Irish writer, Kevin Barry, who was the only Irish author on the longlist for his novel Night Boat to Tangier, did not make the shortlist.

It was not the first time Toulon captain Mathieu Bastareaud had appeared baffled by the events that had unfolded in front of his eyes at Thomond Park on Saturday.

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The shocking true story of an Irishwoman at the centre of a brutal double murder is tipped to be the next worldwide TV smash hit.

How is it possible that this novel was written in 1985, and yet so little has changed in 15 years, asks Louise O’Neill.

HAG-SEED is the fourth novel forming the Hogarth Shakespeare series, including Anne Tyler’s retelling of The Taming Of The Shrew and Jeanette Winterson’s The Winter’s Tale.

A former Catholic archbishop has settled his High Court action alleging he was defamed and wrongly depicted as a paedophile in the May 2011 RTÉ Prime Time Investigates: Mission to Prey programme.

A 45-year-old woman has told the High Court a priest kissed her and touched her breast when she was a teenager in 1983.

Cleric suing RTÉ for defamation over ‘paedophile’ allegations

A former Catholic archbishop has denied a suggestion by lawyers for RTÉ the reason a woman was deeply troubled and “skewed” in her relationships was because he had sexually exploited her when she was “a vulnerable child”.

A former Catholic archbishop has told the High Court he had an “inappropriate” sexual relationship with a woman in Nigeria which began in 1989 when she was aged 20 and he was 40.

A former Catholic archbishop has told a High Court jury he was portrayed during an RTÉ television programme as leading a young girl up a stairs to his bedroom where he had sexually abused, sexually assaulted, and raped her.

A Catholic archbishop who resigned after breaking his vow of celibacy has sued RTÉ for defamation, alleging he was wrongly depicted as a paedophile in the 2011 Prime Time Investigates programme, ‘Mission to Prey’.

Margaret Atwood interrogates the myths around the idea of being a writer. Val Nolan is impressed by her conclusions.

CANADIAN Margaret Atwood is one of the most acclaimed and prolific authors of the past 30-plus years, a woman of towering intellect and imagination. 

Margaret Atwood

MARGARET Atwood, perhaps Canada’s pre-eminent novelist, will tomorrow attend Dún Laoghaire’s Mountains to Sea book festival. Atwood lived in West Cork for four months, with her partner, Graeme Gibson, also a Canadian writer, in 1996.

A strong rotten egg smell had Southern Californians plugging their noses and crying foul as air quality experts scrambled to determine if the sulphurous scent was coming from the Salton Sea.

LEINSTER’S Leo Cullen admits he is looking forward to this weekend’s Heineken Cup clash with Bath at the Aviva.

Margaret Atwood

AN Irish-born archbishop based in Africa has resigned, after he confessed to a long-term relationship with a woman he met in Nigeria more than 20 years ago, although he has firmly rejected her accusations that he sexually abused her as a child.

The Pope has today accepted the resignation of a Tipperary-born Archbishop.

MARTIN JOHNSON admitted England must become smarter after suffering a second-half collapse in yesterday’s 35-26 victory over the Barbarians.

Election authorities today said they have dismissed about 50 employees for suspected fraud in last month’s legislative polls, while human rights advocates warned that about half of the winning candidates are suspected to have links to armed groups.

The SDLP has questioned a judge's decision to grant bail to a leading UDA man facing serious money-laundering charges.

The 18 contenders for the inaugural Man Booker International Prize were announced today.

SDLP Policing Board member Alex Attwood claimed Gerry Adams' call for calm today was an admission from Sinn Féin that his party had lost the argument over IRA criminality.

Episcopal Bishop Gene Robinson, the first openly gay man elevated to that rank in any major Christian denomination, said today that the church will survive the tumult surrounding his election.

The SDLP has announced its intention to propose the establishment of a South Africa-style truth and reconciliation commission for the North.

The SDLP has rejected criticism from a British Labour Party MP who accused the party of failing to show up for Westminster debates on the Irish peace process.

The SDLP's Alex Atwood has accused senior civil servants of trying to prevent the devolution of justice powers to the Northern Executive.

The chief constable of the North’s police service, Hugh Orde, has expressed concerns about last Friday’s raid on Sinn Féin’s offices at Stormont, according to the SDLP’s Alex Atwood.

The SDLP has had what it called a "tough" meeting with the RUC Chief Constable, Ronnie Flanagan, this afternoon over loyalist attacks in the North.