A NOVEL about slavery was named in Dublin yesterday as the €100,000 winner of the world’s largest literary prize for a single work of fiction published in English.

LEADING figures in the literary world, such as Roddy Doyle, Colm Tóibín, Fergal Keane and Michael Longley, will be among the personalities attending Listowel Writers’ Week, which opens tomorrow night.

IRISH authors have failed to make the shortlist for the world’s richest literary prize, which was announced in Dublin yesterday.

The three Irish novelists nominated for the 2005 International IMPAC Dublin literary award have failed to make the shortlist for the prestigious prize.

Three Irish writers have been named on the list for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award 2005.

A man, "blinded by jealousy and rage" at the discovery that his partner was having an affair, who drove his car through the other man’s office windows has received a three year suspended sentence at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

Gerard Donovan's debut novel 'Schopenhauer's Telescope' is one of 23 books remaining in the race for one of the world's most famous literary prizes.