Mary Ellen Synon

Mary Ellen Synon (born 1951) is an American journalist. She is a columnist with the Mail on Sunday and a contributor to the Daily Mail in the United Kingdom and the Irish Daily Mail, as well as the Irish weekly, The Sunday Business Post. She is a frequent contributor to Irish radio current affairs programmes. Through her career, Synon has been an outspoken critic of the European Union and an advocate of laissez-faire capitalism.

Synon was born in Virginia. Synon is the daughter of John J. Synon, (d.1972) an American journalist who worked with Goodwin J. Knight and George Wallace. Synon met George Wallace as a young woman. Synon's paternal ancestors came from the area near Doneraile, County Cork. After studying at Trinity College, Dublin, she worked briefly for the Daily News in Durban, South Africa, and for publications in New York before joining the staff of The Daily Telegraph in London as a reporter. While she was at the Telegraph, she was a member of the Institute of Journalists, and served as a trade union official and negotiator. She was also awarded a Winston Churchill Travelling Fellowship which allowed her to be based in Paris for nine months to study the European Economic Community. Synon then worked at the London bureau of the American television current affairs programme, 60 Minutes, working first as a researcher and then as an associate producer for correspondent Morley Safer and producer John Tiffin. She worked on 60 Minutes programmes in various countries including Nigeria, South Africa, Swaziland, Ireland, France, Denmark, Germany and the UK. Synon subsequently worked as Dublin correspondent, then Europe correspondent, and finally British correspondent for The Economist. She has also been a columnist in Ireland for the Sunday Business Post, the Sunday Tribune, the Sunday Independent, and has contributed to The Irish Times, the Irish Independent and the Irish edition of the Sunday Times.

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