Tributes flooded in yesterday for “comic genius” Niall Tóibín who has died after a lengthy illness.

We can have a sense of pride and realise that what stymies us isn’t outsiders — it is insiders, writes Gerard Howlin

Niall Tóibín has been awarded the freedom of Cork city.

The legendary actor and comedian Niall Tóibín is to be made a freeman of Cork despite an “agreement” last year to put a stay on the award for five years.

FOUR Irish novels have been nominated for the 2011 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award.

RAIN didn’t dampen spirits on the second day of Listowel Writers’ Week yesterday, as people scurried from reading to reading, clutching an umbrella and with the inevitable book under the arm, got it signed by their favourite author.

IN A land of ‘f***ing animals, Kerry football manager Páidí Ó Sé is a “horse of a man” in many ways, according to a well-known cleric.