Cork based crime thriller author Catherine Kirwan talks about the grand notion that ‘in the particular is contained the universal’.

The Seventh Body by Catherine Kirwan (Hachette Ire) is a fabulously executed crime novel, an absolute cracker of a read.

Cork’s proposed city library move raises serious questions about civic ambition, architectural fit, and long-term cultural vision

After serving more than 130 million total meals and 26 million loaves of bread over the past 18 months, World Central Kitchen no longer has the supplies to cook meals or bake bread in Gaza.

I've just signed this petition protesting Meta's theft of Irish writing, which they've used to build their AI tool. Will you sign too?

I might be a Luddite when it comes to AI, but writers' work should not be stolen, no matter who's doing it

In the week where Catherine Kirwan releases her latest Cork-set novel, she recalls some of her cultural touchstones

The Seventh Body by Catherine Kirwan, inspired by the discovery of the skeletal remains of six men on a building site in Cork, is out now.

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