Donal O’Keeffe: The best way through this is not to fear dying from Covid-19, but rather to fear that you may kill other people.
Last weekend, a video went viral on social media. If you haven’t seen it, it’s worth...
With a quarter of Poland declaring itself ‘LGBT free’, it’s frightening to see how little we have learned from the Holocaust. Fermoy has to reject its twin town’s homophobia, writes Donal O’Keeffe.
When the National Socialist German Workers Party came...
Why do Irish politicians give character references to sex offenders? Donal O’Keeffe asked the main parties for their current policy on this practice.
Joseph Dempsey, then 61, had already been convicted for the rape of his young nephew Shane, and...
Gerry Adams famously said “They haven’t gone away, you know”. Mary Lou McDonald now insists the Provisional IRA actually has gone away. When, exactly, did that happen? asks Donal O’Keeffe.
“The war is over and I run the party,” Sinn...
The lengthy process of government formation will be haunted as much by the next election as by the last, writes Donal O’Keeffe.
“The people have spoken, the bastards,” said American political strategist and prankster Dick Tuck, conceding defeat in the...
It was heartening to see the Irish electorate send the far-right packing, and – for the most part – resist the siren call of racist dog-whistling, writes Donal O’Keeffe.
Presumably John Waters is emigrating again, just like he promised he...
Our next government can fix Fermoy Weir for €750,000, Paul Kavanagh tells Donal O’Keeffe, or it can waste €3million on a vanity project in the Triangle Field, 'and still not fix the weir'.
“It’s madness,” Paul Kavanagh says over a...
“No one may dare alter the truths of the Holocaust, no matter how noble his motives.” By Donal O’Keeffe.
Boy did John Boyne get his answer.
On Twitter earlier this month, the Irish author most famous for his schmaltzy 2006 international...
As Jean-Luc Picard returns to TV screens after quarter of a century, Donal O’Keeffe reflects on why Star Trek has always said far more about our present than it ever did about the future.
Patrick Stewart is not ageing the...
Donald Trump will probably go down in history not just as only the third US president to be impeached, but also as the first to be re-elected after impeachment, writes Donal O’Keeffe.
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