{"id":2,"date":"2009-07-29T12:06:38","date_gmt":"2009-07-29T11:06:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/conorpower.ie\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2025-09-19T16:18:28","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T15:18:28","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/conorpower.ie\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div id=\"attachment_950\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/conorpower.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/Travel-Writer-Awards-008.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-950\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-950\" src=\"http:\/\/conorpower.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/Travel-Writer-Awards-008-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Conor Power (centre) receiving the award in the &quot;Short Breaks&quot; category at the Travel Extra Travel Writer of the Year awards in Dublin, 23rd January 2015\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"http:\/\/conorpower.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/Travel-Writer-Awards-008-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/conorpower.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/Travel-Writer-Awards-008-1024x682.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/conorpower.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/Travel-Writer-Awards-008-96x64.jpg 96w, http:\/\/conorpower.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/Travel-Writer-Awards-008-128x85.jpg 128w, http:\/\/conorpower.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/Travel-Writer-Awards-008-450x300.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-950\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Conor Power (centre) receiving the award in the &#8220;Short Breaks&#8221; category at the Travel Extra Travel Writer of the Year awards in Dublin, 23rd January 2015<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Welcome to the website of <strong>Conor Power<\/strong>, <strong>award-winning<\/strong> <strong>journalist<\/strong> and <strong>author<\/strong> based in the South-west corner of Ireland.<\/p>\n<p>Conor is a three-times category winner at the annual Travel Extra Travel Writer of the Year Awards, as well as a three-times winner at the French Media awards.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ENwqQ1Rb7uM\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><br \/>\nHe writes regularly for a number of <strong>national newspapers<\/strong> on a variety of different topics, mostly concentrating on travel, property and the arts, as well as appearing on <a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/dcfm-1032\/talk-travel-6th-september-2017\">radio<\/a> and television. \u00a0Various <strong>samples<\/strong> of Conor\u2019s journalistic <strong>work<\/strong> can be seen by <strong><a href=\"..\/?page_id=25\">clicking here<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/menmabooks.eu\/hurling\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-1346\" src=\"http:\/\/conorpower.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/postcard-2-300x212.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"408\" height=\"293\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/256062943\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/256062943\">Tour of Kyushu September 2017<\/a> from <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/user43630505\">Tootlafrance.ie<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\">Vimeo<\/a>. (edited by Conor&#8217;s son Mark)<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tootlafrance.ie\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-1004 size-medium\" title=\"Click here for articles on travel in France and more!\" src=\"http:\/\/conorpower.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/Logo-1-300x46.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"46\" srcset=\"http:\/\/conorpower.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/Logo-1-300x46.jpg 300w, http:\/\/conorpower.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/Logo-1-768x117.jpg 768w, http:\/\/conorpower.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/Logo-1-96x15.jpg 96w, http:\/\/conorpower.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/Logo-1-128x19.jpg 128w, http:\/\/conorpower.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/Logo-1-500x76.jpg 500w, http:\/\/conorpower.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/Logo-1.jpg 1656w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>He is also editor and founder of <strong>Ireland&#8217;s only publication specialising in all things French<\/strong> &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tootlafrance.ie\">Tootlafrance<\/a>. It&#8217;s &#8220;total France&#8221; for an Irish audience and it is the perfect site full of quality articles for anyone remotely interested in this fascinating and wonderful country that&#8217;s almost right on our doorstep.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Don&#8217;t forget to check out the social media links:<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tootlafrance\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1009 alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/conorpower.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/twitterbutton.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"24\" height=\"24\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/conorpowerjournalist\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1008 alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/conorpower.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/linkedinbutton.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"24\" height=\"24\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Tootlafrance.ie\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1007 alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/conorpower.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/facebookbutton.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"24\" height=\"24\" \/><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-1031\" title=\"Ghostwriting projects are taken on subject to availability of author and treated with utmost confidentiality\" src=\"http:\/\/conorpower.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/ConorPower-CoteArt-2-at-Carros-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"286\" height=\"161\" srcset=\"http:\/\/conorpower.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/ConorPower-CoteArt-2-at-Carros-300x169.jpg 300w, http:\/\/conorpower.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/ConorPower-CoteArt-2-at-Carros-768x432.jpg 768w, http:\/\/conorpower.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/ConorPower-CoteArt-2-at-Carros-96x54.jpg 96w, http:\/\/conorpower.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/ConorPower-CoteArt-2-at-Carros-128x72.jpg 128w, http:\/\/conorpower.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/ConorPower-CoteArt-2-at-Carros-500x281.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 286px) 100vw, 286px\" \/>Conor is also an experienced\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.writing.ie\/services-for-writers\/conor-power\/\">ghostwriter<\/a>. All projects are dealt with in confidence. To find out more, request sample work or any queries on having your book project brought to fruition, please <a href=\"mailto:conorwilliampower@gmail.com\">contact Conor<\/a>\u00a0using the details below.<\/p>\n<p>He is also the <strong>author<\/strong> of a <strong>book<\/strong> on his late father &#8211; former <strong>Waterford hurling goalkeeper<\/strong> and skills coach <strong>Ned Power<\/strong>.\u00a0 The book is\u00a0entitled <strong>&#8220;My Father: A Hurling Revolutionary&#8221;<\/strong>.\u00a0For Further details on this, <a title=\"Click here for details on Book\" href=\"http:\/\/conorpower.ie\/?page_id=752\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Amongst Conor&#8217;s current fiction projects, he is writing one in French for which he was awarded a two-month residency at the Villa Fontaine in Antibes, France in 2019. He is also writing the <strong>first ever work of fiction<\/strong> to be set during the <strong>era of professional hurling<\/strong> in Ireland. The book is being launched at the Park Hotel in Dungarvan on Thursday, 30th of October 2025.<b><a href=\"https:\/\/menmabooks.eu\/hurling\/\"> Click here for pre-orders and excerpt<\/a>.<\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/conorpower.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/cropped-Conor-Power-Head-Shot-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-887\" src=\"http:\/\/conorpower.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/cropped-Conor-Power-Head-Shot-1-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"cropped-Conor-Power-Head-Shot-1.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"http:\/\/conorpower.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/cropped-Conor-Power-Head-Shot-1-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/conorpower.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/cropped-Conor-Power-Head-Shot-1-38x38.jpg 38w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>Contact Details:<\/p>\n<p>Conor Power, Ardogeena, Durrus, Co. Cork.<\/p>\n<p>Telephone: (027) 62806<\/p>\n<p>Mobil:\u00a0\u00a0 (086) 058 5566<\/p>\n<p>Email:\u00a0 <a href=\"mailto: conorwilliampower@gmail.com\">conorwilliampower@gmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to the website of Conor Power, award-winning journalist and author based in the South-west corner of Ireland. 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