Reading at The Poetry Lounge, yesterday 😀. Special thanks to Christa De Brún for her wonderful introduction 💛. Thank you to Ger Duffy for inviting me, & to all the event team. It was a treat to read alongside @mld_lk & Gustav Parker Hibbett !! #poetry #books #waterford

First SpeakEasy Open Mic has poet Eleanor Hooker as special guest. Bring along something to read and there’ll be some great music as well. Waterford Arts

The English Team are delighted to welcome award winning writer Jan Carson to SETU on Wednesday 26 February! Tickets available here: eventbrite.ie/e/author-jan-c…

Three poets reading from new collections on the subject of women and crime! Saturday 15th at WGOA, 2-4pm.

A night full of laughter in Mooncoin with the Moondharrig Players, fantastic performances and a standing ovation on opening night, go see 'The Real McCoy ' if you can!

Thrilled to be awarded an Artist Bursary for 2025! Sincere thanks to Roscommon County Council for their ongoing support for the creative arts in the hidden heartlands of Ireland

Come join us on Saturday and celebrate International Women's Day with these inspirational women!

Come join us for coffee this Monday! The theme for IWD 2025 is 'Accelerate Action', emphasising the urgency of advancing gender equality. By supporting initiatives that empower women, we can collectively accelerate the journey toward a more equitable world.

Thrilled to be welcoming Gustav Parker Hibbett to SETU next week as part of our Poetry + Critical Consciousness series!

A brilliant day in SETU discussing poetry, critical consciousness, and high jumps! Thanks to Gustav Parker Hibbett whose debut collection from Banshee Press is a powerful exploration of poetry, ambition and myth! #SETU

My fabulous friend Helena Walsh Kiely is making her directorial debut! 'Watching the Magpies' is a moving one-act play by Les Clarke. The play is showing from 2-4 May in Gaelach Gorm Theatre, Kill at 8pm, admission is 15 euros. If you are in Waterford come along!

Delighted to have a chapter in this groundbreaking collection of scholarly essays and practitioner interviews focused on the work of Irish playwright Teresa Deevy, available to read here: openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647…

A fantastic production of 'Big Maggie' this week in Garter Lane by WaterfordDrama. Directed by Frieda Ryan and starring Denise Quinn as the indomitable Maggie, this is a wonderful piece of Irish theatre, not to be missed!

Looking forward to the RTE All Ireland Drama Festival 2025!!

Poetry Day Ireland takes place on Thursday, 1 May, this year’s theme is ‘May Day’. If you're in Waterford, we warmly invite you to join us for a series of poetry-filled events, more details here: poetryireland.ie/poetry-day/wha…

Thrilled to have my one-act play 'Smear' written to honour the legacy of Vicky Phelan, an inspirational women and tireless campaigner for women's rights, included in this celebration of 20 years of Stagemad Theatre.

Christa De Brún The OU in Northern Ireland @Fortnight50

I can't believe this has happened again. Last week, Leona Macken received an apology from the HSE after two of her smear tests in 2016 and 2020 were misread. Ms Macken, a mother of two young daughters, now has incurable metastatic cancer. rte.ie/news/courts/20…