William Zantzinger killed poor Hattie Carroll
The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll was recorded by Bob Dylan on this day in 1963. Donal O’Keeffe looks at the killing which inspired...
Fermoy Tuesday Night Homeless Run: “These are good people”
The volunteers of Fermoy Tuesday Night Homeless Run are making a real difference for Cork’s homeless community, says Donal O’Keeffe.
I headed down to...
We are living through somebody else’s interesting times
In a multiple-choice reality, Trump and Johnson are the new normal. Don’t think it can’t happen here, writes Donal O’Keeffe.
There’s an ancient Irish curse,...
Don’t believe the hype: not a penny has been secured to...
€350,000 will be spent on yet another report on the badly damaged Fermoy Weir, and not a penny has been found to repair it....
James Deeny: The doctor who saved hundreds of Bessborough babies’ lives
Dr James Deeny defied Church and State in 1940s Ireland to temporarily close Cork’s Bessborough mother and baby home. The subsequent drop in the...
Attacking asylum-seekers won’t do forgotten-but-not-gone Noel Grealish any harm
Appealing to Irish voters’ basest, racist instincts usually pays electoral dividends, says Donal O’Keeffe.
Like most of the country, I had quite forgotten about Noel...
Doctor Who author Terrance Dicks, favourite writer to (re)generations of children
By Donal O’Keeffe
Terrance Dicks passed away last week, and for a while when I was small, he was my favourite writer.
In 1968, Terrance Dicks...
Is Pope Francis doddery, or is he just a complete spoofer?
Exactly what, and exactly when, did the Pope know about institutional abuse in Ireland?
By Donal O’Keeffe.
I wouldn’t usually spend lunchtime waiting on a call...
Picture perfect: along the Blackwater with Pat Quinlan
(All photographs courtesy of Pat Quinlan)
Fermoy-based photographer Pat Quinlan has become a big hit on Facebook. Donal O’Keeffe caught up with him for a...
The very least we owe the Bessborough Babies is their names
by Donal O'Keeffe
“We need to name these babies,” Catherine Corless told me, “so people can know who they were, and how they died.”
I walked...
