Challenging those who deny the Tuam Babies

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A presentation by a Tuam Babies denier – hosted by a contributor to the sensationalist Catholic paper ‘Alive!’ – didn’t go to plan, when...

Nobody wins unless everybody wins – Why Springsteen’s championing LGBT rights...

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“Some things are more important than a rock show and this fight against prejudice and bigotry — which is happening as I write —...

The only way Tuam Babies will get justice – send in...

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It was all true. Every word. 796 babies, dumped in a septic tank in Tuam. Last Friday, the Mother and Baby Home Commission of Investigation...

“Bessborough was a death sentence”

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In life and in death, babies who died at Bessborough were considered disposable, and to be born in the Cork mother and baby home...

This might just save your daughter’s life

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If you have a young daughter, you need to watch RTÉ's Prime Time report on the HPV vaccine, writes Donal O'Keeffe. It might just...

The State already knew about Tuam. Nothing ever changes in Ireland.

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The Irish State knew at least four years ago of a historic child-trafficking scheme. In August, Justice Minister Frances Fitzgerald referred the matter to...

Remembering Little Nellie, even as Cork determinedly forgets its Magdalene women

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‘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...

Once again RTÉ’s beancounters take an axe to what could be...

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"I don't think anybody in RTÉ really cares about children or what children want," Bosco tells Donal O'Keeffe. One of my earliest memories is of...

The Tuam Babies: two years on, hard questions remain

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As archaeologists excavate the Tuam Mother and Baby Home site where 796 children are believed to be buried, questions remain unanswered, writes Donal O'Keeffe. Last...

It’s Christmas and Dr King was right: Darkness cannot drive out...

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Wouldn't you get heart-sick of Christmas all the same? writes Donal O'Keeffe. This Christmas seems to have been going on now forever. It was certainly well-underway...

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