Roddy Doyle’s writing courses to help kids

Roddy Doyle’s creative writing courses are being opened up to children all across Ireland. The Man Booker prize winner set up Fighting Words in 2009 with Sean Love, to provide free writing classes for children in Dublin’s north inner city.

This September the programme will expand to allow 5,000 children from all over Ireland access its courses in a facility in Wicklow.

This expansion was made possible by a €30,000 grant from the Irish Youth Foundation (IYF).