Organisation · GOV.UK transparency returns · sha1:125b7d966d81cf9ff019b2ee70dc89fbb14cef78
Media Breakfast - Enda McClafferty (Political Editor, BBC NI), Pauline McKenna (Radio & Digital Editor, BBC NI), Damien Magee (Newsline Editor, BBC NI), Lesley-Anne McKeown (News Editor, BBC NI), Tracey Magee (Political Editor, UTV), Vicki Hawthorne (Political Correspondent, UTV), Chris Hagan (News Editor, UTV), Munier Abdalla (Content Editor, UTV), Vincent Kearney (Northern Editor, RTE), Conor Macauley (Northern Reporter, RTE), Stephen Murphy (Ireland Reporter, Sky News), Dougie Beattie (NI Reporter, GB News), Nigel Gould (News Editor, Cool FM), James Gould (Chief Reporter, Cool FM), David Young (Ireland Editor, Press Association), Adrian Rutherford (News Editor, Belfast Telegraph), Suzanne Breen (Political Editor, Belfast Telegraph), John Manley (Political Correspondent, Irish News), David Thompson (Political Editor, News Letter), Freya McClements (Northern Editor, Irish Times), Jude Webber (Ireland Correspondent, Financial Times), Sheena McStravick (News Editor, Belfast Live/Daily Mirror), James McCarthy (Polticial Reporter, Belfast Live/Daily Mirror), Declan Harvey (Presenter, BBC NI/State of Us), Tara Mills (Presenter, BBC NI/State of Us), David McCann (Presenter, Stormont Sources), Alex Kane (Various Outlets), Brian Feeney (Irish News), Owen Polley (News Letter)
- Identity
organisation:govuk:sha1:125b7d966d81cf9ff019b2ee70dc89fbb14cef78— the GOV.UK transparency returns key, used as-is. No identity here is invented.- Graph built
- 5 September 2026
Names in the records
Each spelling a register uses for this entity, and the method that tied it here. A name is never the identity; a similar name is never a match.
| As published | Register | Tied by | Confidence | Rows |
|---|
What the records establish
- Media Breakfast - Enda McClafferty (Political Editor, BBC NI), Pauline McKenna (Radio & Digital Editor, BBC NI), Damien Magee (Newsline Editor, BBC NI), Lesley-Anne McKeown (News Editor, BBC NI), Tracey Magee (Political Editor, UTV), Vicki Hawthorne (Political Correspondent, UTV), Chris Hagan (News Editor, UTV), Munier Abdalla (Content Editor, UTV), Vincent Kearney (Northern Editor, RTE), Conor Macauley (Northern Reporter, RTE), Stephen Murphy (Ireland Reporter, Sky News), Dougie Beattie (NI Reporter, GB News), Nigel Gould (News Editor, Cool FM), James Gould (Chief Reporter, Cool FM), David Young (Ireland Editor, Press Association), Adrian Rutherford (News Editor, Belfast Telegraph), Suzanne Breen (Political Editor, Belfast Telegraph), John Manley (Political Correspondent, Irish News), David Thompson (Political Editor, News Letter), Freya McClements (Northern Editor, Irish Times), Jude Webber (Ireland Correspondent, Financial Times), Sheena McStravick (News Editor, Belfast Live/Daily Mirror), James McCarthy (Polticial Reporter, Belfast Live/Daily Mirror), Declan Harvey (Presenter, BBC NI/State of Us), Tara Mills (Presenter, BBC NI/State of Us), David McCann (Presenter, Stormont Sources), Alex Kane (Various Outlets), Brian Feeney (Irish News), Owen Polley (News Letter): 2 records of "recorded meeting with a minister" on 7 November 2025.
| Relationship | With | Date | Amount | Detail | Record |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| recorded meeting with a minister | Hilary Benn | 7 November 2025 | — | ministerial_meetings | |
| recorded meeting with a minister | Matthew Patrick | 7 November 2025 | — | ministerial_meetings |
What this does not establish
The records above establish that Media Breakfast - Enda McClafferty (Political Editor, BBC NI), Pauline McKenna (Radio & Digital Editor, BBC NI), Damien Magee (Newsline Editor, BBC NI), Lesley-Anne McKeown (News Editor, BBC NI), Tracey Magee (Political Editor, UTV), Vicki Hawthorne (Political Correspondent, UTV), Chris Hagan (News Editor, UTV), Munier Abdalla (Content Editor, UTV), Vincent Kearney (Northern Editor, RTE), Conor Macauley (Northern Reporter, RTE), Stephen Murphy (Ireland Reporter, Sky News), Dougie Beattie (NI Reporter, GB News), Nigel Gould (News Editor, Cool FM), James Gould (Chief Reporter, Cool FM), David Young (Ireland Editor, Press Association), Adrian Rutherford (News Editor, Belfast Telegraph), Suzanne Breen (Political Editor, Belfast Telegraph), John Manley (Political Correspondent, Irish News), David Thompson (Political Editor, News Letter), Freya McClements (Northern Editor, Irish Times), Jude Webber (Ireland Correspondent, Financial Times), Sheena McStravick (News Editor, Belfast Live/Daily Mirror), James McCarthy (Polticial Reporter, Belfast Live/Daily Mirror), Declan Harvey (Presenter, BBC NI/State of Us), Tara Mills (Presenter, BBC NI/State of Us), David McCann (Presenter, Stormont Sources), Alex Kane (Various Outlets), Brian Feeney (Irish News), Owen Polley (News Letter) and each entity named appear together in an official register, in the relationship that register records, on the date it records. They do not establish why any donation was made, why any contract was awarded, whether any one record was known to the people behind another, or that any record caused another. No causal inference is made on this page, and nothing here is a finding of any kind against anyone. A reported donation is a lawful, reported transaction; a contract award is a published notice; a seat is a seat.
Derived from: ministerial_meetings. Each row above names the table and key it came from and links the official record where one exists. How the graph is built is described at the evidence graph.