Simon Carswell

Simon Carswell

Washington Correspondent

Simon Carswell is Washington Correspondent with The Irish Times. He was previously Finance Correspondent covering the banking crisis from 2007 to 2012. He was appointed Washington Correspondent in December 2012. He is the author of two books Something Rotten: Irish Banking Scandals and Anglo Republic: Inside The Bank That Broke Ireland, a bestseller in 2011. He was previously a News Reporter and News Editor of The Sunday Business Post. A graduate of Trinity College Dublin and Dublin Institute of Technology, he is a regular contributor to radio and television. He was named National Journalist of the Year 2011 by the National Newspapers of Ireland for his coverage of the banking crisis for The Irish Times.
 

 

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The Newseum in Washington, DC. Photograph: Paul Morigi/Getty Images
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Kieran McLoughlin (centre), president and chief executive of The American Ireland Fund, with from left, delegates Caitlin McCormick (New York), Reilly O’Connor (Washington DC), Jennifer Carroll (Dublin) and John Travers (Dublin) at the The Ireland Funds Inaugural Global Young Leaders Forum held in Farmleigh, Phoenix Park in June 2010. Photograph: Matt Kavanagh
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Senator Chuck Schumer, one of the eight senators responsible for adding visa measures for Ireland, Canada and Poland into the proposed US immigration legislation, has defended them. “Each of these provisions makes individual sense on the merits,” his spokesman said. Photograph: Reuters/Kevin Lamarque
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