Medicinal cannabis campaigner, Vera Twomey, who fought a lengthy campaign to secure THC oil for her sick daughter is set to publish a book detailing her experiences later this year.

Former taoiseach Enda Kenny’s mishandling of a conversation with the Minister for Children about the maltreatment of Sergeant Maurice McCabe set in motion a chain of events which led to his downfall, a new book reveals.

A book by Corkman Cethan Leahy about teenage mental health is one of ten titles shortlisted for a major Irish book award.

A book that was rejected by 13 separate publishers — The Lost Soul of Eamonn Magee — has won the 2018 eir Sports Book of the Year award.

Eir Sport have announced the longlist of 23 nominees for the eir Sport Book of the Year award.

If I mention the race for the Áras, will you turn the page? You won’t? Many thanks.

The Department of Education’s decision not have history as a mandatory subject in the Junior Cert still raises concerns that many students may not then study it in the Leaving Cert, and so as citizens may have big gaps in knowledge of our country’s past and its impact on today.

MOVING from Waterford city to the Ring Gaeltacht fifty miles away may not sound like a major life event but for Catherine Foley, her whole world changed at the age of 11.

Sinn Féin president Mary Lou McDonald has launched a blistering attack on what she called the “utterly repulsive” media in the Republic over the treatment of the late Martin McGuinness during the 2011 presidential election.

Thousands of Anthony Barry’s pictures have been donated to Cork archives. They offer a look at life on Leeside in decades gone by, writes Marjorie Brennan

Fiann Ó Nualláin on how to lessen the intensity of Rose gardener’s disease from injuries while pruning

From Rory Gallagher to Frank O’Connor, there’s an eclectic mix in a new anthology of Cork writings, says Colette Sheridan

Seán Feehan’s Cork-based Mercier Press published books that Dublin wouldn’t, about topics that ‘reflect us truthfully to ourselves’. He died 25 years ago but his legacy lives on, says Ryle Dwyer         

The review of Channel 4’s new television programme SAS Who Dares Wins which was carried on your website on Wednesday, October 19, appears to be completely oblivious to the fact that this is a so-called “game show” based around a regiment of the British army that is responsible for the deaths of Irish citizens.

PREVENTION is, of course, better than cure and now, more than ever, people are finding that the first line of defence against disease starts with your dinner plate.

Strawberries are not only tasty, they can keep the body beautiful and brain active, says Fiann Ó Nualláin.

Local connections to national and global events a century ago have been unearthed by winners of a schools’ history competition.

WHEN it comes to bread, coeliacs have it tough. Bread, mostly made from rice flour, is often heavy, grainy, and tasteless, and hardly worth the extra cost compared to regular bread.

TV host Graham Norton will return to Irish shores this summer to top the bill at a festival to celebrate literature.

Irish Illustrator Niamh Sharkey’s cute character is more popular than ever, writes Ed Power

A Cork e-book distribution company has launched its latest classroom-based web application in a Douglas school for hearing and speech-impaired children.

A 38-year-old author last night scooped the richest literary award confined to Irish writers for her first novel.

Caitriona Redmond knows what it’s like to manage a kitchen on a tight budget and now she’s sharing her secrets.

A relative of Protestant victims of a notorious War of Independence-era triple execution linked to a bloody massacre has issued an emotional appeal for help tracing the bodies of the victims.

In the past, Garda commissioners became implicated in what were largely political controversies, writes Ryle Dwyer

The Menu is a fierce man altogether for a bit of fire in the belly, most especially the Indian regional cooking styles from way down south and so hopes to be joining Bannu and Ruth, from Annam, a wonderful new Indian Supper Club and Cookery School in Douglas, Cork.

Lethal Allies British Collusion in Northern Ireland

James Joyce once posed a conundrum: how to get from one end of Dublin to the other without passing a pub. Most people who took up the challenge failed happily.

Diarmuid Lynch: A Forgotten Irish Patriot

The descendants of the great houses of the South-West, whose social life once revolved around each other, gathered for the first time in more than 100 years at Muckross House in Killarney over the weekend.

So what was life really like inside the ‘Downton Abbeys’ of Ireland?

As an author of several books on 1916, I’m seeking your readers’ help in researching my next effort.

A former soldier played a dangerous game by turning on Michael Collins during the War of Independence, writes Ryle Dwyer

The Men Will Talk to Me:Kerry Interviews by Ernie O’Malley

Ryle Dwyer says BBC4 should ask about the kidnapping and killing of Free State officers in Donegal

Cork-based Joyce Russell dug deep into her interest in nature and family relationships for her first collection, Bloodlines, writes Billy O’Callaghan

Neutral Shores: Ireland and the Battle of the Atlantic

Novelist Christine Dwyer Hickey won the top prize of €15,000 for her latest work, The Cold Eye of Heaven, at the 41st Listowel Writers’ Week, last night.