Insurance companies lambasted over response to SMEs
There has been a general outcry from public representatives and the business fraternity that small businesses are being refused Covid-19 insurance compensation because ‘Government did...
Instead of worrying about catching coronavirus, worry you’re spreading it
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...
Sherlock ‘fighting hard’ to reverse SouthDoc closure
Deputy Sean Sherlock said on Sunday that he has been 'fighting hard over the past 72 hours' to get the Board of SouthDoc to...
Mayor of Cork calls on public to help mould strategy
The Mayor of County Cork has appealed to North Cork residents to help them devise a new strategy for the future.
The planned engagement is...
Fermoy should do the right thing and un-twin from homophobic Nowa...
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...
Politicians’ references for rapists are legally worthless – and cause real...
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,...
Does Sinn Féin recognise the legitimacy of the Irish State –...
Does Sinn Féin recognise the legitimacy of the 1937 Constitution, An Garda Síochána, the Irish Defence Forces and the Special Criminal Court, a Fine...
When exactly did the IRA go away?
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,...
Shadow-boxing around the next election
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...
Sinn Féin’s Pat Buckley tops the poll in Cork East
Late on Saturday night, a nationwide exit poll was released. It pointed towards a seismic realignment in Irish politics.
For the first time, the...
