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...
Tá a lán buanna ag baint leis an tsaol seo,má thogaimid sos chun taithneamh a bhaint astu agus ag feachaint amach ar iontaisí an tSamhraidh, ba cheart dúinn ár scíth a ligint o am go h-am agus ailleacht timpeallachta...
A Catholic bishop this week said the Catholic Church had probably gone too far in its apologies but is in a better place now for the abuse scandals which destroyed so many lives.
Bishop Kevin Doran, who was appointed to...
I got some great news last week. The kind of news that - even though it doesn’t affect you directly – cheers you up for the day.
I’ll come back to that in a bit.
Two years ago, I interviewed a...
We have heard stories of children being bullied online – in the exceptional case, with even tragic consequences. In the great majority of cases, the result was due exclusively to the aggressive intent of the bullies.
But could there not...
In January, Justice Minister Frances Fitzgerald appointed Mr Justice John Murray to review data retention legislation. His report was expected within three months. Six months on, the Department of Justice tells Donal O’Keeffe “it is not possible to say...
By far, the most slippery phrase in Irish politics is “issues of conscience”. We regularly hear that TDs should be allowed a free vote on “issues of conscience”. We all know straight-away that “issues of conscience” doesn’t mean –...
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)...
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,...
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...
