When exactly did the IRA go away?
Gerry Adams famously said “They haven’t gone away, you know”. Mary Lou McDonald now insists the Provisional IRA actually has gone away. When, exactly,...
The next UK PM may well be the last UK PM
The majority of Conservative Party members would break up the United Kingdom for Brexit, a poll revealed last week. That’s not surprising, says Donal...
A powerful new voice on the abusive relationship that is Direct...
“Direct provision is like being in an abusive relationship,” writes Melatu Uche Okorie. “Abuse in itself is homogenous, no matter what race, class, or...
Scientology? The last thing Ireland needs is another dangerous, manipulative religious...
I confess I got a genuine belly-laugh from the front page of the Irish Examiner on Stephen Zuss Day.
The second lead story -...
Tuam: The dead can never rest so long as the living...
I don’t live on top of a mass grave.
I don’t know what it’s like to look out at my lawn and think that under...
Direct Provision and the profits of human misery
Private firms have profited in the hundreds of millions of Euro from keeping human beings in misery, and you and I are paying dearly...
The people of Tuam are owed an apology
Like many, I bought into the notion that public opinion in Tuam is divided about the Tuam Babies. I was very wrong, says Donal...
Is going to Mass really so important, if it means you...
Despite the high-blown rhetoric of some on the Catholic right and the populist fringes of political life, presumably nobody actually wishes to reunite the...
Paul Murphy costs us the same as every other TD and...
TDs pretending to be on the average industrial wage or less cost us exactly the same as all the others and they only compound...
The very least we can do is remember Cork’s Magdalene women
Last week I did something I’ve never done before.
I lodged a planning objection.
The development to which I objected is proposed for a dangerously-derelict property,...
