Alumni Success Stories

Radio and Television

Radio and Television Graduates include:

Trina Mara, producer and presenter 98FM
Aisling Bastable, RTE News
Justin Treacy, RTE Sport
Ryle Nugent, RTE Sport
Pauric Lodge, RTE Sports
Damien O' Meara, RTE Sports
Rick O Shea, presenter, 2FM
Louise Loughman, presenter, RTE, ITV
Alison Comyn, BBC, RTE, Sky News, Drogheda Independent
Sinead Hughes, Media Manager, Sky Arts
Simon Maher, General Manager of Phantom FM
Laura Lee-Conboy, presenter, Phantom FM
Derek Byrne, presenter, Phantom FM
Lorraine Keane, presenter, TV3
Dave Raleigh, reporter, TV3
Sharon Tobin, reporter, TV3
Emma Leddin, presenter, MTV
Emma Caulfield, presenter, AA Roadwatch
Sandra Mason, presenter, Strawberry Alarm Clock, FM104
Carol Moran, presenter, Newstalk 106
Glenda Gilson, TV personality
Paul Doyle, Bloomberg Media London

Print Media

Print Media Graduates include:

Luke Holland, journalist, Irish Times
Barry Malone, journalist, Irish Times
Ali Bracken, journalist, Irish Times
Padraig Collins, journalist, Irish Times
Suzanne Byrne, journalist, RTE Guide
Simone Kenny, editor, Woman's Way
John Mitchell, chief sub-editor, The Star
Niall Turner, editor, Connected magazine

Music Industry

The MUSO Project

A three-year collaboration between Ireland, England, Holland, Hungary, Germany and France. Last January 16 students from the Rock School, and 4 students of HND in Music Management spent a week in Manheim, Germany at a composition and performance workshop for students from European rock music courses, all at Degree level except BCFE.

Bands were formed with representatives from each country, and the group headed up by our singer/songwriter won the best band award. Subsequently that band visited BCFE for a week and played a gig in Whelans, and also played at the largest European Music Festival in Hungary in August.

Four European students of rock music are studying in BCFE this year, and two of our graduates were offered places on a degree course in Popakademie in Holland. The whole experience will be repeated with a new group in January.

Music Industry Graduates include:

Stephen Power, Senior Media Manager, Sony BMG Ireland
Bernadette Barret, manager, Damien Rice
Niamh McGarry, senior officer, IMRO
Damien Dempsey, musician
Mickey Harte, musician
Rosie, musician
David Munnelly, traditional musician
Mundy, musician
Alan Doherty, member of Gráda, solo flute part on the 'Lord of the Rings'

Film

Two graduate film-scripts won Film-Base awards and were produced with a Budget of 10,000 euro. They were screened last summer in the Irish Film Centre.

Film Industry Graduates include:

Cathal Gaffney, Brown Bag Productions, Oscar nominee for "Give up yer Auld Sins!"

Multimedia & Games

Three students of the Higher National Diploma in Computer Games and one from the Advanced Diploma in Animation won the "Dare to be Digital" Competition held in the Digital Hub in Spring 2005. They were competing against students from TCD, UCD, UCC, and UL, and were the only College of Further Education to make the short list. Their prize involved spending 10 weeks of the summer in the University of Abertay Dundee in Scotland, working on their own original computer game, mentored by cutting edge professionals from the games industry.

Two graduates of the higher National Diploma in Multimedia had their cartoon Series "The Auld Ones" screened on RTE.