Donal O’Keeffe travelled to Longford to meet Aaram and Meryam, a Muslim couple subjected recently to anti-immigrant abuse, who are delighted that so many people have visited their shop to tell them they are welcome in Ireland.
I drove up...
Fool that I am, I got into an argument with some Nazis recently.
It was in the wake of a cancelled right-wing rally in Cork, and maybe 30 or 40 people were gathered outside the venue which had refused to...
If you saw RTÉ's "Centenary" last week, you might have heard a snippet of Gay Byrne's voice saying "The fact that an Irish schoolgirl died in a field, giving birth to her child, is a reproach to –"
Byrne was...
Imagine the Union Flag flying proudly again atop buildings in Ireland, north and south, below the new flag of a United Ireland, a United Ireland that looks a lot more unionist than the Republic.
When Prince Charles visited Cork two...
I'm a middle-aged man, writes Donal O'Keeffe. I'm not even sure I have any right to talk about women's reproductive rights.
I'm so old I can remember - over thirty years ago! - the frantic men and women with their...
The Eighth Amendment was never really about abortion, writes Donal O’Keeffe.
That might seem a very odd thing to say, in the only country in the democratic world to have a constitutional ban on abortion, but there was, in 1983,...
Western Stars by Bruce Springsteen - Rating 4.5 Stars
“Thumb stuck out as I go I’m just travellin’ up the road Maps don’t do much for me, friend I follow the weather and the wind I’m hitch hikin’ all day...
There is much symbolism to the way the Magdalene dead have been mistreated in Cork’s Good Shepherd Magdalene Laundry (also an orphanage and industrial school) but former inmate Mary Harney’s harrowing testimony is a timely reminder of just how...
By Donal O’Keeffe
Carmel Cantwell posted a beautiful photo last week. Wild barley and clover decorate the foreground, and in the middle of an overgrown meadow a tiny figure in white walks away in the distance. Above her, tower Scots...
The Catholic Church is simply not serious about confronting its shameful history of abuse. That’s why media-savvy Pope Francis isn’t stopping here long enough to engage in any meaningful way with Irish survivors, says Donal O’Keeffe.
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