Cónal Creedon was born in Cork and has written over 50 hours of original material for radio, including award-winning Come Out Now Hacker Hanley! and After the Ball as well as the surreal drama series, Under the Goldie Fish. Creedon has also worked as a sciptwriter and written two plays for the theatre, When I Was God, which premiered on September 29, 1999, and Glory Be to the Father, which was first staged in March 2001. His short stories appeared in 1995 in the collection Pancho and the Lefty Ride Out and his novel Passion Play was published in 1999 to great acclaim.
Cónal Creedon was born in Cork and has written over 50 hours of original material for radio, including award-winning Come Out Now Hacker Hanley! and After the Ball as well as the surreal drama series, Under the Goldie Fish. Creedon has also worked as a sciptwriter and written two plays for the theatre, When I Was God, which premiered on September 29, 1999, and Glory Be to the Father, which was first staged in March 2001. His short stories appeared in 1995 in the collection Pancho and the Lefty Ride Out and his novel Passion Play was published in 1999 to great acclaim.
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