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Mr Moonlight

Set in a post-Apocalyptic society where Mr Moonlight, quack purveyor of dreams in bottles of coloured liquid, tries to fulfil that of a blind girl he meets with tragic consequences.

Performed by Club Players and winner on RTE radio of PJ O'Connor premier award 1986

 
     
 

Walking On Water

The Japanese used to take their old folk up to mountain tops when their lives were almost done. Misunderstanding the adult world, a boy thinks it would be a way of disposing of his old gran, with comic results.

PJ O'Connor competition 1997.

 
     
 

Taking A Yard

Middle-class mid-life crises.

A comedy. RTE radio.

 
     
 

Those Charming Alarming Blonde Women

Bizarre happenings at an evening course on film studies when the only student present, a pretty young thing, takes revenge on a patronising tutor for all the horrible things Alfred Hitchcock did to his heroines.

Black comedy. RTE radio.

 
     
 

Busy Line

A wrong number puts a meek husband in touch with an exotic woman, not realising it's a sex line. Meanwhile his house-proud wife learns there is more to life than Mr Sheen.

A comedy. RTE radio

 
     
         
       
         
 

Bad Penny And Pig

Reclusive and misanthropic George Parks gets left money by the mother he hated and tries to dispose of it.

Finalist in Radio Times TV drama competition 1988. Never produced although it's one of the best things I have written.

 
     
 

Kevin's Bed

Kevin goes on a coach trip from inner city Dublin to Glendalough with his voluptuous wife and family. A black comedy.

(Before Bernard Farrell's stage play of the same name) Commissioned by RTE TV in1987 but never produced.

 
     
 
 
 
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