In this 90-minute session, YA writer and reviewer Claire Hennessy will explore the key things to consider when writing for teenagers today

Four Fingal local writers - Teri Donaghy, Fiona McKay, Elaine Maguire O’Connor and Rebecca D’Arcy - have been chosen for the Irish Writers Centre’s prestigious National Mentoring Programme 2025.

Have you got lots of ideas but can’t get them down on paper? Is your writing happening in fits and starts and going nowhere? Have you written in the past or would love to start to write now?

Is the choice of subject matter or ‘content’ crucial to the effectiveness of a poem? If so, how do we distil experience to find its poetic essence? And then, how do we develop what John Cage called the ‘field of possibilities’ that will make the poem happen in its most appropriate form?

Comedian Pierre Novellie will be in conversation with writer and performer Erin McGathy, to discuss his book Why Can’t I Just Enjoy Things?

Ireland’s largest county show is set to get underway once again, bursting full of exciting new sights, sounds and tastes to suit all ages. Now in its 13th year, Flavours of Fingal returns to the beautiful grounds of Newbridge House and Farm in Donabate for a weekend full of excitement.

In support of local environmental efforts, Fingal County Council, in partnership with concert promoters MCD Productions and Festival Republic, alongside HEINEKEN Ireland are introducing new sustainability initiatives during the 2025 concert season.