Dear Dr Byrne,
I write to congratulate Inland Fisheries Ireland on the cancellation of Fermoy Regatta, the first time in 80 years this annual sporting event has not gone ahead. Thanks to IFI, Fermoy’s Blackwater is now a river fit...
Private firms have profited in the hundreds of millions of Euro from keeping human beings in misery, and you and I are paying dearly for it, writes Donal O’Keeffe.
Since Direct Provision was introduced in 2000, some €1.2 billion has...
It’s that time in the five-year cycle when local and European candidates suddenly remember the electorate. In Fermoy, voters should ask politicians how they intend to protect almost a millennium’s worth of history, and to safeguard the town’s future,...
The Oireachtas Public Petitions Committee can’t repair Fermoy Weir, but perhaps it can hold to account those who have endangered it, actively or by neglect, writes Donal O’Keeffe.
There was a moment in the Grand Hotel, not long ago, when...
Fool that I am, I got into an argument with some Nazis recently.
It was in the wake of a cancelled right-wing rally in Cork, and maybe 30 or 40 people were gathered outside the venue which had refused to...
All art is quite useless, according to Oscar Wilde.
If your first instinct is to follow that line with “Turner 1775 to 1851”, then you are a person of exquisite taste and a friend of mine.
But no, I’m not quoting...
The Sisters of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary stand to make untold millions from the sale of the former mother and baby home at Bessborough. Over 800 babies are missing and they may be buried on those...
No country is immune to the lure of the demagogue. Ireland needs to be very vigilant indeed, says Donal O’Keeffe.
A friend of mine shocked me last week.
She’s a woman past retirement age, deeply compassionate and hugely intelligent. She...
'The Devil works through children abused by priests', former President Mary McAleese was told by senior Vatican officials.
In a new RTÉ documentary, Rome v Republic, to be aired this Thursday, former President McAleese says the then Vatican secretary of...
There’s a hell of a difference between the community goodwill driving sports clubs’ weekly lotteries, and the soul-destroying engines of despair and addiction that are amusement arcades, writes Donal O’Keeffe.
Not to bite the hand that starves me, but it’s honestly...
