Niall Stanage

Niall Stanage (born 18 June 1974) is an Irish journalist and Associate Editor of the American political newspaper, The Hill.

Biography

Stanage was born in 1974 in Belfast, Northern Ireland and attended Carryduff Primary School and Methodist College Belfast. He describes his upbringing thus: "I was the product of a family that identified primarily as Irish rather than British — and that was nominally Protestant, yet in reality secular". He went on to read English at St Edmund Hall, Oxford, graduating in 1995. In the 1990s, he performed as a singer-songwriter, playing acoustic guitar and harmonica at various live gigs across the British Isles.

Stanage is a former editor of Magill and a regular contributor to the New York Observer, while also covering the United States for The Sunday Business Post. He has written for Salon, The Wall Street Journal, The Guardian and the Irish Independent, among other publications. He is currently Associate Editor of The Hill.

In The Guardian in 2006, Stanage argued in opposition to George Monbiot, who had written that the Iraqi insurgency was comparable to the IRA: