Mark Devenport

Mark has been Northern Ireland political editor since 2001, and a BBC journalist since 1980s. He covered the IRA ceasefire and Good Friday Agreement. He was the BBC's UN correspondent in New York and also covered stories in Somalia, Sierra Leone, Tanzania and Israel. Mark is the author of Flash Frames -12 Years Reporting Belfast and co-author of Man of War, Man of Peace: a biography of Gerry Adams.

Almost out of office message
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Northern Ireland
Posted
8 October 2020
Why is NI struggling to pick its top official?
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Northern Ireland
Posted
26 September 2020
The legality of poteen and new restrictions puzzle
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Northern Ireland
Posted
13 September 2020
The assembly is back, and so is Inside Politics
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Northern Ireland
Posted
6 September 2020
From IRA comments controversy to a peerage
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Northern Ireland
Posted
22 August 2020
A is for algorithms, B is for Boris, C is for CCEA
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Northern Ireland
Posted
15 August 2020
Hume, Brexit and planning for NI's big birthday
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Northern Ireland
Posted
9 August 2020
Hume was able to unpick the lock of the Troubles
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Northern Ireland
Posted
4 August 2020
DUP disputes provide food for thought
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Northern Ireland
Posted
2 August 2020
Differing opinions behind the mask
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Northern Ireland
Posted
26 July 2020
No prospect of Stormont falling after funeral row
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Northern Ireland
Posted
4 July 2020
Will the fox get the run of the chicken coop?
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Northern Ireland
Posted
28 June 2020
A week of socially-distanced political bloopers
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Northern Ireland
Posted
21 June 2020
Can politicians move past ideological convictions?
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Northern Ireland
Posted
10 June 2020
The pension, the politics and the pledge
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Northern Ireland
Posted
6 June 2020
Grey areas inevitable as dormant economy re-opens
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Northern Ireland
Posted
30 May 2020
United front but tensions on the back benches
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Northern Ireland
Posted
23 May 2020
Coronavirus resources issue will rumble on
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Northern Ireland
Posted
16 May 2020
Executive not 'tied down' by lockdown easing approach
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Northern Ireland
Posted
12 May 2020
Criteria v calendar in debate on easing lockdown
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Northern Ireland
Posted
8 May 2020
The single transferable message of coronavirus
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Northern Ireland
Posted
3 May 2020
Inside Politics puts spotlight on virus response
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Northern Ireland
Posted
24 April 2020
Will coronavirus change everything or nothing?
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Northern Ireland
Posted
25 March 2020
Stormont's day of reckoning overshadowed
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Northern Ireland
Posted
13 March 2020