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'He was normally so strong, so fit, so successful, such a presence. Now he was broken and helpless'
Hilary Fannin: 'My mother longed for freedom, for a romantic-whirlwind kind of world that existed far beyond our garden wall'
Hilary Fannin
Open thread: What are your comfort reads?
'That's the great thing about this Irish team, it's about an island performing'
Anne Enright: 'Pre-Trump, if you had a problem it was your problem. That's another head-wreck'
'I thought - am I mad to be taking this on?': Marita Conlon McKenna on her new Famine book for adults
'No cash register. Peggy’s Leg. Big Time bar. Dairy Milk. A tin of Coke': 1970s memories of Dublin
Fr Bryan Shortall
'His whole story is a lie. You know he didn’t have it as hard as he tries to sell'
These are the Irish novels to look out for in early 2020
'If someone hears my name and thinks, that's the guy who was sexually abused, I'm okay with that'
The rise of ultra running: 'I am never doing anything as stupid as that ever again, I say to myself'
'Everything, my clothes, my backpack, my headscarf, is stuck to me with sweat'
'One of the older lads looked over and said: What the hell is Michael Owen even doing in here?’
'I think in three years' time, there will be an Irish player in the NBA'
Schmidt expresses caution as 'impressive' James Ryan is touted as Ireland captain
Schmidt says worry about ban led to Toner's World Cup exclusion
Dare to dream: The Irish people who aimed high and did the country proud
Sarah Webb
'I'm honouring her and other women who were abused': Tattooist of Auschwitz author returns with Cilka's story
'It's like showing up at the nursing home at daybreak': White House official pens anonymous book on Trump
How two aspiring footballers hit 10 million YouTube subscribers
'You meet people at the high and low points of their lives': What I learned when I quit my job to become a bookseller
Dawn Behan
A Sunday Miscellany essay by Lisa McInerney: 'Setting the scene'
Lisa McInerney
Tiger Woods promises to tell 'definitive story' in new memoir
Opinion: 'Are you criticising someone because they're mirroring something you don't like about yourself?'
Mungi Ngomane
'Last year's Champions League - it really doesn't get any better... But it comes at a huge price'
'I really hope this becomes an annual thing': Aislings queue up at Eason to mark Aisling Day
A short story before bedtime: Bluebell Meadow by Benedict Kiely
Benedict Kiely
Book written by murdered journalist Lyra McKee to go on pre-sale
Donohoe 'stands by' Taoiseach's actions during Garda whistleblower case, as Shatter pens new book 'Frenzy and Betrayal'
Nine-year-old recovering from leukaemia publishes adventure tale with help of Make-A-Wish
'I didn't want to talk to him at all': Why a new book about the Yorkshire Ripper isn't focusing on the killer
'Matthew Pinsent remembers being on the mini-bus for an Olympic final and praying it would crash'
Meet Ann Devine - the Irish mammy to beat all Irish mammies
From a 'dreadful' job to publishing her first novel at 54: 'It's life-changing, it really is'
'Bright, brilliant, educated young women from South County Dublin... don’t end up with a gypsy boxer from Limerick'
The Irishman who battled alcoholism, fought for the world title and was never knocked down in 57 pro bouts
'My career finished with injury and the thing I feared most, my mother dying, happened at that moment... I was 21'
'A generation of footballers are dying without even knowing that they were footballers'
'Paul Merson once rang in the middle of the night because, while asleep, he’d poked himself in the eye'
'If I could do all that, I would hold a world record... I was 11 years and 333 days old'