Bruce Croft Arnold OBE FRSL (6 September 1936 – 2 May 2024) was an English journalist and author who lived in Ireland from 1957.
[2] In 1983 it emerged that his telephone had been bugged by Charles Haughey in the Irish phone tapping scandal.
Arnold was educated at Kingham Hill School and at Trinity College, Dublin, where he graduated with a degree in modern languages (English and French) in 1960.
Arnold died of pneumonia in the Glenageary area of Dublin, on 2 May 2024, at the age of 87.
He was awarded an honorary doctorate by University College Dublin (UCD), and in the 2003 Birthday Honours was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) for services to journalism and UK-Irish relations.