Ahead of ECHOES, a three-day event at Dalkey Castle & Heritage Centre (October 5-7) to celebrate the work of Maeve Binchy and other Irish writers, Helen O’Callaghan asks six authors about their favourite Binchy book and her influence.

New Mid Tipperary GAA chairman Jonathan Cullen has warned that revenue from television and media rights now appear to be driving the national fixtures plan at the expense of the grassroots of the association.

Seven Irish novels are in contention for the world’s largest literary prize as the nominations for the International Dublin Literary Awards are revealed.

A man arrested in connection with an IRA bomb attack that killed a Catholic nun and three police officers in the North has been released pending a report to prosecutors.

A man has been arrested in connection with an IRA bomb attack that killed a Catholic nun and three police officers in Northern Ireland.

A man has been arrested in connection with an IRA bomb attack that killed a Catholic nun and three PSNI officers in the North in 1990.

A prolific reader, Julia didn’t start to read like a writer until she was 15, and read Jane Eyre. She took an MA in creative writing, but concentrated on poetry. It wasn’t until the end of the course that she had an idea for a novel.

In 2010, the novelist Catherine Dunne, then chairperson of the Irish Writers’ Centre met the Italian writer Federica Sgaggio.

The Arts Council has published the full list of nominees for the inaugural Laureate for Irish Fiction.

Our first relationships often fall prey to naivety and end in tears. For Valentine’s Day, Sue Leonard asks five writers to reflect on their own teen experiences.

Three Irish authors have been nominated for the largest literary prize in the world for a novel published in English.

Three Irish authors have been nominated for the largest literary prize in the world for a novel published in English.

THE first person to be prosecuted for human trafficking will appear in court next week, two years after the Government introduced the legislation.

It is a bleak, emotionally intense and absorbing film, with superb performances from Colm Meaney, Brendan Conroy and Donal O’Kelly.

Gardai are continuing to investigate the cause of a fire at a flat in Dublin yesterday morning which left a man and a woman dead.