Mark Brennock

Mark Brennock is an Irish Director of Public Affairs and a former journalist. He used to work for The Irish Times.
He was educated in University College Dublin (B.A. Economics and Politics) and Dublin City University (Journalism). Until 2006, he served as Chief Political Correspondent for The Irish Times, a daily broadsheet in Ireland. During 20 years career as a journalist he also served as Northern Editor, Deputy News Editor and Foreign Affairs Correspondent at the paper. He won four National awards for journalism. Stephen Collins was appointed as his successor at the paper. It was suggested at the time that he was leaving the paper for being too 'soft' on the left, which didn't coincide with editor and former Progressive Democrat T.D. Geraldine Kennedy's viewpoints.
He left the newspaper in 2006 to become Director of Public Affairs at Murray Consultants, advising various public and private sector clients on relationships with media and government.