winner the Peace Through Media Award 2009 from the International Council for Press and Broadcasting BBC Report:^[2]
• Shortlisted for Politics Online's "The Top 10 Who Are Changing the World of Internet and Politics" 2006 and 2009.^[3]
• "Best Website of the Month" and specially commended in the "Website of the Year Award" at the BT GoldenEye T Awards in May 2006.
• First in the "Best Political Blog" section in the Irish Blog Awards in 2006.
• In 2005 it won "Best European Political Weblog" in the first Satin Pajamas competition held by A Fistful of Euros. [2].
• It won the New Statesman "New Media Award" for community and information in 2004.^[4]

References

1. ^ Irish Times
2. ^ [1]
3. ^ Politics Online
4. ^ New Statesman

External links

• Personal website
• Profile at Guardian Comment is Free
• Daily Telegraph

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