The man working on the checkout at Tesco began telling me about his battle with Prostate cancer. I can’t remember what had prompted the conversation, but I felt quite teary...

I am a ‘Rookie’ Author and the world of writing, publishing and promoting a story is all new to me or is it? I often get asked what it is...

I am a poet, a romantic, a mother, a lover, a partner and a friend. I am so much more than meets the eye. Writing has been a part of...

The Vancouver marathon is described as one of the most scenic marathons in the World. I reckoned that if I was going to slog through 26 miles and 385 yards...

It’s impossible for anyone born in Ireland after 1980 to fully understand the profound changes that have happened in twenty first century Ireland. The country into which I was spawned...

Every day when my dad came home from work, and I would come home from school, he would eat dinner in silence from a tray by the fire, and read...

I have been a scribbler all my life. Whenever I felt the urge to write, I would grab whatever writing paper I could fine and scribbled stories and poems. Wherever...

The Kildare Artist Notebook project was established by Kildare County Council Arts Service in 2011. Artists were invited to take an A5 Moleskine notebook, to use it as they wished...

In my novel Leaving Sadie, which is released February 29, one of the supporting characters is a self-published author. After years of failed submissions, Ezra Cooper — an old man...

Anyone walking along the riverside of the Limmat might have picked her out; a pretty girl of about twenty, whose maroon-looking lipstick accentuated her wan complexion. Her arm, bent at...