Press Quotes

"The best literary festival... ever" - Trevor White ' The Dubliner Magazine'

“Work away, lads” - Drumlin Gazette

“The Flatlake... What?" - Harvey Winestain 'Screen International'

“ It’s a festival destined  to rot from within … but a must for any bourgeois idiot foolish enough to attend” - The Ballybay Echo, Echo, Echo.

“Dylan Thomas would poet the crap out of  Kavanagh, any day” … Hywel Rees-Thomas  – Swansea Evening Post

“Lights, camera, silage” – Cecil B McCaffrey – The Blaney Star

“Racine would never know a buck-rake if it reversed over his face” - Bunty Willis – Doohamlet  Herald. 

“Have you a packet of biscakes and some Paul Eluard, please” ….Mrs Mary Linkbox - Cavan Co-op news .

“Two-man tent for sale – no poles – a tenner   o.n.o” -  Buy and Sell

 “There’s more electrisms in the Shannon River than in all the waters of the world put together “ - Hairy McFeck – Now & Then Magazine.

“Don’t lose your Hucklebuck shoes” …Brendan Bowyer - Showbands Online
'What's for supper, love?" - Paul Durden - The red Flag

“This festival could  limp and limp”….. Barry McGuigan – Fight Weekly