Eddie is responsible for BBC Northern Ireland’s Commissioning Department. Since taking on this role in 2020, he has commissioned a range of content for Network and local audiences, across multiple genres. These include documentaries such as Once Upon A Time in Northern Ireland, The House of Paisley, Murder in the Badlands and The Prime Ministers of Northern Ireland; Arts projects such as My Name is Ottilie, James Joyce’s Ulysses and Brian Friel, Shy Man, Showman; and entertainment and scripted content, Hope Street, The Paddy Raff Show and Dylan Moran’s comedy Stuck. Previously, he worked at RTÉ, where he launched and ran the investigative documentary strand Prime Time Investigates, before moving into commissioning across genres - including factual (A Mother Brings Her Son to Be Shot, Maurice McCabe: Whistleblower, and The Man Who Wanted to Fly) and comedy programmes (The Young Offenders, Mrs Browns Boys, The Savage Eye and The Tommy Tiernan Show). Eddie is from Belfast. He joined BBC NI in February 2018, to run in-house production, before moving into his current role in commissioning. He studied Law at Trinity College Dublin, has a Masters in Journalism from Dublin City University, and Diplomas in Strategy & Innovation from the Irish Management Institute. He has worked in print journalism, TV production and commissioning in the UK and Ireland, and received Ireland’s TV Journalist of the Year Award in 2001 for his work in Afghanistan.