This is an accepted version of this page Mark Simpson is a journalist who served as BBC's Ireland Correspondent from 2008 to 2013.
[1] Simpson began his journalistic career at a series of Northern Irish newspapers – the News Letter, The Irish News, and the Belfast Telegraph – after graduating in 1988 from Queen's University Belfast with a degree in History and Politics.
[2] In 2005 he moved to Leeds, England to the position of North of England Correspondent, where he reported for the national BBC News, including Shannon Matthews' disappearance and later discovery.
In 2008, he then returned to Belfast where he attained the position of Ireland Correspondent, taking over from Denis Murray.
He was born in 1968,[3] and is from Helen's Bay, Bangor, County Down.