Martin Doyle

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Books Editor of The Irish Times; author of Dirty Linen: The Troubles in My Home Place (Merrion Press)

Mooney’s shop, Greystones
The cover of A Hosting: Interviews with Irish Writers 1991-2025 by Martin Doyle
A newspaper report about Irish boxer Rinty Monaghan, the then world flyweight champion, having to postpone a fight in the King’s Hall, Belfast after spraining his ankle while giving a tap-dancing display at a ceili in Laurencetown, Co Down
The original Father Ted, played by co-creator Arthur Mathews, interviewed in In Dublin in 1991, four years before Dermot Morgan took on the role for the hit Channel 4 sitcom.
Dearbhail McDonald and Elaine Egain launch Eoin McNamee’s brilliant new novel The Bureau in Hodges Figges last night. Eoin looks like an election candidate who has just heard the returning officer declare that he has lost his deposit