Deborah O’Donoghue is a British-Irish writer who has lived in the UK, France and Belgium. She has travelled all over the world and worked in car body repairs, in the best fish ‘n’ chip shop in Brighton, and been a gopher in a comedy club, as well as a teacher. She’s a past winner of the Commonwealth Broadcasting Association Short Story Prize. Her début novel, Sea of Bones, was published by Legend Press in 2019 and comes out in Germany in 2021. Follow Deborah on Twitter and Instagram.
Volcanic lava could be set to become a sustainable building material, if an innovation by an Icelandic architect proves successful. The idea, dubbed “Lavaforming”, will be […]
Canadian influencer Logan Moffit, also known as “the cucumber guy” on TikTok, is partly responsible for the current cucumber shortage in Iceland. However, although he may […]
Iceland’s Reykjanes peninsula is on fire once again after a fifth volcanic eruption in six months. A 3.4-km fissure opened up on Wednesday, 29 May, less […]
Tourists have been warned to stay away from volcanic activity in Iceland, amid another eruption and the re-evacuation of a fishing town, just weeks after a […]
Iceland’s southern Reykjanes Peninsula has been experiencing intense seismic activity and repeated volcanic eruptions for months, with waves of evacuations taking place in the town of […]
Low-cost Play Airlines has decided to make use of the third volcanic eruption in the Iceland’s Reykjanes Peninsula as a ticket-selling opportunity. While residents are being […]
Just as life seemed to be getting back to some sort of normality in the Icelandic town of Grindavík, seismic activity has caused an emergency evacuation […]
After weeks of seismic activity, a volcano has finally erupted in Iceland’s southern Reykjanes Peninsula on Monday night. A state of emergency has been in place […]
After weeks of uncertainty due to volcanic activity, Icelandic aviation is being hit by a further problem: industrial action by air traffic controllers this Christmas, with […]
The world is watching Iceland after a series of small earthquakes and warnings from seismologists that a volcanic eruption is imminent. How dangerous is it? Where? […]
Icelandair has recently launched a hard to refuse offer for passengers flying transatlantic: Stopover in Iceland. Anyone crossing over the Atlantic with Icelandair can add a […]
Since October 25th, Iceland’s most populated region has been hit by a series of earthquakes. The area around Mount Thorbjorn on the Reykjanes Peninsula has been […]
Iceland is the latest country to announce it will be introducing tourist taxes to help manage impact of tourism and, more importantly, relieve the pressure on […]
‘Mission: Iceland‘ is Iceland’s latest tourism campaign encouraging space tourists to save money and visit the Nordic country instead, for the same otherworldly experiences at a […]