Seamus Martin has been appointed International Editor. He will be responsible for directing coverage on the World News pages and for international input to the company's media outlets.
As Moscow Correspondent he covered the dissolution of the Soviet Union and the development of post-Communist Russia, and he was South Africa Correspondent at the advent of democracy in that country. He has formerly been News Focus Editor and Editor of the Electronic Editions of The Irish Times.
Deaglan de Breadun has been appointed Foreign Affairs Correspondent, covering world affairs with a special focus on Irish foreign policy. He has previously been Northern Editor, Political Reporter and Irish Language Editor, and has worked in Moscow and the Middle East.
His coverage of the Belfast Agreement won the 1998 Northern Ireland Press and Broadcast Award for daily news journalist of the year and he won the main Oireachtas award for journalism in Irish in 1990. A native of Enniscorthy, Co. Wexford, he grew up in Dublin where he attended CBS Synge Street and UCD.
Gerry Moriarty has been appointed Northern Editor. From Portarlington, Co Offaly, he joined the paper in January 1991, and has been based in Belfast for the past nine critical years of the peace process. He worked in the Irish Press from 1982 to 1990, first as a general reporter and then as political reporter, having begun his journalistic career with the Donegal Democrat in 1977.