My letter was published in the Letters section of the Irish Times on 26th August 2020 https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/letters/schools-...

The Abbey Theatre recently asked their audience to write a letter. To start it with 'Dear Ireland' and to talk to the nation about what...

(This article was published in 'Celebrating 50 Years in St Louise's' by St Louise de Marillac NS . An excerpt was published in...

This memoir piece was published in the Irish Times in the Family Fortunes column. https://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-style/people/fami...

(I was inspired to write this poem in tandem with Ballyfermot’s 70th celebrations in 2017. It was published in Celebrating 50 Years in St...

When I read about the anniversary of Minister Micheál Martin's (more recently our Taoiseach) smoking ban in Ireland, I was prompted to...

I was delighted to be included in the shortlist twice, both for my own book Room for One More as well as the anthology Selfies and...

Ironically, a few weeks before David Cassidy died in November 2017, I had the following piece published in The Irish Times:...

(This article was published in 'ICTs in the Primary School: Teaching and Learning for the 21st Century' by Robbie O' Leary and John...

It was an honour to be shortlisted for the inaugural CAP award. BEST SHORT STORY ANTHOLOGY Shortlist Judged by Louise Phillips Kathryn...

Exciting Times Ahead..... Hopefully, the following item will be published in the June edition of InTouch, the teacher's magazine. It is...

I have just got the good news that a new story "Talk Therapy" has been Highly Commended in the Writers' Village International Short...

I was delighted to be on a shortlist of fifteen with my story "And Then Came the War." It was a really nice event in Tallaght Library on...

Earlier on this evening I opened post that had arrived (yes, snail mail!). I was delighted to read that my story "And Then Came the War"...

Great news (I think!) I have just signed a contract with Emu Ink for my next collection of stories. I am hoping that the collection will...

I've no excuse that I haven't written a blog post since July, except that the month of August was filled with golf and gardening and...

I've just come back from a great week in the not so sunny south-west. But the weather outside makes no difference when there is such a...

I always love heading down to Listowel for Writers Week, but LWW 2015 will be an even more precious memory. I was included as a fringe...

Once again, I got a nice little surprise last week among the mail in school. I received the Spring edition of New Beginnings in the post...