Summer has finally arrived in Ireland and the weather is scorchio! Not to everyone's taste and my heart goes out to my boys, Leo Horse and Gary bullock, but I LOVE the heat! The boys have become nocturnal and spend their day standing in the stream, under the shade of the trees. A pity the flies bother them, but otherwise idyllic.
I have been so enjoying th...
I'm current Chairman of the Irish Writers' Union and sit on the Board of Directors of the Irish Copyright Licensing Agency. I teach creative writing with the ETB and I'm a Professional Mentor at the Irish Writers' Centre. In 2012 I was among the Irish authors who set a Guinness World Record for the number of continuous readings from their published books.
