Award winning sports journalist for The Telegraph, originally mainly covering rugby (but have branched out to cover other sports) writing news and features for both print and online. Regularly breaking exclusives taking a digital first approach. Winner of the 2021 Sports Column of the Year Award in the Global AIPS Awards. Bronze Award winner (third place) in the British Sports’ Journalists (SJA) Awards Rugby Journalist of the Year for my work in 2019 and 2021. As well as covering the men's XVs game, part of my original brief at the The Telegraph is to grow coverage of the Women's and Sevens rugby. I was very involved in the team that helped to launch Telegraph Women’s Sport before their dedicated team of reporters and editors joined. As part of the work I did with our team in 2018, I helped to to drive the entry the Telegraph was highly commended for the Society of Editors Press Awards Diversity in Reporting Award in April 2019. Telegraph Women’s Sport won this award in April 2020 driven by our dedicated women’s sport team but I like to think I and others helped to lay the foundations for this later success. Covered the 2019 Rugby World Cup in Japan, 2017 Women's Rugby World Cup in Ireland and the 2018 Rugby World Cup Sevens in San Francisco providing a variety of news, match reports, interviews, features and analysis daily for print and online for the entire duration of all tournaments.I have also covered other sports such as tennis and golf for the Telegraph including being part of Telegraph Sport’s team of reporters at the 2018, 2019 and 2021 Wimbledon Championships. I have also covered golf’s Open Championships (men and women) in 2019 and 2021. I also helped to pioneer the Telegraph’s coverage of female athlete health breaking exclusives in the areas of menstruation, motherhood and pelvic floor health. This has now become a widespread part of our women’s sport coverage but I am proud of starting this change.

• Wrote and researched Ireland’s women’s 2015 Six Nations campaign through in-depth interviews with players and coaching staff.• Collaborated with The O’Brien Press editorial team and my co-author Peter O'Reilly of the Sunday Times during the creative process including cover and photo section design.• Worked extensively with The O’Brien Press public relations team in creating a promotional strategy for Six Nations, Two Stories.

Sports writer with a particular interest in rugby and feature writing. I have during this time written features extensively for the Irish Independent, Irish Times, Irish Examiner, Sunday Times, TheJournal.ie, the42.ie and recently Rugby World magazine online.I have also written extensively for sports governing bodies including World Rugby (formerly IRB), IRFU, Six Nations and PRO12 Rugby.

Wrote wide selection of features on the Under 20's and Women's Six Nations tournaments as well as some colour pieces, match reports, previews written exclusively for www.rbs6nations.com.• Collaborated with Communications Manager and Digital Media Manager to generate ideas for articles and develop strategy for growing readership across social media platforms.• Liaised with communications and PR personnel from the six rugby unions and organise player interviews and discuss related digital media to support www.rbs6nations.com objectives.

Worked as one of three full-time staff along with the CEO and Operations Manager but collaborating daily with large volunteer base to deliver communications strategy for Cycle Against Suicide. Managed team of volunteers to help deliver communications objectives. Worked with charity partners including Elverys Intersport, University of Limerick and the Office of the Ombudsman for Children in delivering key brand messages. Headed up the social media strategy including the successful #SchoolsGoOrange mental health awareness campaign aimed at second level schools in Ireland working closely with the Cycle Against Suicide schools team. In order to give the campaign momentum the #SchoolsGoOrange Twitter campaign was conceived and it trended as a topic for five consecutive days in Ireland hitting the number one spot on Friday 17th of February on #SchoolsGoOrangeDay. Worked on selection of charity ambassadors and liaised with them/their representatives around attending events and social media contributions. Regularly dealt with media including the drafting and distribution of press releases and following up on queries and interview requests with ambassadors.Organised media launches.

• Work with Media Manager in generating ideas for features to help promote the development of rugby in non-traditional areas for worldrugby.org and rugbyworldcup.com.• Research high quality features pitched at a global audience.

• Worked with sports desks of national media outlets such as Irish Independent, Irish Times, Irish Examiner, The Irish Daily Star and the42.ie to create a weekly platform for women’s rugby.• Liaised with clubs and provinces to create weekly round-up service for both Women’s All Ireland League and Women’s Interprovincial Series.

Wrote regular original, fresh and unique sports features for www.independent.ie, the website of Ireland's largest selling daily national newspaper.• Pitched, researched and wrote articles from original ideas for features available exclusively online, focusing on the psychological and sociological aspects of sport, as well as the quirky side and making links between sports and popular culture, having attended press events and matches including from the 2011 Rugby World Cup in New Zealand and the 2013 British and Irish Lions Tour to Australia.• Wrote feature articles with a keen eye to how the demographic of online readership of Ireland’s largest daily newspaper were changing (for example, how to appeal to women and girls reading about sport) and catered successfully to these growing markets.