The life of the dead is placed in the memory of...
I was thinking of Ollie Ryan recently.
This week will no doubt see a plethora of newspaper headlines saying “It was fifty years ago today”,...
No-one in authority will ever pay for the betrayal of Grace....
“Grace cut a sad figure in a wretched state who was voiceless, dirty and whose only possession was a child’s toy which she held...
Fermoy should do the right thing and un-twin from homophobic Nowa...
With a quarter of Poland declaring itself ‘LGBT free’, it’s frightening to see how little we have learned from the Holocaust. Fermoy has to...
Cork Life Centre – where education is about a lot more...
“Leaving Cert results often tell nothing of the work that went into getting those results,” says Don O’Leary, administrator of the Cork Life Centre....
Your religion shouldn’t dictate your morality. Your morality should dictate your...
What exactly is it about Irish Catholics that makes them think their Church doesn’t really mean the things it says? Donal O’Keeffe takes to...
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...
Boris Johnson simply cannot be trusted on Brexit
Rambling, incoherent, and disingenuous, Boris Johnson’s North of Ireland Brexit speech is proof – not that proof is needed - that he is completely...
Frederick Douglass and Father Mathew
There’s a lovely piece of street art on Cork’s Grand Parade, on the electrical box outside Lloyd’s Pharmacy, featuring a striking portrait in blue...
The Library is the last democratic space in Irish society
Cork has long loved its library, and last year celebrated 125 years of the Library Service. Donal O’Keeffe visits a village at the heart...
It’s really simple: if you want a pint, buy a substantial...
Spare a thought for bar-restaurant staff up and down the country, currently spending half their working days explaining that they are not legislators, virologists,...
