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- Smoker's Holiday - An Abroad Spoof
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- Sri Lanka 2005: Howzat!? - Winner of Travel Extra Longhaul Journalist of the Year Award 2005
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- USA: Fishy Tales from Tampa, Florida (2001)
- USA: Tennessee Sounds Good to Me
- Zimbabwe 2000 - Another Annus Horibilis
- Zimbabwe: Pamushana Safari Lodge - As Good as it Gets
- Features
- Walkbout in Daintree Rainforest - Dec 2011
- Sir Richard Burton & the History of Sex - Nov 2011
- The Bronte Family: Strangely Irish - Sept 2011
- Sylvia Drew's Remarkable Albums - Sept 2011
- Discovering my Roots - Aug 2011
- Tenement Life on Dublin's Henrietta Street - Aug 2011
- Spike Island & Australian Convicts of 1847 - July 2011
- Obama's Irish Roots - May 2011
- The Mystery of Guy Pinfield - March 2011
- Final Call for the Fry Model Railway - Feb 2011
- Big House Hospitality, Hidden Ireland - Feb 2011
- Graham Greene's Achill Affair - Feb 2011
- The Lost Letters of William Orpen - Jan 2011
- Roger Casement in the Amazon - Dec 2010
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- Sam Maguire & Liam McCarthy - Sept 2010
- Battle of the Boyne - June 2010
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- The Incredible Mr Kavanagh - Jan 2010
- The Big Snow of 1947 - Jan 2010
- The Irish Sweepstake - Dec 2009
- Dermot Morgan's Family History - Sept 2009
- The Story of Arthur Guinness - Sept 2009
- The Fastnet Tragedy - August 2009
- Sad Demise of the Rural Pub - August 2009
- The Bridges of Dublin City - August 2009
- Lily Allen & the Artane Band - August 2009
- Croke Park Rodeo of 1924 - July 2009
- Bartholomew Mosse & the Rotunda - April 2009
- Aill na Caillí – The Deserted Village
- A Pint Sized History of the Irish Pub
- A Word of Warning
- Ballintemple: Ancient World, Ancient Fish
- Ballroom Gloss
- Bob Dylan - Kilkenny 2001
- Brian Kennedy - Falls Road Boy
- Castles in the Sky
- Clobber Slobber! Is the Global Media Failing Us?
- Croquet - The Forgotten Irish Sport
- Gottfried Helnwein
- Too Close to Closing Time for Irish Pub - Nov 2008
- Ireland's Winegeese
- Ireland in the Blood
- Jasper Conran - A Crystal for All Seasons
- Kilkenny City - Cool for Cats
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- Feudal Blues - In Praise of Betty Scott [Dubliner, 04/01]
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- Being Anglo-Irish - A Hyphenated Existence? [Dubliner, 06/01]
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- My Father & Other Animals [Dubliner, 09/01]
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- The 'Emancipator of Jamaica' [Dubliner, 12/01]
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- Life is a Frying Pan [BC Magazine, 04/97]
- The Pearly Gates [BC Mag, 05/97]
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- Birthright - The Story that Inspired Kidnapped, Roger Ekirch
- Desmond Lesie - Biography of an Irish Gentleman, Robert O'Byrne
- G.B Yeats & George Yeats - The Letters, Ann Saddlemeyer
- Grattan's Failure, Danny Mansergh
- Foley's Asia, Ronan Sheehan
- From Cologne to Ballinlough, Herbert Remmel
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- Murder at Shandy Hall - The Coachford Poisoning, Michael Sheridan
- The Castrato & His Wife, Helen Berry
- The Irish Sweep, Marie Coleman
- Yesterday We Were in America (The Alcock & Brown Story), Brendan Lynch
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