About
About me
My name is Dermot Corrigan. I’m 31, Irish, and a freelance writer based between Dublin, Ireland and Seville, Spain.
I write on topics including technology, sport, culture, business and travel for various Irish and UK based publications.
Qualifications
I have a BA in Communications Studies from Dublin City University, as well as an MA in European Studies from University College Dublin and an MLitt in German Literature from National University of Ireland, Maynooth.
All of which means I have read a lot and learned a lot, but am not particularly qualified for one specific job. I’m happy enough with that though, it’s given me a broad knowledge and interest base, which underpins most of what I write.
Experience
Straight from DCU I started writing arts reviews, features, interviews etc for then new dotcom bubble student lifestyle magazine oxygen.ie in Dublin. That was a blast, but I wanted / needed to travel, so I took up an offer from worldsurface.com to be a travel diarist for them and wrote about my wanderings through Eastern Europe and East Asia.
After returning and spending some time as a bookseller, I worked as an archivist and then assistant producer for TV production company Setanta Television – working on GAA show Breaking Ball and a number of sports documentaries including The Rod Squad for RTE Television.
Next it was back to oxygen.ie as site editor, where in 2004 I also launched a satirical print magazine called The Spanner. From there I joined educational publisher Learning Ireland, where I edited and wrote for a mix of print and online publications such as nightcourses.com and the National Guide to Postgraduate Studies.
All the while I was doing some freelance pieces for the likes of Filmmaker, Mongrel and Backpacker, and as regular work started arriving for the Sunday Business Post, I went full time freelance in January 2007.
Since then the majority of my work has been for the Sunday Business Post – writing on a variety of business, technology and sporting issues – but I’ve also had pieces published by (among others) Technology Ireland, When Saturday Comes, ToffeeWeb.com and the Irish Film and Television Network.
Interests
As hopefully is apparent from the above career path, I’ve a wide range of interests. These include Everton and Real Betis football clubs, literature ranging from Joseph Roth to George Orwell to Cormac McCarthy, films (favourite is Chinatown), travel (31 countries and counting) and music (Wilco, Blur, Bob Dylan…).
I’m also very interested in the whole web 2.0 / social media explosion that’s going on.
Objectives
Besides finishing my novel (ahem), the plan is to continue to write about various issues of interest. If you want to get in touch with any comments, greetings or potential opportunities, the best way to get me is dermotmcorrigan ( at ) gmail.com.
