No.1 in Offaly Libraries

I was delighted to hear that, in a recent poll of readers in libraries in County Offaly, I was voted Favourite Irish Author, ahead of some serious stars. The list went like this: Me! Marita Conlon-McKenna David Donohue Eoin Colfer Dolores Keaveney John Boyne Roddy Doyle Judy Curtin (Joint Place) Derek Landy, Maeve Binchy and John Connolly Of the…

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Toppling the Government

On election day, I joined the mass of people who turned out to put their stroke of a pencil on the ballot paper and turf our greedy, corrupt, incompetent, hopeless excuse for a government out of Leinster House. It wasn’t what you’d normally consider a revolution, but it got the job done, and got the tossers out. Even as…

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