Michael O’Hanlon is a freelance journalist specialising in travel. His work has been published in Time Out London, Europe By Air (Time Out Guides) and Northern Ireland Travel & Leisure News. As a freelance arts and entertainment writer for The Irish News, he generated and delivered high-profile interviews.

Recent (2004/3) multi-destination pieces on the USA have included cities in Arizona, Montana, Missouri, Washington and British Columbia. He has been commissioned to write about areas in Norway and the Netherlands. For Europe By Air, Michael writes and updates all its Ireland profiles.

Michael has radio broadcast experience as a program participant, an interviewer and interview subject, his most recent contribution being to BBC Radio Scotland.

As an ex-resident of the US (Wisconsin and Illinois) he has a continuing obsession with American culture, especially rock-roots music, literature, small-town bars, and restaurant-diners. In the past five years he’s visited Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Rhode Island, California and Tennessee, both as a traveller and a journalist.

A member of the National Union of Journalists since 1992, Michael has an MA in English from the prestigious University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.