Senan Molony

Senan Molony is an award-winning journalist based in Dublin who works as a political correspondent for the Irish Independent. As crime correspondent with The Star, he was the first national specialist to arrive on the scene of the Sophie Toscan du Plantier murder in 1996, where he was met by local journalist Ian Bailey, the newspaper’s ‘stringer’, who later became the prime suspect in the case. Molony was at the forefront of crime journalism in Ireland for many years, from covering the murder of journalist Veronica Guerin to giving evidence against the Gilligan gang in the Special Criminal Court. He has reported variously for the Evening Herald, Irish Daily Mail and Irish Independent on tribunals, trials and murder investigations in Ireland and Britain. A ‘Scoop of the Year’ winner at the inaugural National Newspapers of Ireland Awards, he is author of bestselling book The Phoenix Park Murders about the infamous political assassinations of 1882. Senan has also written books about the Titanic, Lusitania and other ships, and devised and presented a number of television documentaries in Ireland, England and the United States. A student of James Joyce and author of a book about Ulysses, he has long earned a living writing about politics at Leinster House.