Andy Pollak is the founding director of the Centre for Cross Border Studies in Armagh (1999 – 2013). Previous to that, he was Belfast reporter, religious affairs and education corr...view moreAndy Pollak is the founding director of the Centre for Cross Border Studies in Armagh (1999 – 2013). Previous to that, he was Belfast reporter, religious affairs and education correspondent with The Irish Times and editor of Fortnight magazine. He is co-author (with Ed Moloney) of a biography of the Rev. Ian Paisley. In the early 1990s he was coordinator of the Opsahl Commission, a Citizens' Inquiry into ways forward for Northern Ireland, and edited the influential 1993 Opsahl Report that resulted.view less