Conor Doonan
Conor Doonan served as Head Opinion Editor from Spring 2025 through Spring 2026.
Conor is a Politics & Digital Journalism student with a minor in Irish Studies. His passion for journalism, politics, and good old-fashioned gossip led him to the Opinion section of The Fairfield Mirror.
In 2026, his article ‘Americans Abroad‘ received the College Media Association Apple Award for Best Opinion Column in a Division II (medium-sized) college or university, as well as 2nd place for Editorial/op-ed from the Connecticut Society of Professional Journalists. In the same year, he received the Arthur R. Riel Journalism Prize from the Fairfield University English Department. He also received the James F. Mullan Essay Prize in Irish Studies for an analysis of contemporary reporting and later academic scholarship on Bobby Sands’ 1981 hunger strike.
When he is not writing editorials, he is writing film reviews on Letterboxd.
