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'I know it's 30 years too late but I was just like, 'I can't have it that this is what a seven-year-old thinks'
What if Hillary Rodham had never married Bill Clinton? A new novel imagines the results
Judge rules Donald Trump's niece can publicise book about US president
'I was 20 years old... I thought my talent was all I needed to get by'
'It is an Irish success story, one of the greatest to come out of Ireland since the foundation of the State'
The rise of the 'water carrier'
Opinion: 'There are some unsolved murders which dominate the public consciousness'
Ralph Riegel
'Hamilton became a symbol of a post-racial Britain without ever being fully embraced by the British public'
'Some people ask: "Is Tiger a nice guy?" It’s not even a relevant question'
'Roy Keane said something on TV about the interview being flat... Lisa took it to heart'
'At that moment – that very moment – I knew I needed to get out of professional football'
The man who didn't give a f**k
'I had turned 37 nine days before the Twickenham defeat, and suddenly I felt old'
The 'Tullow Tank' has a book coming out
'I wasn’t even on the bench – I’d been bombed out completely'
Muhammad Ali and the mafia
'In truth, he was an extremely high-functioning alcoholic'
'The rush home after school to read Ceefax pages 302–312... This was my generation’s internet'
'I raced the entire year with that broken foot, and had no surgery until after the season'
'If you didn’t make a conscious decision to go home alone, you probably wouldn’t'
'A shocking exposé' - Book detailing the rise and fall of John Delaney to be released
'By 2016 foreign owners had bought, or held significant shares in, 15 of the Premier League’s 20 teams'
'For him, dark glasses were invented to protect a man from other people’s eyes'
'He was an old man at 41' - Muhammad Ali and the cost of being a boxing great
'He was untethered from his family by a narcissism that fed his self-destructive addictions'
Sebastian Barry on his acclaimed new book: 'If I was wise I'd probably have done something else... but I'm not a wise man'
Writing in the #MeToo era: 'It was intimidating taking on something in fiction that was happening in real time'
A day in the life of Pep Guardiola
'He was normally so strong, so fit, so successful, such a presence. Now he was broken and helpless'
Hilary Fannin: 'My mother longed for freedom, for a romantic-whirlwind kind of world that existed far beyond our garden wall'
Hilary Fannin
Open thread: What are your comfort reads?
'That's the great thing about this Irish team, it's about an island performing'
Anne Enright: 'Pre-Trump, if you had a problem it was your problem. That's another head-wreck'
'I thought - am I mad to be taking this on?': Marita Conlon McKenna on her new Famine book for adults
'No cash register. Peggy’s Leg. Big Time bar. Dairy Milk. A tin of Coke': 1970s memories of Dublin
Fr Bryan Shortall
'His whole story is a lie. You know he didn’t have it as hard as he tries to sell'
These are the Irish novels to look out for in early 2020
'If someone hears my name and thinks, that's the guy who was sexually abused, I'm okay with that'
The rise of ultra running: 'I am never doing anything as stupid as that ever again, I say to myself'
'Everything, my clothes, my backpack, my headscarf, is stuck to me with sweat'