Eamonn McCann (born 10 March 1943[1]) is an Irish political activist, former politician and journalist from Derry, Northern Ireland.

In 2019, he was elected to Derry City and Strabane District Council, remaining in the position until his resignation for health reasons in March 2021.

[2] McCann left Queen's without graduating, a decision he says was forced on him by the university authorities acting in a sectarian manner towards someone they regarded as a troublemaker.

The jury unanimously acquitted McCann, and all the other defendants, of charges of criminal damage to property belonging to Raytheon.

He said: "I don't think I said anything at Dolours Price's grave that contradicted that [calling McConville's murder 'a horrible and unforgivable act'] ...

Throughout the 1990s McCann wrote constantly about Bloody Sunday,[16] ensuring that every new piece of evidence about what had happened on the day and in the course of the subsequent cover-up was analysed and publicised.

He wrote in the local Derry papers, in the Belfast Telegraph,[17] The Irish Times, the Sunday Tribune, in the London Independent, The Guardian,[18] The Observer – anywhere he could place a story.

He has written a column for the Dublin-based magazine Hot Press, and is a frequent commentator on the BBC, RTÉ and other broadcast media.

[20][21][22] Much of his journalistic work reflects what he himself describes[23] as a "shuddering fascination" with religion which, when coupled with his profound skepticism, has made it a topic to which he has often returned.

[21][24] In March 2008, McCann spoke with National Public Radio in the United States about the solidarity between the civil rights movement in Northern Ireland and the civil rights movement in the U.S.[25] In March 2014, following Crimea's referendum on joining Russia, McCann had a piece published in The Irish Times on the situation there.

He commented: "After six years in office, Obama believes he has a right to invade anywhere, bomb anything, kill anybody whose jib the CIA doesn't like the cut of, irrespective of national or international law or, indeed, of the provisions of the US constitution.

[27] He has also edited two books on Bloody Sunday: McCann was the partner of Mary Holland (1935–2004), a journalist who worked for The Observer and The Irish Times.