you know, jane austen on one side and the map of ireland. there is a vision of hell!oyle is a common name in ireland, the sixth most common name and there were four doyles on the staff. one of the others was called dozy. so i think i got away quite well there. i would rather be called punk doyle. while you were teaching you were writing. had you always wanted to be a writer? the itch was there and i did a little bit of writing when i was a student but teaching was the great opportunity. i did not have a family at the time, so as a secondary teacher in ireland i had june, july and august off, so that is a quarter of the year. and you are never more than seven weeks away from the mid—term break. so there was plenty of time, leaving aside evening time. so a greatjob to start off with. the first four novels were written while i was a teacher. the commitments was self—published in 1987, about this group of young dubliners who form a soul band. it became something of a cult classic. in no part due to the musician elvis costello. what was that about? well, if i remember righ

likes grandmother who jane austen novels and just got a twitter account last week. [laughter] we will see what i can do to give you some information about vhs and where we are the state of the neck. hopefully it will be useful to those of you here in the room today. everyone points out, everyone at the internet stakeholder -- is an internet stakeholder even if they do not know it yet. that is what brings me your today. is the internet has an -- increasingly connecting us with our threats. specifically, terrorists are using the internet to recruit and radicalize and share information for do-it-yourself mass murderer. werly every terrorist plot uncovered today has a digital dimension. to give you a sense of the scale of that problem, the fbi has said that there were currently 1000 home grown terrorist investigations across the 50 states. and 1000 isis related investigations. some of these overlap. the scale is alarming. those are just at the suspect we know about. it is like living among potential landmines. recent terrorist attack in new york, the attempted port auth

no, that's jane austen. she looks a bit like the queen. she's replacing charles darwin. 0h. what do you think about that? like all species, boltonians will have to adapt. all 1.1 billion of the new tenners are here to stay. nina warhurst, bbc news. after more than a fortnight of competition, the winter olympics in pyeonchang have closed with a colourful display featuring nearly 3,000 athletes. that heavyweight of winter sport norway topped the medal table, followed by germany, but it's been a record—breaking games for team gb, with five medals, including gold for lizzy yarnold in the skeleton. our sports correspondent david ornstein looks back at some of the highlights of the games. in plummeting temperatures and gusting winds, the games began. only here it was so cold and blustery that events were disrupted, athletes blown off—course. for great britain, hopes were high and though initially podium places proved hard to come by, don parsons broke the seal before three medals followed on a glorious super saturday, including gold for lizzy ya

he chose it in a safe or jane austen, and that scraped in on account of having writ with no other reasone thing that hit home when i was young. that's a long time ago, by the way. he said the writer is both storyteller, teacher and enchanter. but he rated enchantment as the most important thing of all. and in that, i would totally agree with him. there is a notion out there in the big world and sometimes whole world, that writing is elitist. writing isn't elitist. the deepest thing we have. it's as essential to us as their breathing. he brings other worlds, other pain, other grief, other humanities, other paradoxes to us through language. writing is the golden fleet and we should never forget it. where else was i going to say it? yes, back to mr. developed for a second. it means different things to different people. i think frank's and not sure who sang a song about it, many other people been on a dance floor prevents somebody singing are many of the other pleasures. i think enchantment, speaking on literature, was the thing that i would say defines enchantment for me and a permanence. w