Mark Bain

@jmarkb1971

Education Correspondent/Journalist Belfast Telegraph; husband, dad, Man United fan, views usually my own, sometimes, if they're good, I'll borrow them...

Northern Ireland, United Kingd belfasttelegraph.co.uk Joined August 2011

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Mark Bain @jmarkb1971 Jun 3

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www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk How a little piece of Northern Ireland is named after me, and Belfast Telegraph’s new online... Cromwell, a council, a new housing estate... and me...

Mark Bain @jmarkb1971 May 21

@NormanWhiteside Hi, Mark Bain here at The Belfast Telegraph. Pulling together a piece for Friday to mark George Best's 80th birthday and wondered if you'd be free for a coule of mins for a few words on it?

Mark Bain @jmarkb1971 May 14

‘In a decade we will have one of the best performing education systems in the world’: Education Minister belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/in-a-deca…

www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk ‘In a decade we will have one of the best performing education systems in the world’: Education... Givan upbeat as TransformED takes shape in schools across Northern Ireland

Mark Bain @jmarkb1971 Mar 27

EA on SEN summer schemes: Following further engagement involving the Education Authority, the Department of Health and the Department of Education, the Department of Health has now been able to confirm nursing support will be available to enable schemes to be held this year

Mark Bain @jmarkb1971 Jul 28, 2025

This sign is misleading. Sat in a boiling hot plane with no air conditioning for a couple of hours. Roasted. Couldn't take off. Now back in airport. Belfast. Not Crete.