Happy National Franklin Day
You mightn’t know it, but today is National Franklin Day. Donal O’Keeffe looks at the touching story behind a minor, but important, comic-book character.
On...
Cork artists wanted
By Donal O’Keeffe
With over 800 babies missing in Bessborough, the journalist who broke the Tuam Babies story is appealing to Cork artists to join...
Appreciating our impermanent treasures
By Donal O’Keeffe.
This week’s column is, if you’ll forgive the pun, a mixed bag.
A couple of Mondays ago, I got a text from 96fm:...
Fermoy’s Blackwater: Closed to people with disabilities
A year ago, Chris O’Donovan, pilot of Ireland’s only MKIII wheelchair-accessible boat, warned that damage to Fermoy Weir would soon force the Wheelyboat out...
Tell the truth and shame the Devil, Sisters. Where are the...
By Donal O’Keeffe
Carmel Cantwell posted a beautiful photo last week. Wild barley and clover decorate the foreground, and in the middle of an overgrown...
The next UK PM may well be the last UK PM
The majority of Conservative Party members would break up the United Kingdom for Brexit, a poll revealed last week. That’s not surprising, says Donal...
Hope when hope is hopeless: Springsteen’s elegiac album aches with yearning
Western Stars by Bruce Springsteen - Rating 4.5 Stars
“Thumb stuck out as I go I’m just travellin’ up the road Maps don’t do much...
“Friendship is not about skin colour, or clothes, or religion. It...
Donal O’Keeffe travelled to Longford to meet Aaram and Meryam, a Muslim couple subjected recently to anti-immigrant abuse, who are delighted that so many...
An open letter to Dr Ciaran Byrne, CEO of Inland Fisheries...
Dear Dr Byrne,
I write to congratulate Inland Fisheries Ireland on the cancellation of Fermoy Regatta, the first time in 80 years this annual sporting...
Direct Provision and the profits of human misery
Private firms have profited in the hundreds of millions of Euro from keeping human beings in misery, and you and I are paying dearly...
