How you can help an Irish citizen in jail for ‘dabbling...
A 65-year-old Irish citizen has been held in Iran's dreaded Evin prison for three months now. She is gravely ill and her family says...
Remembering Stan Lee, Marvel’s anti-hero
Perhaps, in the final analysis, Stan Lee was neither hero nor villain. Perhaps he was that most Marvel of characters, an anti-hero, writes Donal...
Who cares how asylum-seekers die?
Forty-four people have died in Direct Provision since 2007. That the Government doesn’t know the cause of death of more than one in three...
Even in lockdown, homeless people still have nowhere to go
The streets of Cork are mostly empty now, except for the homeless people who still have nowhere to go. For the first time in...
Fine Gael is actually using the refugee crisis to kick out...
I heard my local Fine Gael TD, David Stanton, say on RTÉ’s Drivetime recently the single most Fine Gael thing I have ever in...
Demonising welfare recipients to woo the Blueshirt Hang ‘Em And Flog...
“Okay, Martin, ready to play ‘Isn’t Leo Brilliant For Going After Social Welfare Recipient Scum’?”
“Ready Bob!”
“If someone is claiming social welfare, are they...
A maternity hospital? Being given to the nuns? Come on.
Dr Peter Boylan looked incredulous on the RTÉ Six-One News.
“This is 2017. It’s Ireland. Can we not grow up and just stop… handing over...
An unremarkable tale of everyday Garda professionalism and decency
An unremarkable tale of everyday Garda professionalism and decency shows the good work the best of our guardians of the peace do, writes Donal...
Picture perfect: along the Blackwater with Pat Quinlan
(All photographs courtesy of Pat Quinlan)
Fermoy-based photographer Pat Quinlan has become a big hit on Facebook. Donal O’Keeffe caught up with him for a...
Doctor Who author Terrance Dicks, favourite writer to (re)generations of children
By Donal O’Keeffe
Terrance Dicks passed away last week, and for a while when I was small, he was my favourite writer.
In 1968, Terrance Dicks...
