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500 Words Of January – Peenie Man

I asked West Coast music and hurling sage Peenie Man for some predictions and hopes for 2013 and this is what he delivered. Case in point: “as part of the terms of our bail-out package, can the statute relating to …

500 Words Of January – Elaine Buckley

The 500 Words Of January series resumes on the first proper working week of ’13 with Elaine Buckley looking at how 2012 brought fascinating developments from Irish acts who were once ones-to-watch and why taking your time to get things …

500 Words Of January – John Buckley

Next up in the OTR’s 500 Words Of January series, John Buckley on Ireland’s collective tolerance of inequality, injustice, racism, homophobia, corruption and discrimination and why – and how – this can be challenged in 2013.

500 Words Of January – Peter Murphy

A fortnight from today, Peter Murphy’s second novel Shall We Gather at the River will be in all good bookshops and online retail stores. Here, he talks about some of the influences behind the book.

500 Words of January – Annie Atkins

The second in OTR’s 500 Words of January series comes from Annie Atkins on dancing in the cinema aisles to Talking Heads’ “Stop Making Sense”.

500 Words Of January – Gerry Godley

We kick off 2013 on OTR with 500 Words of January, a series of guest posts on anything and everything. Back in August 2010, we invited a bunch of guest writers to contribute to OTR and they did so with …

Guest post – Dingle Bells, the final countdown: Tony Clayton-Lea at Other Voices

The last despatch from our man in Dingle Tony Clayton-Lea, who has been covering Other Voices for the paper and this blog. Big thanks to Tony for the guest blogs. That’s our contractual obligation to Co Kerry done and dusted …

Guest post: Dingle-dongle – Tony Clayton-Lea at Other Voices

Our man in Kerry Tony Clayton-Lea reports from the first night of the Other Voices mini-fest and TV show in Dingle. It’s freezing down in Dingle, but we’ve slipped, slid and skated our way from Benners Hotel to St James …