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Selection of articles written between 2005 and today.

  • Threat Detection – Episode 17 – Horror in Games (Part 2)

    Download: Threat Detection – Episode 17 Continuing from last weeks show, we chat about horror in video games. How does video game horror differ from movie horror, and how we can be horrified, now that we are so jaded. Read more

  • Choices – Episode 2 – Black Rebel Motorcycle Club

    Episode 2 of the brand new series from Dead Medium Productions and Dublin City FM. First broadcast 14th May, 2014. Ainesh learns cushion counselling from his eccentric lecturer Sean. After Emma Jane’s flirtation makes him run for the safety of his cinema books, Stillman hassles him about getting a job. Ainesh starts to realise the… Read more

  • Diaspora

    Photograph: Patrick Comerford A poem of mine written many years ago, has been published. Diaspora is if anything more pertinent today than when I wrote it – in that horrendous exile between school and college, when progress seemed impossible. The piece has been published in the latest issue of This Is Not Where I Belong… Read more

  • Choices – Episode 1 – The Hero’s Tale

    Episode 1 of the brand new series from Dead Medium Productions and Dublin City FM. First broadcast 7th May, 2014. Ainesh Sharma is sacked from his minimum wage job for being a smart aleck, and is placed by the social welfare department in a course called ‘Choosing Therapy’ – a radical form of psychotherapy which… Read more

  • Threat Detection – Episode 16 – Horror (Part 1)

    Download: Threat Detection – Episode 16 In this weeks ‘very special episode’ of Threat Detection, we discuss horror in videogames. We touch on the history of horror games from ‘Alone in the Dark’ to ‘Amnesia A Machine for Pigs’. We talk about how the mechanics of horror are evolving, and how they’ll change now that… Read more

  • Making of Choices

    Choices was recorded over a period of weeks at the studios of Dublin City FM in Dublin; and featured the vocal talents of Aislinn O’Byrne, Kieran Roche, Katie McCann, Dylan Tonge Jones and Terri Fitzgerald. The show was produced by Heather MacLeod and funded by Broadcasting Authority of Ireland (BAI). Read more