A new British Ambassador to Ireland has been appointed to replace Mr Ivor Roberts who has served in the post for more than three years, it was announced today.
Mr Stewart Eldon, who worked in the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) during the Gulf War, is to replace Mr Roberts, who is set to leave his post, the British Embassy in Dublin said.
Mr Eldon (49) was in America as Deputy Permanent Representative at the British mission in New York.
In the early 1990s he served as deputy head at the FCO Middle East Department and worked as Deputy Crisis Manager during the Gulf War.
Between 1993 and 1994 he worked at Harvard University at the Centre for International Affairs, which he left to take a three-year post on the UK Delegation to NATO.
He has previous experience of his new posting - as six years after he began work at the FCO he was head of the Republic of Ireland Department, a position in which he served from 1982 to 1983.