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VETERAN journalist Robert Fisk has died aged 74 of a suspected stroke.
The foreign correspondent was admitted to St Vincent’s hospital in Dublin on Friday and died shortly afterwards.
Mr Fisk started his career at the Sunday Express before moving to Belfast in 1972 to cover the Troubles in Northern Ireland for the Times, later becoming the newspaper’s Middle East correspondent based in Beirut.
The award-winning journalist built a reputation as a staunch critic of Western foreign policy, the US and Israel.
He left the Times in 1989 after a falling-out with owner Rupert Murdoch, once saying the proprietor had turned the paper “into a tame, pro-Tory, pro-Israeli paper shorn of all editorial independence.”
Paying tribute, legendary journalist John Pilger said: “I pay warmest tribute to one of the last great reporters.
“The weasel word ‘controversial’ appears in even his own paper, the Independent, whose pages he honoured.
“He went against the grain and told the truth, spectacularly. Journalism has lost the bravest.”
Former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn said: “So sad to hear of the death of Robert Fisk. A huge loss of brilliant man with unparalleled knowledge of history, politics and people of Middle East.”
