It’s not all screen time with the nation’s youth as new figures show children are also the biggest users of the country’s public libraries.

Brian Caliendo owns and runs Liber Bookshop on O’Connell St, Sligo, with his wife Ailbhe Finnegan.

June O’Flynn manages Philip’s Bookshop on Main Street in Mallow, Co Cork, with her mother Catherine. It sells books, school supplies, stationery and gifts.

Diary of a Wimpy Kid and The BFG are also among the books checked out most often.

All 20 of the most borrowed books were titles aimed at children with the Harry Potter series still proving hugely popular.

Former US First Lady Michelle Obama’s best-selling autobiography helped boost revenue last year at German media giant Bertelsmann to the highest in more than a decade.

With the success of the Harry Potter series and David Walliams’s books, you might think writing for kids is easy. Think again, says Áilín Quinlan.

Funding for payments to authors and illustrators whose books were borrowed from public libraries in the Republic was cut by a third last year.

Singer Taylor Swift has topped this year’s Forbes list of the world’s 100 highest paid celebrities, earning $170m (€153m) mainly thanks to her hugely successful 1989 world tour.

A novel exploring the violent world of Latin American drug cartels was a hit among Irish readers at the country’s 336 public libraries, figures show.

Ballybunion drew on their mix of youth and experience to capture the AIG Jimmy Bruen Shield for the first time since 1979 and guarantee that an All-Ireland title headed back to the Kingdom before a ball was kicked in anger at Croke Park.

Tommy Quigley hugged his sons and team-mates Stephen and Shane as Thurles celebrated their first AIG Pierce Purcell Shield win for 18 years.

Robert Downey Jr. has reportedly raked in $80 million this year for his work in Marvel's Avengers: Age of Ultron and Captain America: Civil War.

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International bestselling author James Patterson has donated €63,800 to help stock school libraries in Ireland and the UK.

Readers here had austerity on their minds last year with Strumpet City the most borrowed book of adult fiction from public libraries, figures show.

FORMER Republic of Ireland midfielder Matt Holland played with such clubs as Ipswich Town and Charlton Athletic before his retirement in 2009. He now works as a video analyst and pundit with Setanta. Here's waht matters to him when it comes to a question of taste.

Amazon.com’s conflict with the publisher Hachette Book Group is over, but the restoration of normal service will take at least a few days.

James Patterson and David Ellis

James Patterson, whose crime novels sell in the hundreds of millions around the world, is to donate €300,000 to independent bookshops in Ireland and Britain.

The End is Nigh For Paperbacks. It could be the title of another novel by Irish crime writer John Connolly.

Fifty Shades Of Grey author EL James has topped a list of the world’s highest earning authors.

Irish readers had legal matters on their minds last year with John Grisham’s The Litigators the most borrowed book from public libraries in 2012.

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Since the publication of his first book in 1976, New York-born writer James Patterson has become a literary sensation.

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Elton John earns more money than Simon Cowell.

US author Dan Brown's books are donated to charity Oxfam more than any other.

CHARITY givers donated more Dan Brown books to Oxfam than any other author but he was only number 10 on the list for most books sold, the charity’s annual survey revealed yesterday.

THE late Swedish author Stieg Larsson has become the first writer to sell more than one million ebooks on the online retail site Amazon.

Late Swedish author Stieg Larsson’s Millennium trilogy is continuing to set records.

JK Rowling is the world’s best paid author, banking more than £170m (€217.4m) in the last year, US business magazine Forbes said today.

Ulster secured an impressive victory against Connacht in the Youths Interprovincial Matches at Donegal Golf Club today.

Ireland v Canada, Junior International

Ireland and Canada are all square at Junior International competition at The Island Golf Club after today's play.

IN his earlier incarnation, Tom Nolan knew about the intensity of playing top level inter-county hurling at senior, U21 and minor levels.

Galway overcame Knock at Enniscrone Golf Club to win the Senior Cup today.