‘People need to understand that there’s serious consequences for these types of things,’ says Hegseth

Intimate family interactions explored in portrayal of an evolving mother/daughter relationship

A link to my review of the wonderful Mariana Trench by the wonderful Miriam Ingram in The Goo.

Ben Kiely got the treatment in 2001.

I wrote a review of Forest Fest, in Emo, Co. Laois, which didn’t find a home elsewhere. So here it is, here. Some pics below.

A strange novel from 2012 that I reviewed. Who knows where the time goes?

We continue my itemisation of the thousands of book reviews I've written in the course of my existence. We arrive at a clutch of novels by one of my favourite contemporary practitioners, A. L. Kennedy

Pundits have informed and entertained throughout the tournament... or at least some of them have

James Kelman: now there's a great writer. From 2004: nothing changes, or else it just gets worse.

Singer, with his charming between song interludes, overcomes lacklustre opening to Dublin gig

What is the best way to review a 5 CD disc release of (save for one song) entirely new material, totalling forty-two songs all told, each disc a discrete album in itself? Maybe best to enumerate the t...

The beloved Silk Road Café at the Chester Beatty, Dublin Castle, is being forced to close for six months to facilitate the EU Presidency, with no compensation. Instead of celebrating the café's 25th a...

The novel relates how acts of compassion and kindness – great and small – are windbreaks we build against adversity

Also I reviewed my former colleague Denis Kehoe's second novel, Walking On Dry Land, from 2011.

As young people take on a messy dating landscape, they’ve created their own lexicon to match. Here’s like what phrases ‘bird theory’ and ‘monkey branching’ mean

The singer, an artist for the ages, on living with grief, attending the Oscars and enjoying ‘that mad, loony energy of the Irish’

I reviewed Claire Keegan's debut collection Antarctica years and years and years ago. 1999, in fact.

A novel about Marilyn Monroe and Korea, reviewed for The Irish Times all of six years ago, if you can believe it.

Marilyn and Me By Ji-min Lee (4th Estate) The Korean War (1950-1953) is commonly referred to in the Anglophone world as ‘The Forgotten War’,...

Result shows progressive voters they have an alternative to Labour against Reform UK, and reveals task ahead for Starmer

A Champions League return underpinned record growth for Liverpool but overall administrative costs resulted in a modest £8m profit

My two cents on Yeats, in a review of W. B. Yeats – Man And Poet by A. Norman Jeffares, from years ago.

Ireland should not play UEFA games against Israel. We should demand Israel are banned from the competition. Sign and share the petition if you agree

Then there was my review of Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro. Brilliant, even if I do say so myself.

To those who would in bad faith accuse me of antisemitism because I am opposed to genocide, here's a review I did in 1996 - 30 years ago - of David Irving's 'Goebbels: Mastermind of the Third Reich'.

Blair’s staff participated in calls about plans to build a Dubai-style dynamic trading and tourism hub out of the ruins of Gaza

Having rubbished the health ministry’s figures, they are now saying what matters is the civilian-to-militant ratio. See that for what it is, says Ben Reiff, deputy editor at +972

We conclude my numerous reviews of the work of Michel Houellebecq

His protege, Mikel Arteta, is reaping rewards after turning away from methods he learned from the master

Men!

Continuing our tour of Michel Houellebecq novels that I've reviewed. The Map and the Territory, from 2012.

Continuing with M. Houellebecq, this review appeared in the Sunday Independent on Sunday 5th Feb 2006 - nearly twenty years ago to the day.

‘Law or no law’, there is no reason for a programme to generate images of people without clothes on, says former garda

Continuing our Michel Houellebecq sequence of reviews: