Scientology? The last thing Ireland needs is another dangerous, manipulative religious...
I confess I got a genuine belly-laugh from the front page of the Irish Examiner on Stephen Zuss Day.
The second lead story -...
“Grief is hiding in the mundane” – RTÉ’s Brian O’Connell on...
Brian O’Connell lost one of his closest friends – the singer and musician Brian Carey - to suicide this year. In a new RTÉ...
Visiting Santa’s grave on Christmas Eve
Last Christmas Eve, I visited the grave of Santa Claus.
The first thing to say, of course, is that Santa Claus does not – and...
‘I won’t survive another winter on the street’ – Kathleen O’Sullivan...
“I won’t survive another winter on the streets,” Kathleen O’Sullivan told me, as she lay in the doorway in which she would die a...
Old differences resurface, as Brexit goes to the wire
Martyn Turner, the brilliant Irish Times cartoonist, told a story during the dark days of the Troubles. If memory serves, Turner had given a...
A homeless perspective: ‘Most people you’d meet are fierce decent. Most...
“My uncle sexually abused me,” said the pale young man sitting begging on a Cork street. “Speaking out cost me everything.”
I won’t tell you...
Remembering Little Nellie, even as Cork determinedly forgets its Magdalene women
‘Little Nellie of Holy God’, Cork’s unofficial patron saint, was four and a half years old when she died in 1908. Her short life...
The Night The Stars Fell
November 1833. As the night skies explode in blazing light over America’s Deep South, the slavers on one plantation – terrified of the end...
If Leo Varadkar is serious about sexual harassment, he must fund...
The Sexual Abuse and Violence in Ireland Report is 15 years out of date. Those working with the victims of sexual crime say a...
We need to get serious about sentencing for sexual crime
The sentences speak for themselves: we need to get serious about sexual crime, writes Donal O’Keeffe.
Tom Humphries was 47-years-old, a huge, influential man, a...
