Daithi McMahon

Daithi McMahon

Ballygarret,
Duagh,
Co Kerry

Type of Programming

Radio dramas, documentaries, features.

Overview

Daithi McMahon is an independent radio producer and presenter. He also writes and directs original radio dramas.

Recent projects:

• The Blaskets
  Due for broadcast August 2010, Radio Kerry
  An audio drama set on The Blasket Islands of Co Kerry in the 1930s, this play focuses on writer Tomás Ó Criomhthain and the mysterious events surrounding the death of one of his sons. The play also offers the listener an insight into the primitive, trying, and now extinct way of life of the islands.
  Supported by the BAI
• Tom Crean and the Terra Nova Expedition
  Broadcast January 2010, Radio Kerry
  This 90-minute production recreates Captain Robert F. Scott’s ill-fated Terra Nova Expedition between 1910 and 1913 in the race to be the first man to reach the South Pole. The story focuses on the hardships endured by the men on the expedition and in particular Tom Crean’s heroism and bravery.
  (Listen to clip above)

  The radio drama was very well received and was critically acclaimed in the national press…
  ‘For its ambition alone, this drama is worthy of unreserved praise […] What is even more remarkable is that McMahon managed to carry it off.’
  -  Eithne Tynan – Radio Critic, The Sunday Tribune
  
  ‘It had all the taut melodrama of the old Buster Crabbe 1930s Flash Gordon B-movie serials. In short, I loved it.’
  - Quentin Fottrell – Radio Critic, The Irish Times -
  
  Supported by the BAI
  

• The Levellers
  Broadcast August 2009 & April 2010, Radio Kerry
  A feature length drama set in East Kerry in the 1760s. It tells the story of a community torn apart by the formation of a secret society of ‘White Boys’ who use intimidation tactics and acts of vandalism against land owners to keep the local men in work and their livelihoods intact .
  Supported by the BAI
• The Story of Kerry Music
  Broadcast Spring 2009, Radio Kerry
  A six-part musical documentary co-produced and presented by RTE/RNaG presenter Aine Hensey, the series is a musical journey through the history of traditional Irish music in county Kerry featuring some of the Kingdom’s best known and loved musicians.
• Sights and Sounds Around Us
  Broadcast December 2007, Radio Kerry
  Co-producer of a series of 10 short features on historical people and places in Kerry. Supported by the BCI New Adventures in Broadcasting Scheme.

Daithi has also produced and presented various speech programmes for Radio Kerry since 2007.

Awards:
PPI Radio Award 2007 Station Imaging category – co-producer of a series of station imaging promos for Radio Kerry entitled ‘A Sense of Place’.

Research:
2009/2010 Masters Research – The use of text messaging as a method of audience participation in Irish radio.