Arts Week with Judy Murphy

Every time a friend succeeds, something inside me dies, wrote the US born writer Gore Vidal who was renowned for his caustic wit. Like most observations that are funny, Vidal’s makes us smile partly because we recognise there’s more than a grain of truth in it!

But begrudgery isn’t always the default position – and the news that former Connacht and Galway City Tribune journalist Michelle McDonagh will have her first novel published in early 2023, has been greeted with happiness by the colleagues and friends she worked with for 12 years before she married and moved to Cork in 2008.

Michelle, who has been working as a freelance journalist in the intervening years, writing health pieces for various publications, including the Irish Times. But the mother-of-three had long dreamed of turning her hand to fiction – crime being a favourite genre – and she has now done just that.

‘There’s Something I Have to Tell You’ is being published by Hachette Books Ireland in April and, reading the proof copy of the thriller that landed on the desk last week, it’s a page-turner.

For more, read this week’s Connacht Tribune.

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