Truth! Justice! Freedom! Reasonably Priced Love! And a Hard-Boiled Egg!

Israel: 'Ceasefire'.

Literary Festival - Our Brochure - West Cork Music Find out all the ways to view our latest Programme of events for the West Cork Literary Festival

Our 2026 WCLF brochure is now at the printers 🖨️🎉 You can download a copy from our website. Or if you would like to pre-order a copy for home delivery you may do so at the link in our bio
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The cover of CTRL: Essays on Video Games. Edited by Dean Fee

Back cover of CTRL: Essays on Video Games. Edited by Dean Fee. Lists contributors and games featured in the collection

Opening page of Úna-Minh's essay titled: Your job sucks? Try working in games

IT'S HERE! Thank you to @lilliputpress.bsky.social for supporting my writing. Really delighted to be a contributor in this collection😄

If you're interested in supporting the arts and hearing from different games folks' perspectives, get it today 💃🏼 www.lilliputpress.ie/products/ctr... #gamedev

And Other Stories is hiring! Associate Publisher / Publishing Manager (Non-Editorial Role) | And Other Stories Sheffield hybrid. Salary: £35,000 – £42,000, depending on experience, plus contributions to a pension scheme. Full time Location: Sheffield and […]

Come and work with us! We’re looking for an Associate Publisher / Publishing Manager to join the team in Sheffield (hybrid). Deadline for applications is 20 April.

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Racists brining the country to a standstill this week (under guise of fuel crisis) tried to intimidate one of the great charities in the country last night.

MSOÉ have been feeding the unhoused for 11 years on O Connell street.

Ugly scenes but beautiful show of solidarity from the people they feed.

Due to the protest and the blocking of O’Connell Street, we are unfortunately unable to access the GPO tomorrow evening. We have made every effort to contact the organisers but have not been able to reach a lead contact. We have also spoken with the Gardaí, who currently do not have further information. With great sadness, we have to cancel tomorrow’s soup run, as we rely on access for our transit van and six cars. This is especially difficult given that we have been running this service outside the GPO for 11 years. We want to make it clear that we fully support the protest and understand the importance of standing up for change. We are also deeply concerned about the rising fuel costs and the lack of timely action. We hope that by next week we will have more information or be able to coordinate access so we can continue providing this vital service. Thank you for your understanding, and we stand with you.

The Muslim Sisters of Éire will not be able to provide their much appreciated soup run to folks in need due to the protest and the blocking of O’Connell Street.

"This is especially difficult given that we have been running this service outside the GPO for 11 years."

Pushbike Prize for Flash Fiction

A new flash prize and I'm judging!

Crannóg Magazine is delighted to announce the inaugural Pushbike Prize for Flash Fiction judged by Nuala O'Connor.

€1500 in prizes

Subs open May 1st to 21st.

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Here's a devastatingly powerful book. Highly recommended. @unicefusa.org @unicefmedia.bsky.social @unicefireland.bsky.social @unicef.org @nipnlg.bsky.social @sallyhayd.bsky.social

The Emperor Protects: A Warhammer 40,000 Musical YouTube video by Warhammer 40,000

This is going to be one of those April Fools jokes that sparks so much genuine enthusiasm they have to go ahead with it for real.

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Say what you like about Palpatine, he got the Kessel Run to arrive on time.

i appear to have asked a question akin to "how do Rebel Alliance schoolteachers feel about Darth Vader?"

Happy April Fool's Day to all my fellow fools, eejits, and silly gooses, we are the confused daughters of the witches that wouldn't learn 🩷

Very loud sonic booms across Beirut now. Four in total that I counted. Terrorising a civilian population right as people are going to sleep. #lebanon

Living with Lynx: Sharing Landscapes with Big Cats, Wolves and Bears
by Jonny Hanson explores the issues involved in re-introducing big predators to Ireland and Britain. Worth reading!

Fintan O'Toole: Once one of the most influential people in Irish media, he ignored his own golden rule A journalist using AI-generated quotes in articles about AI is like a doctor injecting one virus in the hope of curing another

‘The responsible use of AI in newsrooms is already clear: don’t do it.’

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Well, they shouldn't have said what they did about his sad devotion to the ancient religion not helping him find the rebels fort, like.

do not ask yourself whether or art is good instead ask is it sincere was it cathartic was it fun to make is it made by me and don’t forget to stay silly

Show someone who absolutely rocks a hat and isn’t Indiana Jones.

11 days to go! ⏰️ Calling all #kidlit poets...

Not long left to enter this year's Caterpillar Poetry Prize for the chance to win up to €1,000, plus a stay at the Moth Retreat in Ireland.

Closing 31 March: bit.ly/tcpp26

My brother used to introduce the same friend to me by different names, and I never copped on. #prosopagnosia

#Scrubs reboot: JD and Eliot started at the same time and were both Chief Resident. He went off to be a concierge doctor, she stayed busting her hump at Sacred Heart. Now he’s back and suddenly HE’S chief of medicine and her boss. Yeah, that tracks.

I left for a week – and came back to war: Life inside Beirut’s expanding evacuation zone Hundreds of thousands have been ordered to flee as evacuation maps redraw Beirut overnight, leaving residents scrambling for shelter and safety

I left for a week – and came back to war: Life inside Beirut’s expanding evacuation zone

Young autistic Irish writers: we want to hear from you! What: Essay between 1000-1500 When: Deadline of Monday 6th April 2026 Where: Send your submissions or queries to irishautisticanthology@gmail.com

More info here: niamhgarvey.com/2026/03/08/s...

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Photo of Bill Whelan, Gethan Dick and Denise Whelan in front of a painting of Kate O'Brien and a banner poster for the Kate O"brien festival. The lighting was brutal but this is the photo the Irish Times ran with.

Extract from the Irish Times book newsletter by Martin Doyle that reads: Gethan Dick has won the 2026 Kate O’Brien Award for her powerful, original and deeply moving debut novel Water in the Desert Fire in the Night, published last year by Tramp Press. She was presented with the €5,000 prize by sponsors Bill and Denise Whelan at the Belltable Theatre as part of the Limerick Literary Festival in honour of Kate O’Brien earlier this week. This year’s award attracted a record 17 submissions. The other shortlisted writers were Elaine Garvey for The Wardrobe Department; Sharon Guard for Assembling Ailish; and Niamh Ni Mhaoileoin for Ordinary Saints. Festival director Vivienne McKechnie said: “It is wonderful to see such accomplished writers and the event at this year’s festival was inspirational as we heard these writers speak eloquently and confidently about their books and the writing process. We, the judges, were taken on many different and interesting journeys. Congratulations to the shortlisted writers and huge congratulations to Gethan Dick, whose novel Water in the Desert Fire in the Night was a very worthy winner.” In an interview with The Irish Times, Dick said her novel was about “an underachieving young woman, a retired midwife and a charismatic Dubliner who set out from London after the end of the world to cycle to a sanctuary in the southern Alps. And it’s about the fact that the thing about the end of the world is that it happens all the time. “It’s about hope, hunger, gold, wolves, Streatham, Cuba, post-apocalyptic feminism, pregnancy and bicycles. It’s about the porousness of the female bodily experience, the challenges of being an empiricist with a sample size of one, what’s worth knowing and what’s worth living and the necessity of irrationality.”

Gethan Dick won the 2026 Kate O'Brien award for her funny, wild optimistic novel about a group of people on a post-apocalyptic road-trip. www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...

But the Mass they don't go to has always been in that church! Now they're going to have to find a new church to not attend, and it just won't be the same.

That would be *justice* of the regular non-mob variety.

Never Too Late 60+ award - Bridport Prize This £500 award is for the highest placed writer aged 60+ across poetry, short story, novel or flash fiction.

Don’t forget the Never Too Late Award from the Bridport Prize which recognises entries from writers over 60 across all categories of prizes.

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I love the people and the vision behind @extrateethmag.bsky.social so it is a real treat to be facilitating an online workshop for them in March. Snap up these places as they’ll go fast.

Cúchullain didn't die defending Ireland from Margaret Thatcher at the Battle Of Clontarf for you to put something other than plain, Catholic sugar on your pancakes