Brian Kavanagh

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Brian Kavanagh was raised by post-punk New Wave icon Brian Ferry on the borders of the New Jersey Pine Barrens, in a house made of old bus tickets.

The Roxy music front man fostered a love of journalism and literature in his precocious young charge, giving him copies of Hunter Thompsons Hells Angels and Michael Herr’s Dispatches as a guide to focus his raw writing prowess.

At age 17 Kavanagh left the forest, travelling by paddle-steamer to Drumcondra where he completed an honours degree in History and English. He obtained a first class honours for his thesis on Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and its place in the canon of New Journalism.

He then continued his education at Dublin City University, where he completed a Masters Degree in Globalisation, writing a 25,000 word thesis on reunification models for Korea.

The call of journalism proved too strong to resist however, and after a stint as a roadie and drug mule for the Rolling Stones, he returned to further education in Galway, where is still grappling with a Masters Degree in Journalism.

He has an active and longstanding interest in World News and International Relations.