Just had our bus stopped by the Guards on the far side of Newry. Everyone asked for passports and three people escorted off. I knew this sort of thing was happening but that’s the first time I’ve experienced it first hand.

George Orwell, timeless

My piece from today’s Tele on the LucidTalk poll. 👇

It was so great hearing Trish Bennett Writer and the other poets read this eve at the Issue 143 launch of PIR, edited by Mícheál McCann! It's absolutely gorgeous! Got to catch-up with Maureen Boyle, Malachi O'Doherty & Trish for dinner too which was a bonus! 💚 No Alibis Bookstore Poetry Ireland

Really excited to include some of our contributors in a panel discussion, including Dr Fionna Barber (MMU) writing about Long Kesh / Maze prison and Malachi O'Doherty who wrote a personal account about journalism during the conflict. Join us!

Really enjoying this story of life in Hungary before the wall came down, but if you look for it on Amazon you’ll be directed to the home furniture section.

Great book by ⁦Csilla Toldy⁩ about life in Hungary before the wall came down. Look for it on Amazon, however, and they’ll direct you to House Furniture.

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SDLP and UUP should recognise that they have been conned belfasttelegraph.co.uk/opinion/column…

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A poem by Pat Boran from his new collection 'Hedge School' (Dedalus Press, November 2024) in The Irish Times this weekend. #irishpoetry The Irish Times

So before the balmy😎days desert us, here’s the latest tenx9 #podcast.🌤️ Pat Scott takes us dancing💃 Gloria O’Connor takes us singing🎶 Malachi O'Doherty takes us to the Gaeltacht🥳 Pod 285: Summer Dreams. Available now📱💻 Black Box Belfast #free #storytelling

Lovely doc on TG4 now on Padraigin Ní Uallachan now -only see it when in my mother’s in Strabane since we don t have TG4 in Belfast for some reason.

No guru, no method, no teacher can do any more than a bath or a good book ✍️: Malachi O'Doherty belfasttelegraph.co.uk/opinion/column…

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Forgive me for suggesting that Carl Whyte has any properties in common with a banana, like a thick skin, for instance.

Has anyone heard from Pat Cullen MP since she won her seat in Fermanagh South Tyrone? Health service reform is the crucial political issue of our time. Has she nothing to say about it?!

Can you do me a favour and RETWEET this? Over the summer I interviewed 30 senior mediators and peacemakers and asked them: What works? I was interested in effectiveness. Here is the summary report effectivepeacebuildinginitiative.org/blank-7 (1/6)

Still on sale - next April will be 30 years in print. Not bad for a book that had 40 rejections from publishers and agents! One publisher even cancelled the contract. Very proud of the boy who wrote it in defiance of all the naysayers and as a freelance journalist on his own.