No winner of €2.5m Lotto jackpot Goldsmith Festival examines journalism

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Willie Kealy, former associate editor of the Sunday Independent, will speak on the future of journalism at the Oliver Goldsmith Literary Festival next weekend.

Each year the festival explores different aspects of the life and work of Goldsmith, a novelist, playwright and poet. This year’s theme, which focuses on the writer’s early life as a journalist in London, is ‘Ask me no questions and I’ll tell you no fibs — journalism, news and democracy: Grub Street in the 21st century.’

Head of RTE Radio 1 Tom McGuire will launch the event on Friday at The Rustic Inn in Abbeyshrule at 8pm.

Details on www.olivergoldsmithfestival.com.