Career

Has directed television programmes including:

• Ballykissangel
  Ballykissangel
  Ballykissangel is a BBC television drama set in Ireland, produced in-house by BBC Northern Ireland. The original story revolved around a young English Roman Catholic priest as he became part of a rural community. It ran for six series, which were first broadcast on BBC One in the UK from 1996 to 2001...
  
  
• Casualty
• The Royal
• Small Potatoes
• Footballer's Wives

He has also made several short films including LSD 73!, based on an original script by the Irish novelist Patrick McCabe. More recently he co-created the ITV series Secret Diary of a Call Girl

Secret Diary of a Call Girl

Secret Diary of a Call Girl is a British television drama broadcast on ITV2 from 2007-2011 based on the blog and books by the pseudonymous "Belle de Jour," starring Billie Piper as Belle, a high-class London call girl. The series was written by Lucy Prebble, who is also known as the author of The...

 based on the well-known blog, Belle de Jour

Belle de Jour (writer)

Brooke Magnanti is a research scientist, blogger, and writer, who, until her identity was revealed in November 2009, was known by the pen name Belle de Jour. While completing her doctoral studies, between 2003 and 2004, Magnanti supplemented her income by working as a London call girl...

. The Irish production company Screenworks was established by Paul Duane and Rob Cawley in 2008. Their first production, Barbaric Genius, on the life of the London-Irish author John Healy

John Healy

John Healy was an American entrepreneur in the late 19th century. Originally from Montana, he and Alfred B. Hamilton established a whiskey trading post near present-day Lethbridge, Alberta in 1869...

premieres in February 2011.