Sir Trevor McDonald OBE is returning to Belfast for an intimate ‘An Evening with’ event covering his remarkable life and career including his time spent in Belfast reporting at the height of the troubles.

An Evening with Sir Trevor McDonald: In Conversation with Eamonn Holmes takes place at The Waterfront Hall, Belfast, on Monday September 1.

Speaking ahead of the show, Mr McDonald said: "I’m honoured to be invited back to Belfast, a city that has meant so much to my career. It’s a city where my career really took off having undertaken my first major assignment there at the height of your historic troubles. It’s really remarkable and a credit how much it has changed for the good.

"I’m really looking forward to sharing my experiences of the people I’ve been very fortunate to meet and interview across the world on my travels in what I really deem a remarkable life. I’m also fortunate to be joined by Eamonn Holmes on this evening, who I’ve been lucky to cross paths with on numerous occasions and have been fortunate to be interviewed by him too. It’ll be a very special night and I can’t wait to see the people of Northern Ireland and share stories with you all one final time."

Sir Trevor McDonald was born and educated in Trinidad in the West Indies where his career in the media began, first as a radio reporter, news presenter and sports journalist. On his first major assignment there, he was sent to London in 1962 to report on talks at Marlborough House which culminated in setting a date for Trinidad's Independence.

Sir Trevor came to London in August 1969 to work as a Producer in the BBC Overseas Regional Service at Bush House in the Aldwych. He went on to produce Current Affairs programmes for the BBC WORLD Service and in that capacity worked on the initiation of a number of shows like The World Today, which are still part of the BBC World Service schedule.

In 1973 he joined ITN as a General Reporter. His first major assignment was in Northern Ireland where he covered The Troubles for more than a decade. He also reported from Dublin, Rome, Brussels, Strasbourg and Luxembourg on negotiations about the terms of Britain's membership and earliest days of the then Common Market - now the EU.

An Evening with Sir Trevor McDonald goes on sale this Monday March 31 at 10am with tickets priced from £35.00 available from Waterfront.co.uk and Ticketmaster.ie.

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