It's Midsummer's Day, the longest day of the year, when fairies run wild and the magic of sweet chaos is in the air -- especially in a small glade in a forest in Limerick, where a group of amateur...

Tomorrow is Midsummer's Day. This time last year I released my most recent Darren Dash novel for adult readers, called Midsummer's Bottom. It was a carefully chosen release date, since the action...

A curious little addendum to Sunday's post.

Following Dante's dental operation, we stayed in Cork (where the hospital was) overnight, then headed back home around lunchtime on Saturday. We...

A fan called Malachi (aka Hazy ML) read my Zom-B book and got such a kick out of it that he wrote a song in its honour. It's a really catchy little number, and has the good sense to know when to...

Lee Hays once said about his band The Weavers taking a long hiatus, "We went on a Sabbatical that turned into a Mondical and a Tuesdical."

It's one of my favourite quotes, and the reason I'm...

Mrs Shan and I had to take our son Dante to hospital last week to have some of his teeth crowned and one extracted. We noticed quite a while back that he was having problems with his teeth, despite...