About me
I’m a freelance journalist and full-time student.
I hold a BTEC Higher National Diploma in Media Production (Print Journalism) from BCFE in Dublin, and am currently studying for a BA in Journalism at DCU.
I’ve had a limited amount of work published in a number of publications, including: the Sunday Business Post, the Irish Times, and the Irish Examiner, PC Live!, Business and Finance, and online at ENN.ie (before the site downgraded news coverage). I’ve also done a slight bit of copy subediting on mainly Herald AM and the Evening Herald, as well as on the Irish Independent, and Sunday Independent.
At BCFE, I was the editor of a non-mandatory first year magazine and went on to edit the mandatory newspaper, the Ballyfermot Post. The newspaper won the Best Small Collage Publication award at the 2008 Smedias Irish student media awards. At DCU, in my first year, I was one of two layout and design editors on the College View, and, following this, I was comment editor before leaving the paper in December 2009. At the College View, I also wrote and took photographs for many of the paper’s sections.
My personal blog is here, and the majority of my photos are on flickr (there’s currently over 4,500 photos on my account). I write online on the subject of the Irish media at Blurred Keys. Between 2000 and 2009 I edited an Irish computer games website, called Games Toaster (which a friend now runs). I also used to edit an online music magazine called PlayRewind (another friend now runs it as a blog).
I currently live at the edge of Dublin City Centre between Heuston Station and the Phoenix Park. To the frustration of some, the location is both in Dublin 8 (an apparent south side postal address) and on the north side of the city. Previously, I lived for most of my life in Ballina, Co Mayo, where I worked in my family’s business between finishing the Leaving Cert and starting the HND.
I’m now attempting to work full time as a freelance journalist. Others say it’s not the easiest thing to do, but working as a journalist – one way or another – is what I want to do.
