Malachi O'Doherty

Who is Malachi O'Doherty?

Malachi O'Doherty is a journalist, author and broadcaster in Northern Ireland.

He is the producer and presenter of the audio blog Arts Talk.

He was, perhaps, the longest running commentator/columnist on any Irish radio programme, having been a regular on Radio Ulster's Talkback from its creation in the mid-1980s until a revamp of the programme in 2009.

He provides political and social commentary for BBC NI's Hearts and Minds programme, and reports frequently for BBC Radio Ulster's Sunday Sequence.

His political journalism has been published in many Irish and British newspapers and periodicals, including The Irish Times, The Guardian, The Sunday Times, The Observer, The Scotsman and The New Statesman. In the mid-1990s he worked on and presented several television documentaries on Northern Irish culture and politics, for Channel Four, The BBC and UTV, all of them with independent production companies, chiefly Observer Films, DBA and Chistera. He is a former columnist for the Belfast Telegraph and former Managing Editor of Fortnight magazine. He writes for the Guardian's "Comment is Free" blog.

He writes most frequently now in the Belfast Telegraph.