David Diebold

David Diebold is also the author of This Is How We Dance (Monument Media Press, 2019). He has written for The Irish Independent, The Irish Daily Mail, The Business Post and for The Herald, where his regular weekly column of seven years was a finalist at 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 has featured in Press Gang: Tales from the Glory Days of Irish Newspapers (New Island, 2015), and in Spontaneity magazine. A regular radio guest, in the last year he has been interviewed on The Ryan Tubridy Show, (RTE Radio 1), The Last Word (Today FM), and The Tom Dunne Show (Newstalk).

A native of California, he now lives by the sea near Dublin, Ireland, with his wife, two of his four now grown-up children and Pepper the dog.

Author's books

Diary of a Wimpy Dad

Diary of a Wimpy Dad

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Some people have absolutely no business being in charge. Sadly, those people are also sometimes named ‘Dad’.

A few years ago, David Diebold took the brave decision to give up a full-time job to be a stay at home Dad. Thing is, there was already a stay-at-home mum, three hairy monosyllabic teenage boys, and a pathologically cheerful, explosively hormonal pre-teen girl. What follows is a year at the coal face of parental ineptitude, a year in which David learns that helping to keep the well-oiled machine of a busy family home firing on all cylinders requires, well, oil… and a machine.

If a family of six in a rapidly degenerating house weren’t enough to contend with, there’s Molly the ancient, toothless, perpetually molting dog, hell bent on murdering the postman. Good enough reason as any to hit the wine.

It’s not all missteps and pratfalls. Amid the chaos of life, David and family must contend with the trials of teenage angst, and the death of a loved one.

Can he survive 12 months and keep his sanity? Sure. But can anyone else?

This Is How We Dance

This Is How We Dance

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From struggling actor to wannabe cook, aspiring filmmaker, and national newspaper hack, David Diebold’s unconventional life has placed him in some bizarre and precarious predicaments.

He has blagged his way onto the stage with the Kirov Ballet for an entire run of Le Corsaire without ever having danced: fibbed his way into a busy kitchen and cooked breakfast for Senator Ted Kennedy; and he has completely cocked up a job as a stripping vicar.

Strangest of all, perhaps, is the family backdrop to this rather odd journey, in which David discovered that his sister was actually his mother, and his real father, a former roadie with legendary American band Three Dog Night, who he tracked down with a private investigator, was a top movie special effects man.

By turns humorous and heartbreaking, these 52 vignettes of life, love and loss are soul-searching, searingly honest, and just plain strange…