Editor since 1999 of the Irish News, a daily newspaper based in Belfast. Told the Inquiry that the implications of the PCC were frequently discussed at editorial meetings and that the PCC had never ruled that the Irish News had been in breach of the Code. He firmly believed none of his staff had been involved in phone-hacking nor made any payments to private investigators.
Daily newspaper published since 1870 in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Editor Mike Gilson told the Inquiry that he gave broad support to the proposals of self-regulation put forward by Lord Black but not to statutory regulation.
