Margaret tries not to take life too seriously. This is probably a weird reaction to working in serious industries – business journalism and Wall St. – most of her life. To keep from laughing out loud during meetings she has exorcised her humour demons by writing columns for the Irish Times (Platform, Cents & Nonsense), the Irish Marketing Journal, everymonday.ie and insolvencyjournal.ie.

Margaret also likes to talk. A few radio programmes kindly let her blab to the nation. Her husband is so thankful that his ears get a break. She regularly contributes to the Tubridy Show (She loves Ryan. He is so like her brother)the Late Debate on RTE Radio One, Tom McGurk show on 4fm, BBC radio and television, TV3 and David McWilliam’s Leviathan political cabaret. Sometimes she also gets to “play pretend” as an American voiceover artist for television and radio.

The day job? Managing director of Clear Ink, the Clear English Specialists www.clearink.ie. Mags is proud to work with the best in the business – newspaper journalists, sub-editors, broadcasters, new media specialists and marketing copywriters – to deliver quality marketing materials and training courses for clients.

Her previous media and communications experience includes:

The Irish Times, business columnist
The Irish Marketing Journal, columnist
The Sunday Times, Ireland, money editor
The Sunday Business Post, freelance, covered 9/11 from New York
The Irish Times,  personal finance columnist and business reporter
The Irish Times, news and features writer
Lehman Brothers, NYC, marketing and multimedia writer
Gannett Newspapers, NY, reporter
Prodigy Internet Services, NY, editorial assistant

Awards:
Law Society of Ireland’s Justice Media Award, social and campaigning journalism
ICL Award, science and technology journalism

Biographies:
Bob Marley, Longmeadow Press/ Bison Books 1992
(Translated into several languages)
Every Blade of Grass (unpublished)

Control freak warning: the comments published on this site are up to me so they’d better be amusing or constructive. That said, I do like a good debate so feel free to disagree with anything I write.