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Award-winning war correspondent and author Robert Fisk and explorer Jonathan Shackleton are among the highlights of the Immrama Festival of Travel Writing which takes place in Lismore in June.

Rita de Brún is impressed by the four star Fitzpatrick Castle Hotel, which has been lovingly refurbished recently.

When Charles Hayes wonders if Israel’s objection to Palestine’s membership of the International Criminal Court is a fear that Benjamin Netanyahu “and his government officials might find themselves in the dock”, (Letters, January 14), it echoes a polemic of Robert Fisk.

Elizabeth Bowen’s Selected Irish Writings. Edited by Eibhear Walshe, Cork University Press, €39.

A BOOK described as “the most complete and definitive account of 9/11” will have its Irish launch tonight in Dungarvan.

SLANE is over for another year but Irish festival season is only beginning.

I AM appalled that one of our presidential hopefuls is celebrating the West’s latest extra-judicial killing.

TODAY a memorial will be unveiled in Ventry to an incident that made international headlines 70 years ago. A German submarine, the U35, dropped off 28 Greek seamen at Ventry on October 4, 1939.

A STUDENT society has pulled off a major coup by securing one of the world’s best known journalists for an address in Cork next month.

PETER KENNEDY (Letters, July 5) snidely recommends that Nuala O’Loan and Tony Blair conduct an inquiry about the killing of an Iraqi named Baha Mousa by British soldiers, based on a report by Robert Fisk.

JOURNALIST Robert Fisk recently revealed details of the medical reports on the brutal killing by British soldiers of a Basra hotel receptionist, Baha Mousa.

LEADING figures in the literary world, such as Roddy Doyle, Colm Toibín, Fergal Keane and Michael Longley, will be among the personalities attending Listowel Writers’ Week, which opened last night.

LEADING figures in the literary world, such as Roddy Doyle, Colm Toibín, Fergal Keane and Michael Longley, will be among the personalities attending Listowel Writers’ Week, which opened last night.

NEIL JORDAN has won the E10,000 Kerry Group Irish Fiction Prize for his novel Shade.

LEADING figures in the literary world, such as Roddy Doyle, Colm Tóibín, Fergal Keane and Michael Longley, will be among the personalities attending Listowel Writers’ Week, which opens tomorrow night.

AS British and US forces massed to invade Iraq last year, the Irish-born director of CARE International operations in Baghdad said she was determined to stay.

As British and US forces massed to invade Iraq last year, the director of CARE International operations in Baghdad said she was determined to stay.

I RECENTLY received my copy of UCC Graduate News — a big glossy production, 150-plus pages with lots of articles on the year now ending.

EAMON DUNPHY’S hands shook at the start, but after a dignified interview with Páidi O’Sé, the nervousness disappeared and he began to smile as if he meant it.

EVERY second day an American soldier is killed in Iraq, but this and almost daily attacks on US forces are not reported in the West, Middle Eastern correspondent Robert Fisk told the World Association of Newspapers congress in Dublin yesterday.

BONO and Taoiseach Bertie Ahern will address the World Newspaper Congress, which will held here for the first time in June.

THE United States may install King Abdullah of Jordan to front a US-backed military government in Iraq, acclaimed war correspondent Robert Fisk claimed last night.

RENOWNED war correspondent Robert Fisk will give a major warning tonight against a full-scale war between the United States and Iraq.

A British journalist was recovering today after he was attacked and viciously beaten by a mob of Afghan refugees in Pakistan.

A British journalist has been attacked and viciously beaten by a mob of Afghan refugees in Pakistan.