Mick Fealty (born 1959) is a journalist and the founding editor of the acclaimed Northern Ireland-based blog Slugger O'Toole.
Fealty was born in Belfast and grew up in Holywood, County Down, but now lives in Dorset, England. He writes on a freelance basis for The Daily Telegraph, a right-wing British newspaper and is a frequent contributor to the left-wing Guardian newspaper's Comment is Free site.
He has also written for The Irish Times, The Financial Times, The Observer, Prospect Magazine, the Sunday Independent and Belfast Telegraph. He was a visiting research fellow at the Institute of Governance at Queen's University Belfast between December 2004 and August 2008.
He works as a consultant on online engagement and works with a range of public, voluntary and private sector organisations. He has given talks for London-based Editorial Intelligence, Tomorrow's Company, the Reuters Institute at Oxford University, and the Northern Ireland Assembly.
Publications include: A Long Peace: the future of Unionism in Northern Ireland (2003); Public Diplomacy, Cultural Interventions & the Peace Process in Northern Ireland, Annenburg School of Communication, University of Southern California (2009).