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 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...

Dear America, I love you but you’re scaring the living crap...

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The possibility that America may elect Donald Trump president is like hearing an old friend announce that they’ve joined a cult and they’re getting...

Catholic Church still haunted by the ghost of McQuaid

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The last thing Archbishop Diarmuid Martin wanted this evening was to be explaining Grindr to the ghost of John Charles McQuaid, but there it...

Why Olympics tickets controversy cannot tarnish Ireland’s reputation

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I was listening to The News At One on RTE Radio 1 the other day when I heard Fianna Fáil's Timmy Dooley TD tell...
Illustration by Ciara Kenny, Twitter: @CiaraMPSI

Healy-Rae Trumpism dogwhistles to homophobia and Old Testament climate change denial

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Imagine if I said: “I’m not anti-Healy-Rae but I believe it is wrong for a baby to not have any choice in being raised...

Why my Motor Insurance is up by two hundred quid

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My motor insurance premium is up by €200 since last I renewed. Maybe I had it coming to me, writes Donal O’Keeffe. When it comes...

How you can help an Irish citizen in jail for ‘dabbling...

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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...

In the Darkness on the Edge of Town, Springsteen’s Depression is...

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That a celebrity has depression is not the story, writes Donal O'Keeffe, the story is that the celebrity is telling the world about his...

Just what the abortion debate needs: another middle-aged man dictating women’s...

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I'm a middle-aged man, writes Donal O'Keeffe. I'm not even sure I have any right to talk about women's reproductive rights. I'm so old I...

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