John Creedon: 'Nothing beats a good story - or a good graveyard'

The Cork broadcaster shares how he became an author and why he can't wait to get to Kinsale next weekend

Broadcaster John Creedon with his book ‘An Irish Folklore Treasury’. John will be at the Words by Water Literary Festival in Kinsale on Saturday next. Picture: Larry Cummins

John Creedon can’t help telling stories. It’s why he became an author. “What do you call a gathering of Creedons?” he asks, when I meet him on a sunny Thursday lunchtime.

The question’s an invitation into a story, and the answer comes at the end.