Neil Mackay

Neil Mackay (born 1969 or 1970) is a Northern Irish, Glasgow-based journalist, author and film maker. Mackay served as the editor of the Sunday Herald from 2015 to 2018 and is the author of The War on Truth, (2006), All the Little Guns Went Bang Bang (2013), and The Wolf Trial (2017). Early life and education Mackay is from County Antrim, in Northern Ireland. He was born in . He grew up in The Troubles and was badly beaten at the age of 14. He received a scholarship to attend Queen's University Belfast. Career Mackay worked as a journalist in Northern Ireland, but after receiving death threats he moved to Scotland in 1996. In Scotland, he initially worked for The Big Issue before taking a job at Scotland on Sunday in Edinburgh.