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As I approach my 73rd birthday, I’ve decided to do a little biog.                                                                    I’ve had many mini-careers since my first part-time job behind the counter in Sloan’s, Athlone at fourteen including painter, civil servant, clerical officer, market stall holder, a musicians only night club founder, a mature student, radio station manager etc etc. 
MUSIC ASSOCIATION: 
I’ve been a music fan since I was five, a writer since I was fourteen, a performer since I was seventeen, a friend of Irish music “stars” since I was eighteen, a recorder/collector  of LIVE performances at forty, a promoter at  forty two, a broadcaster at forty three, a published poet at forty four, a website founder/ maintainer at forty eight, a frontman for The Launch Crew at fifty, a debut CD at fifty six,  a regular festival act to present day .
PROMOTION:
From 2001- 2014, I staged hundreds of on The verge (oTv) presents nights at  venues which were willing to pay expenses + drinks vouchers and that meant I could promote and record acts with original material  for my radio shows and the embryonic website.  
Since retiring from Dublin South FM in 2016 to concentrate on personal projects, I have continued bilingual webcasts, at least twice a week, with a strong leaning towards Irish works. After producing hundreds of shows of all genres, my latest and final series, VERGEMERGE is using material from all those archived broadcasts as an educational non-profit facility (copyright compliant) Meanwhile the source material on minidisks and cassette tapes is still being digitised and stored.                                                (a long, long way to go !!) 
SUPPORT: 
I don’t use Patreon, gofundme or the like and prefer to offer LIVE entertainment for donations towards the cause.               
(+ CDs, exclusive music poetry downloads, images et al.) 
I’m a retired pensioner after all 
Let me know if you’re interested in contributing to the work                                by email: info@ontheverge.ie 
Finally, as a performance poet, I have never had the need or expectation of acclaim of any kind, especially in my philosophically viewed poetry lifetime :). 
Receiving plaudits and encouragement, for my work and performances, for over half a century, from people whom I, (and probably you) respect and admire, has sufficed. 
Déanfaidh sé sin domsa

info@ontheverge.ie