Keith Duggan appointed to Washington role by The Irish Times

Keith Duggan has been appointed as the new Washington Correspondent of The Irish Times.

The Ballyshannon native, a former Donegal Democrat journalist, will take up the role in the coming weeks.

Duggan will succeed Martin Wall as the Washington Correspondent in a year of huge importance across the Atlantic. In November, the latest US presidential election will take place with Donald Trump set to challenge Joe Biden for a White House return.

Ruadhán Mac Cormaic wrote in a newsletter to The Irish Times subscribers this week: “In the US, where the Iowa caucuses are just weeks away, our incoming Washington Correspondent Keith Duggan is about to join the campaign trail.”

Duggan has been based in Galway in recent years and has most recently been a features writer with The Irish Times, a role he took up in July, 2022.

Previously, he was the paper’s chief sports writer and wrote the popular Sideline Cut column, which became a weekly must for sports fans on a Saturday.

A former MacNamee award winner, he first took up employment with The Irish Times in the 1990s after working for the Democrat.

He was the ghost writer of Until Victory Always, Jim McGuinness’s memoir, and he has also written Cliffs Of Insanity, The Lifelong Season and House of Pain: Through the Rooms of Mayo Football.