Angela Haggerty is a former journalist, who briefly held a new editor position at the ''

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'' and online for the activist website

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. She has been a contributor on Scottish TV and radio, particularly discussing

Scottish independence Scottish independence ( gd, Neo-eisimeileachd na h-Alba; sco, Scots unthirldom) is the idea of Scotland as a sovereign state, independent from the United Kingdom, and refers to the political movement that is campaigning to bring it about. S ...

Background

Haggerty grew up on the

Isle of Bute The Isle of Bute ( sco, Buit; gd, Eilean Bhòid or '), known as Bute (), is an island in the Firth of Clyde in Scotland, United Kingdom. It is divided into highland and lowland areas by the Highland Boundary Fault. Formerly a constituent isl ...

and joined a small community radio station there, volunteering to host a weekly topical news show. She studied journalism at

Cardonald College Cardonald College was a medium-sized Further education institute located in Glasgow's South Side, in Scotland. Officially opened in 1972, it had over 12,000 full-time and part-time students. Cardonald College merged with Anniesland College and ...

in Glasgow.

Media career

She worked for ''The Drum''. She edited and part-wrote a book about the liquidation of Rangers Football Club. Haggerty was the subject of an online hate campaign which led to a Rangers fan receiving a six-month custodial sentence for making sectarian threats towards Haggerty. Haggerty has spoken against

misogyny Misogyny () is hatred of, contempt for, or prejudice against women. It is a form of sexism that is used to keep women at a lower social status than men, thus maintaining the societal roles of patriarchy. Misogyny has been widely practiced fo ...

in Scottish football and on social media. Haggerty wrote a weekly column for the ''Sunday Herald''. In January 2016, her fellow columnist

Graham Spiers Graham Spiers is a Scottish sports journalist who writes for the Scottish edition of ''The Times'' newspaper. He has won Scotland's Sports Journalist of the Year award four times. Spiers grew up in Edinburgh, Fife and Glasgow, and attended the ...

was sacked from the newspaper when he wrote a column about sectarian singing in Scottish football which attracted controversy because of a comment about a director of

Rangers F.C. Rangers Football Club is a Scottish professional football club based in the Govan district of Glasgow which plays in the Scottish Premiership. Although not its official name, it is often referred to as Glasgow Rangers outside Scotland. The fou ...

''The Herald'' issued an apology. Haggerty was deemed to have undermined that apology in comments she made on Twitter, and was subsequently sacked. Haggerty was later reinstated. In 2014 she became editor of ''CommonSpace'', the website of pro-independence bloggers

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. In April 2018, she left and took up the position of News Editor at the ''Sunday Herald''; she left three months later, in July 2018.

References

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