Helen Kelleher catches up with Hilary Fannin to talk about her first novel, middle age, and how Covid-19 could be an opportunity for budding writers

Children will be spoilt for choice at the inaugural Kaleidoscope festival this weekend, writes Ciara McDonnell

SHEILA O’Flanagan has decamped to her summer home outside Alicante. But while the summer sun is pouring down outside, her mind is on a white winter.

The Commitments author, Roddy Doyle, was in Cork yesterday to help a new generation of Irish children find the “write stuff”.