COMEDY WRITER
Val Troy
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My name is Val Troy and I am a comedy writer. I didn’t always write comedy, back in the day I was an accountant (I suppose I still am) and while debits and credits are great, they aren’t much craic.
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Kicking Ageism Up the Backside
Approaching her 60s, Siobhan Daniels was frustrated with her job at the BBC and with life in general. She made the incredibly courageous decision to pack up, sell her belongings, buy a motorhome, and hit the road in the UK. Her mission is to embark on a positive-aging...
A Week to Remember by Ruth O’Leary
Hands up if you love commercial fiction. My hands are in the air like I just don’t care. I adore it, specifically fiction written by female Irish authors. It’s Maeve Binchy’s fault, Marian Keyes has to take some of the blame, and now, so too does Ruth O’Leary. Her...
Dingle Literary Festival – 15th to 17th Nov 2024
I am back on the road again with two legends, Barbara Scully and Orla Doherty, this November. Following our sell-out events at the Dalkey Book Festival and Listowel Writers Week last June, we are taking our panel discussion, The Madonna Effect: Reinvention As You Age,...
Sunday, Sunday
Last March, on International Women’s Day, Orla Doherty and I chewed the ear off (not literally) journalist Sophie Grehnam for a few hours. Luckily for us, Sophie can talk for Ireland too, so we were in good company. We met in the Westbury Hotel off Dublin’s Grafton St...
All Walks
Greg McWilliams, former head coach of the Ireland Ladies rugby team, is host of the All Walks podcast (formerly GMc Interviews podcast). And as the title suggests, Greg chats with guests from all walks of life. I was genuinely delighted when Greg asked me to be a...
Public Lending Right (PLR) – It Makes Cents
Did you know that there are currently 330 local libraries in Ireland? The library service, completely free in Ireland, has approximately 765,000 registered members, over 13 million items, and over 110,000 eBooks and eAudiobooks in the collection, managed by more than...
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