Dublin-based sports, travel and music journalist with a penchant for quirky stories. Published in NME, Lonely Planet, the Sunday Business Post, the Irish Independent and the Korea Herald, amongst dozens of others. My debut book is a self-funded, fiercely independent exploration the CONIFA World Cup, a football tournament for unrecognised countries from Northern Cyprus to Tibet, Kabylia to Matabeleland. I meet the players, watch the games and explore the political movements driving unrepresented people who travel the world to play for countries that, mostly, technically don't exist. With input from organisers on complex questions around their finances, the strains of pulling together the teams, and the protests they face, it's a compact overview of the largest entity in the non-FIFA international football world with plenty of bizarre moments.