Niall McCracken joined the team in July 2008 having just completed his post graduate diploma in Broadcast Journalism at the University of Sheffield. He first realisedhis journalistic ambitions during his Bachelor of Science with honours (BSC Hons) degree in Politics at the University of Ulster. Having worked in England in both BBC and commercial radio, he returned to Northern Ireland joining Below the Radar as a video journalist contributing content to the Irish News online.