Alan English
Alan English joined The Currency in 2025, after a five-year stint as a transformative editor of the Sunday Independent. A fully revamped newspaper increased its market share and won many awards during his tenure.
He was previously group editorial director of Iconic Media, Ireland’s largest regional newspaper group, overseeing more than 20 local titles and websites. Before that, he was editor of the Limerick Leader for almost 10 years.
Earlier in his career Alan was one of the founding editors of The Sunday Times Ireland edition, later becoming deputy sports editor of the UK edition, based in London. During that time he edited a bestselling book, The Sunday Times Sporting Century.
He is also the author or co-author of five rugby books, including Stand Up and Fight: When Munster Beat the All Blacks and the award-winning autobiographies of Paul O’Connell and Brian O’Driscoll, which are Ireland’s two biggest-selling sports books of the past 20 years.
