Becoming a dad can have a hugely healing effect on men who were sexually abused as children, according to new research.

WHILE these three slim volumes, from Jessie Lendennie’s publishing house by the Cliffs of Moher in Co Clare, are designed in the manner you expect from their publisher, the three poets also have in common a tendency toward “the tyranny of the one-page poem”.

A SPLENDID four-year-old gelding, Woodfield Indy, won the ridden hunter championship at the 92nd Dungarvan Show for Rosemary Connors, Woodstown, Co Waterford.

Ireland's top writers have come together to voice their opposition to the war through the power of the pen.