No: 1 FIRST THINGS FIRST
My first professional journalist job was with Out magazine, Ireland’s first attempt at a commercial gay magazine, which ran from 1984-1988. It overlapped with my time as the National Gay Federation’s president, standing for election to Dublin City Council, co-running the world’s second International Lesbian and Gay Youth Congress, and the destruction of Dublin’s gay hub, the Hirschfeld Centre; an unforgettably mad, hectic, exciting and difficult period in my life.