Sarah Webb
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The book I want for Christmas: Paschal Donohoe, Alison Spittle, Joseph O’Connor and more
- Books
- November 21, 2019, 05:00
Richie Sadlier Sports pundit, psychotherapist and former professional footballer Richie Sadlier’s book is raw without ever being miserable(...)

When Amy Cahill’s powerful and painful story My Mammy Lives in a Box was published in The Irish Times, “I had messages from people on Facebook, sendin(...)

Children’s books: what were the standout titles of the year?
- Books
- December 6, 2018, 05:00
It says something about President Michael D Higgins that he’s inspired not one but two successful picture books. Following the enormously popular The (...)

What books for kids will be under your tree this Christmas?
- Books
- December 22, 2017, 06:00
I’m not the best at conjuring up those golden moments of early parenting, those times in the midst of the madness, when you realised how very lucky yo(...)

‘Think autism’: shops, cinemas and other places where all children are valued
- Parenting
- December 12, 2017, 07:01
When members of an autism support group saw that the Ombudsman for Children’s Office was advertising a free family event in Dublin in November, they t(...)

Shortlists announced for the Bord Gáis Energy Irish Book Awards 2017
- Books
- November 2, 2017, 12:42
Here are the shortlisted entries for this year’s Bord Gáis Energy Irish Book Awards 2017. TheJournal.ie Best Irish Published Book of the Year The(...)

Celebrity children’s books: the good, the bad and the Galloway
- Books
- March 18, 2017, 00:00
George Galloway, the former British Labour Party MP, one-time Celebrity Big Brother contestant, Saddam Hussein apologist and notorious cat imitator, h(...)

Rambling Dalkey five-bed overlooking Killiney Bay for €3.25m
- New to Market
- March 15, 2017, 04:00
“I think this is one of the most beautiful places I ever saw,” said Cardinal Newman when he rented a house in Dalkey for a two-month holiday in Septem(...)

John Boyne: ‘Irish writers are too insular’
- Books
- February 4, 2017, 05:55
The Heart’s Invisible Furies is a very moving, often funny book about a gay man’s life across seven decades of Irish history. It made me cry, I tell (...)

‘A storytelling genius’ – Irish writers on what Roald Dahl means to them
- People
- September 3, 2016, 04:00
Roddy Doyle I didn’t know Roald Dahl’s books when I was a child and I’ve never read his adult fiction. I started to read his children’s books when I(...)