Politicians’ references for rapists are legally worthless – and cause real...
Why do Irish politicians give character references to sex offenders? Donal O’Keeffe asked the main parties for their current policy on this practice.
Joseph Dempsey,...
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,...
Shadow-boxing around the next election
The lengthy process of government formation will be haunted as much by the next election as by the last, writes Donal O’Keeffe.
“The people have...
For all our faults, we’re not – for the most part...
It was heartening to see the Irish electorate send the far-right packing, and – for the most part – resist the siren call of...
We can fix Fermoy Weir for €750,000. Why waste millions?
Our next government can fix Fermoy Weir for €750,000, Paul Kavanagh tells Donal O’Keeffe, or it can waste €3million on a vanity project in...
The Boy in the Stinging Rebuke from Auschwitz
“No one may dare alter the truths of the Holocaust, no matter how noble his motives.” By Donal O’Keeffe.
Boy did John Boyne get his...
Star Trek has always shown the present, refracted through a fictional...
As Jean-Luc Picard returns to TV screens after quarter of a century, Donal O’Keeffe reflects on why Star Trek has always said far more...
Four more years of Donald Trump? The weird sh*t is only...
Donald Trump will probably go down in history not just as only the third US president to be impeached, but also as the first...
Exposing the living legacy of Ireland’s shame-industrial complex
Caelainn Hogan’s extraordinary debut book, Republic of Shame, gives a voice to the survivors of Ireland’s interconnected web of Magdalene Laundries, mother and baby...
2020 vision
Only a fool would attempt to predict the future. Hear me out, says Donal O’Keeffe.
Well thank God that’s over.
Horace Rumpole once said of Christmas:...
