A 65-year-old Irish citizen has been held in Iran's dreaded Evin prison for three months now. She is gravely ill and her family says the Irish Government is not doing enough to help, writes Donal O’Keeffe.
Dr Homa Hoodfar is...
My motor insurance premium is up by €200 since last I renewed. Maybe I had it coming to me, writes Donal O’Keeffe.
When it comes to motoring, I’m something of a monster. I have a string of convictions for dangerous...
Imagine if I said: “I’m not anti-Healy-Rae but I believe it is wrong for a baby to not have any choice in being raised by a Healy-Rae couple".
Imagine if I said that I believe Healy-Rae couples should not be...
I was listening to The News At One on RTE Radio 1 the other day when I heard Fianna Fáil's Timmy Dooley TD tell Audrey Carville that Ireland's international reputation has been ‘tarnished by the Olympic tickets controversy.
You’re probably...
The last thing Archbishop Diarmuid Martin wanted this evening was to be explaining Grindr to the ghost of John Charles McQuaid, but there it was, imagines Donal O’Keeffe.
A simple glass of sherry and Mahler on the turntable after...
The possibility that America may elect Donald Trump president is like hearing an old friend announce that they’ve joined a cult and they’re getting on the bus just now to head into the desert and wait for the UFOs,...
An rud a scríobhann an Púca, léann sé féin é!
Is dócha go raibh na an line sin scríofa in aimsir an phinn (writing pen) agus ag féachaint siar, nach bhfuil moladh os ard tuillte ag na scríbhneoirí cáiliula a...
There seemed to be a suicide-victim’s funeral Mass every day of the week in mid-April – and this was ‘getting to’ local priest Father Paddy Byrne.
The element of tragedy for the Portlaoise region and surrounding areas was bad...
I swore I wasn’t going to write about the Eighth Amendment this week. I wrote about the historical context of Ireland’s utterly dysfunctional attitude to women only two weeks ago and nobody wants to listen to a broken record.
No,...
This world can be a cruel and lonesome place sometimes, writes Donal O’Keeffe. Maybe there are worse things we might try than kindness now and then.
I’ve been thinking a bit about Bob Dylan’s granny lately.
Florence Sara Stone (nee Edelstein)...
