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Mary Ellen Synon (born 1951) is an Irish-American journalist.〔Liz Hunt, 'Can O'Bama bask in the luck of the Irish?', ''Daily Telegraph'' (15 March 2007), p. 27.〕 She is a columnist with the ''Mail on Sunday'' and a contributor to the ''Daily Mail'' in Britain and the ''Irish Daily Mail'', as well as the Irish weekly, ''The Sunday Business Post''. She is a frequent contributor to Irish radio current affairs programmes. ==Career== Synon was born in Virginia.〔"Mary Ellen:Ice Maiden of the Right". John Maher, ''Irish Times'', 22 March 1995 (p.6)〕 After attending university in Dublin, she worked briefly for the ''Daily News'' in Durban, South Africa, and for publications in New York before joining the staff of ''The Daily Telegraph'' in London as a reporter. While she was at the ''Telegraph'', she was a member of the Institute of Journalists, and served as a trade union official and negotiator. She was also awarded a Winston Churchill Travelling Fellowship which allowed her to be based in Paris for nine months to study the European Economic Community. When Irish journalist Susan O'Keeffe was brought before the Beef Tribunal for refusing to name her sources, an article Synon wrote about O'Keeffe caused a public outcry: "''Just before the appearance, Ms. Synon wrote in the ''Sunday Tribune'' that she would be happy to see Ms. O'Keeffe in handcuffs, a remark Ms. O'Keeffe's counsel complained about in court''".〔 In 1995 Synon made headlines in the British and Irish press over her affair with Rupert Pennant-Rea, the deputy governor of the Bank of England. Pennant-Rea subsequently resigned.〔(Reliable Rupert leaves Old Lady in disgrace )〕 Synon went to the press when he called time on the dalliance, with contradictory statements. According to the ''Sunday Tribune'', she said: 'Yes, I adored him. Yes, I was in love with him.'〔(Mistress of her own destiny ) Sunday Tribune, 27 August 2000〕 She told ''The Guardian'': 'I hate the bugger.'〔Clark, Andrew "(Scandalous )" ''The Guardian'', 28 October 2006; Retrieved 27 February 2009〕 'If you're going to dump, don't dump a financial journalist when you're Deputy Governor of the Bank of England. That's dumb.'〔Cheryl Stonehouse and Andrea Hubert, 'A-Z of Sex Scandals', ''Daily Express'' (24 January 2006), p. 19.〕 She was nicknamed 'the Bonk of England' by tabloid newspapers after she disclosed that she and Pennant-Rea had had sex on the governor's dressing room floor at the Bank.〔Leonard, Tom "(Athletes outraged as Paralympics called "perverse" )' ''Telegraph'', 27 October 2000; Retrieved 23 September 2007〕 The then governor Sir Eddie George allegedly had the carpet cut up.〔Simon Goodley, 'The Good Life. Hop on: we are taking sex tourism global', ''Sunday Telegraph'' (16 March 2008), p. 8〕 Synon then worked at the London bureau of the American television current affairs programme, ''60 Minutes'', working first as a researcher and then as an associate producer for correspondent Morley Safer and producer John Tiffin. She worked on ''60 Minutes'' programmes in various countries including Nigeria, South Africa, Swaziland, Ireland, France, Denmark, Germany and Britain. Synon subsequently worked as Dublin correspondent, then Europe correspondent, and finally Britain correspondent for ''The Economist''. She has also been a columnist in Ireland for the ''Sunday Business Post'' and the ''Sunday Independent'', and has contributed to ''The Irish Times'', the ''Irish Independent'' and the Irish edition of the ''Sunday Times''. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Mary Ellen Synon」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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