David Diebold

David Diebold has written for The Irish Independent, Irish Daily Mail and for The Herald, where his regular weekly column of seven years made the judges’ shortlist for the National Newspapers of Ireland Feature Writer of the Year award in 2011, and NewsBrand Ireland Popular Columnist of the Year, in 2016. His writing featured in Press Gang, Tales from the Glory Days of Irish Newspapers (New Island, 2015), and in Spontaneity magazine. A collection of his weekly parenting columns, originally published as 'The Family Guy’, will shortly be available as an Amazon eBook titled Diary of a Wimpy Dad. A native of California, David lives by the sea, near Dublin, Ireland, with his wife and four children, and up to six dogs at any given time.