Coveted like a neighbour's wife, the Michael Moynihan End of Hurling Season Awards are back for 2012.

John Connolly and Declan Burke convinced great writers to write about their favourite mystery novels. Val Nolan is impressed

ASK any successful writer how they got their first book deal and you will hear a different story.

The investigation into the killing of a 10-year-old girl in Crothersville, Indiana appears to be drawing eerie parallels to a 1987 case in England that was the first to use DNA to solve a crime.