Reading time: 2 – 2 minutes Irish author, Emma Donoghue has made the Booker Prize shortlist with her book, Room. Speaking about the announcement Sarah Bannan, Head of Literature at The Arts Council, said, ‘In Room, Emma Donoghue has created a gripping and haunting work of fiction, one which stays with the reader long after...
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Reading time: 2 – 2 minutes The Hughes & Hughes store in Dundalk, which was first opened in 2004, has reopened today creating eight jobs. Derek Hughes, Managing Director, said, ‘To be re-opening our much acclaimed store in Dundalk is very gratifying and illustrates the long term confidence we have in Dundalk.  I am...
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Reading time: 4 – 6 minutes A rather excellent video featuring Jamie Byng, who’ll be appearing at Mountains To Sea in Dun Laoghaire in September Hatched | everything I want to say on one page David discusses blurbs, including his own! Read more… Upwardly mobile | moving in and what not And he discusses...
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Reading time: 1 – 2 minutes John Blake has signed a deal with Prizeman & Kinsella client and Showbiz editor for Irish Sun newspaper, Jennifer O’Brien for an authorised biography of ‘Jedward’, John and Edward Grimes, the former x-factor contestents. The journalist will have ‘full access to their manic schedule in the run up...
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