Alan Nolan
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If you build it, they will come: creating a new online children’s book festival
- Books
- November 20, 2020, 05:37
What happens when you give 12 children’s writers and illustrators too much coffee on a virtual coffee morning? They go and create their own online chi(...)

Keeping it in the family
- Sponsored
- December 11, 2019, 00:00
Ireland’s SMEs have shown incredible resilience and flexibility over the years. One wonders how some of them are still standing, having endured some o(...)

Dublin SHC Final: Cuala put to the pin of their collars by St Brigid’s
- Hurling
- October 20, 2019, 19:17
Cuala 1-18 St Brigid’s 1-14 Cuala are old hands at this gig. As spectators clicked and clacked their way into Parnell Park through the turnstiles, ea(...)

At the start of the first morning of the first Ashes Test match at Edgbaston last Thursday, Australian opener David Warner marched out to the middle c(...)

Donoghue and Galway ‘bitterly, bitterly disappointed’ after early exit
- Hurling
- June 15, 2019, 21:16
Dublin 3-19 Galway 0-24 At the end, the Galway crowd turned around the press box and asked and asked. How? What? Why? It took minutes/centuries for t(...)

Uncertainty stalks global car industry as it prepares to go electric
- Manufacturing
- March 15, 2019, 05:16
Confidence is a core trait of the car trade. First impressions from last week’s Geneva motor show suggest an industry ready to embrace the greatest re(...)

Dogged Dublin grind it out against Laois
- Hurling
- March 3, 2019, 18:11
Dublin 0-13 Laois 0-11 It’s still relatively early days under new Dublin manager Mattie Kenny but a positive pattern of coming good in testing circum(...)

Budget winners and losers: Sector by sector analysis
- Media & Marketing
- October 12, 2018, 05:02
Budget 2019 attempted to spread largesse from a fairly small pot as widely as possible. To make that easier, Minister for Finance Paschal Donohoe rais(...)

New car sales down 3.8% as used imports threaten to catch up
- Transport & Tourism
- September 3, 2018, 16:24
New car sales in August were up 3.5 per cent on last year, with 5,932 new registrations. It brings the total so far this year to 119,937, a fall of 3.(...)

New car sales down 4.5% in first half of 2018
- Retail & Services
- July 2, 2018, 14:46
New car registrations fell 4.5 per cent in the first half of the year, with 87,151 such vehicles registered with 181 plates. The drop in new sales com(...)