How's this for timing? This showed up in my Facebook memories. I took it at the Irish Book Awards exactly ten years ago today. Ciaran Collins, Paul Lynch, Gavin Corbett and Donal Ryan. Congratulations @paullynchwriter on your brilliant Booker win - been a long journey!

I'm very very proud of my supremely talented daughter Holly who graduated with a BA in Animation from IADT today, and won the Aileen MacKeogh award for the student who "contributed most in practice and principle to the vision of Arts".

I'm very happy to have an article on freelance editing and the work of AFEPI Ireland in the excellent new Irish Writers Handbook, edited by Ruth McKee, launching in a couple of weeks.