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Telegraph writer moving to Whitehall

Desmond McCartan, the Belfast Telegraph’s Westminster correspondent, is set to take up a senior role in the Whitehall press office.

He is leaving the paper after 33 years to become chief press officer at the Privy Council Office with responsibility to Leader of the House of Commons, Robin Cook.

Desmond joined the Telegraph in 1968, after previously working as a reporter for the East Antrim Times, and began reporting on the beginning of the Troubles when a period of serious rioting led to the arrival of the Army on Belfast streets.

In 1988 Desmond became the first Belfast Telegraph journalist to hold the post of Parliamentary Press Gallery chairman at Westminster.

Desmond will take up his new post next month.

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