Into the woods.Count to ten.Only one of us comes home again.– The Counting Game [ About The Counting Game ] 1995, Ireland. Panic grips the village of Drumsuin when a teenage girl goes missing in the nearby forest. Saoirse is not the first girl to disappear in those woods. And when it’s revealed she was…
‘Connie Maguire jolts awake, gasping for air. She scans the bedroom. The wallpaper, mould and a list on the door – rules for this guesthouse on Dublin’s Gardiner Street…’– The (Wonderful) Life of Connie Maguire [ About The (Wonderful) Life of Connie Maguire ] Connie Maguire has always lived in the shadows. Battling low self-esteem,…
IT’S TIME TO FINISH WHAT THEY STARTED . . .– Our Song [ About Our Song ] Laura used to have big dreams, but she gave them up – because that’s what grown-ups do. Trying to turn her love of music into a career would have been absolutely ridiculous. But when she hears one of…
‘It began with Gail’s wedding, The one in the Oceanview Hotel in Moville. That was where they picked me up the first time.’ [ About The One You Least Suspect ] Katie lives a quiet life. She likes her small Derry neighbourhood. She likes her job as a barmaid at O’Reillys. And she loves her…
‘Your neighbours have secrets. How far would they go to keep them?‘– It Should Have Been You [ About It Should Have Been You ] Look what you started.You text your sister. Your message is full of gossip about your neighbour. But you accidentally send it to the entire local community WhatsApp group instead. Now…
‘It wasn’t until the following morning that her body was found. The ground had been frozen overnight, an Arctic mass having moved south and extended over Ireland, bringing with it a widespread, severe frost.’– Some of This is True [ About Some of This is True ] On an icy morning in January, a body…
‘I couldn’t remember the taxi to the airport. The last thing I could remember before waking up on the plane was reaching for a spoon and the revolver-shaped novelty blowtorch lighter I had bought in Barcelona and letting it crackle under the foil again.’– The Black Pool [ About The Black Pool ] Following an…
Cónal Creedon is a writer and documentary filmmaker whose writing crosses borders, geographically, culturally and socially. As many of you know I have been fortunate to do a few festival events alongside Cónal Creedon, entitled Two For The Road, which has been described as a non-broadcast podcast. This has been a wonderful opportunity to get to…
‘Two mothers. Two daughters. One devastating truth‘– A Good Mother [ About A Good Mother ] Alex Blake was terrified of water, and had been since she nearly drowned at age five. So when police find her body in the river and rule it a suicide, her mother, Jen knows they’re wrong. But no one…
He makes trouble. She makes headlines.– Only in New York [ About Only in New York ] LA Publicist Hannah is ready to put her broken heart behind her and start afresh. So when a celebrity client offers to lend her a luxury penthouse apartment in New York City, Hannah jumps at the chance. But…