Nick Sheridan was born in
Wexford on 30 October 1991. He attended
St Peter's College, where he was involved with the school's musical productions and graduated as "Student of the Year" in 2010. Sheridan graduated from
Dublin City University, majoring in journalism, and moved to
Glasgow in 2017. Sheridan worked in broadcasting for more than 10 years. He started his career at
Newstalk as a newsreader and worked as a researcher at
Late Lunch Live. In 2009, Sheridan was named
Young Irish Filmmaker of the Year and travelled to South Korea for the
Seoul International Film Festival. He presented and reported in
RTE's
News2day programme for two years before he moved to the UK in 2018 and joined the
BBC in Glasgow. In Glasgow, he was initially employed as a researcher with BBC Scotland. Sheridan later expanded into working as a camera journalist, correspondent and presenter. Sheridan presented programmes including
Reporting Scotland,
Drivetime,
The Nine,
Seven Days, Lunchtime Live, Good Morning Scotland, and The Sunday Show. He left working full time there to focus on writing children's books, but continued to work freelance for the BBC. Sheridan also worked as a broadcast journalist at
STV. In 2021, he released his first book,
Breaking News: How to tell what’s real from what’s rubbish. In 2022, he wrote the first book of a trilogy of books, entitled
The Case of the Runaway Brain. The book was followed by its 2023 sequel,
The Case of the Phantom Treasure. His final book,
The Case of the Poisonous Pigs, was published in 2024. Sheridan was also a guest lecturer at the
University of West Scotland. ==Personal life and death==