The Boy in the Stinging Rebuke from Auschwitz
“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...
General election hits the streets of Fermoy
An Taoiseach Leo Varadkar visited Fermoy on Tuesday as part of his whirlwind tour around the country.
Before he arrived, The Avondhu took to the...
Ryan blasts Niall Collins and Micheal Martin as ‘selfish and greedy’
Limerick councillor Eddie Ryan, has lashed out at Micheal Martin, Niall Collins and the Fianna Fail party for what he calls 'selfish and greedy' treatment...
Star Trek has always shown the present, refracted through a fictional...
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...
Four more years of Donald Trump? The weird sh*t is only...
Donald Trump will probably go down in history not just as only the third US president to be impeached, but also as the first...
Exposing the living legacy of Ireland’s shame-industrial complex
Caelainn Hogan’s extraordinary debut book, Republic of Shame, gives a voice to the survivors of Ireland’s interconnected web of Magdalene Laundries, mother and baby...
2020 vision
Only a fool would attempt to predict the future. Hear me out, says Donal O’Keeffe.
Well thank God that’s over.
Horace Rumpole once said of Christmas:...
Bridget: “We need to find the Bessborough Babies, and we need...
Bridget Walsh’s baby William was born in the Bessborough mother and baby home, in 1960. He died at six weeks, and Bridget nearly died...
“This is going to be my first Christmas on the streets”
‘Paul’ is a homeless man who spoke last week with Donal O’Keeffe about heroin addiction and Christmas on the streets of Cork.
“This is going...
We’re paying Dara Murphy €2,810 a week, Leo. His EU foxer...
Taoiseach Leo Varadkar calling Dara Murphy’s European nixxer his 'main job' betrays a breath-taking contempt for the people who pay their wages, says Donal O’Keeffe.
So....
