OUR NEW IRISH HOME – a series profiling those living in...
By Graham Clifford
Piet’s back is bent, his eyes focussed. With one hand he slowly tips the jug of warm milk into the orange cup....
When was the last time a man was asked in a...
By Donal O’Keeffe
Imagine the scene. A rape trial. A young woman says she met a man at a nightclub and they kissed. She says...
Remembering Stan Lee, Marvel’s anti-hero
Perhaps, in the final analysis, Stan Lee was neither hero nor villain. Perhaps he was that most Marvel of characters, an anti-hero, writes Donal...
OUR NEW IRISH HOME – a series profiling those living in...
By Graham Clifford
By the time a fresh-faced Clotilde Courboin, as she was then, first headed west from her home in the Somme to the...
Taken Down: Why Irish children with Irish accents are not Irish...
I vaguely remember from my childhood something about Ireland being the land of a hundred thousand welcomes, and something too about a crock of...
OUR NEW IRISH HOME – a series profiling those living in...
By Graham Clifford
A chance meeting with a group of young Irish people in a London pub pointed Mohamed Belmekki in the direction of the...
Taken Down: for some a first glimpse into Direct Provision
By Donal O’Keeffe
Last Sunday night saw the launch of RTÉ’s new fictional crime series, Taken Down. Set largely in a Direct Provision centre, it...
Good riddance to Peter Casey, Ireland’s Micro-Trump
Whether he meant to or not, presidential candidate Peter Casey should not be forgiven for the racial hate he stirred up in the bloodpot...
Sympathy for the Devil: Why I agree with Bishop Phonsie Cullinan
Whatever Bishop Cullinan’s thoughts on Satan, I still prefer him to Bouncy Castle Catholics, says Donal O’Keeffe.
A Catholic bishop has announced the establishment of...
