UNIVERSITY College Cork (UCC) has acquired the exclusive custody of correspondence papers of the celebrated Irish writer Seán O’Faoláin.

I WAS one of many people who saw a radiant Nuala O’Faolain speaking at the Merriman Summer School in Lisdoonvarna, Co Clare, in August last year. She gave a presentation to a symposium entitled What Were We Like? during which she was joined by novelist Anne Enright.

The late journalist and author Nuala O’Faolain was a steadfast friend and a woman of wit, grace and humour, mourners at her funeral heard today.

Author Nuala O'Faolain has died after a battle with cancer, her family announced in a statement today.

Journalist Nuala O’Faolain who revealed in a frank interview she was dying from cancer was today praised for raising the issue of how we face death.

IN WHAT was gripping yet heartbreaking radio, author Nuala O’Faolain opened her heart to the nation as she spoke of her abject anger in the face of terminal cancer.

THE mobile phone came into its own the day the Taoiseach announced his intention to resign. Anybody involved — even at the outermost edges — in journalism or politics, heard their mobile come alive with ring tones alternating with text squawks.