Mary O'Hara

Mary O'Hara is a journalist, writer and anti-poverty activist. Life Mary O'Hara was born in west Belfast where she attended St Louise's Comprehensive College before proceeding to the University of Cambridge. She read Social and Political Science at Magdalene College where she was awarded a college scholarship. Work After leaving university she worked for a year at Capital Radio in London. She then worked for ten years as a journalist at The Guardian and The Observer. She was awarded an Alistair Cooke Fulbright Scholarship which enabled her to spend one year at the University of California Berkeley where she conducted research on press coverage of mental illness. On return to the UK, she has worked free-lance having material published in The Guardian, the New Statesman, and Salon. She has published a series of books and book chapters on austerity and poverty.