Rónán Mac Con Iomaire is the Director of Regional & Community Development & Language with Údarás na Gaeltachta and is an Irish author and broadcaster.
Two years later, he returned to Independent News & Media as a freelancer, while also working as Dublin Correspondent for the Irish language newspaper Foinse, and as an editor for the Telecom Éireann (now eircom) online publication Cumasc.
"Trálaer" looked at life aboard a deep-sea pelagic fishing trawler from the Aran Islands, which was again presented and written by Mac Con Iomaire.
Saighdiúr looked at the role of Irish citizens in the British army during World War II, where Mac Con Iomaire used the case of his grand-uncle, Paddy Ridge, to illustrate the story.
[6] Mac Con Iomaire is the author of Rocky Ros Muc (Cló Iar-Chonnachta), a biography of Irish boxer Seán Mannion, who fought for the light-middleweight world championship in Madison Square Garden, New York in 1984.
The book looks at how Mannion, who won the US light-middleweight title in 1983, escaped a future as one of Whitey Bulger's henchmen and climbed his way to the top of the rankings in what was one of the most competitive weight divisions in boxing history, and how drink and depression put an end to his ambitions of glory.
Along with being the first Irish-language documentary to be long-listed for the Oscars,[13] and achieving a cinema release in both the US and Ireland,[14] Rocky Ros Muc received numerous positive reviews.