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...
The wren women on the edge of every garrison town
The Wrens of the Curragh are only the best-known example of outcast women on the outskirts of Irish garrison towns, writes Donal O’Keeffe.
For over...
In Remembrance of Futures Past
As the sell-by date on Blade Runner whizzes by, Donal O’Keeffe remembers other fictional futures now past.
November 2019: former LAPD officer Rick Deckard...
We’re paying Dara Murphy €2,810 a week, Leo. His EU foxer...
Taoiseach Leo Varadkar calling Dara Murphy’s European nixxer his 'main job' betrays a breath-taking contempt for the people who pay their wages, says Donal O’Keeffe.
So....
“This is going to be my first Christmas on the streets”
‘Paul’ is a homeless man who spoke last week with Donal O’Keeffe about heroin addiction and Christmas on the streets of Cork.
“This is going...
Bridget: “We need to find the Bessborough Babies, and we need...
Bridget Walsh’s baby William was born in the Bessborough mother and baby home, in 1960. He died at six weeks, and Bridget nearly died...
2020 vision
Only a fool would attempt to predict the future. Hear me out, says Donal O’Keeffe.
Well thank God that’s over.
Horace Rumpole once said of Christmas:...
Exposing the living legacy of Ireland’s shame-industrial complex
Caelainn Hogan’s extraordinary debut book, Republic of Shame, gives a voice to the survivors of Ireland’s interconnected web of Magdalene Laundries, mother and baby...
Four more years of Donald Trump? The weird sh*t is only...
Donald Trump will probably go down in history not just as only the third US president to be impeached, but also as the first...
Star Trek has always shown the present, refracted through a fictional...
As Jean-Luc Picard returns to TV screens after quarter of a century, Donal O’Keeffe reflects on why Star Trek has always said far more...
