Well-known figures such as Fiona Shaw, Joe Duffy and Sonia O’Sullivan tell Richard Fitzpatrick about the reads they’ve been most impressed with in 2019.

KINSALE LITERARY FEST: The third incarnation of the Words by Water event takes place next weekend with its most impressive line-up yet.

Dawn Bradfield is from Kilmurry, near Macroom, Co Cork, and stars in the stage adaptation of Louise O’Neill’s novel, Asking For It, which returns to the Everyman in Cork tonight and continues until Saturday, October 5. The play then moves to the Gaiety Theatre in Dublin from Oct 9-26.

It has been confirmed that the powerful drama will see its UK premiere at the Birmingham Repertory Theatre.

‘ieStyle Live’ will bring cutting-edge trends to Cork in an unmissable fashion show next month, hosted by design duo Brendan Courtney and Sonya Lennon. Ruth O’Connor finds out more, joining them as they put the finishing touches to their new collection

Louise O’Neill enjoys some pampering in a true home away from home in West Cork.

A transition year student from Cork has scooped the top award in a competition which asked secondary school students to write about their experiences with homelessness.

World premiers, comedy, music, and plays will dominate the summer/autumn programme at the Everyman Theatre in Cork.

If I handed you a list of the top 10 things to do in Ireland before you die, how many do you reckon you could tick off?

Actors used to turn to alcohol to numb nerves before filming explicit shots. Now Tinseltown has ‘intimacy co-ordinators’, writes Ed Power

Asking for It shines an unflinching light on the experience of a young woman whose life is changed forever by a horrific act of violence.

Dinner on the Orient Express and a private cinema are some just of the highlights at Glenlo Abbey, writes Louise O’Neill.

World premieres and prestigious touring productions will feature in the Everyman Theatre’s spring/summer season.

As the Metropole Hotel unveils its own new snug, Donal O’Keeffe takes a leisurely stroll around Cork and visits some of the city’s cosiest pub corners.

Marjorie Brennan looks back on the year that was and selects her highlights of 2018.

Louise O’Neill, Conal Creedon, Caroline O’Donoghue, Patricia Scanlan and Billy O’Callaghan: Five authors share their festive memories

One of the most influential authors of her generation has encouraged Taoiseach Leo Varadkar and Housing Minister Eoghan Murphy to spend a day volunteering in a homeless shelter.

The main stage faltered at times, but beautiful weather contributed to the atmosphere at Body + Soul, writes Ellie O’Byrne

Best-selling author Louise O’Neill burst onto the literary scene three years ago with her provocative novel Asking For It, which helped to drive a new wave of feminism intent on ending the sexual exploitation of women.

Marjorie Brennan goes behind the scenes of the stage adaptation of ‘Asking For It’.

More than 55,000 people are expected to attend a 10-day festival in Cork which will feature theatre, dance, music and family-friendly events at several venues around the city.

There have been a few charges levied at me recently, writes Louise O’Neill.

A new anthology book offers a deeply compassionate and powerful insight into the movement to repeal the 8th Amendment. Ciara McDonnell talks to its editor, Una Mullally.

Your lunchtime headlines ...

A stage adaptation of Louise O'Neill's novel, Asking For It, looks set to be one of the biggest events in Irish theatre this year, and the producers have revealed who will take the lead roles in the world premiere run of the play at the Everyman in Cork.

Today, the 24th of February, is my birthday. I’m turning 33 and there’s something special about a double digit birthday, writes Louise O’Neill. 

It’s 2018 and The Future isn’t quite as exciting as I thought it would be, writes Louise O’Neill.

She has overcome obstacles, from shyness to cancer to advancing in the once male-dominated bastion of the GAA committee room. So thriving as the first female chair of Cork County Board won’t faze Tracey Kennedy. But she does want to represent females in the GAA and be an effective voice for inclusiveness and change...

Our regular contributors select their highlights of the year

The accolades for The Atlas of the Irish Revolution keep on coming in after it received another two top book prizes yesterday.

After college in Dublin, Orlagh worked in the production department for various films, then she left for London and worked in the city in IT recruitment.

The world stage premiere of the award-winning novel Asking For It will be performed in Cork next year.

Pascoe argues that women are merely animals with very large 40,000 year old brains. The fat on our bottoms has evolved for pleasing males so why, she asks, do we hate it so?

Revenues at the Irish arm of bookseller WH Smith hit record levels of €26.85m last year.

A transition-year team told classmates yesterday: “No means no.”

Eibhlís Carcione lives in Cork city, and will be reading at the at the Ó Bhéal Winter Warmer Festival this weekend in the Kino. She won Duais Fhoras na Gaeilge in 2012. 

Works by a number of Irish writers have been longlisted for the world’s most valuable annual literary prize for a single work of fiction published in English.

Your letters, your views...

In this week’s article Kehlan looks at the issue of women in business and why it should concern men too.

A two-minute video depicting Irish women’s journeys across the Irish Sea to access abortions received almost quarter of a million views in its first 24 hours online.

Prime Time presenter Miriam O’Callaghan “cringes” when she is described as a “superwoman” and believes it intimidates other women.

Your letters, your views.

Last month a new website www.TheHunRealIssues.com was launched to educate a generation of women who feel they aren’t affected by gender inequality.

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