Conor Brady

Conor Brady is an Irish journalist, novelist and an academic. He was the Editor of The Irish Times between 1986 and 2002.

Brady was born in Tullamore in County Offaly, Ireland. He received his formal education at St. Columba's Christian Brothers College, in Tullamore; the Cistercian College, Roscrea in County Tipperary, and at University College Dublin, where he also edited the college newspaper.

He was the editor of the Sunday Tribune before assuming the Editorship of the prestigious The Irish Times in 1986. Brady was judged to be an excellent Editor who had increased the newspapers circulation figures.
He retired from The Irish Times in 2002, but the lustre of his extended tenure at its helm was dimmed when he left the title in financial dire straits in his final year, and it subsequently was revealed that he had negotiated a highly lucrative financial package and pension entitlement for himself as a part of his departure.
He published his autobiography, entitled Up with The Times, in 2005.

Brady is a Visiting Professor at John Jay College, City University of New York; Senior Teaching Fellow at Michael Smurfit Graduate School of Business, and University College Dublin.

Brady was a member of the Garda Siochana Ombudsman Commission from 2005 to 2011. He is associated with the work of the The British-Irish Association.

He has written several published books on a range of subjects, from histories of the Irish Police Force; personal memoirs of his journalistic career, and a crime fiction novel series featuring the character of "Detective Sergeant Joe Swallow", under the titles A June of Ordinary Murders and The Eloquence of the Dead.

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