A Wicklow man making a documentary about the war in Ukraine has opened up on seeing "burned bodies" still in tanks and removing his press badge to stop being targeted as he drove for his life.
Finn Boylan spent five months in the war-torn country filming for his project on the Irish involvement in the conflict. The 30-year-old plans to return to the country soon to finish the film, and is currently in negotiations around broadcasting it when it is finished later this year.
The MetFilm School graduate only started making movies when he was 24, and his work has already taken him around the world - he once hitchhiked from Germany to Iran, a journey of 800km. But his graduation from school coincided with the Maidan Revolution in Kyiv in 2014, and Finn admits his fascination with Ukraine is what led him to travel to the country just three weeks after war broke out.
