John Patrick McHugh’s first novel begins with a teenage boy and a teenage girl, alone in the woods on a summer afternoon, ...

As John Patrick McHugh makes waves with his debut novel Fun And Games, he picks some of his touchstones and explains what makes them special Galway-based writer John Patrick McHugh is receiving ...

“It’s a mad way of being, adolescence,” says Galway writer John Patrick McHugh. “Sometimes I think I’d love to do it again and then I think of the stress of being a 14-year-old and how b ...

Meanwhile, a book revealing a new theory by Mel Robbins is one of the most popular books at Waterstone's Enniskillen this week. The Let Them Theory by the celebrated author has become a top pick for ...

McHugh filters the story through the hormone-addled mind of his school-leaver protagonist, first seen as a younger boy in the story collection Pure Gold, also set on a remote island west of Ireland.

In The Irish Times this Saturday, John Patrick McHugh tells Edel Coffey about his debut novel, Fun and Games. And there is a Q&A with Lisa Harding about her latest novel, The Wildelings.

It is totally brilliant and unputdownable. On the cover there is warm praise for John Patrick McHugh from Sally Rooney: “One of the most exciting writers working in Ireland today.” She is spot on.

It’s a very hard time to be young’: author John Patrick McHugh on male adolescenceOpens in new window ] In the 16th century, abortion “signified the grave threat that single women’s ...

Leitrim opened brightly when Ben Guckian whipped over a second minute two-pointer and seconds later Keith Keegan put the home side further ahead when he split the Sligo uprights.

Having been given a first-half scare at Carrick-on-Shannon second half goals by Darragh Cumming and Jack Lavin gained Sligo a ...

AS he sat upstairs in the Mount Errigal Hotel in Letterkenny six weeks before Christmas, Jim McGuinness’s mind was drawn to ...