All Opinions My Own

Dr James Deeny defied Church and State in 1940s Ireland to temporarily close Cork’s Bessborough mother and baby home. The subsequent drop in the...

by Donal O’Keeffe “You stitch-up scumbag!” roared the acquitted man at the prosecuting Garda. “You stitch-up bastard! I’ll get you again, you stitch-up c***”!” At the...

"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...

“No one may dare alter the truths of the Holocaust, no matter how noble his motives.” By Donal O’Keeffe.

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...

“They took my hair, they took my human rights, they took my clothes, they took my name, but they never took my spirit” -...

“I won’t survive another winter on the streets,” Kathleen O’Sullivan told me, as she lay in the doorway in which she would die a...

This world can be a cruel and lonesome place sometimes, writes Donal O’Keeffe. Maybe there are worse things we might try than kindness now...

Donal O’Keeffe travelled to Longford to meet Aaram and Meryam, a Muslim couple subjected recently to anti-immigrant abuse, who are delighted that so many...

John Prine often sang about going to heaven, and now, as he makes that final journey, some fans and friends - among them President...