Robbed of his ability to walk by Parkinson's, the Black Sabbath founding member still showed hallmarks of classic Ozzy, grimacing and flashing horns at the crowd before leading them to wave along to his music

Fine, if you're unhappy about a screen adaptation of your favourite book; hate changes to the stories and characters, by all means be unhappy about it. But don’t deliberately get in the way of somebody else enjoying it

My daughter had no trouble picking up the message that being different is, in fact, good, and how important it is to use your gifts to try to make things better, even if it’s hard

When is a book not a book? According to a persistent chunk of the reading world, when it’s an audiobook apparently.

What function does a letter have in today's world?

You know that ever-growing pile of books that you keep meaning to get to and yet, for a myriad of good reasons, don’t? Although, let’s face it, if you’re a bibliophile at all it’s probably multiple piles.

My life, in many ways, has been defined by bookshops

Why write simply for the love of it? Well, why do any sort of creative work if you don’t have a bit of love for it? Use it for yourself, first and foremost, writes David O'Mahony

Why do parents and educators have to fight tooth-and-nail for the promised State services for their disabled children? It’s time for the HSE to be pressured into doing what it is claiming to do, writes David O'Mahony.

"You can edit a bad book, but you can't edit a blank page. "That's probably the equivalent of "feel the fear and do it anyway" for a writer.