‘Conflict, religion and poetry are the three energies that I hold together, and they’re all about language’
The Ghosts of Rome by Joseph O’Connor: Follow-up to My Father’s House draws an extraordinary picture of Rome under Nazi control
Shock and upset at death of couple in Kerry expressed by former colleagues of ‘brilliant, bright’ Hazel Byrne
Supreme Court refuses to hear father’s appeal over life term for rape and sexual assault of his three children