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Selection of articles written between 2005 and today.
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If you bike in Dublin, park it here
Dublin has a surprisingly little known treat hidden away on Drury St. A free indoor car park for cyclists, provided by Dublin City Council. Given the inordinately high number of bike thefts in Dublin, the place is a god send. It’s open every day, until midnight or one except on Sundays and public holidays, when… Read more
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What Was A Hipster Anyway?
I used to be cool. There have been a couple of times in my life when I flew close to the zeitgeist, and felt almost part of something. Way back in 2009, much closer to the temporal epicentre of the hipster menace, I wrote the first article of an intended two parter, attempting to analyse exactly what… Read more
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Symbolism
Great article on symbolism at Dan Costigan’s new blog. Dan was responsible for one of the most popular talks at Open Learning Ireland‘s Learn Something; Share Something; Do Something Festival. With a bit of luck we’ll be making the prezi of Dan’s talk available soon. Snippet… The world is bad because young girls are murdered.… Read more
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Therapists Don’t Know Everything
Wilfred Bion used Keat’s term ‘negative capability’ to refer to the capacity to hold onto not knowing until something touches upon the truth, to allow new experiences be new (rather than reflections of past client experiences, or the work of other sessions). This is the subject of Patrick Casement’s book, ‘On Learning From The Patient’. Casement… Read more
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Dead Medium Comedy Sketches
Dead Medium was a comedy project involving a variety of Irish writers and performers, including Gordon Rochford, Sinead Lynch, Lucy Moffat, Gareth Stack and Alison Spittle. Together we produced two ‘series’ of podcast sketch ‘episodes’. Read more
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Fantastic Comedy Writing Opportunity in Ireland
There aren’t many opportunities to break into comedy writing in Ireland, especially on television. If you can rope a producer in, you can make something for the beauty contest that is RTE Storyland, you can film a sketch and send it in to Republic Of Telly, but that’s about it. Until now. For the first time… Read more
