Lavinia Kerwick – still changing Ireland for the better

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Last month Taoiseach Micheál Martin committed to addressing a spate of sexual assaults against homeless people on the streets of Cork. The woman who secured that commitment,...

Good riddance to Peter Casey, Ireland’s Micro-Trump

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Whether he meant to or not, presidential candidate Peter Casey should not be forgiven for the racial hate he stirred up in the bloodpot...

Yes 66.4%

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Under the green gaze of John Mandeville, a red-faced man roars at a pregnant woman that she is a murderer. In the Square in Mitchelstown,...

James Deeny: The doctor who saved hundreds of Bessborough babies’ lives

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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...

Majella Moynihan: “I was torn apart by misogynist bastards within An...

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Former Garda Majella Moynihan – who says she is the only person in the world to be charged with giving birth - talks with...

Walking through Fermoy, the past is far away and yet very...

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“Emily Helena (indecipherable) Daughter. But O for the touch of a vanish’d hand.” Another small gravestone still reads “Sacred to the memory of Jane, daughter...

Laundering the Magdalene Past

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

The anti-choice argument is lost. Hence the dirty tricks

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I swore I wasn’t going to write about the Eighth Amendment this week. I wrote about the historical context of Ireland’s utterly dysfunctional attitude...

Listen to Bob Dylan’s Granny: Everyone you’ll ever meet is fighting...

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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...

The Night The Stars Fell

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November 1833. As the night skies explode in blazing light over America’s Deep South, the slavers on one plantation – terrified of the end...

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