Person: Gene Kerrigan

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‘Français, je t’aime?’ 24,000 Leaving Cert students show off their language skills

Close to 24,000 Leaving Certificate students got to show off their French language skills yesterday morning.

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Book review: Trouble Is Our Business

Traumatised souls. Murderous housewives. Wise-cracking hitmen. Bloody revenge. It’s all there in this excellent collection of short stories from Irish crime writers.

Judges likely to avoid findings with political fallout

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Wonderful Waterford Writer’s Weekend warrants watching

I proclaim that I can’t muster any interest in the 1916 celebrations

Does anyone else admire Tiernan McCann’s audacity?

These summer crime reads are the real Deal

CRIME fiction is regarded as a good vehicle for reflecting the times in which it is written.

Tue, 16 Jul, 2013

We should have known how the story would end when the Polish departed

It would go on forever, wouldn’t it? After all, look at the value of property. Up went the price of your house: Boom. Then there was a stage 4. This was the big dump where everyone got dumped, and dumped upon

Sat, 12 Jan, 2013

We should have known how the story would end when the Polish departed

“It would go on forever, wouldn’t it? After all, look at the value of property. Up went the price of your house: Boom. Then there was a stage 4. This was the big dump where everyone got dumped, and dumped upon.”

Sat, 12 Jan, 2013

Post-crash Dublin crime novel earns award for journalist

Irish author Gene Kerrigan has won the Crime Writers’ Association 2012 Gold Dagger award for his gritty crime novel, The Rage.

Sat, 20 Oct, 2012

When crime does pay

THE great crime novelist Raymond Chandler advised, “When in doubt have a man come through a door with a gun in his hand”.

Tue, 26 Jun, 2012

Public sector unions victims of double-dealing

SO the unions were led up the garden path by promises of an agreement with the Government and then ditched when they called off the pre-budget day of action.

Thu, 17 Dec, 2009

Quiet reformer whose golf handicap was the least of his achievements

BY 1990, there was a general consensus that the office of president was worthy but dull, and there was no sign of debate or discussion in the 1980s about the possibilities of expanding the role of the president or a sense that its profile could or should be increased.

Thu, 17 Apr, 2008

We’ve seen far too much arrogance and greed, but no political vision

SOME economists have been hard at work this year trying to convince us that the Celtic Tiger is only taking a rest and could be back roaring at some stage in the future, a notion encapsulated in the title of Marc Coleman’s new book The Best is Yet to Come.

Thu, 20 Dec, 2007