Siobhán Fenton is a writer and political commentator on Irish and British politics, based in Belfast.

Her writing has been published by the Guardian, the Irish Times, the New Statesman and Vogue.

She has previously worked as a Broadcast Journalist for the BBC in Belfast and Social Affairs Correspondent for The Independent in London.

She has appeared as a political commentator for broadcast media including the BBC, RTÉ and Sky News.

From 2020 to 2024, she was a senior communications adviser to Sinn Féin in the Oireachtas parliament and worked as the party’s Deputy Head of Press in Leinster House from 2022.

Her first book The Good Friday Agreement was published in 2018 and she has delivered lectures and seminars about the Good Friday Agreement and northern Irish politics at universities including the University of Cambridge, Queen’s University Belfast, Cardiff University and the University of Tübingen in Germany.

In 2020, she was selected by Yale University and the Washington Ireland Program for their Emerging Leaders fellowship program for young leaders from Ireland.

She is a graduate of the University of Oxford, the University of Cambridge and has a Master’s degree in Journalism from City University London.