About Updated

The last version was far too long and off the point. I considered a painfully honest (yet amusing) page outlining the absolutely horrendous discrepencies between my ‘official’ CV and the reality of the career that lay behind it. I’ve seen a number of these around the net and they are educational to say the least.
But [...]

TV Series - The West is the Best

This is / was an attempt to de-construct some of our mis-understandings about ‘Western’ society - its economic and political systems, its global role, and some of its fundamental ‘philosophies’. I think part of this came from years of rushing my way through encyclopedias of theories, arguements and philosophies in school and college, trying to [...]

Documentary Series - Addicted To Oil

This was the big one. Everyone and their mother is talking about the oil industry today with the rising costs, environmental problems and political fallout. But it was the story of how the situation got to where it was today that I loved. I read ‘Who Won the Oil Wars?’ by Louis Gale which gave [...]

One Off Docs - Killing Irish

I am going up against a lot of people with this one - ill informed nationalists and educated voices alike - but I believe I am basing what follows on sound history and I also believe that the views of both parties on the decline of the Irish language (and their attempts at reviving it) [...]