Marese McDonagh

Marese McDonagh

Marese McDonagh is a freelance journalist based in the north-west, from where she reports for the Irish Times. She is a regular contributor to the news and features pages and also writes for Health & Family on a range of health-related and social issues.

When I was obese, I was invisible

I would eat 10 packets of crisps every day, yes 10 packets, says Andy Kenny

Anti-fracking sign on the side of the road near Belcoo, Co Fermanagh, and Blacklion, Co Cavan. Photograph: Bryan O’Brien
Border rally against fracking

Farmers in ‘slow drive’ protest

Author Patrick McCabe pictured during his reading at the seventh John McGahern international seminar in Carrick-on-Shannon, Co Leitrim. Photograph: Brian Farrell
John McGahern’s quest for perfection and insight into Ireland highlighted

Annual McGahern seminar told of 23 drafts of one short story in NUI Galway archive

John McGahern photographed near his home in Co Leitrim in 1990. Photograph: Frank Miller/The Irish Times
McGahern’s works characterised by ‘revolutionary disillusionment’

Roy Foster tells seminar author’s work ‘clearly reflected’ father’s experience as a Volunteer

Neisha Wratten from Australia enters the former workhouse in Carrick-on-Shannon, Co Leitrim, where her great-great-grandmother, Bridget Cannon, was an inmate during the Famine. Photograph: Brian Farrell
Famine experience recalls lives lost during Ireland’s Great Hunger

The Famine Attic Experience in Carrick-on-Shannon offers a glimpse of workhouse conditions in the 1840s

Eating disorder therapist Aisling Lafferty at Molloway House, Sligo. Photograph: James Connolly / Picsell
How trying to lose weight turned into a nightmare

Teenage girls are targeted by cross border eating disorder programme

Vicky Barnes, daughter of Susan Wallwork, at Sligo Coroner’s Court yesterday. She supported calls for the installation of carbon monoxide alarms and said people should think about what they throw onto fires. Photograph: James Connolly/PicSell
Inquest hears of importance of carbon monoxide monitors

Father and children died after crisp wrapper blocked chimney

Family life: Paul Wynne with his wife, Ciara, and their one-month-old daughter, Ella. Photograph: Eric Luke
No need for the Lotto, ‘we have everything we want’

‘My lung transplant means I now have a baby and a life to look forward to ’

Ming with his people: Independent TD Luke 'Ming' Flanagan campaigning at Hyde Park, Roscommon. Photograph: Brenda Fitzsimons/The Irish Times
Little support for Ming stance in home town

Luke Ming Flanagan was hoping yesterday that “the people who elected me will forgive me” but there was little hint of forgiveness (...)

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