Roddy Doyle approached his translation of Mozart’s opera in a similar way to his book with the footballer, writes Alan O’Riordan

Roddy Doyle’s creative writing courses are being opened up to children all across Ireland. The Man Booker prize winner set up Fighting Words in 2009 with Sean Love, to provide free writing classes for children in Dublin’s north inner city.

Roddy Doyle has honoured Alan Rickman with his very own obituary chat in his ongoing online story ‘Two pints’.

This time, its Game of Thrones-themed.

The author shared the story on his Facebook page.

Today is the last day to get health insurance before the Lifetime Community Rating system kicks in at midnight, a passenger has been fined after a plane was forced to dump 20 tonnes of fuel to make an emergency landing and Roddy Doyle has his say on the upcoming Marriage Equality Referendum. These are some of the latest and most read news on irishexaminer.com this lunchtime.

The Commitments author Roddy Doyle has signed a deal to work with Roy Keane to write the footballer’s autobiography.