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Books: Colourful characters abound in novella's romp through Cork city (opens the original)
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Ger Fitzgibbon, former head of drama and theatre studies at UCC, and now a writer and director whose creative work is deeply embedded in his native Cork, is the author of a recently published novella, The Four-Faced Liar. Originally written as a play for voices, it was first performed as a podcast, live from the stage of the Everyman in 2020 during the covid pandemic. It was broadcast by RTÉ’s drama department last year and also, in 2025, it was produced by Theatre Makers at the Cork Arts Theatr
Meet the solicitor with strong Cork roots who published her first novel at 63 (opens the original)
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UK-based Claire Baker, who recently published her debut novel, Family Matters, has strong Cork roots. This retired solicitor (63) shares a talent for writing with her Cork aunt, Mona Lynch, whose first collection of poetry was launched at Cork City Library in June. Claire attended the launch. She is very proud of her octogenarian aunt and was particularly touched by one of her poems, which is about Claire’s grandmother on wash day. “Wash day went on all day long,” says Claire. “The poem made me
Meet the Cork woman calling for safer period products in the EU (opens the original)
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A Cork woman was the keynote speaker at the recent Menstruation Research Conference 2026 in the UK, which heard calls for a ban on toxic chemicals from period products. Helen Lynn, senior consultant and research fellow at the UK’s WEN (Women’s Environmental Network) and an honorary researcher at the University of Exeter, is calling on the EU to increase regulation for period products, reaching out to Irish MEPs. Helen says that she believes periods are not taken seriously. “There’s huge stigma a
Cork actor: ‘In my day, it was unheard of to go away and study’ (opens the original)
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Shirley McCarthy, dedicated drama teacher, actor, musical theatre performer and former pantomime principal girl at the Cork Opera House for five years, says quite bluntly that Joan Denise Moriarty “threw me out when I was 19”. As dramatic effects go, this packs a punch. But Shirley, who plays the housekeeper, Frau Schmidt, in The Sound Of Music, explains why Cork’s exacting ballet company founder and ballet mistress let her go. It wasn’t due to a lack of talent. On the contrary, ballet was Shirl
‘I only ever wanted to be No.1, nothing else was acceptable’ (opens the original)
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One of Ireland’s most decorated Paralympians, Tom Leahy, from Ballyhooly in north Cork, has written a searingly honest memoir (with Emmett Coffey), entitled Here For A Reason. It documents his life as a disabled person who demands to be seen. And there is plenty to notice about this determined man, who won a total of eight medals at the Paralympic Games, including three golds having taken part in eight successive tournaments from 1984 to 2012. A five-time world record holder, Leahy won more than
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