President McAleese is wasting her breath. The Catholic Church will never...
Former President Mary McAleese is a decent and fiercely-intelligent woman who is hugely respected by the Irish people. She’s in for a disappointment, though,...
No country for small children
With Gardaí unable to use technology capable of pinpointing exactly who is accessing child abuse material, we are failing 96% of Irish victims of...
Thinking outside the Box with Bosco
Bosco has been beloved by generations of Irish children since debuting in 1979. Some prominent voices helped Donal O’Keeffe to interview Ireland’s most famous...
Sell medieval misogyny someplace else, Dr Selim, we’re all stocked up...
Last Wednesday, Dr Ali Selim of the Clonskeagh Mosque in Dublin told The Pat Kenny Show he hadn’t understood what female genital mutilation was...
Jimmy Durham, the only Black soldier in Victoria’s Army, buried in...
In Fermoy’s old military cemetery, behind the Famine graveyard at the back of the soccer pitch, there stands a small white marble cross. It...
Making pawns of people who have Down syndrome is cruel and...
This past fortnight, Down Syndrome Ireland (DSI) asked that those of us who have Down syndrome not be used as poster children in the...
Ann Lovett 1968 – January 31 1984
34 years ago today, Ann Lovett died after giving birth at a grotto in Granard. Ann’s death changed an Ireland which is still trying...
The very least we can do for survivors like Sheila is...
Sheila was 19 when she was imprisoned in 1976 for the crime of 'falling pregnant'. She was enslaved and subjected to appalling cruelty, and...
Liam Neeson seems completely out of touch on #MeToo
I know, I know. Liam Neeson is a 65-year-old rich, white, male movie star. I shouldn’t be disappointed that he seems completely out of...
Trump continues to prove Obama right
In August 2016, the then US president Barack Obama, did something that seemed at the time extraordinary. He straight-out said that the then Republican presidential...
