Raised in Belfast, Northern Ireland, he has written feature film and TV series scripts for producers and studios in UK, Hollywood, Canada, Denmark, Finland, Poland, South Africa and Thailand.
[citation needed] During 2006–07, Foley wrote and directed Assault of Darkness, a satirical horror film set in rural Ireland, starring Jones, Jason Barry and Nora Jane Noone.
Foley completed pilot scripts for SOS, a new eco-thriller series by Finnish producers Luminoir, and Kvenland, set in the Dark Ages.
Under The Wire, a World War II POW escape drama, which he wrote along with its subject, pilot William Ash, was published by Random House, London and St Martin's Press, New York in 2005 and 2006.
[citation needed] In 2018/19 a related TV series was developed as a future miniseries by CBC in Canada and Northern Ireland Screen.