With all respect to the man he served for eight years as vice president, there’s no-one as Irish as Joe Biden. The Covid-19 pandemic has halted Micheál Martin’s gallop to Washington, but with goodwill and a bit of imagination,...
If you’re hoping that Donald Trump will be impeached anytime soon, you’re likely to be disappointed, writes Donal O’Keeffe.
“Donald Trump is not well” was the pitch-perfect response last week of journalists Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski to the US...
If we are forced into a Level Five lockdown after all, the Tánaiste’s attack on Chief Medical Officer Dr Tony Holohan will seem ill-advised indeed.
When Leo Varadkar left RTÉ last Monday night week after his extraordinary performance on...
Kids should learn about consent, and learn that their bodies are their own, at the same time they learn the alphabet, writes Donal O'Keeffe.
"I was walking down St Patrick's Street in Cork, wearing a vest top, because it was...
The Madman Doctrine of negotiation has never worked, and it won’t work for the Brexiteers either.
In April 1971, with peace talks with North Vietnam stalled, US president Richard Nixon told his national security advisor Henry Kissinger to suggest to...
By Donal O’Keeffe.
This week’s column is, if you’ll forgive the pun, a mixed bag.
A couple of Mondays ago, I got a text from 96fm: “Any idea of a contact for Tony Linehan of Shandon Sweets? It’s on fire.”
It took...
Twinkle, twinkle, little star, sings every
small child. Why have the diamonds in the sky never come wondering what we are?
“What is the stars, Joxer, what is the stars?” asked Sean
O’Casey, 96 years ago, in Juno and the Paycock, but...
One week into the hustings, the going is already rough and about to get a lot rougher, writes Donal O’Keeffe.
Sayre’s Law, as quoted by the Wall Street Journal, states “Academic politics is the most vicious and bitter form...
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,...
Is leor don dreoilín a nead...
(The wee wren only needs her nest ... it's her world)
Bhí deireadh seachtaine aoibhinn ag grúpa in Mount Melleray ag críochnu ar an Domhnach seo caite agus b’é an tideal seo thuas téama an...
