In Chocolate Moon Mary Arrigan has left the world of shadows to deal with a problem that many families are having to face with increasing regularity – what to do when an elderly relative begins to develop Alzheimer's.

Anita Shreve - Stephen King - Nicholas Montemarano

Michael Quinion's Posh? Port Out, Starboard Home.  Online hustings.  Reaping What One Sows. The IMPAC List

Pembroke Dock was a pretty bleak place last weekend. It was a six-hour journey from Dublin on Friday morning, 24 November, through snow and traffic to get there. Wales had almost ground to a halt that morning. A thick blanket of snow covered the whole country and Pembrokeshire was all but cut off for the first part of the day.

The man who hosts the drive-time show with the second biggest radio listenership in Dublin votes Fine Gael and laments for an Ireland of the past. Colin Murphy talks to George Hook about his difficult rise to fame through catering and rugby, his radio show and his views on modern Ireland

The linkages and similarities between Independent News and Media and Irish Ferries. By Colin Murphy, Emma Browne, John Byrne and Vincent Browne

Under a redundancies and outsourcing programme in 2004, Independent News and Media (INM) got rid of 205 staff from its operations in Dublin and outsourced a significant number of those jobs to companies based in Northern Ireland and in Clonakilty, county Cork.

20 October 2004

Dermot Bolger sees a tasty chef, some brave vets, a sinking Shamrock Rovers and Cork in flames on TV this week

Ed Harris commands the stage with the comfort of a cabaret performer, but neither he nor Neil LaBute's new play are provocative or exciting, writes Colin Murphy