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A voracious reader from the youngest age, he quickly developed the urge to write. The realisation that a career as an author did not offer anything like a dependable path to making a living, never mind riches, he decided, when the time came to go to college, to study Civil Engineering. He spent several years practicing that profession, all the while writing to the papers, in particular the Irish Times. He has had hundreds of inclusions in the letters page of that newspaper over the years.

In time, he gained an MBA from Trinity College Dublin (TCD), and combined that with his engineering qualification to operate as a business analyst with several multi-national companies, including Shell Oil, based overseas.

In the early 2000s he came back t ...more

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