His first success came to him at age fifteen, when he was a runner-up in a TV script-writing competition for RTÉ in Ireland, with a dark comedy story entitled A Day in the Morgue.
Sukses pertamanya datang kepadanya di usia 15 tahun, ketika dia menjadi runner up di kompetisi menulis naskah televisi untuk Radio Telefis Eirann di Irlandia, dengan cerita komedi felap berjudul Sebuah hari di Morgue.