About Gerard Cunningham

I’m a writer.

I’m never quite sure how to describe what I am, so I usually leave it to others. Freelance journalist. Reporter. Occasionally, an author.

All too often, I’m the Morris tribunal geek, the Go-To Guy when someone needs an article or interview on Garda corruption in Donegal.

Sometimes, that can be a good thing. It’s certainly been profitable enough.

And sometimes, it mean I'm seen as a one-trick pony.

Last year, I co-authored a book with Martin Ridge about clerical child sexual abuse. I’ve written political stories, light entertainment and features, a screenplay currently stuck in development hell, pieces on history, archaeology, sports, and the occasional April Fool’s gag.

I’m a hack.

Hack is a much maligned term, meaning simply a journeyman writer who, in theory at least, can turn his hand to anything.

There are courts to monitor, all too many cases get lost these days. Life changes to report on as the tiger adjusts to recession.

A writer writes.