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  • Speaking Irish at Work in London // Featured in The Irish Times

    Speaking Irish at Work in London // Featured in The Irish Times

    TheIrishCrew

    Over the past few weeks, I’ve been really lucky. It’s not everyday that you get the opportunity to contribute to Ireland’s top newspaper, The Irish Times and it’s a little more of a kick when they come to you.

    This week as Seachtain na Gaeilge kicks off, they kindly asked if I could turn my blog post ‘Speaking Irish at Work – in London’ into a stand alone piece for them. I was well chuffed.
    Have a read!

    The very awesome Mr Phil Maltz took the photo of us in Chapter St, alongside me there’s Colin Hamilton, Megan Reidy and Starra Clarke.

    G’wan the Irish

  • Will Emigrants come #HometoVote ? – I’m in The Irish Times

    Will Emigrants come #HometoVote ? – I’m in The Irish Times

    IrishTimesemigrantspaper

    I definitely wasn’t expecting this. The Irish Times contacted me this week, they had read something on my blog. They asked if I would be interested in writing about why I said I was going home to vote in the General Election on February 26th.

    I wrote a piece and it appeared online and it also was printed in today’s issue of the newspaper. I can’t wait to get home to get my mitts on a copy.

    You can read the full feature, which also has contributions from other Irish emigrants here:

  • Goldenplec Magazine: Read Issue 3 Online

    Goldenplec Magazine: Read Issue 3 Online

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    If you haven’t managed to grab a copy of Goldenplec‘s most recent magazine, you can now read it online.

    The Autumn 2015 edition features Bitch Falcon on the cover and interviews with Myles O’Reilly of Artubus Yarns and Lisa Hannigan. There’s also a nice feature on music photography. Plus, you can find out what I thought of Ryan Sheridan‘s new album.

    Go ahead, give it a go!

    http://issuu.com/goldenplec/docs/goldenplec_issue_03_autumn_2015?e=0/15198895

  • Maybe It’s Because I’m a Londoner…

    Maybe It’s Because I’m a Londoner…

    Ok, well not quite but I’ve moved to London.

    I’m now working in a Media Group as a Cross Platform Co-ordinator. The company has two radio stations and three magazines as well as making in house videos. My job is to make sure each department work together and all stories or items of news get used across to the best of our abilities across each platform.

    It’s an interesting position, giving me an opportunity to work across a National UK radio station, broadcasting on DAB and MW (into Northern Ireland too), a local DAB station and the magazines.

    I’ve also been able to get stuck into some video and audio production too. Will post some links as soon as they are live.