Breandán Delap is an award-winning author and journalist. He was born in Bunbeg, County Donegal, just a half-mile from Vincent Coll’s birthplace. He is a news editor with RTÉ, Ireland’s national broadcaster, and the producer of Seacht Lá, a weekly current-affairs program on TG4, the Irish-language station. He’s also a translator of children’s books, The Irish Times drama critic in the west of Ireland, and the author of two books in Gaelic about the Irish media: Ar an Taifead: Fis, Fuaim, Focal, and Scéal Scéil, both published by Cois Life.
Breandán was named Oireachtas Journalist of the Year in 1998 and again in 2010. In 2003, he won the ESB Journalist of the Year award for his exposé of a sex-abuse scandal in an Irish summer college over a 30-year period. In 2014, Breandán received a WITBN (World Indigenous Television Broadcasters Network) award for investigative journalism.
He lives in Spiddal, County Galway, Ireland.
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