{"id":61,"date":"2007-04-18T02:48:47","date_gmt":"2007-04-18T02:48:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/?page_id=6"},"modified":"2007-04-18T02:48:47","modified_gmt":"2007-04-18T02:48:47","slug":"about-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/?page_id=61","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"

David O’Mahony is chief sub-editor with the Irish Examiner<\/a><\/em>, a national newspaper based in Cork, Ireland. He is a historian and writer who\u00a0returned to the green (and damp) shores of Ireland following his small part in launching The National<\/em><\/a>, a daily newspaper of record based in Abu Dhabi. He is researching a PhD in medieval history at UCC<\/a>, where he has taught classes in both writing skills and medieval history to undergraduates\u00a0.<\/p>\n

He gets very excited about anything related to gadgets, world news and business, which means he is a very, very lonely young man. He has deputised as foreign and deputy night editor and probably half-a-dozen other things he can’t remember. When you’re needed, you pitch in and roll with the punches.<\/p>\n

He started this blog because he can’t stop reading the news wires and missed writing.<\/p>\n

He has reported for newspapers such as the Evening Echo<\/a><\/em> and Waterford News & Star<\/a><\/em>, and in November-December 2005\/January 2006 left the Examiner’s<\/em> subbing desk to transcribe court copy in the trial and sentencing of Wayne O’Donoghue. Some of that work can be found here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

He loves science fiction and is interested in everything from music to medieval history to architecture. He finds his philosophy in very strange places.<\/p>\n

David writes in the third person because he is a very private person and has the strange notion this technique creates a comfortable distance. He can be contacted by leaving a comment or through the Twitter<\/a><\/strong> feed on the left.<\/p>\n

The views expressed here and on Twitter do not represent the views of David’s employer.<\/p>\n

David’s more academic and history-leaning blog is Chronica Minora<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

David O’Mahony is chief sub-editor with the Irish Examiner, a national newspaper based in Cork, Ireland. He is a historian and writer who\u00a0returned to the green (and damp) shores of Ireland following his small part in launching The National, a daily newspaper of record based in Abu Dhabi. He is researching a PhD in medieval […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/61"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/61\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}