If you watched This Time with Alan Partridge on BBC1 last week, there’s a good chance you’re still humming “Come Out Ye Black and Tans”, writes Donal O’Keeffe.
Martin Brennan is a middle-aged farmer from Sligo, and a man who...
Looking at the ploughed-up earth where some believe the Bessborough babies are buried, it's hard to see this as anything but a further insult to families and survivors before the Mother and Baby Home site can be flogged to...
These days, only a fool would write about Brexit or British politics even a day in advance, let alone almost a week out. So here goes.
Speaking of fools, as I write this on Friday, Northern Ireland Secretary of State...
(A conversation I have several times a week, by Donal O’Keeffe)
So what’s happening with the weir in Fermoy? Did ye make any progress? Are they going to fix it at all?
Sigh. You obviously only read the bit of this...
Pope Francis says those who constantly criticise the Catholic Church are “friends of the Devil”. Seeing what some of the lads working for Jesus get up to, I’ll take that as a compliment, says Donal O’Keeffe.
Last week, the Pope...
Could flood relief works on O’Neill Crowley Quay have caused the recent collapse of the southern mill-race wall of Fermoy Weir? Surely the weir’s owners, Cork County Council, must investigate whether the Office of Public Works and its contractor Lagan,...
It’s a cold, damp morning in London, and the Palace of Westminster is festooned in scaffolding. At the gates stand seven hardy Brexit supporters, most of them of retirement age, all holding aloft what appear to be homemade placards.
CLEAN...
If you venture through the archway to Cork’s Franciscan Well of a Monday evening, you’ll likely hear One Horse Pony as you enter the glass-panelled door, writes Donal O’Keeffe.
There’s a real feeling of history here, as you step off...
Every chance local officials and representatives had to repair Fermoy Weir, the buck was passed and the can was kicked. Spare us the hand-wringing now, writes Donal O’Keeffe.
I was front page news once, and I didn’t like it one...
A new Dublin exhibition honours the 796 Tuam Babies, and their families and survivors. Donal O’Keeffe attended last week’s launch.
Mary’s Child
And they brought Jesus to Calvary
Mary to the laundry
Both were crucified
One with whips, thorns and nails
the other with indifference
humiliated,...
