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About

An award winning Director with over 20 years experience in broadcast TV. Having left the National Film School, IADT, with a degree in Film and Television Production I worked in documentary and a wide range of television productions that have brought me around the globe. I specialise in Factual, Factual Entertainment and Documentary.I'm the slightly less hairy one on the right.

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Recent Credits

2024: Borders and Lies, 2 x 1hr – Series Director
With the Far Right movement gathering momentum in Ireland, this series lays bare their playbook and gives advice on how to combat the hate and fear they spread both online and within communities.
BAI production by Mind the Gap Films for Virgin Media
Full Series Available Here2023/24: Pass It On, 4 x 30mins – Series Director
Women’s football is on a high and this bi-lingual series, with unprecedented access, follows three Women’s National League teams as they battle for survival and glory over the course of a season.
BAI production by Mind The Gap Films for RTE 1
Full Series Available Here2022/23: Donal’s Feasts, Fasts and Festivals, 2 x 1hr - Series Director
Celebrity Cook Donal Skehan explores the rich cultural and religious diversity of contemporary Ireland,
through the medium of food, with Muslim, Hare Krishna, Hindu, Sheikh, Romanian Orthodox and Jewish communities.
BAI production by Appetite Media for RTE 1
Full Series Available Here2021/22: C.A.B. Deny & Deprive, 2 x 1hr - Series Director
Ireland’s Criminal Assets Bureau has been targeting criminal’s wealth for twenty-five years.
This series follows key cases as CAB track down and seize the proceeds of crime.
BAI production by Mind The Gap Films for Virgin Media
Full Series Available Here2021: My Tribe/Mo Threibhe Series Two, 4 x 30 min - Series Director
Second series of the popular music subculture documentaries. In this outing we meet Hip Hop crews, Ravers, Indie Kids and Metal Heads, discovering their origin stories and today’s proud tribe members.
BAI production by Mind The Gap Films for RTE 1
Winner: Best Factual Entertainment, Celtic Media Festival 2022
Nominee: Specialist Factual, Royal Television Awards Ireland 2022
Full Series Available Here2020: Crimecall 6 x 1hr - VT Producer/Director
Crime reconstructions director for the live broadcast series featuring An Garda Síochána
appeals to the public for help in solving crimes.
Green Inc/Rare TV for RTE 12018/19: My Tribe/Mo Treibhe 4 x 30 min - Series Director
A four-part bilingual documentary series exploring Ireland’s most significant music sub-cultures; Rockabilly, Mod, Skinhead and Punk, from their historic origins to the current day tribe members.
BAI production by Mind The Gap Films for RTE 12017/18: Crimecall 10 x 1hr - Series VT Producer/Director
RTE’s long-running live show featuring reconstructions, crime prevention VTs, cold case reviews, CCTV and interviews as An Garda Síochána appeal for the public’s help in solving crimes.
Green Inc/360 Production for RTE 12016: Conor Pope’s Consumer 999 2 x 30mins - Series Director
Series following Irish Times consumer affairs correspondent, Conor Pope, as he tracks down dodgy traders
and confronts them on behalf of their victims.
Firebrand Productions for TV32016: Stop Search Seize 10 x 1hr series - Producer/Director
The series follows the many varied agencies that protect Ireland’s borders.
My role was working with the Coast Guard Helicopter Unit.
Crackit Productions UK for Sky 12015: A Week to my Wedding 4 of 6 x 30min - Location Director
A series following couples on the final roller coaster week running up to the day of their wedding.
Independent Pictures for RTE12015: Ireland’s Animal Rescue – 12 x 30mins - Location Director/Camera
New series set within the world of Animal Rescuers from across the country as they rescue, rehabilitate and re-home or release a wide variety of wildlife and domestic animals from sometimes desperate situations.
Tile Films for TV32014: There’s Something about Amanda – 4 x 1hr - Series Producer/Director/Camera
Ex Miss Ireland Amanda Brunker takes on four of Ireland’s toughest jobs to see if she’s got what it takes to survive in their gruelling workplaces, Trawler fishing, Construction, Tree Surgery and Pig farming.
BAI production by Big Mountain for TV32013 – 2014: The Works – Producer/Director
RTE’s long running arts series on what’s happening in the arts across Ireland.
Presented by John Kelly.
RTE 1 Production2012: Dul I bhFiain – 6 x 30min - Series Producer/Director/Camera
Two outdoorsmen forage their way around Ireland like the journeymen of old and use all their wits and skills to survive ‘the hungry gap’; the period after the winter meats have run out and before the summer crops begin.
Big Mountain Productions for TG4Previous Work of Note2010 – 2012: ‘21st Century Child’ – 4 x 1hr - Series Director/Camera
Series 3 of a landmark project following 12 children from birth to age six and their families,
presented by child psychologist David Coleman.
Animo TV for RTE 12008: ‘Ballet Chancers’ 6 x 30min - Series Director/Camera
IFTA Nominee – Factual Programme Category ‘09
6 hip hop dancers take the challenge to perform as ballet principals on stage,
under the critical eye of prima ballerina Monica Loughman.
Animo TV for RTE 12007: ‘Diarmuid’s Pony Kids’ 6 x 30min - Series Director/Camera
Winner IFTA – Best Factual Entertainment Category ‘08
6 pony kids from disadvantaged areas of Dublin get the opportunity to train
with show jumper Jessica Kurten and compete at the RDS Horse Show.
Vision Independent Productions for RTE 12007: ‘Families in Trouble’ 2 x 40min, - Director/Camera
IFTA Nominee – Best Factual Entertainment Category ‘08
Intervention series where psychologist David Colman helps families in real difficulty.
Series Two, Stopwatch TV/RTE 1

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