Between then and 2002, he left the station to spend more time writing and acting with the Meeting Lane Theatre Company, Ireland.
MacKenna has produced several radio series, including work on the Amish people of Pennsylvania and the Shaker Community of Sabbath Day Lake.
It uses the songs of Canadian songwriter Leonard Cohen[2] to set the mood for a chilling exposition of the continuing threat of totalitarianism.
His one-man play, The Mental, directed by Angela Keogh and written and performed by MacKenna, premiered and toured across Ireland in the autumn of 2018 and spring of 2019.
He teaches several media studies and creative writing courses at Maynooth University and at The Hedge School in Moone, Kildare.