Alan James Stewart Watson died on April 24 aged 75 after a short illness. He passed away surrounded by family at the Ulster Hospital.

Watson worked as a reporter for the Belfast Telegraph. His father Alan Snr and grandfather Jack Watson also served as journalists there. Jack wrote under the pseudonym Flambo as a theatre critic and columnist.

In the 1960s, Watson reported from Londonderry. He covered Bloody Sunday in 1972. A bullet fragment from the incident stayed in his knee for life.

He reported on the Dublin and Monaghan bombings. Watson wrote for global publications, at times using pseudonyms.

Watson shifted to business journalism in the 1980s. He helped expose issues in the John DeLorean project alongside John Kane. FBI agents later visited his home outside Belfast for their probe into DeLorean and a cocaine case.

He met Donna Moore in 1974. The pair married four years later. They raised daughter Gemma, who survives him with grandchildren Kate and Charlie.