Trump is a vain, thin-skinned bully who will take offence if Enda gives him anything less than the full Leprechaun plámás. If we offer him even the mildest criticism, he will go ballistic. So we might as well go...
Irish politics doesn't really do radical, but New Politics has picked a dangerous time to make politics seem so utterly redundant, writes Donal O'Keeffe.
Last Saturday night, the RTÉ 9.00pm News led with Trump's shameful ban on refugees and visitors...
It was snowing on Paul Street two Thursday nights ago. Not dry, fluffy Hollywood snow, but Irish snow. Cold, white rain, basically.
I was frozen, even in my coat, scarf and Indiana Jones hat.
On the corner across from Amicus,...
"I was born by the river in a little tent
Oh, and just like the river I've been running ever since" - Sam Cooke
It was 2pm on January 20th and I was sitting in my car in a run-down estate...
‘It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important,’ said Holmes. Sometimes, writes Donal O'Keeffe, the little things are the only important things.
"Sherlock? Well, I know the BBC published a book...
If we live in a multiple-choice reality where objective truth and personal opinion are afforded equal weight, we are in very serious trouble indeed, writes Donal O'Keeffe.
"I just wanted to do some good and went about it the wrong...
Wouldn't you get heart-sick of Christmas all the same? writes Donal O'Keeffe.
This Christmas seems to have been going on now forever. It was certainly well-underway long before the Americans decided that 83 years was long enough of a break between...
If you have a young daughter, you need to watch RTÉ's Prime Time report on the HPV vaccine, writes Donal O'Keeffe. It might just save her life.
In 1998, the internationally respected medical journal The Lancet published a paper by...
"I don't think anybody in RTÉ really cares about children or what children want," Bosco tells Donal O'Keeffe.
One of my earliest memories is of being five and in a very bad mood. My mother, trying to cheer me up,...
The failure by President Higgins - a lifelong human rights champion - to mention former Cuban dictator Fidel Castro's human rights abuses is deeply disappointing, writes Donal O'Keeffe.
Last weekend, President Michael D Higgins issued a statement saying he had...
