An all-party motion calling for a full public inquiry into the 1988 murder of Belfast solicitor Pat Finucane is expected...

Joseph O'Connor is on a scholarship and writing his next historical novel based in New York City library. He talks to Ailbhe Jordan

The new chairperson of the RTÉ Authority is the apolitical daughter of a former TD. Behind a contrived air-head exterior there is a calculating, formidable executive, on whom RTÉ can rely. By Colin Murphy.

Colin Murphy is nearly overwhelmed by new Irish plays after a trip to Dublin's Project for The Gist of It

Channel 4 churned out yet another top 100: this time it was funny moments. Neither those, nor Des Bishop's final Joy in the Hood, were particularly funny, to the disappointment of Dermot Bolger

‘51 per cent in favour of gay marriage”, declared a headline on the front of the Irish Examiner last week. But the detail of the survey so announced told a different story, writes John Waters.

Poet Nick Laird's first novel is a comic tale of an Ulsterman's escapades in a sharply-observed London,

Steve Heighton has drawn on the Polaris Expedition to create a novel of big ideas and beautiful language,

Jay McInerney's latest offering fails to fully utilise the horrors of 9/11 to inject some much needed bite into the novel's real subject.

First published in 1968 Ted Hughes's The Iron Man is now back in the shops with wonderfully dark and sinister illustrations by Tom Gauld that will rouse many young people to read the tale that inspired them. And what a tale it is!