Catherine Corless: “I hope Cork people will show solidarity by visiting...
With over 800 babies missing from Bessborough, the timing of a UCC art exhibition honouring all who suffered in Ireland’s Magdalene Laundries, mother and...
What’s in a place name? Drawing circles on John Creedon’s atlas
John Creedon is back on the road, and his latest TV show is uniquely suited to his interests. He chats with Donal O’Keeffe about...
Happy National Franklin Day
You mightn’t know it, but today is National Franklin Day. Donal O’Keeffe looks at the touching story behind a minor, but important, comic-book character.
On...
Cork artists wanted
By Donal O’Keeffe
With over 800 babies missing in Bessborough, the journalist who broke the Tuam Babies story is appealing to Cork artists to join...
Appreciating our impermanent treasures
By Donal O’Keeffe.
This week’s column is, if you’ll forgive the pun, a mixed bag.
A couple of Mondays ago, I got a text from 96fm:...
Fermoy’s Blackwater: Closed to people with disabilities
A year ago, Chris O’Donovan, pilot of Ireland’s only MKIII wheelchair-accessible boat, warned that damage to Fermoy Weir would soon force the Wheelyboat out...
Tell the truth and shame the Devil, Sisters. Where are the...
By Donal O’Keeffe
Carmel Cantwell posted a beautiful photo last week. Wild barley and clover decorate the foreground, and in the middle of an overgrown...
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...
Hope when hope is hopeless: Springsteen’s elegiac album aches with yearning
Western Stars by Bruce Springsteen - Rating 4.5 Stars
“Thumb stuck out as I go I’m just travellin’ up the road Maps don’t do much...
“Friendship is not about skin colour, or clothes, or religion. It...
Donal O’Keeffe travelled to Longford to meet Aaram and Meryam, a Muslim couple subjected recently to anti-immigrant abuse, who are delighted that so many...
