Journalism

My passion for journalism took hold when I was a 16-year-old intern in the newsroom of the Wexford People, my hometown’s local newspaper. From there, I earned a first in Journalism and New Media at the University of Limerick, before serving as a news reporter and a feature writer at two of Ireland’s national newspapers.

The links below are a small selection of my bylines. If you’d like to see more, reach out!

Portfolio highlights

Travel

• Irish Independent Travel: Ms O’Faherty goes to Washington: A political tour of the US capital

• Irish Independent Travel: Bordeaux redux – the French city that isn’t just for wine bores

  
  

Lifestyle and Culture

• Irish Independent Lifestyle: ‘Like so many careers these days, being an elf isn’t nine to five’

• Irish Independent Culture: Meet the Jane Austen fanclub

• Irish Independent Lifestyle: Weddings – DIY weddings and humanist ceremonies all the rage

• Irish Independent Culture: The story so far…breathing new life into the art of yarnspinning
  

News

• Irish Independent: On Her Majesty’s Secret Service (Coverage of Queen Elizabeth II’s visit to Northern Ireland)

• Irish Independent: ‘They were about to do a day’s work, but they were living in a car’ (Piece on homelessness crisis in Dublin)

• Irish Independent: Film “won’t detract” from social housing

• Irish Independent: Children found sleeping rough in homeless crisis

• Irish Independent: “Colleague told me that women are in politics to make the tea,” says councillor

• Irish Independent: Returning emigrants warned of hidden costs and homeless risk