Boris Johnson’s madman diplomacy trashes the UK’s international reputation
The Madman Doctrine of negotiation has never worked, and it won’t work for the Brexiteers either.
In April 1971, with peace talks with North Vietnam...
Appreciating our impermanent treasures
By Donal O’Keeffe.
This week’s column is, if you’ll forgive the pun, a mixed bag.
A couple of Mondays ago, I got a text from 96fm:...
Are the aliens self-isolating?
Twinkle, twinkle, little star, sings every
small child. Why have the diamonds in the sky never come wondering what we are?
“What is the stars, Joxer,...
‘Sherlock’ proves that how we get to Art is not the...
‘It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important,’ said Holmes. Sometimes, writes Donal O'Keeffe, the...
One Man’s Ceiling Is Another Man’s Floor
Life in an apartment building is seldom uneventful but it’s far from all bad, writes Donal O’Keeffe
"It's just apartment house rules so all you...
When the Magi had gone
Some two thousand years after the Gospel of Saint Matthew says a carpenter and his family were forced to flee persecution in their native...
O Lord, give us a fresh election but not just yet
54 days since the election, it seems clear that, for some, the real focus is on the next election, writes Donal O’Keeffe
You’d want...
‘It seems to me a miracle we don’t have people begging...
It was snowing on Paul Street two Thursday nights ago. Not dry, fluffy Hollywood snow, but Irish snow. Cold, white rain, basically.
I was...
Is there anything to be said for having another election?
It’s hard to see how Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael can cobble together anything likely to be acceptable to the Green Party membership, and...
Brexit: A Tory breakdown that has poisoned far more than just...
These days, only a fool would write about Brexit or British politics even a day in advance, let alone almost a week out. So...
