IN an impeccably precise accent that is more Chelsea than Clonakilty, writer Joseph O’Neill says that by the time of his 2008 breakthrough novel, Netherland, all of his books were out of print.

Joseph O’Neill

Irish authors Joseph O’Neill and Niall Williams are in the running for this year’s Man Booker Prize.

I chanced upon an early morning softball game in a park near where I live on Sunday.

Thirty one members of the Dublin County Amateur Boxing Board have been told by a judge to pay a €60,000 costs bill arising out of an unsuccessful legal foray against their parent body, the Irish Amateur Boxing Association.

NO external power supply was available to run a heart machine after its battery failed during the transfer of a critically ill woman between two Dublin hospitals, an inquest at Dublin City Coroner’s Court heard yesterday.

THE outcome of a public vote for the best Irish book of the last decade may not be revealed until next week, but sales through one website alone would make John Boyne’s The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas a hands down winner.

The shortlist for the world's richest literary prize has been announced - with three British and one Irish authors making the grade.

CELEBRITY endorsement doesn’t come much better than this.

IRISH writer Joseph O’Neill was last night mentioned as one of the favourites to win this year’s prestigious Man Booker Prize.

Irish writer Joseph O’Neill was tonight installed as one of the favourites to win this year’s prestigious Man Booker Prize.