Paul Soye is the author of the plays Cherished and The Birdcage, which won the Esso New Irish Play Award at the National Drama Festival in Athlone in 1996. In 2002 he was short-listed for the BBC’s Tony Doyle Award. He has written a one act play for children and his play In Irons was broadcast on RTE 1’s Sunday Night Playhouse. He lives in County Mayo.