Marian Keyes

RTÉ to adapt Marian Keyes bestsellers into new series

The Walsh Sisters, which is set to begin filming in 2025, has been billed as a ‘comedy about serious things’

Tue Dec 03 2024 - 12:45

Dish: With Aisling Bea, Florence Pugh and Marian Keyes, this dinner-party podcast has the perfect guests

Podcast review: Hosted by Angela Hartnett and Nick Grimshaw, Dish is more than a good idea

Tue Oct 15 2024 - 05:00

We asked ChatGPT to write like Marian Keyes, John Boyne and Paul Howard. Now they rate the results

The chatbot takes mere seconds to come up with its versions of these bestselling authors’ work. How convincing are they?

Sat Jun 15 2024 - 05:30

David Nicholls: ‘I’m lucky enough to have lots of Irish friends and hope that I got away with writing an Irish character’

The author of One Day on his new novel, You Are Here; the Irish writers he admires; and father-son relationships

Sun May 19 2024 - 05:00

The events to see, the shows to book, and the ones to catch before they end

May 18th-24th: The best movies, music, art and more coming your way this week

Sat May 18 2024 - 05:00

Marian Keyes: ‘Transition is extremely uncomfortable…but everything eventually settles’

The Women’s Podcast with Róisín Ingle

Thu May 16 2024 - 15:10

No news is bad news: Morning Ireland proves daunting but necessary

Radio: Radio 1 flagship dutifully covers the RTÉ crisis as Colm Ó Mongáin and Oliver Callan give cause for optimism

Fri May 10 2024 - 05:00

Edel Coffey on My Favourite Mistake by Marian Keyes: Rich, and multilayered storytelling

Author’s humanity as much as her humour keeps readers coming back

Sun Apr 14 2024 - 05:15

Louise Nealon: ‘There is a reason why the vast majority of readers are women. We tell ourselves stories to survive’

Nealon’s debut novel, Snowflake, is this year’s One Dublin One Book choice

Sat Apr 06 2024 - 05:00

Marian Keyes portrait unveiled as latest addition to National Gallery

‘I love it; the colours, the textures, the mood,’ says Keyes of painting by artist Margaret Corcoran

Mon Feb 12 2024 - 13:15

Now You’re Asking: Tara Flynn and Marian Keyes may be sweet Irish agony aunts, but they’re not afraid to shank you

Podcast review: The pair are clearly close friends with a strong chemistry that works a charm

Mon Jan 08 2024 - 05:15

Fiction to look out for in 2024: Returning favourites, a fearsome degenerate, and Ireland’s trailblazing all-woman rock band

New novels by Roddy Doyle, Colm Tóibín and Marian Keyes are among the works in the pipeline, along with eagerly anticipated debuts by Ferdia Lennon and Scott McKendry

Sat Dec 30 2023 - 06:03

Friends, bad singing and Love Actually: Miriam O’Callaghan, James Kavanagh, Marian Keyes and more on their Christmas traditions

We asked a range of people – including refuseniks – to tell us about the moments that make their season bright

Sun Dec 17 2023 - 06:00

AI and Irish writers: ‘I fear my life, in a strange way, is also being appropriated’

Irish authors whose works are in a data set used to train AI share their views

Sun Oct 08 2023 - 06:00

‘The people we fall in love with are as incomplete as we are’: Marian Keyes shares six life lessons on turning 60

Words of wisdom: bad boys are really just bad men, happy moments are as good as it gets, and stay in your comfort zone

Sun Oct 01 2023 - 06:00

‘We want to read about people falling in love’: Marian Keyes and Curtis Sittenfeld on the romcom revival

Irish and US authors on the joy of writing romance and the potential for menopause novels

Tue Apr 04 2023 - 05:30

Louise O’Neill: ‘My career took off. My life changed. And I fell apart’

‘It felt like a lot of people really hated me. I suppose I felt really scared a lot of the time’

Sat May 14 2022 - 06:05

The happiest time of my life… by Sarah McInerney, John Boyne, Marian Keyes and more

It’s world happiness day on Sunday. We asked some people when they have been happiest

Fri Mar 18 2022 - 10:15

Aisling Marron: A memorable moment with ‘my two best girls’

After listening to a podcast, I decided I would call my baby ‘my little baby’ at all times

Wed Mar 16 2022 - 06:01

‘I was just in the shower thinking about Marian Keyes’

Emer McLysaght: Liking things by women and for women was considered lowbrow. Marian called this out as bullshit

Sat Feb 12 2022 - 06:00

Back to basics: How to keep your foundation looking fresh all day

‘The best way to make your make-up last is to spend more time prepping your skin’

Sat Nov 06 2021 - 06:00

Caroline O’Donoghue: ‘My luck has turned so quickly I have whiplash’

After Cork writer’s double job loss, a big publishing deal was on cards for tarot-focused novel

Sat May 22 2021 - 06:00

95 things to look forward to: Matches, movies, plays, pints, pals

By Aisling Bea, Mary McAleese, Richard Ford, Marian Keyes, Tolü Makay, Blindboy and more

Sat Apr 24 2021 - 06:00

Dua Lipa, Stephen Rea and Emma Dabiri: This week’s unmissable online events

Plus Marian Keyes, Frank McGuinness, Mick Fleetwood and the National Symphony Orchestra

Thu Apr 22 2021 - 06:00

An Irish playwright in New York: Lines remain unlearned, curtains unraised, seats unfilled

I’ll write to make the actors cry again – laugh, too. We’ll need a laugh after this

Mon Mar 22 2021 - 11:10

Daisy Buchanan: Putting the sexy back in literary sex scenes

'Women have appetites and as they sometimes rage out of control, the worst thing we can do is repress them'

Sat Feb 06 2021 - 06:00

How nuns schooled today’s torch-bearers of feminism

A generation of female superheroes in tartan skirts and gabardines

Tue Oct 20 2020 - 00:00

Olive: Olive branches for women in their 30s

Book review: Emma Gannon’s smart debut novel looks at the decision to be childfree

Fri Jul 24 2020 - 06:00

Marian Keyes: ‘What doesn’t kill us makes us funnier’

The writer on Irishness, feminism, mental health and happy endings

Sat Jul 11 2020 - 06:00

The good old days are back: opium, fancy hats, colonialism and well-lit sex

Patrick Freyne: The Luminaries looks great and has spirited acting, but what is it trying to be?

Fri Jun 26 2020 - 05:00

The Nacullians: Families as another brick in the wall

Craig Jordan-Baker explores a migrant Irish bricklayer and his clan with metafictional flair

Wed Jun 10 2020 - 06:00

Finding the fabulous: How to be glamorous in lockdown

From kitchen dance parties to bright clothing and getting ready for cocktail hour

Sat Apr 25 2020 - 06:00

Why is Michael Flatley’s spy movie getting so much flak?

Let the Riverdancer release his ‘vanity project’ Blackbird and silence the Twitter haters

Sat Apr 18 2020 - 05:00

‘The more of the novel I read, the more it made me think of Marian Keyes’

Mia Gallagher’s speech to launch Alan McMonagle’s new novel at Hodges Figges

Fri Mar 20 2020 - 05:36