Listen to the 2006 series.

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Programme 20: 25th October 2006
THE GRAVE ROBBERS by Nick Wilkinson
Producer: Peter Mooney

Programme 19: 18th October 2006
A LIFE LIKE EVIAN FLORENZE by Sinead Nolan 
Producer: Peter Mooney

Programme 18: 4th October 2006
NIGHT AND FOG by Fiona Cunnane. 
Producer: Peter Mooney

Programme 17: 27th September 2006
SEACHANGE by Breda Wall Ryan. 
Producer: Seamus Hosey

Programme 16: 20th September 2006 (Audio not available)
HESITATION by Virginia Gilbert. 
Producer: Seamus Hosey

Programme 15: 13th September 2006
SATURDAY'S KISS by Kate Dempsey. 
Producer: Seamus Hosey

Programme 14: 6th September 2006
MARY UP IN DONEGAL by Jim Mullarkey from a selection of short listed entries to the Francis MacManus short story competition 2005.  
Producer: Seamus Hosey

Programme 13: 30th August 2006
BUMPWOMAN by Mary O'Donoghue from a selection of short listed entries to the Francis MacManus short story competition 2005. Producer: Peter Mooney

Programme 12: 23rd August 2006
THE SUMMER'S DAY by Daniel E.Gorman from a selection of short listed entries to the Francis Mac Manus Short Story Competition 2005.
Producer: Peter Mooney

Programme 11: 16th August 2006
THE GREAT PLAINS OF AFRICA by Patricia McAdoo from a selection of short listed entries to the Francis Mac Manus Short Story Competition 2005.
Producer: Peter Mooney

Programme 10: 9th August 2006
THE HAPPIEST MOSQUITOES IN BRESON  by Tony O'Leary

Programme 9: 2nd August 2006
EMPLOYMENT by Antain Mac Lochlainn from a selection of short listed entries to the Francis Mac Manus Short Story Competition 2005.

Programme 8: 26th July 2006
SOMEBODY'S MOTHER by Catherine Magee from a selection of short listed entries to the Francis Mac Manus Short Story Competition 2005.

Programme 7: 19th July 2006
BIBENDUM by Max McGuinness from a selection of short listed entries to the Francis Mac Manus Short Story Competition 2005.
Producer: Peter Mooney

Programme 6: 12th July 2006
ALICE by Liz Nugent from a selection of short listed entries to the Francis Mac Manus Short Story Competition 2005.

Producer: Peter Mooney

Programme 5: 5th July 2006
PIRATES by Judith Mok from a selection of short listed entries to the Francis Mac Manus Short Story Competition 2005.

Producer: Peter Mooney

Programme 4: 28th June 2006
HUNGER by Mary Hearne from a selectio of short listed entries to the Francis Mac Manus Short Story Competition 2005.

Producer: Peter Mooney

Programme 3: 21st June 2006
THE WORLD OF TIDES by Bill Murray, the third prize winning story from the Francis Mac Manus Short Story Competition 2005.

Producer: Peter Mooney

Programme 2: 14th June 2006
Pascal's Wager by Michael J. Farrell, the second prize winning story from the Francis MacManus Short Story Competition 2005.

Pascal Wager is a humorous account of how an old man plans to outwit the staff of a nursing home by staging his own demise.

Producer: Peter Mooney

Programme 1: 7th June 2006
Dark Horses by Claire Keegan, the winning story from the Francis MacManus short story competition 2005.

This story is the winner of this year's Francis McManus short story competition. It is a dark tale of lost love and a man who brought it upon himself.  It's set along the border.

Author Claire Keegan was born in 1968 and grew up on a farm in Wicklow, the youngest of a large family. At the age of seventeen she travelled to New Orleans and studied English and Political Science at Loyola University, returning to Ireland in 1992. She began writing in 1994. She has an MA in Creative Writing and taught undergraduates for a year at the University of Wales.
Her first collection of short stories, Antarctica, was finished in 1998 and she was awarded the Rooney Prize for Literature. At the moment she is working on a second collection of stories and a novel and is the writer in residence at University College Cork.