Friends of the Elderly is a charity I volunteer for once a week and then I also go on day trips with them usually once a month or once every two months.

The photos below are from 2 different day trips, one in Newry and the other in Wexford.

I go into the Friends of the Elderly Offices on Bolton Street every Tuesday and ring elderly folk around the country who may be feeling low as a result of loneliness and I have a friendly chat with them and make sure they're okay. 

It's incredibly gratifying work.

The people that work there are amazing and really inspiring. So too, the elderly folk themselves...even when they feel down: losing friends and loved ones to old age and their own health disappearing: they put one foot in front of the other and keep going!!!

People love to help one another. You also help yourself by helping another human being. I always feel good when I finish up on a Tuesday- and why not?

Go and volunteer at some charity and you'll reap the benefits and so will those you help!!!

​Or if you can't physically go to volunteer, donate HERE

Hello ALL! My friend Aoife Flood, who works for Price Waterhouse Coopers, is writing this blog on pregnancies- tough pregnancies to be more precise! Trying to raise awareness so people know how unbelievably hard it can be and so that other mothers don't think they're on their own! She's amazing! Have a read of it and she is open to anyone wanting to contribute their own experiences!!

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Very sad to hear of the passing of Alfred (Alf) McCormack.

Alf and his friend Freddie were two gentlemen printers at the National Print Museum and were the first people I met at the museum who encouraged me to research and make the film PROCLAIM!

They also said they would get me access to the museum- and they did!

Alf and Freddie were there on the day of the shoot and made sure the printing press worked for us and aloowed us to film as it printed off several proclamations.

They also did us the massive favour of being in it.

They are the two gentlemen printers who take up the work of continuing to print after Christopher Brady leaves to bring more proclamations to the GPO and the streets and walls of Dublin City.

Alf also knew William O'Brien, one of the original printers of the proclamation (played by Brian Murphy), so it was perfectly fitting that he play the printer who took up the baton of continuing to print proclamations.

Alf is a beautifully warm & gentle soul with a cracking sense of humour & he will be missed.

Our thoughts and prayers are with his family and friends.

Rest in eternal peace Alf

​XXX

Ran the VHS Mini-Marathon 2018 for the Dublin Rape Crisis Centre and for Friends of the Elderly on June 3rd.
Great craic!
Did it in 1 hour and 13 minutes with a massive external hard-drive in my back-pack.. had to transfer some footage afterwards.

This is a pic of me before I began...

and this is me afterwards...

SO flippin' tired!
But then I'd a pint of Guinness and I was grand!

This course I took at Filmbase was awesome! Learned so much and boosted my comedy confidence!

​If you can, get yourself a course with Gunnar & Lauren. You will NOT regret it!

PROCLAIM! WON THE BEST SCRIPT AWARD AT THE 
DUBLIN INTERNATIONAL SHORT FILM & MUSIC FESTIVAL

​SO DELIGHTED!!!

PROCLAIM! HAS WON THE BEST 1916 CENTENARY SHORT FILM AWARD AT THE FINGAL FILM FESTIVAL 2016

WE ARE NOW AN AWARD-WINNING FILM!

​THIS IS AWESOME!!!