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Selection of articles written between 2005 and today.

  • Getting Into The Game

    Download: Getting into the Game Documentary Broadcasting Bank Holiday Monday 31st October, 11AM on Newstalk. Getting into the game is a new documentary aimed at kids who play games. Video games. Kids who play videogames and wonder maybe, possibly, perhapsily, if they’d like to make them. Growing up I remember getting those magazines full of strange… Read more

  • Radio Drama Revival Interview

    World famous radio drama podcast Radio Drama Revival have rebroadcast part of our series ‘The Wall in the Mind‘. Wall in the Mind was a location recorded drama series broadcast on Newstalk earlier this year. The series is moves back in time between contemporary Germany and fall of the Berlin Wall, and follows one woman’s search to… Read more

  • Ray Brown – Staten Island

    As a quick turnaround creative project this weekend, I headed back to the Concrete Cathedral, in the company of actor James O’Connor. We made a super quickie video for my friend Ray Brown’s 2012 single Staten Island. Read more

  • In The Dark coming to Dublin

    Two Summers ago, I was lucky enough to attend the first ever Hearsay Audio Festival. If you haven’t heard of the festival, it’s a unique chance to enjoy the most inventive, avant garde and creative audio from around the world. The festival is also a hella chill break, as it’s held in the bucolic idyll of… Read more

  • October Podcast Workshop

    After a successful first run last month, I’m happy to announce I’ll be hosting another podcast workshop at A4 Sounds October 22nd. The course will cover literally everything you need to know to create, publish, promote and even (should the show become popular beyond your wildest dreams) ‘monitize’ a podcast. The workshop is split evenly between lecture and… Read more

  • Swiss Army Man – Film Review

    Originally posted on No More Workhorse: Swiss Army Man – Film Review by Gareth Stack Directors: Dan Kwan, Daniel Scheinert Writers: Dan Kwahttps, Daniel Scheinert Stars: Paul Dano, Daniel Radcliffe, Mary Elizabeth Winstead Hank (Paul Dano), face crusted with sunburn, bearded and lost like Joaquin Phoenix in I’m Still Here, prepares for suicide. Noosed with… Read more