Culture That Made Me: Gerard Stembridge, filmmaker and Scrap Saturday creator 

"Even though I was closer in age to Stephen Dedalus’s character, he did nothing for me. I found it so heavily intellectual and opaque, a lot of vocabulary was beyond me."

Gerard Stembridge in Schull. Picture: Orla Lavelle

Gerard Stembridge was born in 1958 in Limerick. In 1989, his satirical radio comedy series Scrap Saturday, which he created with Dermot Morgan, began broadcasting to wide acclaim. 

In 2000, he wrote the screenplay for Ordinary Decent Criminal which starred Kevin Spacey. He has directed several films, including Guiltrip and About Adam, and written several novels.