I won 2 Irish Film and Television Academy Awards (IFTAs) at the 2016 TV awards – Best TV Comedy and Best Director Soap / Comedy for Bridget & Eamon Series 1
The 2 Johnnies Take On… was nominated for 2022 RTS Ireland Best Factual Entertainment Show Award
The Paddy Raff Show Series 1 won the 2022 Royal Television Society NI Best Scripted Comedy Award
The Paddy Raff Series 1 is nominated for a 2022 Celtic Media Award for Best Comedy
Bridget & Eamon was nominated for 3 other IFTAs – Best TV Comedy and Best Director Soap / Comedy 2018 and Best Writer Soap and Comedy 2016
Nominated for Best TV Comedy at Celtic Media Awards 2017 for Bridget & Eamon Series 1
Winner of 2015 “Sockie” Social Media Award for Republic of Telly (Best Experimental Social Media)
Co-nominated twice for Writers Guild of Ireland Zebbie award for Best Television Script for Republic of Telly Series 7 episode 9 & Series 9 Episode 1
TUFTY selected as Vimeo Staff Pick and as a Short of the Week (2012)
Winner of Best New Director Award at Kinsale Sharks (2009)
Winner of Best Direction Award at Fastnet Film Festival for TUFTY (2010)
Winner of Dead by Dawn audience award for TUFTY (2011)
Set-up & organised the short film festivals Galway Fringe Fleadh (2009) and Dublin Film Fringe (2010)
I won the Screen International Oscar Moore Award for New European Screenwriting (2002) Europe’s largest screenplay award.
Won the Variety “Pitch me” award at Cannes Film Festival (2000)
Other notable achievements…
Jurassic Park III CD-ROM | Project manager / Lead programmer
Lucozade digital campaigns | Interactive Developer / Programmer
Cloud by Grace Weir | Art installation | Guinness Storehouse | Digital design / Lead programmer
Winner of ICAD Silver Bell for Hugh Lane Gallery website (2001) | Lead programmer
B.A.(Hons) Film & Video, National Film School, IADT, Dun Laoghaire, Ireland, (2007)
MSc. Multimedia Systems, Trinity College, Dublin (1997)
Winner of Digital Computer Multimedia Award for final project – Love Lies Bleeding – an interactive detective murder mystery