FINE GAEL is to run three candidates in each of the three Limerick city wards in next summer’s local elections. It comes after local party bosses ran sele.
Some in Listowel have hit back at suggestions the town has an anti-Northern bias in the face of a controvery ignited in the North by a column written by former Writers’ Week curator Stephen Connolly.
A Kerry senator has welcomed the decision of Colm Tóibín to stand down as president of Listowel Writers’ Week.The internationally renowned author quit following.