After leaving college, following a short spell on a media-training course, Cafolla secured a one-year contract with a Belfast film collective.
[2] His first television drama Holy Cross (2003) examined the emotive events which occurred on Belfast’s Ardoyne Road in 2001 and signalled the emergence of a television writer of skill and sensitivity.
[3] Cafolla has since contributed to the TV drama Messiah and has written episodes for both series of Law & Order: UK, a British adaptation of the long-running US crime series.
Other notable work includes a drama-documentary on the life of George Best, and an episode of the TV fantasy series, Camelot.
He wrote The Whale, a television film starring Martin Sheen that aired on BBC One in 2014.