Listen to Bob Dylan’s Granny: Everyone you’ll ever meet is fighting...
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 ordinary extraordinary women who exposed the Tuam Babies scandal
Bridget Dolan was 26 years old when she entered the Tuam Mother and Baby Home. It was 1946, and Bridget was pregnant, alone, and...
“I’m gonna shake God’s hand.” RIP John Prine
John Prine often sang about going to heaven, and now, as he makes that final journey, some fans and friends - among them President...
The Night The Stars Fell
November 1833. As the night skies explode in blazing light over America’s Deep South, the slavers on one plantation – terrified of the end...
Little Bobby Dylan and his Instant F**king Copyrighting Machine
On Bob Dylan’s 75th birthday, Donal O’Keeffe recalls a meeting with a man Dylan worshipped as a hero.
Liam Clancy was growling at me.
Beneath the...
Tinder accused got a fair trial. If only the same could...
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...
Honest to God, Leo, have you never seen Philomena?
I kept wondering last week if I was the only person in Ireland who had seen Stephen Frears’ 2013 Oscar-nominated comedy-drama 'Philomena', writes Donal...
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...
The Eighth Amendment was never really about abortion
The Eighth Amendment was never really about abortion.
That might seem a strange thing to say in the only country in the democratic world...
‘I won’t survive another winter on the street’ – Kathleen O’Sullivan...
“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...
