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Former BBC NI Political Correspondent Stephen walker dies

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Born in England and educated in Northern Ireland, Walker became a BBC reporter in 1989 with Radio Leeds, before joining BBC Northern Ireland in 1991.

His journalism on the Spotlight documentaries ‘The BlackCatch’ and ‘The Life and Death of an IRA Quartermaster’ were recognised with a European Journalism Award in 1995 and Royal Television Society Award in 2001, respectively.

In 2005 he was named the Northern Ireland Journalist of the Year by the CIPR and was also part of the BBC Newsline team that reported on the death of Ian Paisley. The coverage was awarded an Irish Film and Television Award in 2015.

Although he suffered from an illness in recent years, he continued to work and to write.

As well as political books, he wrote about military history including Ireland’s Call: Irish Sporting Heroes who fell during the Great War.

He was fanatical football supporter especially of his home-town team Ballymena United, where he was a season ticket holder.


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