We may return to normal, but for those of us who have lost loved ones nothing will ever be the same.
Monday was a good day. For the first time in a very long time, the Department of Health recorded...
Thirty years after Jim Henson’s death, Donal O’Keeffe remembers the creator of the Muppets.
Apart from gentle piano accompaniment, there was pin-drop silence as Big Bird waddled up the aisle of Manhattan’s Cathedral of St John the Divine. Outside, the...
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,...
It was a Liveline (wash yer hands) for the ages, and just the tonic Lockdown Ireland needed, as the voluntarily offended made a holy show of themselves over Normal People.
Thursday afternoon really got going last week when Mary, who...
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...
Perhaps, when this is over, we should all plant a cherry blossom tree and remember all we’ve lost.
There comes a time, every Spring, when you’ll hear a particular song on the radio and realise the winter is finally gone...
John Prine often sang about going to heaven, and now, as he makes that final journey, some fans and friends - among them President Higgins - share their thoughts with Donal O’Keeffe.
I think the first time I heard a...
With the country in lockdown, Community Gardaí are more than ever performing a vital service - by Donal O’Keeffe.
Last week, when one Fermoy Garda told an older woman, living alone in isolation, that she should never be afraid to...
The streets of Cork are mostly empty now, except for the homeless people who still have nowhere to go. For the first time in a century-and-a-half, the doors of Cork Penny Dinners are closed, but the charity is still...
Do we really care who lives or dies in the Nobody Zone?
If you’re self-isolating, socially distancing, or off work thanks to the coronavirus, Donal O’Keeffe recommends you listen to RTÉ’s gripping podcast series The Nobody Zone, which looks at...
