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Belfast Telegraph
01-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Belfast Telegraph
Queen's technician-turned-author reflects on his life: ‘I gave my poems to Seamus Heaney… he told me to stick to stories!'
In our latest Meaning of Life series, author and playwright Bernard MacLaverty speaks about prose and treasured possessions Words are not just Bernard MacLaverty's currency, they're his livelihood. The acclaimed author, playwright and screenwriter may not have started his career in writing, but it's where he ended up.
Belfast Telegraph
29-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Belfast Telegraph
Author Bernard MacLaverty: ‘I don't know why, but when I start to create, Belfast peeps around the corner'
In our latest Meaning of Life series, author and playwright Bernard MacLaverty speaks about prose and treasured possessions Words are not just Bernard MacLaverty's currency, they're his livelihood. The acclaimed author, playwright and screenwriter may not have started his career in writing, but it's where he ended up.
Belfast Telegraph
22-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Belfast Telegraph
BBC NI's Tara Mills and Declan Harvey on family, anxiety and the book that changed everything
The broadcasting duo talk to Áine Toner about their third podcast together and the life lessons they've learned beyond the newsroom Speaking to Tara Mills and Declan Harvey for our Meaning of Life series makes the job very easy. The talented, experienced journalists ask each other questions during the interview, displaying a friendship and informality only achieved when you have mutual trust and appreciation.
Belfast Telegraph
15-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Belfast Telegraph
‘It's now or never': NI comedian Diona Doherty on juggling stand-up, motherhood, and a major new TV role
In the latest Meaning of Life, Diona Doherty talks to Gillian Halliday about her upcoming projects, the 'absolutely nuts' comedic talent in Northern Ireland, and being threatened on stage while heavily pregnant Not too long into our interview, Diona Doherty contemplates on comedy's innate ability to be cathartic — and for the Derry comic and actor, it's very personal. She says: 'When I started the IVF process to have my kids, I immediately started writing down notes for jokes in the airport on the way to the Czech Republic to do the IVF, because I was like, 'I got to make this money back'. And also I wanted to be able to make light of it. 'I think here in this country, we do that so well. We have such a dark sense of humour and we're not afraid to make jokes about darker topics, because it helps us.'
Belfast Telegraph
08-05-2025
- Health
- Belfast Telegraph
Bodybuilder to businessman: How Lisburn man's path was shaped by turning his ‘mess into his message'
In our Meaning of Life series, fitness entrepreneur Phil Graham speaks to Aine Toner about goal setting and building a community A diabetes diagnosis in his mid-teens led Phil Graham down the path of his dreams, from competitive bodybuilder turned fitness entrepreneur, author and mentor. From Lisburn, his story has been told in a new documentary, Fitrepreneur, detailing how he has built one of the world's most influential coaching communities.
