For readers outside this town, let me explain what the Opera Centre is. It's a city block in Limerick which was bought by a developer who wanted to build some [...]

Hello and welcome to the latest edition of Seán Talks Bollocks. In today's issue, Seán will be talking bollocks about his entrepreneurial skills, his work with young people and his involvement [...]

There are some novels you find yourself reading out loud without even realising it, as you swirl the flavours of the language around your palate.  This happened to me last [...]

What is money? No. Seriously now, I'm not joking. Can you say what money is? I can't. I asked this question a good while back and nobody came up with [...]

Could we create life, and if we did, would it have to be life as we know it? We always seem to assume that if we ever find life on [...]

Mahmoud comes from the mountains up North, but he has lived in the city for forty years, most of them working as a barman pulling pints of foamy Almaza bière à la pression.  [...]

One judge draws a circle on the floor, and then he draws a pentagram inside it. 'Tis a dual-purpose mark, he confides. We can't have people playin' like a man [...]

Gusty Spence is dead? Who cares? Who was he? Many will have never heard the name and most who know of him will harbour a vague awareness of somebody who was known for something once, probably in the North. Those over 50 may have a greater awareness of his notoriety but might find it hard to remember why he was notorious.

I don't know what sort of doctor West Galway coroner Ciarán McLoughlin is.  For all  I know, he might be a witch-doctor or a saw doctor.  One way or another, though, [...]

 Ten years ago, New York's World Trade Center was destroyed by a combination of fire and certainty.  Its destruction ignited fires all over the world, even more certainty, and many [...]