“One Saturday, after I wandered into an unruly protest, I made another important discovery: while an Irish press card will get you in free to the Musée d’Orsay, it won’t get you out of the Place de la République when it’s cordoned off by riot police. I circled the crowd, looking for an escape, and suddenly found myself on the front line as missiles sailed over my head towards a phalanx of CRS. “ From LÈCHE-VITRINES, my essay and portfolio of Parisian photographs in the latest issue of Winter Papers. There are some more images from this project here.

Christmas homecomings and family runaways - a radio essay for RTE’s Sunday Miscellany. You can listen to it here.

An article for The Gloss magazine on why I stopped working as a TV commercials director.

"But of course, what really tipped me over the edge were the love letters. Letters signed with love, lots of love, with all my love....". A radio essay for RTE’s Sunday Miscellany.

You can listen to it here.

I was asked to contribute to the special “Now We’re Talking” issue of the magazine and wrote about the benefits of accepting vulnerability. You can read the article here.

I spent a lovely, lonely winter in New York and it inspired this piece for Narratively.com

Pictured being presented with the award for "One Hundred Mornings" by Senator David Norris at the Zebbies.

An article with photographs for the Irish Times on ten days in Havana.

An interview done during the first lockdown. You can read it here.

Some of my writing places.

“Scientists have claimed religious belief is in our genes, but devout atheist Conor Horgan wasn’t convinced. Would a hellfire preacher, a tridentine mass and a druidic ceremony change his mind?”

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