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Independence is a family story in Spoken Stories Independence Updated / Tuesday, 2 Mar 2021 14:54 St Alban's Drive is the new short story by writer Danielle McLaughlin for Spoken Stories Independence, read for the series by award-winning actor Marty Rea - listen to  St Alban's Drive above.  In St Alban's Drive the relationship of Tom, a university history lecturer, and his partner Izzy, is strained, but close and loving. His sense of the loss of his father is palpable. She is haunted by the world's injustices which she confronts through drawing. Things are heightened by Tom’s mot...

Have your work featured on TheJournal.ie thanks to RTÉ's short story competition This year’s judges are Lisa McInerney, Declan Hughes and Lisa Caldwell. By Aoife Barry Wednesday 3 Mar 2021, 6:00 PM Mar 3rd 2021, 6:00 PM 8,257 Views 4 Comments Image: Shutterstock/Yulia Grigoryeva Image: Shutterstock/Yulia Grigoryeva IF YOU’VE BEEN scribbling short stories that have yet to be seen by other eyes, the RTÉ Short Story Competition is the co...

Foundation for Economic Education opinion editor Brad Polumbo argued on Monday that “a $15 minimum wage would destroy capitalism in the sense of denying young people the first rung on the ladder of economic opportunity.” Polumbo made the comment on "Cavuto: Coast to Coast” on Monday, three days after Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., said he’s bullish about Democrats’ chances of passing a minimum wage increase in the coronavirus stimulus bill despite at least two Democrats voicing opposition. "We’re feeling really good. We think we’ve got a good shot," Sanders, chairman of th...

Spoken Stories Independence fiction collection - listen to Wendy Erskine's  Anti-Treaty Sentiment above, and download here.  Anti-Treaty Sentiment is written by Wendy Erskine and read for us by the author. It immerses us in the cut-throat world of the TV talent show and how Eimear and Zofia, known as E-Zee for the competition, get more than they bargained for as competitors in the short-lived show UK OK. 'What I wanted to look at was the whole idea of independence and looking at partition, but really examining that through popular culture... particularly in terms of the TV light entert...

Updated / Friday, 5 Feb 2021 12:00 We're delighted to present an extract from The Art of Falling, the debut novel by Danielle McLaughlin, author of the acclaimed short story collection Dinosaurs on Other Planets, published by John Murray. Nessa McCormack's marriage is coming back together again after her husband's affair. She is excited to be in charge of a retrospective art exhibit for one of Ireland's most beloved and enigmatic artists, the late sculptor Robert Locke. But the arrival of two outsiders imperils both her personal and professional worlds: a chance encounter with an old frien...