I’VE been doing a good bit of driving this past while, chiefly the Cork-Dublin-Cork-Dublin road. The bit of my elbow between the ‘elbone’ and the funny bone has taken on the shape of the sill of the driver’s door. The floor is covered in Double Decker wrappers.

Mark O’Halloran explains to Padraic Killeen how the central character of Davoren in The Shadow of a Gunman echoes O’Casey’s view of his younger self

My idea of misery is any job that isn’t the job I’m currently doing.

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FIRST published in 1813, Jane Austen’s piercing observation of society, social customs and snobbery, has enjoyed a popularity granted to few novels. Pride and Prejudice has become one of the best known and best loved works in English literature, and to date has sold in excess of 20m copies.

SOME of the best-known names in Irish radio are gearing up for a major battle of the airwaves this autumn as Ryan Tubridy aims to boost flagging audiences for 2FM following the death of the station’s flagship presenter, Gerry Ryan, earlier this year.

THE establishment of Lyric FM ten years ago today was one of the very best and truly positive things that has happened in this country in many, many years.

More people are switching off from the State broadcaster and tuning in to local and regional radio stations, new figures showed today.