Mary Fitzgerald

Mary Fitzgerald

Foreign Affairs Correspondent

Mary Fitzgerald is the Irish Times award-winning foreign affairs correspondent. She began her career reporting on Northern Ireland before relocating to the Middle East. Now based in Dublin, she works across the Middle East, Africa and south Asia, reporting from countries including Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Libya, Lebanon, Iran, Sudan, Somalia, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Pakistan and Afghanistan. Her work has appeared in other publications including Foreign Policy, the Washington Post, and the Guardian. In 2004 she was awarded the Laurence Stern Fellowship at the Washington Post. In 2006 she spent five months reporting on Islam in Egypt, Jordan, Pakistan and Turkey for the Irish Times after she was awarded the inaugural Douglas Gageby Fellowship. Mary is a frequent contributor to international broadcast media including the BBC, CBS News and Ireland’s state broadcaster RTÉ.

Syrian refugees build a makeshift tent while waiting for a trailer from the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, at the Zaatari refugee camp in Jordan. Photograph: Lynsey Addario/The New York Times
Conflicts like Syria creating ‘global underclass’ of refugees – Amnesty

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Syrian opposition figure Rafif Jouejati. Photograph: Aidan Crawley
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Syrian refugees wait in line for a daily bread ration distributed by the World Food Program at the Zaatari refugee camp in Jordan. Photograph: Lynsey Addario/The New York Times
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Former US president Jimmy Carter and former president Mary Robinson at the Department of Foreign Affairs Iveagh House during a visit hosted by Tánaiste Eamon Gilmore. Photograph: Brenda Fitzsimons
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Former prime minister of Norway Gro Harlem Brundtland: met more than a dozen young people from Northern Ireland in Dublin yesterday
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Former Irish president Mary Robinson and former US president Jimmy Carter. Photograph: Jeff Moore/The Elders
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Saadi Gadafy, son of Libyan leader Muammar Gadafy. Two of his children were educated at the International School of the Martyrs. Photograph: EPA/Filippo Monteforte
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Members of armed revolutionaries stage a protest in front of the Libyan Justice Ministry in Tripoli. Photograph: Reuters/Ismail Zitouny
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The Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade Eamonn Gilmore with Nora Owens and Joe Costello TD. Photograph: David Sleator
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