Inside the world of the Irish men who married one another for tax reasons TV review: Matt Murphy and Michael O’Sullivan used marriage-equality laws in a novel way
Mon, Jan 11, 2021, 22:35 Ed Power
Michael O’Sullivan and Matt Murphy are pictured outside their favourite cafe, Lilliput Stores in Stoneybatter. Photograph: James Forde/The Irish Times
Several lifetimes of empathy and tenderness are bound up in Let the Rest of the World Go By (RTÉ One, 9.35pm), Donal Moloney and Patricia Murphy’s heartfelt profile of Matt Murphy and Michael O’Sullivan, the romantically uninvolved men who married in 2018 to avoid inheritance tax.
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22/12/17 Matt Murphy (85) (wearing spectacles) and Michael O Sullivan (58) pictured after their wedding at the Registrar s Office, Lower Grand Canal Street, Dublin (Picture Colin Keegan, Collins Dublin).
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Books to look out for in 2021
Irish fiction
New work that has been a long time coming generates a particular shiver of anticipation.
Small Things Like These (Faber, October) will be Claire Keegan’s first new work since her novella Foster, still a bestseller 10 years on. Her publisher says: “An exquisite wintery parable, Claire Keegan’s long-awaited return tells the story of a simple act of courage and tenderness, in the face of conformity, fear and judgment.” Small Things Like These (Faber, October) will be Claire Keegan’s first new work since her novella Foster, still a bestseller 10 years on. Photograph: Alan Betson