Latin Quarter – Arthur’s Day Celebrations This is a cool little project I got to be a part of with Iris Media Productions to make a short video of the Arthur’s Day Celebrations in Galway. Quay Street was full to the brim with supporters of Arthur Guinness and the event was a huge success. The fact that it was so packed made moving around and lens changing almost impossible but I was happy with the... Events
Connacht Clan – First Home Game Kieran from Iris Media Productions is filming a documentary on the Connacht Rugby teams big step up into Heineken Cup rugby this year. Kieran asked me to shoot some footage of the Connacht Clan’s gathering on Eyre Square for their first home game of the Season after coming off a good away victory to Toulouse the week before. The Clan had face painting, balloons, music at Eyre Square before... Events
Dreapadh GOAL 2011 In August 2010 some of my friends from Coláiste Lurgan decided to do a charity skydive to raise much needed money for GOAL. The fundraiser was a huge success and they rose quite a bit of money through donations from family and students at Lurgan. So much so that they decided that they would take on another challenge this year, and it had to be more impressive! They decided... Personal
Ratoath Sevens Breakfast baps and tea were on the menu for players of the 29 teams arriving at Ratoath GAA club to participate in the All Ireland Intermediate Sevens competition last Sunday. Club officials and volunteers had been up since 7am to undertake the massive task of lining and preparing the 8 pitches for the competition and as the games begun to get underway at Sean Eiffe Park, updates on Ireland... Events
Ironman Galway 70.3 A 7am start would definitely be considered early by most people’s standard but rising before the sun even has time to shine, to begin a 70.3 mile endurance race otherwise called Ironman, might just be called crazy! For some 2000 individual athletes and another 100 relay teams from 42 countries that was just the case on a wet and cold morning last Sunday the 4th of September. The morning... Galway.com
A Day at the Races for Galway.com I had never been to the galway races myself until this year when I got the chance to make a short video to sum up the unique experience that the galway races offer. The course at ballybrit is very quiet early in the morning asthe setup begins and quickly the mood is lifted with the arrival of thousands of women looking to take the prize of best dressed. Photographers... Galway.com
Glee Lurgan Glee Lurgan is a five part series Filmed during cúrsa C in the summer of 2011. All of the 19 classes of the Coláiste took part and shot a scene each. Similarly to Glee the story is told mainly through the music which for the most part are specially comissioned Irish versions of popular chart songs. My role was to film a large majority of the footage for the... Lurgan
Tóraíocht Lurgan Tóracaìocht Lurgan is Coláiste Lurgan’s take on the leaving cert story of “Diarmuid and Gráinne”. Directed by Mark Mc Cloghan this is a modern fun take on the story and is broken down to six parts. The short film will include all the students from cúrsa B and is shot at various locations. My role included shooting some of the footage and editing the final short film. Lurgan
Lurgan Live Shows This is one of the live show I produced for Coláiste Lurgan during the summer of 2011. The setup for the show was as follows. We used 2 canon HD camcorders at stage left and right which were manned by two cúinteoirí working on the course (Cheers Jenny and Odharnaith) and there was the main camera which was a JVC GY-HM100 at the back of the room which provided... Lurgan
Lurgan Beo Lurgan Beo is a new series beginning in the summer of 2011. The idea was to create a modern online series that showcased young Irish musicial talent. The initial filming was conducted during the summer at Coláiste Lurgan but is set to continue into the winter. The videos are shot on a Canon 7D and the sound is recorded using the rode ntg-2 with blimp with windshield. My role... Lurgan
Lá Álainn Lurgan Steadicam Operator: Anthony Bowe Stiúrthóirí/Directors: Eamonn Mac Mánais agus Morgan Cooke Ceol/Music: Cathal Ó Ruaidh, Jenny Ní Rúiséal, Stiofán Ó Fearail, Keith Ó Brain agus Daithí Ó Ruaidh Cóiréagrafaíocht/Choreography: Múinteoirí agus Scoláirí Coláiste Lurgan Music Video
Macnas Parade 2011 This is a video I shot for Galway.com a new website that will serve to promote all the events, places and people of Galway. The Macnas parade titled “THIS FIERCE BEAUTY” took to the streets of galway sunday 17th of July. The parade was full of sound and action with this years theme being invention. The costumes, colour, lights and music all contributed to a very well received performance... Galway.com
McGann Family Reunion Mark McGann is a extremely talented designer and a close friend of mine. Every five year his large family of 500 or so aunties, uncles, grandparents, cousins hold a family reunion where they meet up to get to know each other better and of course party. Every 5 years the reunion gets bigger and the hope is that this video will show the why and what of the reunion... Documentary
Absolut Artklash in the Róisín Dubh This is the another video I filmed and edited for Galway.com, This event was run by “The small Print” in the Roisin Dubh and featured street wars, reep one and DJ Flip. Secret wars is a 90 minute art battle where two or more teams battle to draw the best illustration “black on white”. Reep one is an amazing Beat box artist with incredible talent and was on fire... Galway.com
Umbro Cup The Umbro Galway Cup, now in its 7th successive year, will takel place at Drom Soccer Park in Galway – home to Salthill Devon FC. The competition welcomes 49 teams from five countries who will play 125 games in a competition that promises to display the talents of some of the brightest rising young soccer stars of this generation. Over 1,100 players and coaches were estimated to have attended... Galway.com
Sé Amhrán le Chéile This music video was shot for Coláiste Lurgan in septemeber 2010. The track is an irish version of “When six songs collide” by Norwiegen Recycling. The idea was to capture the studio experience of layering a mash up song such as “When six songs collide”. The bulk of the video is shot at the studio in bearna where the recording was done and some shots where taking at the... Music Video
