Noel Doran, who recently stepped down as editor of the Irish News after 25 years, discusses his experiences covering the Troubles and the influence of his father's murder on his outlook.
Noel Doran singles out the murder of Patrick Kielty’s father in 1998 in influencing his outlook as editor of Irish News for 25 yearsAs a reporter he covered some of the worst days of the Troubles . When he stood down this week after 25 years as the editor of the Irish News , he did so as the longest-serving newspaper editor in these islands.
It has given voice to the nationalist North, but also been a voice. “Our line has always been, there were always options, every killing was not just wrong but cruel, and capable of causing bitterness and grief.” “Watching the whole Paddy Kielty phenomenon, he’s just been grand marshal at the St Patrick’s Day parade, and I keep thinking how life has changed for him over the years ... but the Kieltys still live in the same house, his mother’s still there in the same house on the same street.”
Though sectarianism was “not as in-your-face as it would be in some areas”,” in Kilkeel there was nevertheless “a Protestant side of the street and a Catholic side of the street and that was what people were supposed to do, walk down your side of the street”. Things could have ended a lot worse. “I think they thought I might have been an associate of Michael Stone.”
His first meeting McGuinness was during a riot in Derry. “He was basically in the middle of it, but he still came over to talk.” Irish News All Stars Awards - Armagh City Hotel 8th September 2016 Photograph by Declan Roughan Noel Doran with Martin McGuinness and former chairman of the Irish News, the late Jim Fitzpatrick, who died in 2022 aged 92. “Two people who were different ways were central to my career with The Irish News,” says Doran. Copyright ‘courtesy Irish News’ or similar would be sufficient.
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