Mary O’Malley has won the 2025 Derek Walcott Prize for Poetry. Her collection The Shark Nursery (Carcanet, 2024) was ...

Fail Again Fail Even Better – The Struggles of an Obscure Irish Poet, by Karl MacDermott, published by Troubador Publishing, ...

When you sit down to write a will, big things like properties, bank accounts and family heirlooms instantly come to mind, but ...

He had previously broken the woman’s nose during an attack and in one of the messages he said: "I will do more than break ...

This month, I reached 80 years of age. I have been sending in letters to the Irish Independent for about 40 of those years, and fortunately some have been printed. Would one be overly optimistic, ...

I was once told that you should only break silence if you can improve on it — in today's noisy world, it's difficult to live ...

Kervin’s latest book publishes a year after Al-Fayed: Predator at Harrods (2024) first aired on the BBC, which gave testimonies of more than 20 women who claimed they were sexually assaulted by the ...

Welcome, dear readers to Halloween, when in the UK and US children dress as their favourite fictional horror characters (and ...

Oxford University professor and acclaimed Newman expert Paul Shrimpton says the newest doctor of the Church ‘foresaw the world we live in and tried to prepare Christians to face it.’ ...