Following his iconic three-decade-long career in journalism, Grimason, originally from Lurgan, Co Armagh, later went on to work for the Stormont administration as director of communications.
Veteran BBC journalist Stephen Grimason who was famed for his reporting of the Good Friday Agreement in April 1998 has sadly passed away at the age of 67 after a battle with cancer
The former BBC News NI political editor Stephen Grimason, who was the first journalist to get his hands on a copy of the Good Friday Agreement, has died aged 67 after a long illness.