Every August I go on holidays to a special place on the Dingle peninsula. It’s outside the small Irish-speaking village of Ballyferriter...

This morning this collaboration of poetry and art arrived in my Inbox. It’s part of the Poetry and Art from Ireland, celebrating...

Sigh! It’s all so very difficult, this whole social media business. But when can I do? I belong to a generation when tweeting was purely...

I asked June Caldwell to participate in the Blog Hop. Knowing June, I reckoned there’d be sparks sparking from her contribution. I...

Last week I participated in The Next Big Thing Blog Hop – and, now, I’ve just received the first tag response.Padraig Hanratty is one of...

Dianne Ascroft, author of Dancing Shadows, Tramping Hooves:A Short Story Collection and Hitler and Mars Bars, tagged me in The Next Big...

Girls – it’s that time of the year again! Time to put on the red hat with the tassel and think – what on earth can I buy Him this year?...

Novels usually begin with an idea. Sometimes that idea comes fully-formed and ready to be written with a cast of fleshed-out characters...

Last week I decided to check my mobile phone bill. For two months I’d noticed the same mistake. I was being billed for a service I had...

As Cill Rialaig—the artist’s retreat on the beautiful and rugged Ballinskelligs Peninsula―celebrates twenty-years in existence I can’t...