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Next up: I will be featuring in the short films Dark & Stormy and Belfast Caliber 9.

Just a quick entry about the fact that I was researching one of the locations for None Of That podcast, and came across this blog by an Italian writer.

http://www.bohemianwanderer.com/en/2014/08/serendipita-bookfinders-cafe-bookshop-a-belfast/

𝕻ilot season is the early months of the year, when a lot of production companies in Hollywood are creating new TV shows in the hope that th...

Playboy of the Western World, a play for the 21st century.

UPDATE 𝕺n May 10-12 I'll be performing in J.M. Synge's Playboy of the Western World. The play is considered one of the great wor...
On Set: The Lep

The Lep is a fantastic tragic mythology film I'm involved set during the devastating Irish famine. It's merges the legend of Ireland...
Why, as an actor, I will never put my name or face to a gambling company.

As an actor, sometimes you have to take a gig that doesn't quite reach the glamour of the Oscar nominated performance you have been dre...
On Set: Continental Breakfast

I was recently cast in Alec Liddle's NI Screen-funded short, Continental Breakfast, as the cuckolded husband of Charlotte McCurry's ...
The Fallacy of Britpop's 'Big Four' Revisionism.

Britpop was a glorious era for British and Irish music, when bands from almost every major city in the country were generating enough ground...