‘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...
Life in an apartment building is seldom uneventful but it’s far from all bad, writes Donal O’Keeffe
"It's just apartment house rules so all you 'partment fools, remember one man's ceiling is another man's floor"
- Paul Simon – One Man’s Ceiling Is...
54 days since the election, it seems clear that, for some, the real focus is on the next election, writes Donal O’Keeffe
You’d want to be brave to comment on the ongoing discussions to form a government, seeing as...
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,...
Some two thousand years after the Gospel of Saint Matthew says a carpenter and his family were forced to flee persecution in their native land, more than 7,000 asylum seekers, almost 2,000 of them children, languish in Ireland’s direct...
It’s hard to see how Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael can cobble together anything likely to be acceptable to the Green Party membership, and a fresh election may well be the only way out of the current impasse.
For me,...
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...
Terry Jones' place in the history of comedy and popular culture has been secure for fifty years or more, but his brilliance - and compassion - as a writer should not be forgotten, says Donal O'Keeffe.
Two weeks ago, Michael...
As the sell-by date on Blade Runner whizzes by, Donal O’Keeffe remembers other fictional futures now past.
November 2019: former LAPD officer Rick Deckard is assigned the task of finding and terminating – with extreme noir-ness - a group...
The annual Penny Dinners Christmas lunch has been cancelled because of Covid-19 concerns, but volunteers will do everything in their power to make sure nobody in Cork goes hungry this Christmas Day.
In normal times, Santa Claus would arrive on...
