Roddy Doyle will chair the judging panel for the 2025 Booker Prize, with actor Sarah Jessica Parker also on the panel. The ...

Longford native Joe Shannon has made World Snooker Tour history despite falling to an agonising defeat against Robert Milkins ...

Teenage prodigy Joe Shannon came agonisingly close to a sensational debut win on the world snooker tour when narrowly falling ...

It was simple but very effective storytelling as O’Callaghan went beat by beat through his life and its twists and turns, and how he came to be involved with Brian ‘The Milkman’ Kenny.

KENNEDY: I always read a lot, mostly fiction, especially short stories. Irish people don’t have the bias in favor of novels that other people have. The Irish writer Frank O’Connor coined a ...

Considering that heritage, we asked a small group of writers and editors to choose the best Irish novels of the past 15 years .Why 15? It seemed enough time to encompass Colm Ti ...

The Irish-related words I remember best from my ... It didn’t surprise me that our unrelated milkman came from our village. Our next-door neighbours were from Pakistan. As was our experience ...

This could not be easier. Begin by placing the dry ingredients in a large roomy bowl, mix to combine, then add the buttermilk followed by the water. Start mixing; first with a spatula then finish off ...

Founded in 1969, the Booker Prize is open to novels originally written in English published in the UK or Ireland. Last year’s winner was Irish writer Paul Lynch for post-democratic dystopia “Prophet ...