Background
Work History
Editor and Journalist Ocean Publishing
Wrote features for all eight magazines in the company's stable. Editor of Health Services Review and Fire Brigade Journal.
Journalism lecturer CMI Ireland
Taught modules of CMI’s Diploma in Journalism: Sub editing and Freelance Feature Writing.
Editor and Travel Journalist International Living
Worked as editor and travel journalist for an international U.S. publishing house whose publications target ex-pats and people interested in relocating to foreign countries.
Copywriter Penhire
Researched, wrote and edited brochures for one of Ireland's premier copywriting agencies.
Freelance Feature Writer Village magazine
Supplied feature articles from Mexico and Cuba for this Irish national current affairs magazine.
Journalist Consumers' Association of Ireland
Journalist for Consumer Choice, the monthly publication of the Consumers' Association of Ireland.
Recent Freelance Work
- Writer of feature articles for Shoptalk magazine; Drinks Industry Ireland, village.ie and International Living.
- Editor of Overseas Retirement Newsletter and Irish Academy of Management Newsletter.
- Proofreader for Construction Ireland magazine.
- Copyeditor for authors published by Gill & MacMillan.
- Web writer for Oxfam Ireland.
Accreditation
National Union of Journalists of Britain and Ireland
International Federation of Journalists
Education and Training
MA in Journalism Dublin City University
BA History & Classical Studies NUI Maynooth
Certificate in Journalism Griffith College Dublin