Open to creative writers in both Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland, the Michael McLaverty Short Story Award 2025 provides a platform to foster and encourage the tradition of the short story. There is no restriction on genre or age of entrant. Enter a story under 3,000

Come and explore The Linen Hall’s world-renowned political collection on Wednesday at 2:30pm. This collections-based tour explores the history of the recent past through the prism of the rare and unique artefacts and objects we have been collecting for over 50 years. Holding

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In the 70's Ian Jack and I visited James Joyce Tower. The only others there were an American couple, the woman evidently none too sure why they were there. Until "Gee George, this guy knew Ernest Hemingway".

When Kevin Met Sadie: The books that 'opened the way for a generation bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

Always worth reading, Aditya Chakrabortty important piece:

anything rather than tax the extreme rich

Absolutely marvellous: theguardian.com/books/2025/oct…

The shovelling of “mental health” onto this is like something from the current Alan Partridge series.

One Man & His Dog 🦮 Eoghan & Leahy Graduated Today ❤️❤️ BA (Hons) Social Science From DBS | Dublin Business School - Thanks To All Who Have Supported Us Over The Years & Especially To Wonderful Team in DBS - Eoghan’s Dissertation Was On #Disabled Citizens & #Carers Experience of Public Transport

theguardian.com/business/2025/…

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Not so godforesaken

Marvellous to have Lynne Barber back: The redemption of Anthony Hopkins | The Observer observer.co.uk/culture/books/…

Lovely piece by ⁦The author, Séamas O'Reilly⁩m. In danger ot townland mania myself. observer.co.uk/news/columnist…

EXCLUSIVE: Memo that sparked BBC’s worst crisis in a decade wasn’t 'internal'. It was written by lobbyist at firm paid by pro-Trump tech giants - including Oracle, whose billionaire founder joined Trump aides to undermine the 2020 election - Byline Times bylinetimes.com/2025/11/11/bbc…

theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

“Since long waiting lists have made it all too easy to convince some voters that immigrants are the reason they can’t see a GP, rather than the reason they even have a GP….” theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Declassified files reveal government’s towering hypocrisy: It has cosied up to loyalist terror bosses it claims to be crushing belfasttelegraph.co.uk/opinion/column…