Song Gift – Professional Recording for Everyone John Colohan and Joe Egan are the founders of songgift.ie, a service that offers people the opportunity to record in professional studios. John and Joe are very friendly and seem to instantly gel with people who come through the studio doors. Recording in a professional studio would seem like a daunting task but the guys fun and easy going approach makes the whole process very enjoyable. “We found that... Business Profiles
Nisigns – Newborn and Wedding Gifts Nisigns is a small wedding and newborn gift making company onwed by Niamh McCarthy. Niamh is a very creative person who is always looking to make something new and useful out of everyday items! To check out Niamhs wide range of unique gifts visit her facebook page at: facebook.com/​nisigns Business Profiles
Coyotes Bar – The Perfect Stag and Hen Venue Coyotes is an American Themed Bar in the heart of Galway City. This is a web promo video I made for their website. The Coyote team was very welcoming and I had a great time filming the bar. The bar has a very unique character to it and is prefect for hens and stags. The bar is full of life from when they open the doors until they close... Business Profiles
Plunketts vs Brigids Fight Night This is a short video on the the annual fight night fundraiser held between St Oliver Plunketts and St Brigids GAA Clubs. The video shows the setting up for the night and the event itself. One of the organisers Seaghan Kearney explains how the event came about and what its like for the boxers. Events
Lara agus Séamus Wedding Highlights This is the first wedding I shot on a DSLR. Back then it was only just me and a 7D and I learned quite a bit that day. Lara and Séamus got married on possibly the nicest day of the year last September. The ceremony was held in a beautiful small church near the Burren co. Clare and after the ceremony they had everyone go out to the middle... Wedding
Discover – A SM Short Film Challenge This is a 60 second piece made for the planet5D/Still motion short film challenge themed “Discover”, the details of which can be found over at stillmotionblog.com/​category/​edu/​sfc/​ This is my very first attempt at writing, storyboarding, directing, lighting, and scoring a piece of work. Huge thanks to Aidan (Tiggy) for having amazing patience when I was being annoyingly slow. Thanks to Jenny and Tim for lending me their brief case... Personal
Brisbane Night-time Timelapse This is the view I had from the city backpackers hostel. After watching Philip Blooms “A room with a view” I decided I would capture this awesome view even though I didn’t do much else and its only 8 seconds long. I think I used a very long shutter speed of around 20 seconds, ISO was 100 and f7.1 or something so I could keep everything in focus. The... Personal
Gill and Kev Wedding Highlights This is the highlights from Gill and Kev’s wonderful day. I was honoured to be able to capture the day for them on camera and we all had a great time. I use a Canon 7D with kit lens 18-135mm and a 50mm f1.8 for close up around the alter, outside the church and Reception afterwards. I had a friend help cover the cermony from the centre isle on... Wedding
60 Seconds of Sydney This is my first attempt at doing a timelapse video. I spent a week getting up early, staying out late in Sydney and dragging my friends dragging my friends along for the ride too. The concept of this video is simply 60 seconds in timelapse, 10 x 6 second timelapses and my subject is Sydney. All the timelapse were shot on the canon 7d using a cheap yongnu intervalometer... Personal
A night on the Autobahn This is a short documentary style video of the band” Gypsies on the autobahn”. The video contains footage from a recent gig the gypsies played in jack wills on henry street, Dublin. It also contins 3 songs off their Ep and some footage of an interview with trinity’s banter fm and the guys rehearsing before they go on stage. The guy have seemed to have had a great 2010... Documentary
Joy in the surprise Our 2nd Christmas with Kailyn shot on a canon 7d with a 50mm f1.8 lens. Music is “i wish it was christmas today” by Julian Casablancas Personal
Dave Barrett Music Video This is a music video for Dave Barretts song Friday. Sync isn’t great cause it was a spur of the moment thing and we had no way of playing the original track. The video was shot using a canon 7D and a 18-135mm EFS kit lens and a canon 50mm EF f 1.8 Lens out in Howth. This is my first time to shoot and edit a music video... Music Video
Lady Gaeilge Visual Remix This visual remix of Lady Gaga footage was edited by myself to use as a music video for the popular Irish track “Lady Gaeilge” by Jenny Ní Rúiseal from Coláiste Lurgan. Lurgan
Abairleat Tutorials with Dez Bishop My role for this project was to edit footage shot in 2008 of Dez Bishop for Irish language tutorials. Several videos were made for the online Irish learning website www.Abairleat.com of Dez learning different aspects of the Irish language. Lurgan
UBO – Unique Business Optimization Unique Business Optimisation is the concept of  Terence Monaghan who has been conducting business in China since he transferred his own business there in 2003. Terence has co-ordinated the successful transfer of manufacturing to China for many  businesses since 2003 and possesses the expertise and knowledge necessary to make the transition as pain-free as possible. Business Profiles
USA Trip One of my first video…seems to have got deleted so just re-uploading! Shot on our holidays to American in 2009 on a small jvc camcorder. Personal
Winter Snowboarding and Sledding Fun This is my first upload to vimeo! It was shot on an old JVC camcorder earlier this year when we had some snow. Theres no colour grading just a quick edit on some basic software! Personal
Drinks2u – First Business Profile This is the first business profile and professional piece of filming I did in my career back in 2008. Drinks2u is the popular drinks distribution service provided at most venues in Dublin and Beyond. Their portfolio included the O2, Landsdown Road and Shamrock Rovers stadium back in 2008. Business Profiles