Derek Scally was born in 1977 in Dublin, studied at Dublin City University and Berlin’s Humboldt University. After working in Dublin and New York, he moved to Berlin in 2000 where became the Irish Times Berlin correspondent. He reports on both German and European politics and current affairs but also on business, arts and European affairs. He has been a regular visitor to Poland since 2001, reporting on politics and the arts. In February, Czarne published his book “Najlepsi katolicy pod słońcem”.