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.
Mon, 01 Oct, 2018
The funeral of bestselling author Emma Hannigan has taken place in Dublin today.
Wed, 07 Mar, 2018
The wife of one of Ireland’s richest men, JP McManus, has been stopped in her tracks, for now, from further extending a family home on a ‘millionaires’ row’ in Dublin 4.
Wed, 31 Aug, 2016
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Sat, 10 Oct, 2015
I’m an unbelievable optimist. I always try and find something to be grateful for, even when I’m having an awful time.
Sat, 07 Mar, 2015
From using a turnip as a candleholder to eating the turkey a day early to a cowgirl costume mistakenly bought for a boy, three celebrities recount their festive memories to Richard Fitzpatrick
Mon, 22 Dec, 2014
Kate Kerrigan has lost her almost-completed eighth novel, stored on a laptop left in the back of a Dublin taxi.
Wed, 14 May, 2014
CLAUDIA CARROLL is a born storyteller, whether on stage or screen, as a novelist or in person with anecdotes of pals’ romantic entanglements and stories of love gone awry.
Sun, 11 May, 2014
They have changed our nappies, tended our scrapes, packed our school lunches, cured every ill with flat 7-Up and, in some cases, still wash our clothes.
Sat, 29 Mar, 2014
CHRISTMAS memories are usually the stuff of magic, but sometimes they’re a little less so. Here, some of Ireland’s best known recall the Christmas gifts they remember for all the wrong reasons.
Mon, 09 Dec, 2013
The shortlists for “the biggest celebration of Irish writing” was announced yesterday.
Fri, 01 Nov, 2013
Buying chick-lit novels and flying first-class while a colleague was in steerage form part of a court claim by Waterford Institute of Technology for repayment of €120,000 from its ex-president.
Fri, 11 Oct, 2013
AUTHOR and ex-Fair City star Claudia Carroll could barely see during her Leaving Cert because the area around her eyes was so covered with psoriasis.
Sun, 07 Jul, 2013
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The life, love, talent and generosity of acclaimed best-selling novelist Maeve Binchy have been remembered at her funeral.
Fri, 03 Aug, 2012
Hundreds of people have attended the funeral of Maeve Binchy in Dublin.
Sat, 28 Jul, 2012
THE head of the country’s oldest maternity hospital has repeated a 266-year-old plea for Santa to solve his facility’s funding and staffing crisis because health service management can’t do so.
Sat, 24 Dec, 2011
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